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ANNA MASKAVA

Contact: annamaskava[at]gmail.com

Anna Maskava (b. 1990) is a transdisciplinary artist whose work spans visual arts, with a particular focus on photography and performance, often blending the two. Maskava’s works explore themes of kinship, particularly women’s experiences and the interconnectedness between humans and non-humans. With gathering and storytelling as core elements of her artistic practice, she weaves together actual and imagined narratives, intertwining them with a deep interest in Latvia's socio-political forces and collective memory.

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EDUCATION

2022 – present
Art Academy of Latvia
Faculty of Audio-Visual Media Art
Department of Visual Communication, MA

2015 – 2019
Riga Stradins University
BA Degree of Social Sciences in Communication Science with specialization in Multimedia and Photography

2011 – 2011
Volda University College, Norway
Erasmus+ program studies, study courses Editorial design and Photography for media

ADDITIONAL EDUCATION

2023 - 2023
Oslo National Academy of the Arts
KUNO network studies, study course Archival Fabulation (professor Saskia Holmkvist)

2020 – 2021
Butoh Art classes led by Butoh artist, Mg. Art., Mg. Sc. Simona Orinska, MA SPACE. Riga, Latvia

ART PROJECTS

PERFORMANCES

2023
1997, One Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
1997, Pavilosta Artist Residency, Pavilosta, Latvia
Expelled from the Kin,
Don’t Cry! Feminist Perspectives in Latvian Art: 1965–2023, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
1997, Riga Performance Festival Starptelpa, Riga, Latvia

2022
Bangas, alternative chamber music festival Sansusī, Akniste, Latvia
Ancestor, Freedom Boulevard, opposite The Cabinet of Ministers, Riga, Latvia
Animacy, Riga Performance Festival Starptelpa, Riga, Latvia

2021
The Universe is, participation in O. Feldberg's performance, Pedvale Art Park, Pedvale, Latvia
Es nāku, butoh performance, Center of Riga Lutheran Church, Riga, Latvia
Ouroboros breath, Riga Performance Festival Starptelpa, Riga, Latvia

2020
Mugwort mystery, Culture and music festival Kometa, Riga, Latvia
Blooming, Tallin Street Quarter, Riga, Latvia
Beetin’, Festival Diverse Universe, Pärnu, Estonia

2019
Ancestor, Götaplatsen, Gothenburg, Sweden
Mørketid, Kalnciema Quarter Gallery, Riga, Latvia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
Ancestral Body, ISSP Gallery, Riga, Latvia

2019
Mørketid, Kalnciema Quarter gallery, Riga, Latvia

RESIDENCIES

2023
PAiR - Pāvilosta Artist Residency, Pavilosta, Latvia

2022
Sansusī Wellbeing Residency Programme, Akniste, Latvia. Outcome of the residency: a performance and social project with socially vulnerable people

GRANTS

2023
VVfoundation Grant Award (received after international jury evaluation of performance 1997 at Riga Performance Festival Starptelpa)

2022
Participation in the Baltic Art Festival High Voltage in Manhattan, New York; project funded by the Baltic Culture Fund

2022
Participation in the Nordic Summer University summer session in Oslo, Norway

2020
Development of the photo project People of Forest Flowers at the Nordic Summer University summer session

PUBLICATIONS

2023
ISSP Agenda 2024 – Ritual, ISSP

2022
Latvian Photography 2022, FK Magazine

2021
Il corpo solitario, L'autoscatto nella fotografia contemporanea. Giorgio Bonomi. Rubbettino Arte Contemporanea

2020
Liminal Performances: In-Between Threshold States. Laine Kristberga, In: Lauma Mellēna-Bartkeviča., ed. Contemporary Latvian Theatre A Decade Bookazine

2019
How to Talk About Depression: Anna Maskava's Exhibition Mørketid. K. Vērpe, FK Magazine
The path that never overgrows. Latvian Photography 2019, FK Magazine

2017
Anna Maskava remembers her childhood with a veil of melancholy. C41 Magazine
Close up of Return. Veto Magazine #38