Zane Onckule

Zane Onckule (b. 1982, Latvia), has studied Art History at The Art Academy of Latvia and Communication Science at University of Latvia, and holds a Bachelor’s degree from Banking Institution of Higher Education in Latvia. From 2010 to 2017 she was a curator and Programme Director at kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga where she has organised, curated and co-curated exhibitions, public programme as well as edited publications and other corresponding materials in collaboration with wide range of artists, curators and theoreticians. She was a co-commissioner of Latvian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013). Selected curatorial projects: The Shakiest of Things by Rodrigo Hernandez (kim?, Riga, 2017); Sea of Living Memories by Ieva Epnere (Art in General, New York, 2016); Le Fragole del Baltico, group exhibition (together with curator Simone Menegoi), CareOf, Milan (2015); Sink Down Montain, Raise Up Walley! by Ulla von Brandenburg (kim?, Riga, 2015); Vortex, group exhibition at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2014); Little Vera by Sanya Kantarovsky and Ella Kruglyanskaya (kim?, Riga, 2014). She has enrolled in the Class of 2019 at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard).