Megija Milberga

PhD Candidate

Areas of interest: Modern and contemporary art in Eastern Europe; architecture and urban planning in the Soviet Union, with a special interest in the Baltic States.

Megija Milberga is a PhD candidate at the Institute, where she is studying modern and contemporary art and architecture in Eastern Europe. Her research interrogates site-consciousness as a tool of insurgent citizenship in Soviet-era architecture in the Baltic states. She holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and an M.A. in Cultural Studies from KU Leuven. She is the recipient of the Fulbright Foreign Student Fellowship for M.A. studies at the Institute. She has gathered work experience organising Latvia’s participation at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia; at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, as well as Rupert artist residency in Vilnius. Her writings have appeared in Latvian press and various exhibition catalogues.