The Institute of Fine Arts
Central Asia Initiative

Inga Lāce

Inga Lāce is the Chief Curator of the Almaty Museum of Arts. She worked as Curator at the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Arts between 2012 and 2020. Her research specializes in modern and contemporary art across Soviet and Post–Soviet Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia as well as its diaspora, with a particular focus on migration and transnational connections. She was C-MAP Central and Eastern Europe Fellow at MoMA, New York (2020–2023) and has curated internationally, with previous projects including the Latvian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2019); Survival Kit (2017–23); Portable Landscapes at Villa Vassilieff, the Latvian National Art Museum and James Gallery at CUNY (2018); Latvian Collection at the Malmo Konstmuseum (2022) and New Visions – The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media, Oslo (2023); Kaunas Biennial (2023), and Ljubljana biennale of Graphic Arts (2023).