Maija Kurševa

Maija Kurševa (b. 1981) earned her BA (2006) and MA (2008) degrees from the Visual Communication programme of the Art Academy of Latvia, where she currently teaches composition and riso printing. In 2017, Kurševa founded the not-profit gallery Low, serving as its programme director from 2017 to 2019. She is also the founder and curator of Riga Zine Festival (2016, 2018), as well as co-founder and project manager of the artist collective Popper Publishing (2012–2018). In 2017, she was nominated for the Purvītis Prize for her work Joviality (Dzīvesprieks, 2015). Her works were also featured in the Phaidon anthology Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing (2021).