Egija Inzule

Egija Inzule

Egija Inzule’s curatorial practice spans exhibitions, research, education, publishing, institutional management, and long-term collaborations with artists developing new site-specific work. Questions of labour, value, and institutional conditions recur in her work, alongside questions of how education and knowledge production shape imagination, and how infrastructures, ecologies, and systems of organisation are transformed through historical and geopolitical forces. Shaped by growing up during the post-Soviet transition in Latvia, her perspective is informed by how new economic and political orders reorganise institutions and the conditions through which social and cultural practices are formed, and by artistic work that responds to these dynamics.

From 2019 to 2025, she was Director of the subdivision of the Vilnius Academy of Arts in Nida, Lithuania, a site for artistic production, research, education, and artist residencies. Previously, she worked within the teams of castillo/corrales, Paris; Istituto Svizzero di Roma; and co-directed Shedhalle, Zurich. Her independent projects include collaborations with Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, and Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis, and artists Gerry Bibby, Sarah Staton, Martha Rosler, Josephine Pryde, Nick Mauss, Nina Könnemann, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Her engagement with the artist Fred Lonidier began in 2010 with research into his archive and practice and developed into a long-term collaboration, including exhibitions presenting his work in Europe. She studied Art History at the University of Leipzig before completing BA and MA in Theory and Fine Arts at Zurich University of the Arts.

Egija Inzule is a member of Neringa Forest Architecture (NFA), formed with curators and spatial researchers Jurga Daubaraitė and Jonas Žukauskas. Its practice brings together art, architecture, design, spatial research, publishing and education, with a focus on forestry and territorial management as infrastructures that condition the present. Working with a growing circle of practitioners from the fields of culture, science and humanities, the collective addresses these complex narratives through spatial installations in which materials function as documents, with tactility and play as central elements. The project began as a research and residency programme at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in Nida and developed into a range of formats, including art books for children and the Children’s Forest Pavilion, realised for the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (2023). In 2024, research in the Landes forests resulted in Les pièces de la forêt, an exhibition and playscape at arc en rêve, Bordeaux.

Since 2022, NFA has been a COOP partner at the Dutch Art Institute. Following the roaming character of the DAI, the COOP extends NFA’s work with forests as constructed and contested environments through site-based research, connecting geographies, histories and material conditions while tracing how environments are formed and transformed; understanding cultural work as a way of making these processes perceptible, bringing material evidence, histories and different forms of knowledge into relation.

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