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A few pages from the exhibition catalogue. First image is a double portrait by photographer Sarmīte Kviesīte together with Zenta Dzividzinska. The catalogue accompanies the exhibition entitled "Don’t Cry! Feminist Perspectives in Latvian A

Photography section that includes also a work by Zenta Dzividzinska from the 1960s, as part of a group exhibition entitled "Don’t Cry! Feminist Perspectives in Latvian Art: 1965–2023" at the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga,

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Zenta Dzividzinska’s @artdaysforever vintage prints are included in a group exhibition entitled Don’t Cry! Feminist Perspectives in Latvian Art: 1965–2023 at the Latvian National Mus

US-based art historian Maria Garth @mariavgarth, a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at Rutgers University, visited the National Library of Latvia @lnb.lv in April 2023 to view their collection of Zenta Dzividzinska’s @artdaysforever
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Art historian Līga Goldberga @liga.g
presents her ongoing work with Zenta Dzividzinska’s archive at the National Library of Latvia in  the paper “Caring for the Biography of an Archive: Incorporation of Women Photographers from the S

Self-portraits by Zenta Dzividzinska from the 1960s, interpreted by Sophie Thun, accompanied by a conversation with Līga Goldberga @liga.g - now in Issue 5 of 20 Seconds magazine @20seconds_mag [print only]
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Zenta Dzividzinska’s work at a roundtable at the Zimmerli Art Museum exhibition opening

The roundtable on the occasion of the exhibition “Communism Through the Lens: Everyday Life Captured by Women Photographers in the Dodge Collection,” curated by Maria Garth at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, took place on April 29, 2021. The recording of the event is available on YouTube.

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Artist Sophie Thun and curator Zane Onckule visit the archive

Vienna-based contemporary artist Sophie Thun and curator Zane Onckule visited the Art Days Forever archive to view some of Zenta Dzividzinska’s prints, negatives, and memorabilia on April 21, 2021.

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New article on Zenta Dzividzinska on MoMA Post

“Entering the Elusive Estate of Photographer Zenta Dzividzinska,” a new article by Alise Tifentale in the Museum of Modern Art’s online research publication Post. Notes on Art in Global Context, March 24, 2021.

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Curator Maria Garth on photographs by Zenta Dzividzinska

Maria Garth, the Graduate Curatorial Assistant (Dodge Fellow) at the Zimmerli, introduces her forthcoming exhibition, “Communism Through the Lens: Everyday Life Captured by Women Photographers in the Dodge Collection” (May 1 - October 17, 2021).

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Juris Tifentals’ paintings included in a new book

The book Artists. Bauska. Iecava. Rundāle. Vecumnieki (Bauska: Meistars Gothards, 2020) introduces artists who have lived and worked in these towns and villages of Latvia.

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Upcoming exhibition: Sophie Thun and archive of Zenta Dzividzinska

The exhibition at the Kim? Contemporary Art Center will feature new work by artist Sophie Thun, where she will engage with the archive of Zenta Dzividzinska.