{"id":1132,"date":"2026-02-09T12:26:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T12:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kimgallery.lv\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=1132"},"modified":"2026-07-16T10:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:12:21","slug":"maija-kurseva","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/kimgallery.lv\/en\/artist\/maija-kurseva\/","title":{"rendered":"Maija Kur\u0161eva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Maija Kur\u0161eva<\/strong>\u00a0(born 1981, Lielplatone) graduated with BA (2006) and MA (2008) degrees from the Visual Communication programme of the Art Academy of Latvia. Kur\u0161eva works with installation, moving image, graphics and drawings. In 2017, Kur\u0161eva founded the not-for-profit gallery Low, and has acted as the gallery\u2019s programme director (2017-2019). 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). Kur\u0161eva has partaken in artist residencies Kai in Tallinn (2020), ISCP in New York (2019) Cit\u00e9 Internationale des Arts in Paris as part of Kim? Residency Award (2019) and Iaspis in Umea (2013). From 2004, she has participated in exhibitions in Latvia and abroad, and notably, was nominated for the Purv\u012btis Prize in 2017 for her work\u00a0<em>Joviality<\/em>. She currently teaches composition and screen printing at the Motion. Image. Sound. department in the Art Academy of Latvia, In 2021, Kur\u0161eva\u2019s works were included in the Vitamin D3 publication dedicated to drawings, issued by Phaidon. Kim? and Kur\u0161eva have been collaborating since 2009.\u00a0<em>Tension<\/em>\u00a0is the artist\u2019s sixth solo exhibition within the institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":140,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"artist-category":[9],"class_list":["post-1132","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist-category-gallery-artists"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimgallery.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimgallery.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimgallery.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimgallery.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimgallery.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimgallery.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist-category?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}