RIGA.- Agniya Mirgorodskaya announced the appointment of Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel as chief curator for the second edition of the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, RIBOCA2, which will run from 16 May 2020 – 11 October 2020 in Riga, Latvia.

Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel was formerly curator at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. She curated the most recent show by Tomás Saraceno, ON AIR, the most attended exhibition in their history. She has regularly collaborated with institutions and biennials including the Château de Versailles, the 11th Bamako Biennale, the Stedelijk Museum and the 12th Biennale de Lyon among many others.

Following the first edition in 2018, RIBOCA2 will retain its strong European focus and regional profile, taking the rich history of the Baltic States as its foundation, by highlighting artists from the wider region, and allowing international artists to engage with its cultural, historical and socio-political context. The biennial is continuously dedicated to a sustainable model based on best practices that prioritises artists and artistic production and encourages dialogue and engagement with local communities and socially diverse audiences.

Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel will announce her curatorial concept in Venice during the 58th Venice Biennale on Tuesday 7 May 2019 at Chiesetta della Misericordia in a conversation with founding director Agniya Mirgorodskaya and editor-in-chief at Mousse Magazine, Francesco Tenaglia.

Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel is a French curator and writer, former curator at Palais de Tokyo (2012 - 2019). Her internationally critically acclaimed projects include the solo exhibitions of Tomás Saraceno, Tino Sehgal, Marguerite Humeau, Ed Atkins, David Douard, Helen Marten, François Curlet and Jon Rafman. ON AIR by Tomás Saraceno (2018-2019) spanned the entire 13000m2 of the Palais de Tokyo and became the most attended exhibition in its history, while the carte blanche to Tino Sehgal (2016) was the largest live-art show ever presented worldwide. In 2015 she presented the group show Le bord des mondes (The edge of the worlds), which focused on the limits of the territories of art after the writings of Marcel Duchamp.

Lamarche-Vadel has regularly collaborated with international institutions, such as the Château de Versailles with Voyage d’Hiver (associate curator, 2017), the 11th Bamako Biennale (curatorial advisory, 2017-2018), MoMA PS1 with the projects Truce (2013) and Bright Intervals (2014), the Stedelijk Museum and Trouw with Landscape (2013), and the 12th Biennale de Lyon with Unachieved Presents (Resonance, 2013). A graduate in History, Political Sciences and Art History at the Sorbonne, she regularly coordinates and participates in seminars, juries and talks worldwide, and her writings have appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Monopol, Mousse, Cura, and l’Officiel Art, amongst others. She is the 2019 guest curator of FIAC special projects.