Gundega Strauberga (1996) is a Latvian photographer, filmmaker, designer and visual researcher, based in The Hague, Netherlands. She is a cross-disciplinary artist, merging her design education (BA Design Academy Eindhoven 2016-2020) with photography, research and visual storytelling (MA “Photography & Society”, KABK 2023-2025). She has always been interested in how the appropriating and recontextualizing can offer new perspectives on what we think we already know. With these recurring tools and methods Gundega has been exploring an array of topics such as traditional crafts versus capitalistic values (Budget Airlines: Cheap Destinations), climate change and biblical narratives (Poor Man’s Bible), the fuzzy distinctions between nature and culture (Roses Are Blue, Violets Are Red: An Anthropocentric Arcadia), and, most recently, dancing on the margins of memory and imagination by exploring her capacity for self-narration driven by an absence of images (Paper Pictures).
What these case studies share is that they loosely fall into brackets of several themes, such as the artifice, mythologies (both personal and collective), and critical nostalgia. The current focus of her practice engages with the absence of personal archives and the complexities of memory, identity and photographic representation. Gundega’s work has been exhibited in numerous museums and events across Europe, such as the Museum of World Cultures in Amsterdam, VanAbbe Museum, Milan Salone del Mobile, CentroCentro in Madrid, and more.
