A selection of photographs by Zenta Dzividzinska from the 1960s were included in the Baltic humanist photography exhibition titled “Human Baltic,” on view from May 27 to June 9, 2024.

Līga Goldberga presented a paper titled “Archive as Ego Document: Exploring Curatorial Strategies that Activate Care Labor for Women’s Photographic Heritage.” The conference took place in May 17-19, 2024, in Thessaloniki, Greece.

The exhibition “Contemporary Histories of Photography I” was on view from May 17 to June 27, 2024, at the ISSP Gallery in Riga, Latvia. Artist Liene Pavlovska, the designer of the exhibition, used several photographs by Zenta Dzividzinska from the series “Riga Pantomime” (1964-1965) to create custom-made cyanotype prints on fabric.

The article by Alise Tifentale, “Entering the Elusive Estate of Photographer Zenta Dzividzinska (1944-2011)”, published in MoMA Post in 2021, is included in the publication “Central Eastern European & Diasporic Feminisms. Bibliography” (London: Cell Project Space, 2024), which was launched on May 15, 2024, at Biblioteka, 1 Montague St (Architectural Association), London.

A selection of Zenta Dzividzinska’s self-portrait photographs from the 1960s are included in the exhibition “We Don’t Do This. Intimacy, Norms and Fantasies in Baltic Art,” curated by Inga Lāce, Adomas Narkevičius, and Rebeka Põldsam, on view at the MO Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania, March 9–September 8, 2024.

New research article on the origins and making of previously unpublished photomontages: Līga Goldberga, “Vienas fotogrāfijas stāsts: Zenta Dzividzinska” [The Story of One Photograph: Zenta Dzividzinska], FK Magazine, March 11, 2024

The exhibition "All’s Good Between Us" was curated by Andra Silapētere and organized by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) in Riga, Latvia, from February 14 to March 31, 2024. [extended until April 4]

The legacy of the artist and photographer Zenta Dzividzinska was discussed at the ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) conference in Philadelphia, PA, on Saturday, December 2, 2023.

For this catalogue essay, art historian Alise Tifentale revisited the collaboration between the artist Sophie Thun and the archive of Zenta Dzividzinska that began in 2021.

Zenta Dzividzinska’s vintage prints are included in a group exhibition at the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia, on view from July 15 to October 15, 2023.

US-based art historian Maria Garth, a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at Rutgers University, visited the National Library of Latvia in April 2023 to view their collection of Zenta Dzividzinska’s photographic prints, negatives, publications, exhibition materials, handwritten notes, journals, and personal memorabilia.

Art historian Liga Goldberga presents her ongoing work with Zenta Dzividzinska’s archive at the National Library of Latvia in the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) conference.

One of Latvia’s foremost feminist scholars, Jana Kukaine, discusses Zenta Dzividzinska’s photographs in her latest article.

“With Zenta” includes a new photo essay by Sophie Thun, based on photographic self-portraits of Zenta Dzividzinska (1944-2011), with text co-authored by Līga Goldberga. Print only!

New article by Alise Tifentale published in Mapping Methods and Materials: Photographic Heritage in Cultural and Art-historical Research. Proceedings of the National Library of Latvia 9 (XXIX) (2022): 254-274. Open access!

New article: Maria Garth, "Soviet Avant-Gardes and Socialist Realism. Women Photographers Bridging the Divide, 1930s-1960s," in Journal of Avant-Garde Studies, (2022) 1–33. Open access!

Sophie Thun, solo exhibition “Trails and Tributes,” curated by Christin Müller und Torsten Scheid at the Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany, on view May 8 - July 17, 2022.

“‘I Don't Feel Guilt’: Sophie Thun and Julian Irlinger on the Photographic Archive.” Chloe Stead talks with the artists about their personal approaches to mining the past. Frieze Magazine, April 28, 2022 (online), Issue 227, May 2022 (print).

The photography exhibition “12 Photographers / 125 Photographs / 10 Series” is curated by Elita Ansone and is on view February 19 - December 31, 2022.

Zenta Dzividzinska's last series Servitude (2002-2007), large-scale black-and-white photographs, are included in the exhibition “Sense of Home” at the art gallery of Cēsis Concert Hall, Cēsis, Latvia, February 5 - April 10, 2022.