Agate Tūna is a multidisciplinary artist from Riga, Latvia, working across photography, photographic installations, experimental video and sound art. 

Her practice explores the relationship between spirituality and technology from a woman’s perspective. Taking a research-driven, web-like approach, she traces connections between her family's spiritualist heritage, hauntology, quartz crystals, and techno-specters while examining how historical narratives, personal experiences, and technological advancements shape our perception of the unseen.

Photography, as a "haunted medium," plays a central role in her work, preserving traces of the past while shaping imagined futures. Through analogue and experimental techniques such as chemigrams, she investigates the materiality of the photographic image. From self-portraits to staged compositions, her process is deeply hands-on, involving set construction, object-making, and direct engagement with physical materials.

b. 1996. lives and works in Riga, Latvia

EDUCATION

2024

(May – July) Erasmus graduate + practice. Experimental photo festival. Barcelona, ESP

2021 - 2023

Art Academy of Latvia, Faculty of Visual Arts, interdisciplinary practise – POST (art in context), Master’s studies, Riga, LV

2020 - 2022

ISSP School, Developing Photo Language, Riga, LV

2019

(Autumn semester) Erasmus+ studies Faculdade de Belas-Artes de Lisboa, PT

2016 - 2020

Art Academy of Latvia, Faculty of Visual Arts, Department of Painting, Bachelor’s studies, Riga, LV

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025

Voltentity Gallery ASNI, Riga, LV

Curated by Auguste Petre

2022

The Order of Invisible Things DOM gallery, Riga, LV

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

Neurons Desperately Seek Each Other. Riga Photography Biennial, Gallery Smilga, Riga, LV

Curated by Laima Daberte

2024

Beyond Our Bodies Our Beings Extend. Gallery Pilot, Riga, LV

Curated by Nastia Svarevska

The Elevator Chats 2.0.  Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest, HU

Curated by Emese Musci

New Address: EDEN.  Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Hanzas 22, Riga, LV

Festival curators: Evita Goze, Žanete Liekīte, Zane Onckule

Contemporary Histories of Photography IISSP gallery, Riga, LV

Curated by Liāna Ivete Žilde

Dear figure, whom did you hang out with last night? Rothko museum, Daugavpils, LV 

Curated by Inga Šteimane

Metahorror. Both Gallery, London. UK

2023

Chasing the Devil to the Moon: Art Under Lunar Occupation Today  Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, EST

Curated by Corina L. Apostol

Breaststroke, Backstroke and Butterfly Skolas street 18, Riga, LV

Language of Flowers Riga Photography Biennial, Gallery of the Artist’s Union of Latvia, Riga, LV

Curated by Inga Brūvere

Metonymy  Dom gallery. Riga, LV

Curated by Artis Ostups

Metahorror meets Metahumour,  In collabotarion with PlasticAfterLife (Kristians Aglonietis & Patrīcija Māra Vilsone) Lethaby Gallery, London, UK

Curated by Marc Halson and Kristaps Ancāns

EiTiET. Gallery 5 MALŪNAI. Vilnius, LT

2022

Flora Fantastic: Eco-Critical Contemporary Botanical Art, in collaboration with Anna Malicka and Kristaps Ancāns, Apexart gallery. New York, USA

Curated by Corina Apostol and Tashima Thomas

2020

Resonance,  Cesis Concert hall, Cesis, LV

Curated by Inese Baranovska

AWARDS

2025

Plat(t)form. Portfolio viewing. Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH

VKKF Creative Work Development Bursary, LV

2024

Purvītis Prize 2025 / Nominee

Future Talent, Futures Photography platform, nominated by ISSP Gallery

2023

1st prize BDO Young Artists Award Experimental Art Space PILOT, Riga, LV

RESIDENCY

2025

Cité Internationale des Arts. Paris, France

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