The winners of the Riga Photography Biennale – NEXT 2025 have been announced. The VV Foundation’s €1000 cash prize and the opportunity to spend a month at an artists’ residency in Pāvilosta, PAiR will be awarded to Karlotta Lainväe (EE).

Carlotta entered the competition with a series of works “Where am I going when I follow the thread?” (Where do i go when i follow the thread?). Representatives of the foundation justify their choice: “The artist’s works reflect metaphysical questions that are always relevant to mankind about the framework of the feeling of internal and external security in the world, which ensures the emotional, spiritual and intellectual evolution of a person. We challenge ourselves, deconstruct and put ourselves together again – better or different than before. It also permeates the work of a young Estonian photo artist and creates a very personal aesthetic DNA.”