Ūla Tornau is an exhibition curator and researcher based in Vilnius. She graduated urban history at Utrecht University in 2007, history at Central European University in Budapest in 2002 and art history and theory from Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2000. She has been working as a curator at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius since 2002 and was one of the founders of several independent artist initiatives, including an artist run project space Malonioji 6 in Vilnius. She has worked on different projects focusing on historical and current urban change including a series of events and articles „Urban Change in Eastern and Central Europe: Social, Cultural and Architectural Transformations”; X^th Baltic Triennale of International Art Urban Stories (2008) and an international lecture series on Anthropology of Space (2012). In the last years she curated solo shows of Maria Loboda (2017), Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys (2016) and group exhibitions Words aren‘t the thing (2015) and Anachronikos (2016) in collaboration with Asta Vaiciulyte. In 2017 she co-curated Lithuanian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. Recently Tornau defended her PhD thesis on spatial narratives of Vilnius.