We invite you to come to Kabeliai on October 27th, 1-5pm to meet this month’s residents.  At 2pm we will have lunch prepared together by the residents at Verpėjos kitchen. The meal will be mainly made from local ingredients and we will try kvass made by the artists.  After lunch the artists will share their…

Meet the residents of October – Jitka Králová and Kat Wood. Jitka Králová, originally from the Czech Republic, is interested in rural landscape and its transformation over time, as well as in walking, storytelling, and collecting. Her artistic practice encompasses painting, drawing, and ceramics, which she also uses to create site-specific installations and subtle interventions…

On September 28 from 12 – 17 p.m we invite you to the “Verpejos” homestead for lunch followed by presentations by the September residents where Marijonas and Sophie will share their experiences and creations from the past month. The menu for the lunch will be based on collective cooking in the Verpejos kitchen and will…

On August 25, Sunday, at 3 p.m., we invite you to a meeting with Carolin Schelkle and Nazaré Soares, participants of the Verpejos art residency program “Shepherds and Spindles”.  Verpėjos art residency is located in a traditional homestead, in the village of Kabeliai, Varėna district. In the months of July and August, two artists invited…

Carolin Schelkle is a Designer and Material Researcher from Lake Constance, Germany, holding a Bachelor of Arts in Product and Communication Design from the Free University of Bolzano, Italy and a Master of Product Design from écal (Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne), Switzerland. Her work is led by exploring the life of products and raw…

June 29, 4 – 8 p.m. we invite you to meet Haha Wang and Merkys Žebrauskas, the art residents of “Verpejos” for the month of June.♣ The “Verpejos” art residency is located in a traditional homestead in the village of Kabeliai in the Varėna district. In June, two artists who were invited by a competition…

Shayma Nader is an artist, curator and researcher from Palestine. Her research-led practice is concerned with anticolonial, antidisciplinary and land-centred imaginaries and practices.  She is currently a PhD candidate in artistic research at ARIA at Sint Lucas School of Arts (KdG) and University of Antwerp. Ingrid Helena Pajo (b. 1996, Tallinn) is a textile artist. Her work encompasses…

The event is designed to get to know and support VERPĖJOS (The Spinners’) Art Organization from the village of Kabeliai in Dzūkija.  Who: Verpėjos – an independent art initiative / Shepherds’ residency in the village of Kabeliai / art gallery at Marcinkonys train station Where: 77 days, Jakšto st. 9, Vienuolio street inner courtyard – the…

Call for creators to submit applications: VERPĖJOS‘ CREATIVE PASTURES  Verpėjos (The Spinners) is inviting interdisciplinary artists to an artistic residency in the Varėna area (South Lithuania) from September to October 2024. Verpėjos‘ residency is designed to focus on the slow process of artistic research and the long-term value for the participating creators and audience. At the end of…

September 29, 3 – 7 p.m. we invite you to meet Ieva Maslinskaitė and Vaiva Grainytė, the artresidents of “Verpejos” for the month of September. The “Verpejos” art residency is located in a traditional homestead in the village of Kabeliai in theVarėna district. In September, two artists invited by a competition – Ieva Maslinskaitė and…

Vaiva Grainytė (1984, LT) is a writer, poet, and playwright, her text-based practice shifts between genres, interdisciplinary works and publications. As an author she takes action as an observant anthropologist: challenged by Grainyte’s poetic interpretation, mundane social issues take on a paradoxical nature. Her books – the book of essays Beijing Diaries (2012) and the poetry collection Gorilla Archives (2019) – were nominated for Book of the Year…

Verpėjos (The Spinners) is inviting interdisciplinary artists to an artistic residency in the Kabeliai village in Lithuania for July – August 2024. Verpėjos‘ “Shepherds and Spindles” residency project will invite interdisciplinary artists to work on their own proposed art research project in our given frame, conditions and aims: to explore and rethink the themes of traditional…

On the 25th of August, 3 PM, we are happy to invite to meeting with artists Cecilia Charlton and Johanna Grivel, the residents of Verpėjos Creative Pastures residency program. The artists will share their experiences during the creative month they spent in Kabeliai village with a flock of sheeps and working at cosy little studio…

London-based American artist Cecilia Charlton received a BFA Painting in 2015 from Hunter College in NYC, and an MA Painting from the Royal College of Art, London in 2018. She creates hand-made embroideries and weavings that engage with the formal histories of abstraction to explore a broad range of themes including the cosmos, memory, and…

On 28th of July, 3 pm, we are happy to invite you to a meeting with Verpėjos Creative Pastures residents – Ugnė Venckė and Markéta Dlouhá.  The artists will talk about their experiences of herding sheep and their creative inspirations.  Markéta will invite you to a handmade paper workshop and share her discoveries of craftsmanship…

Markéta Dlouhá is a Czech artist who focuses on personal stories and ecology through bookmaking, printmaking, poetry, drawing, embroidery, and light installations. Her strong connection to nature and interest in sociology and psychology manifests itself in semi-surrealist imagery akin to natural shapes, landscapes, animals, and water, and in her topics where she holds a light…

On 29th of June, 3 pm, we are happy to invite you to a meeting with Verpėjos Creative Pastures residents – Gudrita Lape and Andrej Polukord. The artists will share about their residency experiences, what new connections they have made or missed with local human and non-human animals of Kabeliai village and how it affected…

We are happy to introduce our June residents – Andrej Polukord and Gudrita Lape. Andrej Polukord (born 1990 in Vilnius, Lithuania) is based in Vilnius. He works in painting, installation, performance, photography and video art. Using humour, physical adventure, and storytelling, his work addresses the themes of everyday life, ecology, and the relationship between man and…

Verpėjos (The Spinners) is inviting creators from different fields to an artistic residency in the Varėna area (South Lithuania) from June to September 2023. Verpėjos‘ residency is designed to focus on the slow process of artistic research and the long-term value for the participating creators and audience. At the end of the residency, artists are not…

The Spinners is inviting creators from all fields to an art residency in the village of Kabeliai, Varėna district, Lithuania from March to May 2023. The aim of this programme is to create a space for the work of future art residents. The call is addressed to those who, regardless of their field of creation (professional…

Ching-Yu Cheng is an artist from Taiwan. She tends to work on the project which is community-based, mostly her works are being shaped slowly through long-term and constant field research like an archaeologist in art form, and to give a response in a spacial form that still involved certain architectural thinking. The reality pushes the…

Mar Serinyà Gou is a visual and perfomance artist. She holds a Phd in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. She graduated voice studies at the Conservatory of Barcelona and different studies on consciousness of movement and systemic methodology. She has been doing several exhibitions and performance-art in different museums, centers and festivals in national and…

July 29, 3 – 6 p.m. we invite you to meet Nadine Baldow and Kristin Fredricksson, the art residents of “Verpejos” for the month of July. The “Verpejos” art residency is located in a traditional homestead, called Danilu by the locals, in the village of Kabeliai in the Varėna district. In July, two artists invited…

On the 3rd – 5th of June Verpėjos organised the residency housewarming event.  Photo credits – Vitalij Červiakov. 

We are excited to begin our new residency series called Creative Pastures. Recently our first residents Nadine Baldow and Kristin Fredricksson have arrived and started their month with the sheeps in the calm and beautiful surroundings of Kabeliai village.  Kristin Fredricksson is an award-winning performance-maker and a researcher, lecturer, mover and puppeteer. Her themes are the…

Verpėjos (The Spinners) is inviting creators from different fields to an artistic residency in the Varėna area (South Lithuania) from July to October 2022. Verpėjos‘ residency is designed to focus on the slow process of artistic research and the long-term value for the participating creators and audience. At the end of the residency, artists are…

Viktorija Damerell interview with artist, musician, “Lavkė. Slow and sandy expedition” residency participant, Agota Zdanavičiūtė. Tell us about yourself. What art do you do? I mainly work with music. Now I am writing songs based on poems by Vladas Braziūnas and Stasė Lygutaitė Bucevičienė. This year I am releasing an album of songs based on the stories…

On 7 December 2021, at 18:00, the art initiative Verpėjos, together with the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association and SODAS 2123 cultural complex invites you to the presentation of the project “Lavkė. Slow and sandy expedition” at the cultural complex SODAS 2123 (Vitebsko g. 23, Vilnius). The presentation will be attended by the expedition participants who lived in…

Viktorija Damerell interview with artist, “Lavkė. Slow and sandy expedition” participant, Gabrielė Vetkinaitė At the beginning of autumn, you took part in the Lavkė project. Had you visited Dzukija prior to that? I have visited several times the larger cities, but I definitely hadn’t seen the ethnographic villages of Dzūkija, such as Musteika.  You have lived in…

“Maybe all architectural masterpieces were born not where we think, but in small, cosy villages,” says the artist Andrej Polukord, participant of the “Lavkė. Slow and sandy expedition” residency. Viktorija Damerell interviews him. How did you decide to participate in the Lavkė residency?I saw that everything will be taking place in a forest and that…

I am Agota Zdanavičiūtė. I live and work in Vilnius, but I was always fascinated by the countryside. I didn’t have a summerhouse in the countryside when I was a kid as the others did. My grandparents lived in Vilnius and Tauragė. With my parents we used to participate in Romuva camp, which were taking place…

Živilė Lukšytė graduated product design bachelor studies at Vilnius Art Academy. In the design master studies she continued her research about food experiences while analyzing and interpreting festive food traditions. The artist initiated design studio Less Table with her former teacher Julija Mazūrienė. Less Table is a space for food related practices and research, such as sustainable city and nature, continuation…

Arriving at the Verpėjos residence as a collector of mushrooms, Andrej Polukord hoped toadd more mushrooms to his current collection. Regrettably, misfortune seemed to follow thiscollector: during the period when he was visiting, a desert-like drought prevailed, and if everrain did come, it always seemed to skip right over Kabeliai.  Almost as if he was…

We are happy to announce another artist in residency program participant, the artist Gabrielė Vetkinaitė.  Gabrielė Vetkinaitė is an artist from Anykščiai region. She studied sculpture at Vilnius Art Academy. Gabrielė is working with sound installations and performances. She often uses pink color and songs performed in meditative voice. The artist works were presented in…

The autumn begins with new artists at Verpėjos residency – Katrina Niebergal and Bergur Anderson. Katrina Niebergal is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her practice is centrally concerned with feeling — with what feeling feels like; its states of being and behaviors; its channels of arrival and transmission; its storage; and…

Slow and sandy artist expeditions around the region of the Šilų Dzūkai From July to October 2021, artists from different locations in Lithuania will visit and create in the region of the Forest Dwellers of Dzūkija – Šilų Dzūkai. They will participate in an event/project called “Lavkė. Lėta smėlėta ekspedicija” [Lavkė. Slow and sandy expedition]. At…