Every way of seeing Lithuania’s green garment is shaped by its own optics – filtered through the observer’s interests and conditioned by an entire sequence of instruments and methodologies. ‘Forest Atlas’ is a process-based exhibition that invites visitors to enter the density of the forest at its centre – without beginning or end – into a…
In Dzūkija, newcomers who settle in the area are called užeiviai (settlers). Even if you come from a neighboring village, if you’re not a local, you’re considered a settler. I moved to the small village of Žiogeliai, located in the Dzūkija National Park, in 2023. We came from Vilnius, and my husband and I became…
On September 7, at 3 p.m. exhibition TAELPA by artist Kristina Žalytė opens in Marcinkoniųstation gallery. The space is filled with pots, bas-reliefs, drawings, and the frame of the altar. A text, a song withoutaccompaniment, can be heard through headphones. It is as if someone has “swept through”, but notdevastated, but found something to worship,…
SAMPYNA / SAMRUNI On August 3, at 2 p.m. exhibition “Sampyna” by artists Austė Jurgelionytė-Varnė, Asta Vilhelmina Guðmundsdóttir and Laura Pavilonytė-Ežerskienė opens in Marcinkonių station gallery. In Lithuanian, the word sampyna refers to a certain tangle of structural elements a junction that reflects the work of three artists – Austė Jurgelionytė-Varnė, Asta Vilhelmina Guðmundsdóttir and…
On July 6, at 2 p.m. Aušra Vaitkūnienė’s exhibition “Song of the Forest” opens in Marcinkonių station gallery. This is a visual story about Dzūkija, about its unique nature. The exhibition presents an installation of paintings and objects, metaphorically conveying not only the beauty of nature, but also the brutal struggle for existence. The works…
On June 8, at 1 p.m. Kornelijus Pelkys exhibition “Bu(vo)tas” opens at the Marcinkonys station gallery. The first exhibition of the artist, VDA graphic arts bachelor’s student, examines the themes of urban loneliness and alien communion. Revealing an anthropological perspective, the exhibition consists of four mixed media works that include different forms of artistic expression:…
On the 4th of May the exhibition Contact Zones by Indrė Liškauskaitė will be opened at Marcinkonys station gallery. The term Contact Zones was developed by Mary Louise Pratt, while analyzing the European colonialism in South America. The author started using Contact Zones, as social spaces where disparate cultures meet and clash. Later the term was interpreted by Donna Haraway, as…
Marija Marcelionytė-Paliukė Personal exhibition “About Snails and Ants” Marcinkonys Station Gallery 2023 06 23-07 29 I think that the most accurate, and perhaps the most open, description of the exhibition would be simply to explain its title. And then there’s that mistake in the date… discovered after the posters had been printed. I corrected it…
Exhibition opening 2023 05 20, 15 pm. The Marcinkonys Station Gallery is located at the last stop of the Vilnius-Marcinkonys railway line and has been curated by the independent art initiative “Verpejos” since 2019. The idea “Express: back to nature”, which was proposed during the 2020 Vilnius competition “Let’s design our own train of the future”, won…
Verpėjos is happy to invite you to the opening of exhibition with participating artists in the Creative Pastures residency programme. It will take place at Marcinkonys station gallery, Kastinio 1C, on 15th October, from 6 pm. 8 artists have been invited to take part in the Creative Pastures programme of the Verpejos Art Residency in…
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