On April 18 at 1:00 p.m., the group exhibition “PORYC VALGYC DYRBC VALGYC” will open at the Marcinkonys Station Gallery (Kastinio St. 1C, Marcinkonys). Last spring, seven creators from different fields came to the region to explore the local culinary heritage. The researchers visited 15 local residents in the villages and towns of Dzūkija. The…
Pastoral Twilight: Initiatives for rural cultures is a two-year international project, a collaboration between art organisations ARE (Czechia), BAU (Italy), and Verpėjos (Lithuania) all of which work in a rural environment. The project explores how humans can have a regenerative relationship to the planet, engage in human–animal activity on the land, and activate experimental pedagogical methods involving people, plants, animals, and fungi.By…
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…
Sophie Durand is an artist from Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia based in Vilnius. Sophie’s multi-disciplinary practice extends from the intersection of sculpture and performance art and draws from anecdotal histories and archives of landscape for subject matter. Currently she is looking at strategies to reposition her artworks within environmental settings and to work more empathetically with…
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,…
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…
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…
End of content
End of content