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…
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 (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…
FOOTSTEPS – a retrospective exhibition designed to present the land art project curated by Inga Raubaitė. Land art is an artistic movement that originated in the United States in the 1960s and was practiced by artists of various disciplines. Land art works are created only from natural materials, if various materials are used to reveal…
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…
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