“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…
On 4 September, 12:00, the exhibition “Forest” by Jūratė Kazakevičiūtė opened at Marcinkonys Station Gallery. What is the forest to me when I enter it? It’s the totality of all the senses and a desire to merge, join, and feel part of that whole. Textile sculptures – trees invite you to experience: touch and feel…
On the last day of July, Morta Jonynaitė’s exhibition “Crossbars” opened at Marcinkonys Station Gallery. ~ The mycelium moves under my feet, stretches, knits together, connects, until, standing on the forest bed, I try to look at the space between the trees. Eyes close, slipping and moving away, caught by spider webs. Around the felling…
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…
In the exhibition you will be able to find a forest that comes from the body parts of sheep but at the same time is my own footprint, stretched over time. And a weaver, whose work, the process of weaving, is in itself important and valuable, disconnected from economic, ethnographic, or scientific values, just like…
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