During the months of June and July, the skudde sheep flock is herd by three artists. Jokūbas Vaicekauskas is a curiosity-based artistic researcher and artist interested in unconventional methods and ways in which research could be carried out. With a specific focus on surrounding-specific investigations, highlighting the process. On the second day of Verpėjos residency,…
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…
On October 19th, Sunday, we invite everyone to the Verpėjos Art Residency, where bread will be baked from early morning, and presentations will be held for the “Kvietỹs mus kviẽčia” project and the “Verpėjos’ Creative Pastures” residency program participants – Monika Jagusinskytė, Alanas Gurinas and Sholto Dobie. Bernadeta Brazdžionytė will present her project “Kvietỹs mus…
Alanas Gurinas is an interdisciplinary artist working in the field of sound performance and audiovisual installations. In his sound practice, he explores sound as a textural phenomenon, themes of ephemerality, and the relationships between various audible and inaudible objects and spaces. Sholto Dobie is an artist and organizer who works with sound in a broad…
Monika Jagusinskytė (b. 1995) is an artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Using photography, video and text, the artist captures the human body in everyday life, its constant change in relation to its environment. Her compositions are like phases of weightlessness, blurring the line between reality and dream, beauty and decay. In 2021, she graduated from…
Verpėjos (The Spinners) is inviting interdisciplinary artists to an artistic residency in the Kabeliai village in Lithuania for June – September 2026. Verpėjos’ Creative Pastures residency programme 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…
Erika Povilonytė is a Lithuanian visual artist based in France. Her artistic education began in her home country and later unfolded at the National School of Art and Design in Dijon, as well as at the Brera Academy in Milan. Her practice revolves around the notion of overlay—the intertwining of different temporalities, perspectives, or materials….
June 28, 3 – 7 p.m. we invite you to meet the duo from Canada “Honeypaw“ – Jurgita Žvinklyte and Matti Palonen, the artist residents of “Verpejos” for the months of May and June.Jurgita met Matti in Canada in 2019. Since that time they have been playing Finno-Baltic neofolk that explores the interconnection of ancient…
Honeypaw is a duo including Jurgita Zvinklyte and Matti Palonen. Jurgita is a newcomer to Canada, having arrived in 2019. Since that time they have been playing Finno-Baltic neofolk that explores the interconnection of ancient Lithuanian and Finnish Kalevala traditions, and fusing them with modern soundscapes and rhythms. The journal of Musicology has called their…
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…
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