Call for creators to submit applications: VERPĖJOS‘ CREATIVE PASTURES

Call for creators to submit applications: VERPĖJOS‘ CREATIVE PASTURES

Call for creators to submit applications: VERPĖJOS‘ CREATIVE PASTURES  Verpėjos (The Spinners) is inviting interdisciplinary artists to an artistic residency in the Varėna area (South Lithuania) from September to October 2024. 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…

Meeting with September residents – Vaiva Grainytė and Ieva Maslinskaitė

Meeting with September residents – Vaiva Grainytė and Ieva Maslinskaitė

September 29, 3 – 7 p.m. we invite you to meet Ieva Maslinskaitė and Vaiva Grainytė, the artresidents of “Verpejos” for the month of September. The “Verpejos” art residency is located in a traditional homestead in the village of Kabeliai in theVarėna district. In September, two artists invited by a competition – Ieva Maslinskaitė and…

September residents – Vaiva Grainytė and Ieva Maslinskaitė

September residents – Vaiva Grainytė and Ieva Maslinskaitė

Vaiva Grainytė (1984, LT) is a writer, poet, and playwright, her text-based practice shifts between genres, interdisciplinary works and publications. As an author she takes action as an observant anthropologist: challenged by Grainyte’s poetic interpretation, mundane social issues take on a paradoxical nature. Her books – the book of essays Beijing Diaries (2012) and the poetry collection Gorilla Archives (2019) – were nominated for Book of the Year…

Call for creators to submit applications: Shepherds and Spindles residency

Call for creators to submit applications: Shepherds and Spindles residency

Verpėjos (The Spinners) is inviting interdisciplinary artists to an artistic residency in the Kabeliai village in Lithuania for July – August 2024. Verpėjos‘ “Shepherds and Spindles” residency project 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…

July residents – Markéta Dlouhá and Ugnė Venckė

July residents – Markéta Dlouhá and Ugnė Venckė

Markéta Dlouhá is a Czech artist who focuses on personal stories and ecology through bookmaking, printmaking, poetry, drawing, embroidery, and light installations. Her strong connection to nature and interest in sociology and psychology manifests itself in semi-surrealist imagery akin to natural shapes, landscapes, animals, and water, and in her topics where she holds a light…

June residents – Andrej Polukord and Gudrita Lape

June residents – Andrej Polukord and Gudrita Lape

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…

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