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…

Verpėjos (The Spinners) is inviting creators from different fields to an artistic residency in the Varėna area (South Lithuania) from July to October 2022. 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…

Viktorija Damerell interview with artist, musician, “Lavkė. Slow and sandy expedition” residency participant, Agota Zdanavičiūtė. Tell us about yourself. What art do you do? I mainly work with music. Now I am writing songs based on poems by Vladas Braziūnas and Stasė Lygutaitė Bucevičienė. This year I am releasing an album of songs based on the stories…

On 7 December 2021, at 18:00, the art initiative Verpėjos, together with the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association and SODAS 2123 cultural complex invites you to the presentation of the project “Lavkė. Slow and sandy expedition” at the cultural complex SODAS 2123 (Vitebsko g. 23, Vilnius). The presentation will be attended by the expedition participants who lived in…

Viktorija Damerell interview with artist, “Lavkė. Slow and sandy expedition” participant, Gabrielė Vetkinaitė At the beginning of autumn, you took part in the Lavkė project. Had you visited Dzukija prior to that? I have visited several times the larger cities, but I definitely hadn’t seen the ethnographic villages of Dzūkija, such as Musteika.  You have lived in…

“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…