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…
“Encrypted” is a visual journey through time, cultures, and symbols, in which artist Živilė Steniukynaitė-Fornari explores visual codes passed down from generation to generation and their relationship with the contemporary world. Through her textile works, the artist employs the ancient Indian technique of wooden block printing and traditional divonas patterns from the Dzūkija region, crafting…
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….
28 minutes from home marks a complete circular journey, during which a map of place and memory subtly intertwines. This exhibition presents fragments of the artistic research “Facets of Death: Between Fear and Fascination”, distilled through time, memory, and environment. Here, a map, texts, and drawings meet physical and mental markers tracing a personal geography…
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…
Every way of seeing Lithuania’s green garment is shaped by its own optics – filtered through the observer’s interests and conditioned by an entire sequence of instruments and methodologies. ‘Forest Atlas’ is a process-based exhibition that invites visitors to enter the density of the forest at its centre – without beginning or end – into a…
In Dzūkija, newcomers who settle in the area are called užeiviai (settlers). Even if you come from a neighboring village, if you’re not a local, you’re considered a settler. I moved to the small village of Žiogeliai, located in the Dzūkija National Park, in 2023. We came from Vilnius, and my husband and I became…
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