On the 25th of August, 3 PM, we are happy to invite to meeting with artists Cecilia Charlton and Johanna Grivel, the residents of Verpėjos Creative Pastures residency program. The artists will share their experiences during the creative month they spent in Kabeliai village with a flock of sheeps and working at cosy little studio…
London-based American artist Cecilia Charlton received a BFA Painting in 2015 from Hunter College in NYC, and an MA Painting from the Royal College of Art, London in 2018. She creates hand-made embroideries and weavings that engage with the formal histories of abstraction to explore a broad range of themes including the cosmos, memory, and…
On 28th of July, 3 pm, we are happy to invite you to a meeting with Verpėjos Creative Pastures residents – Ugnė Venckė and Markéta Dlouhá. The artists will talk about their experiences of herding sheep and their creative inspirations. Markéta will invite you to a handmade paper workshop and share her discoveries of craftsmanship…
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…
On 29th of June, 3 pm, we are happy to invite you to a meeting with Verpėjos Creative Pastures residents – Gudrita Lape and Andrej Polukord. The artists will share about their residency experiences, what new connections they have made or missed with local human and non-human animals of Kabeliai village and how it affected…
Marija Marcelionytė-Paliukė Personal exhibition “About Snails and Ants” Marcinkonys Station Gallery 2023 06 23-07 29 I think that the most accurate, and perhaps the most open, description of the exhibition would be simply to explain its title. And then there’s that mistake in the date… discovered after the posters had been printed. I corrected it…
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…
Exhibition opening 2023 05 20, 15 pm. The Marcinkonys Station Gallery is located at the last stop of the Vilnius-Marcinkonys railway line and has been curated by the independent art initiative “Verpejos” since 2019. The idea “Express: back to nature”, which was proposed during the 2020 Vilnius competition “Let’s design our own train of the future”, won…
Verpėjos (The Spinners) is inviting creators from different fields to an artistic residency in the Varėna area (South Lithuania) from June to September 2023. 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 not…
The Spinners is inviting creators from all fields to an art residency in the village of Kabeliai, Varėna district, Lithuania from March to May 2023. The aim of this programme is to create a space for the work of future art residents. The call is addressed to those who, regardless of their field of creation (professional…
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