Monique Besten is an artist, writer and educator based in Spain and the Netherlands. She makes long-distance performative walks through Europe, work site-specific and researches slow ways of being and connections between artistic media and different fields of life. Monique writes for “The Dark Mountain Project” and teaches Performance Art and Artistic Survival Skills at the…
Mar Serinyà Gou is a visual and perfomance artist. She holds a Phd in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. She graduated voice studies at the Conservatory of Barcelona and different studies on consciousness of movement and systemic methodology. She has been doing several exhibitions and performance-art in different museums, centers and festivals in national and…
FOOTSTEPS – a retrospective exhibition designed to present the land art project curated by Inga Raubaitė. Land art is an artistic movement that originated in the United States in the 1960s and was practiced by artists of various disciplines. Land art works are created only from natural materials, if various materials are used to reveal…
July 29, 3 – 6 p.m. we invite you to meet Nadine Baldow and Kristin Fredricksson, the art residents of “Verpejos” for the month of July. The “Verpejos” art residency is located in a traditional homestead, called Danilu by the locals, in the village of Kabeliai in the Varėna district. In July, two artists invited…
On the 3rd – 5th of June Verpėjos organised the residency housewarming event. Photo credits – Vitalij Červiakov.
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…
“We are standing in front of each other. He is my destiny, my “confessional”. Neither me,nor him has avoided the cross wind, carrying the smell of a barn and the black soil.” MarijaTeresė Rožanskaitė.M. T. Rožanskaitė (1933-2007) is one of the most prominent Lithuanian artists of the late20th century. Owning a homestead in Kuršiai village,…
At the Marcinkonys train station gallery artist Marija Nemčenko is presenting “Blessed are thosethat move” – an exhibition looking into multifold meanings of moving and migrating. TakingMarcinkonys train station as a starting point, the stories of traveling disperse their own uniqueways. Is it white storks’ roosting stop during their long migratory journey, is it seasonal…
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…
Exhibition opening 2022 04 22, 17 pm. It is about several things, like the waiting hall before the departure, counting annual growth rings, and someone stumbling on a buried object in the foreseeable future April. As well as knowing and not, and twinkling moments of touching buttons, and nearing horror. The exhibition is about growing,…
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