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…
The autumn begins with new artists at Verpėjos residency – Katrina Niebergal and Bergur Anderson. Katrina Niebergal is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her practice is centrally concerned with feeling — with what feeling feels like; its states of being and behaviors; its channels of arrival and transmission; its storage; and…
The first two artists-travellers – Dovilė Bagdonaitė and Andrej Polukord – have already arrived in Šiliai Dzūkija and have managed to get involved in the local life. The news and progress of the expeditions can be followed on the organisers’ website verpejos.lt and on the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/verpejos
On the last day of July, Morta Jonynaitė’s exhibition “Crossbars” opened at Marcinkonys Station Gallery. ~ The mycelium moves under my feet, stretches, knits together, connects, until, standing on the forest bed, I try to look at the space between the trees. Eyes close, slipping and moving away, caught by spider webs. Around the felling…
Slow and sandy artist expeditions around the region of the Šilų Dzūkai From July to October 2021, artists from different locations in Lithuania will visit and create in the region of the Forest Dwellers of Dzūkija – Šilų Dzūkai. They will participate in an event/project called “Lavkė. Lėta smėlėta ekspedicija” [Lavkė. Slow and sandy expedition]. At…
In the exhibition you will be able to find a forest that comes from the body parts of sheep but at the same time is my own footprint, stretched over time. And a weaver, whose work, the process of weaving, is in itself important and valuable, disconnected from economic, ethnographic, or scientific values, just like…
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