Birutė Lemke. Exhibition “Settlers X”
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…
Kristina Žalytė “Taelpa”
On September 7, at 3 p.m. exhibition TAELPA by artist Kristina Žalytė opens in Marcinkoniųstation gallery. The space is filled with pots, bas-reliefs, drawings, and the frame of the altar. A text, a song withoutaccompaniment, can be heard through headphones. It is as if someone has “swept through”, but notdevastated, but found something to worship,…
Group exhibition “Sampyna”
SAMPYNA / SAMRUNI On August 3, at 2 p.m. exhibition “Sampyna” by artists Austė Jurgelionytė-Varnė, Asta Vilhelmina Guðmundsdóttir and Laura Pavilonytė-Ežerskienė opens in Marcinkonių station gallery. In Lithuanian, the word sampyna refers to a certain tangle of structural elements a junction that reflects the work of three artists – Austė Jurgelionytė-Varnė, Asta Vilhelmina Guðmundsdóttir and…
Aušra Vaitkūnienė “Song of the Forest”
On July 6, at 2 p.m. Aušra Vaitkūnienė’s exhibition “Song of the Forest” opens in Marcinkonių station gallery. This is a visual story about Dzūkija, about its unique nature. The exhibition presents an installation of paintings and objects, metaphorically conveying not only the beauty of nature, but also the brutal struggle for existence. The works…
Kornelijus Pelkys. “Bu(vo)tas”
On June 8, at 1 p.m. Kornelijus Pelkys exhibition “Bu(vo)tas” opens at the Marcinkonys station gallery. The first exhibition of the artist, VDA graphic arts bachelor’s student, examines the themes of urban loneliness and alien communion. Revealing an anthropological perspective, the exhibition consists of four mixed media works that include different forms of artistic expression:…
Indrė Liškauskaitė “Contact Zones”
On the 4th of May the exhibition Contact Zones by Indrė Liškauskaitė will be opened at Marcinkonys station gallery. The term Contact Zones was developed by Mary Louise Pratt, while analyzing the European colonialism in South America. The author started using Contact Zones, as social spaces where disparate cultures meet and clash. Later the term was interpreted by Donna Haraway, as…
Marija Marcelionytė-Paliukė “About Snails and Ants”
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…
Goda Lukaitė “Portal”
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 Creative Pastures exhibition
Verpėjos is happy to invite you to the opening of exhibition with participating artists in the Creative Pastures residency programme. It will take place at Marcinkonys station gallery, Kastinio 1C, on 15th October, from 6 pm. 8 artists have been invited to take part in the Creative Pastures programme of the Verpejos Art Residency in…
Marija Šnipaitė „Apsistojimas“
Po beveik dviejų valandų ritmiško dunksėjimo pasieki traukinių stotį. Ji, anksčiaubuvusi tarpine stotele pakeliui į Varšuvą, dabar užbaigia maršrutą. Iš čia galima eititoliau: klaidžioti po mišką ar pas ką nors užsukti. Jei kartu atsivežei dviratį, gali mintišimtą kilometrų atgal į Vilnių. Stotis – žyma traukinio judėjimo trajektorijoje, trumpostabtelėjimo vieta ir pastogė laukiantiems. Tačiau tąkart iš…
Land art exhibition “Footsteps”
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…
Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė “Grandmas and Grandpas of Country”
“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,…
Marija Nemčenko “Blessed are those that move”
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…
Sallamari Rantala “Baby Bone”
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,…
Project “Lavkė. Slow and sandy expedition” event in Kabeliai
On the 30th during the “Lavkė. Slow and sandy expedition” event artists Andrej Polukord, Dovilė Bagdonaitė, Theatre of senses (Karolina Žernytė and Šarūnė Pečiukonytė), Saulė Norkutė, Gabrielė Vetkinaitė, Agota Zdanavičiūtė and Živilė Lukšytė shared their experiences and artistic projects developed at Kabeliai. Photo credits Vitalij Červiakov.
Jūratė Kazakevičiūtė “Forest”
On 4 September, 12:00, the exhibition “Forest” by Jūratė Kazakevičiūtė opened at Marcinkonys Station Gallery. What is the forest to me when I enter it? It’s the totality of all the senses and a desire to merge, join, and feel part of that whole. Textile sculptures – trees invite you to experience: touch and feel…
Morta Jonynaitė “Crossbars”
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…
Laura Garbštienė “I’m a bark beetle”
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…