Meeting with Verpėjos residency program participants – Jitka Kralova and Kat Wood
We invite you to come to Kabeliai on October 27th, 1-5pm to meet this month’s residents. At 2pm we will have lunch prepared together by the residents at Verpėjos kitchen. The meal will be mainly made from local ingredients and we will try kvass made by the artists. After lunch the artists will share their…
October residents – Jitka Králová and Kat Wood
Meet the residents of October – Jitka Králová and Kat Wood. Jitka Králová, originally from the Czech Republic, is interested in rural landscape and its transformation over time, as well as in walking, storytelling, and collecting. Her artistic practice encompasses painting, drawing, and ceramics, which she also uses to create site-specific installations and subtle interventions…
Meeting with ‘’Verpėjos’’ residents Marijonas Verbal and Sophie Durand
On September 28 from 12 – 17 p.m we invite you to the “Verpejos” homestead for lunch followed by presentations by the September residents where Marijonas and Sophie will share their experiences and creations from the past month. The menu for the lunch will be based on collective cooking in the Verpejos kitchen and will…
September residents – Sophie Durand and Marijonas Verbel
Sophie Durand is an artist from Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia based in Vilnius. Sophie’s multi-disciplinary practice extends from the intersection of sculpture and performance art and draws from anecdotal histories and archives of landscape for subject matter. Currently she is looking at strategies to reposition her artworks within environmental settings and to work more empathetically with…
Meeting with Carolin Schelkle and Nazaré Soares, participants of the Verpejos art residency program “Shepherds and Spindles”
On August 25, Sunday, at 3 p.m., we invite you to a meeting with Carolin Schelkle and Nazaré Soares, participants of the Verpejos art residency program “Shepherds and Spindles”. Verpėjos art residency is located in a traditional homestead, in the village of Kabeliai, Varėna district. In the months of July and August, two artists invited…
July and August residents – Carolin Schelkle and Nazare Soares
Carolin Schelkle is a Designer and Material Researcher from Lake Constance, Germany, holding a Bachelor of Arts in Product and Communication Design from the Free University of Bolzano, Italy and a Master of Product Design from écal (Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne), Switzerland. Her work is led by exploring the life of products and raw…
Meeting with June residents – Haha Wang and Merkys Žebrauskas
June 29, 4 – 8 p.m. we invite you to meet Haha Wang and Merkys Žebrauskas, the art residents of “Verpejos” for the month of June.♣ The “Verpejos” art residency is located in a traditional homestead in the village of Kabeliai in the Varėna district. In June, two artists who were invited by a competition…
June residents – Haha Wang and Merkys Žebrauskas
Haha Wang (b. 1993, China) is an artist based in Munich, Germany. In her works, the intimate feelings of humans and animals are conveyed and transformed by unexpected objects or events. She specializes in creating and mingling spaces to expose how daily and technical objects shape the styles and forms of life. Merkys Žebrauskas (b….
May residents – Shayma Nader and Ingrid Helena Pajo
Shayma Nader is an artist, curator and researcher from Palestine. Her research-led practice is concerned with anticolonial, antidisciplinary and land-centred imaginaries and practices. She is currently a PhD candidate in artistic research at ARIA at Sint Lucas School of Arts (KdG) and University of Antwerp. Ingrid Helena Pajo (b. 1996, Tallinn) is a textile artist. Her work encompasses…
Verpėjos in Vilnius
The event is designed to get to know and support VERPĖJOS (The Spinners’) Art Organization from the village of Kabeliai in Dzūkija. Who: Verpėjos – an independent art initiative / Shepherds’ residency in the village of Kabeliai / art gallery at Marcinkonys train station Where: 77 days, Jakšto st. 9, Vienuolio street inner courtyard – the…
Call for creators to submit applications: VERPĖJOS‘ CREATIVE PASTURES
Call for creators to submit applications: VERPĖJOS‘ CREATIVE PASTURES Verpėjos (The Spinners) is inviting interdisciplinary artists to an artistic residency in the Varėna area (South Lithuania) from September to October 2024. 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…
Meeting with September residents – Vaiva Grainytė and Ieva Maslinskaitė
September 29, 3 – 7 p.m. we invite you to meet Ieva Maslinskaitė and Vaiva Grainytė, the artresidents of “Verpejos” for the month of September. The “Verpejos” art residency is located in a traditional homestead in the village of Kabeliai in theVarėna district. In September, two artists invited by a competition – Ieva Maslinskaitė and…