DeMo

Neringa Bumblienė, a curator, critic and art consultant living and working in Vilnius, will be travelling to Nice on the French Riviera at the end of April. Since 2014, she works as a curator at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Vilnius, Lithuania.

She has respectively graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts with a Master’s degree in Curatorial Studies, and from the curatorial school École du Magasin in Grenoble, France. Throughout her career, she has worked on numerous contemporary art projects from large-scale international group exhibitions, such as Head with Many Thoughts and Baltic Triennial 13 Give Up the Ghost to solo presentations of established and emerging artists.

She is the Curator of the Pavilion of Lithuania at the 59th Biennale di Venezia with the project Gut Feeling by Robertas Narkus and the Artistic Director of the 1st Vilnius Biennial for Performance Art to be held in 2023. She is an expert on contemporary art at the Lithuanian Council for Culture, a Board Member of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art and the art fair ArtVilnius.

Reciprocal Residency DeMo is a part of Kaunas – European Capital of Culture 2022 programme.

Ona Juciūtė, born and working in Vilnius, is a young sculptor. In her work, she is interested in the topics of production and industry. Coming from a family of carpenters for several generations, Ona tries to understand the hierarchical systems of different materials by observing the changing production conditions.

Mark Buckeridge, born and working in Belfast, is an interdisciplinary artist who mostly explores the power of music culture as a conduit for our current social and political experiences, from acts of fandom to aural traditions found in ancient song and the spiritual energies conjured from communal listening.

The main partner: CCA Derry~Londonderry
Reciprocal Residency DeMo is a part of Kaunas – European Capital of Culture 2022 programme.

Beatrice Celli (1992) is an Italian artist living between Castelli (IT) and Marseille (FR). In her practice, she draws inspiration from the popular folk and mystical culture of her region, Abruzzo (Southern Italy). Playing with the perspective of the anthropologist, Beatrice Celli creates a personal mythology through invented folklore and interwoven beliefs that invite us to imagine new worlds. In doing so, the artist combines various myths and traditions by creating sculptures, performances, and installations.
Beatrice Celli studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Urbino in Rome and at Villa Arson in Nice. Her work has been exhibited at Kleine Humboldt Galerie in Berlin, at Venice Biennale, at the Institute of Visual Arts in Shanghai, and at Sonnenstube in Lugano, among others.

Kaunas Artists’ House, in cooperation with thankyouforcoming (Nice, French Riviera) is implementing the artists’ reciprocal residency programme DeMo (Decoding Modernity) on the theme of Esprit Collectif.

Reciprocal Residency DeMo is a part of “Kaunas – European Capital of Culture 2022” programme.

They were selected through an Open Call and spending February 2020 in Derry/Londonderry (Ginte Regina) and Kaunas (Niamh Seana Meehan) hosted by CCA and KAH respectively. Following the residency, the artists have exhibited at CCA with two, concurrent, solo shows of new and existing work by the artists. The exhibition was open to the public from 21 March to 23 May 2020. More…

At the end of October of 2020, Kaunas Artists’ House, in cooperation with Novi Sad – European Capital of Culture 2021 and the cultural center LAB (Novi Sad), after an open call selected 4 artists. The artists started their participation in the international reciprocal residency programme DeMo in November.

Artists living in Lithuania Vytautas Stakutis and Anton Karyuk were selected for the programme. Artists from Serbia are represented by Marija Krstic and Marija Markovic. All four artists are unified by sensitive observation of the environment and at the same time radically different approach to the relationship with the environment, its methods of analysis.

In order to expand the concept of modernity, the artists selected for the programme analyze the meaning of the contemporary architectural term EXISTENZMINIMUM in these turbulent times. It ccoul be predicted that the theme of the residency programme was conceptually determined by the current instability and pandemic crisis, which has highlighted the limits of both our existence and Western modernity. In addition to the very broad meaning of the term, the word EXISTENZMINIMUM is historically an architectural definition used after the First World War to describe the needs of a person for comfortable and affordable housing. It is expected that artists will prepare projects based on interdisciplinary research and implement them during physical residencies in 2021, using the traditionally modernist spaces of Kaunas and Novi Sad.

Reciprocal Residency DeMo is a part of “Kaunas – European Capital of Culture 2022” programme.