LIAA Mentorship Program 2025
2025-04-24
This year, we are continuing the internal mentorship program of the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association (LIAA) and invite members to take part! Applications are open until May 11, 2025.
The LIAA Mentorship Program offers an opportunity to strengthen internal community bonds, foster solidarity, and enhance professional growth by sharing knowledge, practices, skills, and ideas. It is designed to support artistic development and increase competitiveness within the creative field.
Participants will have the opportunity to attend a set number of one-on-one sessions with mentors free of charge. In 2025, Vaiva Grainytė and Neringa Bumblienė will lead the program. Each mentor will work with 1–2 participants in 4 personal sessions.
About the mentors:
Vaiva Grainytė is a writer, poet, and playwright, active in interdisciplinary art practices.
Her books, Beijing Diaries (2012) and Gorilla Archives (2019), were nominated in the “Book of the Year” competition and selected among the 12 most creative books in Lithuania. In 2022, her bilingual collage novel Roses and Potatoes (translated by Karla Gruodis) was published. Grainytė wrote the libretto for Have a Good Day! (2013), an opera that received six international awards in Europe. Her second opera-performance, Sun and Sea—created with Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė and Lina Lapelytė—won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2019. Both works continue to tour internationally and have been presented at leading theatre and contemporary art festivals in Europe, the US, Australia, South America, and Asia. Her work has been translated into more than ten languages.
Neringa Bumblienė is a curator and author whose interests include contemporary art that sensitively reflects on the challenges of the present and helps imagine possible futures. She often works on projects that feature new artworks and enjoys involving artists in situations that expand beyond their usual practices.
She is the Artistic Director and Curator of the Vilnius Performance Art Biennial (launched in 2023) and was the Curator of the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022). Since 2014, she has been working at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Vilnius. Her curatorial projects include large-scale international group exhibitions and performance festivals (co-curator of Walls Are Nocturnal Animals, Palais de Tokyo and Kadist, Paris, 2024; co-curator of the 13th Baltic Triennial, 2018) and solo exhibitions by both emerging and established artists (Augustas Serapinas, 2025; Robertas Narkus, 2023, 2022, 2020; Pierre Huyghe, 2022; Michael Rakowitz, 2020; Alejandro Cesarco, 2019; Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, 2018; Liam Gillick, 2017, 2014, among others).
To apply, please fill out the application form by indicating your motivation, choosing a mentor, and attaching a brief creative biography.
Deadline: May 11, 2025
Results will be announced on May 21.
Application form: https://forms.gle/5qiBSoeWMBg8ftL2A
If you have any questions, please contact: nariams@letmekoo.lt