Until Hope Do Us Part. Exhibition by LIAA members
2025-08-26
On September 11 at 7 p.m., a group exhibition by members of the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association (LIAA), titled “Until Hope Do Us Part”, opens at Atletika Gallery (Vitebsko St. 21, Vilnius). The exhibition presents works by Austėja Masliukaitė, Barbora Matonytė, Darius Žiūra, Jurga Juodytė, Laura Stasiulytė, Jonas Meškauskas, and Agata Orlovska, and is curated by Ieva Gražytė.
Each epoch belongs to the most resolute – the ones who make the rules, draft legal systems and treaties, and ensure that every detail leaves no room for dispute. In the twists and turns of history, the end of an era is inevitably marked by change. Yet what truly sets people apart is not conflict, but indifference.
“Until Hope Do Us Part”, an intergenerational showcase by LIAA members, reflects on hope and its quiet yet persistent presence – often mistaken for passive inaction.
Here, hope is not a sign of weakness but a signal of action – a force resilient enough to endure both individual and collective crises. It becomes the illusion of an eternal engine, where the tension between knowledge and faith fuels momentum.
Within the exhibition’s narratives, hope emerges not as passive waiting, but as stoic resistance to indifference – not a final state, but a recurring rhythm of separation and reunion. A cyclical phenomenon between bloomings, whose transience we tend to romanticise – even at the edge of collapse.
The exhibition is curated around plots and objects that emerge as surprises or even miracles. Often literary in nature, the works of artists from different generations and practices shape a narrative about what would never have happened if human creative practices were based solely on a set of rules.
Artists: Austėja Masliukaitė, Barbora Matonytė, Darius Žiūra, Jurga Juodytė, Laura Stasiulytė, Jonas Meškauskas, Agata Orlovska
Curator – Ieva Gražytė
Exhibition architect – Greta Eimulytė
Architect’s assistant – Matas Šatūnas
Technical implementation manager – Jonas Balsevičius
Exhibition designer – Monika Janulevičiūtė
Exhibition opening
2025/09/11 19.00
Tours with curator and architect
2025/09/13 13.00
2025/09/25 18.00 (in English)
Creative writing and reading workshop
2025/09/25 18.30 (no registration required)
Exhibition dates & times
2025/09/12–10/11
Thursdays & Fridays 16.00–19.00, Saturdays 13.00–17.00
Open on Sunday during Vilnius Gallery Weekend 2025/09/14 13–17
Organised by the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association and VšĮ Galerijų savaitgalis. LIAA activities are financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture. Project supported by Vilnius City Municipality.