Neda Rimaitė selected for the “April” writing residency in Trakai

2026-09-04

This October, LIAA member Neda Rimaitė will take part in the “April” residency in Trakai, on the shore of Lake Galvė, where she will focus on writing.

Neda Rimaitė is an artist whose practice brings together sculpture and writing. She works with clay, porcelain, silver and other materials, and occasionally engages in sound experiments. In her texts, personal observations of her surroundings and fragments of memory intertwine with themes of material decay, hierarchy, historical paradoxes, as well as romantic and interpersonal relations.

During the residency, Neda Rimaitė will work on a larger collection of texts characterised by observations of everyday life, translucent romantic elements and fragments of memory. The forthcoming collection is shaped by themes of optics, observation and the suspended gaze that lingers after the viewer has turned away.

Neda’s texts have been published in “Artnews.lt” and in “Kinderfreie Zone”, a publication by “Contemporary Matters”, and presented in exhibitions at Atletika Gallery, SODAS 2123 project space, the VDA Telšiai Gallery and Klaipėda Gallery. Her text “Dvejonė” was nominated in the short-form category of the Art Criticism Awards.

We congratulate Neda and wish her a focused, thoughtful and creatively rewarding time. 

April is an international residency programme for everyone who writes: novelists and essayists, critics, editors and their magazines, performers and scriptwriters, artist-writers and, of course, poets, sometimes even ghostwriters. The residency is suited to local and international authors who use storytelling as a creative tool and are not afraid to experiment with text forms, language, or genre. April offers writers the chance to work within Trakai’s unique environment, delve deeper into the topics of their research and local context, familiarise themselves with the contemporary cultural scene in Lithuania and its established and upcoming participants, and develop new work – whether that is a chapter of a forthcoming book, a translation of their own or others’ writing, poems or essays, performance scripts, diaristic notes, the perfect title, a magazine, or many things yet unthought. 

You can read texts by the LIAA member here: 

Text for the exhibition “Second Hand”:
https://artnews.lt/grupine-paroda-antros-rankos-sodas-2123-projektu-erdveje-125444

Text for Ieva Černiauskaitė’s work “Pleaser” and “The Kiss”, published in “Contemporary Matters”:
https://nedarimaite.lt/writings

Text “Dvejonė”:
https://artnews.lt/dvejone-127684

Untitled text presented in the exhibition “Risen Dust” at Atletika Gallery:
https://nedarimaite.lt/untitled

Image by Stefan Schönauer.