On 6 February 2025 at 7pm, a group exhibition titled Bakakay opens at the Atletika gallery, featuring LIAA member Simonas Nekro\u0161ius, Stephanie Baechler, Sara Bjarland, Ina Budryt\u0117, Polyrabbit Duplicate, Monika Kornilova, Art\u016bras Mitinas, Hanna Umin. The exhibition is curated by Bakakay collective (Monika Kornilova and Art\u016bras Mitinas).<\/b><\/p>\n
<\/b> The curators of the exhibition are wondering what positive or infantilising forces are at work in contemporary society \u2013 between lulling self-centredness and experimental openness, between escapism and productive disinterest, between alienation from one’s body and repressed, uncomfortable corporeality.<\/span><\/p>\n The artists participating in the exhibition reflect on these themes or states through their artistic practices, using open, draughty creative processes. Playfully revealing possibilities and tactile qualities of the material, they search for a relationship between narrative and bodily experience. The exhibition includes everyday finds turned into aesthetic objects, DIY sound objects, experimental painting, ceramics and animation. The artworks are used to create a dialogue with the building and the history of the neighbourhood.<\/span> Organised by the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists\u2019 Association and Bakakay collective. Activities of LIAA are financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality.<\/span>
\n<\/b>Bakakay combines ideas of childishness, uncertainty and the uncomfortable. It is known that babbling infants can produce any sound that occurs in human speech, but as soon as they learn to speak one specific language with its specific sounds, they lose this ability. Thinking not only about verbal communication, but also about broader human activities, the exhibition focuses on the potential of formlessness as well as the experimental and sensory approaches that open it up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n<\/span>The history of the building where gallery Atletika is currently located, and where the boarding school for children with intellectual disabilities was run, was shaped by the school founders, philanthropists, architects, staff and pupils. The social landscape of the area has changed dramatically over the last two centuries, as monasteries and gardens have given way to prisons, boarding schools and bases for power structures. The curators and researchers of the exhibition seek to look into personal and communal pasts, discovering the relationship between the distant signs of the past and the active processes shaping the present.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The research accompanying the exhibition is going to be published in the Artnews.lt magazine and will be presented as a separate closing event at the cultural centre SODAS 2123.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Artists \u2013 Stephanie Baechler, Sara Bjarland, Ina Budryt\u0117, Polyrabbit Duplicate, Monika Kornilova, Simonas Nekro\u0161ius, Art\u016bras Mitinas, Hanna Umin.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Curators \u2013 Bakakay collective (Monika Kornilova, Art\u016bras Mitinas).<\/span>
\n<\/span>Researchers \u2013 Saul\u0117 Ziziliauskas, Yaroslava Minenkova, Monika Kornilova, Art\u016bras Mitinas, Lukas Mykolaitis, Paulius Jevsejevas.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Designer \u2013 Izabel\u0117 \u017depnickait\u0117.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Exhibition opening 2025\/02\/06, 19.00.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Exhibition dates & times 2025\/02\/07 \u2013 03\/15<\/span>
\n<\/span>Thursdays & Fridays 16.00\u201319.00, Saturdays 14.00\u201318.00.<\/span>
\n<\/span>*also open on Sundays in February, 13.00\u201316.00.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Exhibition tours with curators on February 8, 15, 22, at 15.00.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Address: Atletika gallery, Vitebsko 21, Vilnius.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Free entry to all events and the exhibition.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n<\/span>www.atletikaprojects.lt<\/span><\/p>\n
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