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The Pavilion of Lithuania at the 60th International Art Exhibition \u2013 La Biennale di Venezia stages <\/b>Inflammation<\/i><\/b>,<\/b> an installation by artist duo Pakui Hardware that features paintings by Marija Teres\u0117 Ro\u017eanskait\u0117 (1933\u20132007). Opening on 20 April 2024, the immersive, site-specific project explores the inflammatory effects of current economic and social conditions on human and planetary bodies<\/b><\/p>\n
The Pavilion of Lithuania at the 60th International Art Exhibition \u2013 La Biennale di Venezia opens with the installation <\/span>Inflammation<\/span><\/i>. The project is the result of collaboration between three duos: Pakui Hardware, which consists of artists Neringa \u010cerniauskait\u0117 and Ugnius Gelguda; the curators Valentinas Klima\u0161auskas and Jo\u00e3o Laia; and the architects who created\u00a0the architectural part of the Pavillion Ona Lozuraityt\u0117-I\u0161or\u0117 and Petras I\u0161ora-Lozuraitis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Occupying the Sant\u2019Antonin church, which hosts a pavilion for the first time, the exhibition presents modern figurative paintings by the late Marija Teres\u0117 Ro\u017eanskait\u0117 alongside a site-specific installation comprising aluminium and glass sculptures by Pakui Hardware. The sculptures resemble an enlarged nervous system with pulsating hotspots of inflammation and resonates with Ro\u017eanskait\u0117\u2019s paintings, which depict bodies ravaged by unnamed diseases, sterile operating theatres and medical consultation rooms, viscera-like assemblages, and machines. Drawing on the visions of artists from two generations working in Lithuania in different contexts, <\/span>Inflammation <\/span><\/i>addresses shared themes of medicine and landscapes\u2014whether natural, industrial, or cosmic. The presentation conveys the interconnectedness of bodies and environments in crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n The architects of the exhibition environment, Petras I\u0161ora-Lozuraitis and Ona Lozuraityt\u0117-I\u0161or\u0117, created a unified hybrid techno-organism. This environment includes a surface of hybrid soil, which refers to the condition of a natural body that has been infected and inflamed by synthetic matter. The exhibition conveys the fact that inflammation is by definition a systemic condition, whether it relates to the body or nature, and that systems are fundamentally linked. <\/span>Inflammation<\/span><\/i> invites audiences to examine the connections between our bodies and the planet, which are becoming increasingly clear.<\/span><\/p>\n Inflammation<\/span><\/i> is commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, presented by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, and financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.<\/span><\/p>\n Ar\u016bnas Gel\u016bnas, Commissioner, Director-General of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art: \u201c<\/span>Participation at La Biennale di Venezia is extraordinarily important on several levels: for artists, it opens up new career opportunities; for the producing institution, it is an excellent medium for networking; and for the state, it signifies international prestige. This year, the Lithuanian National Museum of Art presents the talented contemporary art duo Pakui Hardware and artist Marija Teres\u0117 Ro\u017eanskait\u0117 with the project <\/span><\/i>Inflammation<\/span>, transplanted from the historical Arsenal of Arms in the city of Vilnius, known for its thirty-seven Baroque churches, to the Sant\u2019Antonin church in Venice.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Valentinas Klima\u0161auskas and Jo\u00e3o Laia: <\/span>\u201cIn this installation, Pakui Hardware envisions the planet as an ailing body. In so doing, they design an environment that is both a map of our times and a cosmological setting marked by prolonged inflammation. This is augmented through the dialogue with Marija Terese\u0307 Ro\u017eanskaite\u0307, a longstanding reference in the artists\u2019 practice. Although we may feel abandoned today, the installation serves as a reminder of our shared condition of inflammation and, at least speculatively, suggests possible healing and hope.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Neringa \u010cerniauskait\u0117 and Ugnius Gelguda (Pakui Hardware):<\/span> \u201c<\/span><\/i>Inflammation<\/span> allows one to perceive what is not seen by the naked eye: history inscribed in human and planetary bodies, systems that are the real root of malady, suppressed internal burning. Yet, once recognized, this can be a starting point on the way to convalescence\u2014if only we could start taking the interconnectedness of things, living and inanimate alike, into more serious consideration. The installation invites the viewer to enter a certain state of mind and body, perhaps a little feverish and dizzy, in order to feel the web of life, which consists of a multitude of entities and fields, from medicine to hybrid nature, and from nervous systems to fractured sounds of technological scanning.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Pakui Hardware<\/b> is a duo formed by artists Neringa \u010cerniauskait\u0117 and Ugnius Gelguda in 2014. Solo exhibitions of Pakui Hardware\u2019s work have been held at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, and MUMOK Museum of Modern Art, Vienna. Pakui Hardware has participated in the Istanbul Biennial, the 13th Baltic Triennial in Vilnius, the Biennale Gherd\u00ebina in Urtij\u00ebi, Italy, and the Kaunas Biennial, as well as exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Basel, the MAXXI in Rome, the National Gallery of Art in Prague, the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, the Ujazdowski Art Centre in Warsaw, and the BOZAR Museum in Brussels. In 2023 the duo was also invited to curate the annual program at La Casa Encendida Centre for Contemporary Art in Madrid.<\/span><\/p>\n In the oeuvre of the modernist painter <\/span>Marija Teres\u0117 Ro\u017eanskait\u0117 <\/b>(1933\u20132007), unnamed omnipresent disease, sterile operating rooms, hospitals, sore flesh\u2013themed assemblages, paintings, and objects irradiate chronic inflammation of the cosmic flesh. Throughout her career, Ro\u017eanskait\u0117 turned her attention to ecological, social, historical, and political concerns. Her works address female bodies in the Soviet medical system, Soviet deportations to Siberia, and themes of care.<\/span><\/p>\n A catalogue accompanies the exhibition<\/a>, published by Mousse Publishing. Edited by Pakui Hardware,<\/span> Valentinas Klima\u0161auskas, Jo\u00e3o Laia, and Egla Mikalaj\u016bn\u0117, it is richly illustrated and includes texts by Ar\u016bnas Gel\u016bnas, Valentinas Klima\u0161auskas, Jo\u00e3o Laia, Petras I\u0161ora-Lozuraitis, Ona Lozuraityt\u0117-I\u0161or\u0117, Estelle Hoy, and Inga L\u0101ce. ISBN 978-88-6749-615-0<\/span><\/p>\n Lithuania has been participating in the International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia since 1999. The Lithuanian Pavilion has been awarded a special mention four times, and in Biennale Arte 2019 it won the Golden Lion.<\/span><\/p>\n Pavilion of Lithuania<\/strong><\/p>\n 60th international Art Exhibition \u2013 La Biennale di Venezia<\/strong><\/p>\n Chiesa di Sant\u2019Antonin<\/span><\/p>\n Castello 3300<\/span><\/p>\n 30122 Venice<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/en\/noticeboard\/453<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Open from 20 April to 31 October 2024<\/span><\/p>\n II\u2013VII, 11am\u20137pm\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The pavilion will be open on the following Mondays \u2013 17 July, 22 July, 2 September, 30 September.<\/p>\n Access from vaporetto station San Zaccaria A<\/span><\/p>\n Producer of the exhibition:<\/strong> Lithuanian National Museum of Art<\/p>\n Artists:<\/strong> Pakui Hardware (Neringa \u010cerniauskait\u0117, Ugnius Gelguda) ir Marija Teres\u0117 Ro\u017eanskait\u0117<\/p>\n Curators of the pavilion:<\/strong> Valentinas Klima\u0161auskas, Joao Laia<\/p>\n Commissioner of the pavilion:<\/strong> Ar\u016bnas Gel\u016bnas<\/p>\n Exhibition environment and landscape architects:<\/strong> I\u0161ora x Lozuraityt\u0117 Studio for Architecture<\/p>\n Light artist:<\/strong> Eugenijus Sabaliauskas<\/p>\n Design:<\/strong> Vytautas Volbekas<\/p>\n Coordinators:<\/strong> Evaldas Stankevi\u010dius, Egla Mikalaj\u016bn\u0117<\/p>\n Architect coordinator:<\/strong> Egl\u0117 Jagmin\u0117<\/p>\n Public relations\u2018 producer:<\/strong> R\u016bta Statulevi\u010d\u016bt\u0117-Kau\u010dikien\u0117<\/p>\n Commissioned by:<\/strong> Lietuvos Respublikos kult\u016bros ministerija<\/p>\n Financed by:<\/strong> Lietuvos kult\u016bros taryba<\/p>\n Partners: <\/strong><\/p>\n carlier | gebauer<\/p>\n Plasta Group<\/p>\n Sponsors: <\/strong><\/p>\n Amsterdam Kunstverein<\/span><\/p>\n Exterus<\/p>\n Law firm COBALT<\/p>\n Girteka<\/p>\n Glassic<\/p>\n Linen Tales<\/p>\n Noewe Foundation<\/p>\n Nord Cranes Systems<\/p>\n Piritas<\/p>\n Media sponsors:<\/strong><\/p>\n LRT<\/p>\n JC Decaux Lietuva<\/p>\n Artnews.lt<\/p>\n Fo<\/b>r media enquiries:<\/b> Media kit (English & Italian)<\/a><\/p>\n International media<\/span><\/p>\n Anne Maier, Send\/Receive<\/span><\/p>\n
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