{"id":25076,"date":"2026-05-04T15:34:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/naujienos\/the-first-uk-museum-presentation-of-aleksandra-kasubas-work-her-exhibition-shelters-for-senses-open-at-tate-st-ives\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:34:32","slug":"the-first-uk-museum-presentation-of-aleksandra-kasubas-work-her-exhibition-shelters-for-senses-open-at-tate-st-ives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/news\/the-first-uk-museum-presentation-of-aleksandra-kasubas-work-her-exhibition-shelters-for-senses-open-at-tate-st-ives\/","title":{"rendered":"The first UK museum presentation of Aleksandra Kasuba\u2019s work: her exhibition Shelters for Senses open at Tate St Ives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday, 1 May, Tate St Ives opened Shelters for the Senses<\/em>, an exhibition of the Lithuanian-American artist Aleksandra Fled\u017einskait\u0117-Ka\u0161ubien\u0117 (Kasuba, 1923\u20132019),\u00a0the first UK comprehensive overview of the artist\u2019s journey. The exhibition is curated by Tate St Ives Director Anne Barlow in collaboration with the LNMA curator, senior researcher Elona Lubyt\u0117. On display is the artwork donated to Lithuania by the artist and kept by the LNMA.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, the exhibition at the renowned Tate St Ives is not only an important international event in collaboration with the Tate, one of the forefront global art institutions, but a powerful re-entry of Aleksandra Kasuba into the global art discourse. Today her visionary artistic idiom, which brings together art, science and technologies, is increasingly resonant and even prophetic: the exhibition challenges us to rediscover modernity, our relationship with the environment and artist\u2019s responsibility in contemporary world,\u201d says Dr Ar\u016bnas Gel\u016bnas, director general of the LNMA.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith\u00a0our exhibitions team\u00a0at Tate St Ives, and of course Elona\u00a0Lubyt\u0117,\u00a0and\u00a0Ieva\u00a0Maz\u016brait\u0117-Novickien\u0117, along with Ar\u016bnas\u00a0Gel\u016bnas\u00a0and Lolita\u00a0Jablonskien\u0117, who are leading\u00a0on\u00a0and supporting\u00a0this\u00a0vision, we developed an idea for the exhibition that revolves around\u00a0Spectrum: An Afterthought<\/em>\u00a0(1975\/2014) and that\u00a0groups her work into different\u00a0thematics\u00a0that people can experience as they move through the show. From the\u00a0initial\u00a0idea of collaborating\u00a0on\u00a0how we conceived the exhibition, both thematically and structurally, it has been very much a shared process,\u201d Tate St Ives Director Anne Barlow and curator of the exhibition is happy with the joint work.<\/p>\n

The legacy bridging the shores of the Atlantic Ocean<\/h6>\n
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Tate St Ives Director Anne Barlow and the LNMA curator, senior researcher Elona Lubyt\u0117. Photo by Egl\u0117 Marija \u017delvyt\u0117 \/ LNMA<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI believe that Aleksandra who trusted our museum with the safeguarding and promotion of her legacy, would be thrilled by the exhibition here at Tate St Ives. Her artwork, on its first UK museum presentation, finds itself close to its stimulus: nature and loads of prehistoric monuments from the Neolithic period of St Ives area,\u201d Dr Elona Lubyt\u0117 says.<\/p>\n

In 1944, during the Second World War, Kasuba was forced to flee her native Lithuania. After a stay in Germany at the Displaced Persons Camp, she crossed the Atlantic in 1947 emigrating to the United States, where she first settled in New York, moving to New Mexico by the end of her life.<\/p>\n

Kasuba was a visionary artist inspired by natural forms and shapes of vegetation, rocks, shells and marine life. Visitors to the Tate St Ives, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, can be expected to be interested in work by the Lithuanian artist. According to Lubyt\u0117, Aleksandra gained \u201cinspiration for one of her most celebrated environments, the Live-In Environment<\/em> (1971) during her 1970 visit to Ireland, observing the prehistoric monuments situated on the shores of the Celtic Sea, opposite St Ives.\u201d \u201cThe exhibition presents a reconstruction of one of the six abodes of the Live-In Environment<\/em> together with the American textile artist Urban Jupena\u2019s hand-knotted rug originally demonstrated in the Ka\u0161ubas\u2019s house in Manhattan,\u201d says the art critic.<\/p>\n

The exhibition spans seven decades of work by Aleksandra from her early paintings and mosaics to her later public artworks, architectural designs and innovative spatial environments wherein she wanted to forge a connection between humanity and nature, proposing a different mode of life.<\/p>\n

Kasuba\u2019s art travelling the continents<\/h6>\n
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Exhibition “Shelters for the Senses”. Photo by Egl\u0117 Marija \u017delvyt\u0117 \/ LNMA<\/p><\/div>\n

According to Lubyt\u0117, the stronger resonance of Kasuba\u2019s art is witnessed by yet another exhibition opening at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul,\u00a0Inside Other Spaces. Environments by Women Artists<\/em> 1956\u20131976<\/em>, curators Andrea Lissoni, Marina Pugliese. It includes a reconstructed, in cooperation with the LNMA, Kasuba\u2019s colourful environment Spectral Passage<\/em> (1975).<\/p>\n

Shelters for the Senses <\/em>will run at the Tate St Ives until 4 October, later on, it will publicize the name of Kasuba in other museums. A catalogue presenting the art of Kasuba, developed by the Tate publishing division in collaboration with the LNMA, will accompany the exhibition. The authors of the catalogue work to establish the links of Kasuba\u2019s art to other artistic practices, and to place her into the scontext of the movements and ideas relevant for her time.<\/p>\n

A symposium dedicated to the art by Aleksandra Kasuba will be held on 30 May at the Tate Modern in London. It is being organized by the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, the Tate research centre organizing international symposia, seminars and other events with a mission of expanding stories of art and exploration of the movement of artists and ideas transculturally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday, 1 May, Tate St Ives opened Shelters for the Senses, an exhibition of the Lithuanian-American artist Aleksandra Fled\u017einskait\u0117-Ka\u0161ubien\u0117 (Kasuba, 1923\u20132019),\u00a0the first UK comprehensive overview of the artist\u2019s journey. The exhibition is curated by Tate St Ives Director Anne Barlow in collaboration with the LNMA curator, senior researcher Elona Lubyt\u0117. On display is the artwork […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"department":[69],"class_list":["post-25076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pranesimas","department-lithuanian-national-museum-of-art"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25076"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=25076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}