{"id":25167,"date":"2026-05-21T14:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/radvilu-rumu-dailes-muziejus\/renginiai\/shifts-in-the-perception-of-present-day-world-security-explored-by-a-contemporary-art-show-at-the-radvila-palace-museum-of-art\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:32:06","slug":"shifts-in-the-perception-of-present-day-world-security-explored-by-a-contemporary-art-show-at-the-radvila-palace-museum-of-art","status":"publish","type":"renginys","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/radvila-palace-museum-of-art\/events\/shifts-in-the-perception-of-present-day-world-security-explored-by-a-contemporary-art-show-at-the-radvila-palace-museum-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifts in the perception of present day-world security explored by a contemporary art show at the Radvila Palace Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Radvila Palace Museum of Art of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art (LNMA) opens an exhibition of contemporary art \u2018Boundaries of (In)Security\u2019. The event brings into focus the increasingly obliterating concepts of all kinds of boundaries \u2013 geographical, meteorological, and national, and their connection to the digital reality and biological world.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe theme of predatory aggression and the complexity of global megastructures have weighed on my mind for a while. Sadly, war is in its fifth year. russia keeps devasting the land of Ukraine, while the front line stretches not only across the territories and the sky \u2013 it creeps into TV, radio, social media and other forms of digital reality. Weather forecasts are part of daily life, yet grasping the depth of climate crisis on a more global scale is still a difficult task for the human mind. Some places continually suffer from climate disasters, but the impact of \u201cbad weather\u201d is not something to be assessed adequately, because the information flow is fragmentary and interrupted,\u201d the exhibition curator Skaidra Trilupaityt\u0117 talks of the concerns that gave rise to the idea of the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot a big one, but a highly comprehensive exhibition features work by contemporary artists unpacking a diversity of viewpoints on the shifts in the perception of security in contemporary world. At the same time, it enters \u00a0into a dialogue with the other exhibitions currently running at the Radvila Palace. On show are the sculptures by Mindaugas Navakas, and a retrospective of the Kharkiv Photography School. Both are marked by the signs of war and pursue the themes of control by power structures and the fracturing of geopolitical plates,\u201d Justina Augustyt\u0117, director of the museum, places the event into context.<\/p>\n

Reflection on the consequences of geopolitical conflicts<\/h6>\n

Artists on display are new media artist Mindaugas Gap\u0161evi\u010dius, video, installation and performance artist Kristina In\u010di\u016brait\u0117, sculptor and interdisciplinary artist Matas Janu\u0161onis, and animation director Margarita Valionyt\u0117. Included are also video conversations by the culture policy researcher Skaidra Trilupaityt\u0117 and video artist Tomas Andrijauskas. They talk to a female pilot, an expert of international relations, and to climate researchers.<\/p>\n

The participating artists reflect on the situation of the state boundaries and air space, climate change, the devastation of the infrastructures of observation and surveillance, and of electricity supply \u2013 approaching these issues in terms of inner and external security and potential threats. They invite to contemplate the present-day perception of territory, connection and security, when boundaries are drawn not only on maps, but across the flow of information, atmosphere, and the human body.<\/p>\n

The exhibition \u2018Boundaries of In(Security)\u2019 works across the fields of history, media culture, science and political imagination. The subject matter of territory, control, and invisible boundaries are presented in the context of war, technologies and human connection to the environment. The artists articulate their deep concern with the consequences of geopolitical conflicts, emotional fatigue from information overload, and inadequacy to respond to the incessantly circulating images of violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Artists\u2019 response to aggression \u2013 production of personal energy and battling the aggressor\u2019s influence<\/h6>\n

Some of the works on display have been produced in response to the 2022 russian aggression, the earlier ones have acquired a new resonance with the changing geopolitical context. The full-scale invasion prompted a deeply felt sympathy by the artists captured in their works. They may not have experienced the reality of the front line, but today they reflect on the overpowering emotions of the moment \u2013 emotions of shock, anger, sorrow. Margarita Valionyt\u0117\u2019s animation references the shock and deep dismay at our inability to somehow influence the reality we see on social media. The expert of international relationships in one of the video conversations by Trilupaityt\u0117 and Andrijauskas raises the question of the validity of the metaphor of the \u2018NATO shield\u2019 in the ongoing drone war. The attacks against energy infrastructure in different countries make us look for ways to produce \u2018personal energy\u2019, one such is proposed by the artist Gap\u0161evi\u010dius in his piece.<\/p>\n

According to the curator Trilupaityt\u0117, the issue of the russian soft power and its influence on culture in the countries of the European Union, as illustrated by the recent much-discussed Venice Biennial example, calls for serious consideration. The soft aggressor\u2019s influence and toxic emotions on the lips of influencers or even a curator are evoked in the piece by In\u010di\u016brait\u0117 \u2013 a work on a former female spy, leading a security prison, cosmic surveillance station and celestial phantoms \u2013 created ten years ago and recently updated.<\/p>\n

On Thursday 4 June, at 6 pm, exhibition is accompanied by a discussion with the participating artists and experts. The \u2018Boundaries of (In)Security\u2019 will run at the Radvila Palace Museum of Art until 20 September.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Curator: Skaidra Trilupaityt\u0117<\/p>\n

Artists: Mindaugas Gap\u0161evi\u010dius, Kristina In\u010di\u016brait\u0117, Matas Janu\u0161onis, Skaidra Trilupaityt\u0117 & Tomas Andrijauskas, Margarita Valionyt\u0117<\/p>\n

Architect: Sigita Simona Paplauskait\u0117<\/p>\n

Graphic designer: Marek Voida<\/p>\n

Coordinator: Nojus Kiznis<\/p>\n

Producing architect: Aleksandras Kavaliauskas<\/p>\n

Translator: Raminta Bumbulyt\u0117<\/p>\n

Organiser: The Radvila Palace Museum of Art of the LNMA<\/p>\n

Project financed by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania<\/p>\n

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