The curators of contemporary art and meeting space Lokomotif Milda Dainovskytė and Laurynas Skeisgiela are announcing this year’s event programme. In the nearest future, a duo will invite you to an online workshop, and a little later – to two group exhibitions as well as artist residencies.
Last year, Lokomotif invited visitors to group exhibitions Resort, 2 0 9 0, and many other events. This year, the art space will begin its programme with launching an online lecture / self-reflection training session led by a Berlin-based international duo, new visions. The founders of the collective, Agnieszka Bulacik and Liene Jurgelane, have been working with leaders in culture and arts for many years, seeking to transform existing narratives and thus create a more diverse, equitable and inclusive society and environment. new visions create and facilitate a variety of learning spaces and is directly involved in artistic and cultural work both as practicing artists and as curators of a variety of cultural and social initiatives.
Lokomotif’s 2020 programme will feature contemporary artists and researchers both from Lithuania and abroad, invite visitors to discussions, exhibitions and creative practices, while the space itself will also work as an open studio for artists. Artists will be invited to take part in Lokomotif’s residencies, in search of connections with the local context and the open and closed communities of the city. Meanwhile, the programme’s further development is supported by partnerships with well-established institutions in the Lithuanian contemporary art scene.
Warowland: What are we collecting today?
Lokomotif’s first exhibition this year, Warowland, is inspired by the case study of Count Vladislovas Tiškevičius as a collector, and will examine the collecting processes in the everyday life of a modern man.
Exiled from tsarist Russia at the beginning of the 20th century, Vladislovas Tiškevičius established himself in Italy, near Milan. In a small town, he opened Galleria Warowland – an antique store based on his collection of artworks. Uncontrollable external changes resulted in unexpected success – Tiškevičius managed to turn his personal hobby into a business, while his collection, formed in the small town of Lentvaris, sparked the interest of some like-minded people he had met in Italy.
It seems that the great success of the antique store was also due to the constant nostalgia for the town of Lentvaris. The title of the exhibition, Warowland, is the Polish name of Lentvaris in reverse. By creating this exhibition we would like to look at collecting as an inevitable, subtly personal phenomenon. What can be told about each of us from our constantly collected Youtube playlists and bookmarks?
The curators of the exhibition refer to research conducted by art critic dr. Aistė Bimbirytė-Mackevičienė.
Lokomotif is located in Lentvaris railway station.
The project is partially supported by: Lithuanian Culture Council, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, Trakai district municipality
The project is implemented by: New media design studio UAB Surikatos
Partners: Rupertas, VAA Nida Art Colony, UAB Lentvario kilimai, Loko Café, Six Chairs Books, Artbooks.lt, Lithuanian Union of Interdisciplinary Art Creators, Lekėčiai Women’s Club