Photo reportage from the exhibition 'XVII century' at Autarkia, Vilnius

August 21, 2019
Author Echo Gone Wrong

It happens you fail, fail, fail, fail and then suddenly you fail so big, then you fail, fail, fail, fail. Just can’t find it. The breakthroughs of political thought, culture or science strike at the darkest hours of human kind. So was the XVII century, on the one hand it is – an Age of Enlightenment, geographical discoveries, city development, on the other historians call this period “The big Crisis” – countries scatter, so did Lithuanian Polish commonwealth, wars and plagues are raging, in this spree the consciousness of the city dweller rises, new class is born, academies of science and art emerge and salons stage their first exhibitions.

Participating artists:
Neringa Černiauskaitė and Ugnius Gelguda (Pakui Hardware) Eglė Kolbokaitė and Dorota Gaweda (Young Girsl Reading Group), Laura Kaminskaitė Dalia Dūdėnaitė, Ona Juciūtė, Anastasija Sosunova,Beatričė Mockevičiūtė, Viktorija Damerel,Viltė Bražiūnaitė ir Tomas Sinkevičius, Monika Kalinauskaitė, Rūtenė Merkliopaitė, Gabrielė Adomaitytė, Ieva Rojūtė, Indrė Šerpytytė, Neringa Vasiliauskaitė, Austėja Vilkaitytė, Monika Janulevičiūtė ir Antanas Lučiūnas ( Girl is on Fire), Emilė Skolevičiūtė, Patricija Jurkšaitytė, Jurga Barilaitė, Eglė Karpavičiūtė, Raimundas Malašauskas, Deimantas Narkevičius, Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonai, Artūras Raila, Evaldas Jansas, Dainius Liškevičius, Kastutė Bogdanė, Gintautas Trimakas, Robertas Narkus, Antanas Gerlikas, Juozas Laivys, Gediminas G. Akstinas, Kazimieras Šližys, Jakūbas Čižikas, Donatas Jankauskas (Duonis) , Žilvinas Landsbergas, Vytautas Virzbickas,Augustas Serapinas, Andrej Polukord, Vytenis Burokas, Ignas Krunglevičius, Paulius Petraitis, Vitalijus Strigunkovas, Kristijonas Naglis Zakaras, Rokas Valiauga, Rytis Urbanskas, Kalendra, Rokas Pralgauskas, Ugnė Ukla, Gabrielė Gervickaitė, Praspaliauskas, Remigijus Praspaliauskas, Mikko Kuorinki, Alex Bailey ir Krõõt Juurak, Kaspar Groševs, Nicholas Matranga and others.

Autarkia
Nuagarduko 41
Vilnius, Lithuania

Curators:
Laura Kaminskaitė and Robertas Narkus

Exhibition is suported by :
Lithuanian Council for culture

More information: www.autarkia.lt

Photography: Autarkia