On 17th December, Sunday at 2 pm curator Šelda Puķīte will make a tour through the Baltic artist group exhibition “Emotional Landscapes” at gallery „Arka“ (Aušros Vartų st. 7, Vilnius). During the tour, she will tell more in-depth about the political and poetical undertones of the exhibition topic, about the presented artists and their works as well as reveal more about the built-up process of this project.
This extensive exhibition is an attempt to draw an imaginative atlas of the world today examining the landscape we both see and feel right now. It is a canvas on which artists invited from across the Baltics will reveal their own emotionally and personally felt landscapes – landscapes that, to paraphrase Björk’s song Jóga, have pushed them up to their own state of emergency.
Participating artists: Eike Eplik (EE), Alexei Gordin (EE), Kristi Kongi (EE), Maija Kurševa (LV), Anna Mari Liivrand (EE), Aurelija Maknytė (LT), Laura Põld (EE) and Lou Sheppard (CA), Monika Radžiūnaitė (LT), Krišs Salmanis (LV), Rūta Spelskytė (LT), Līga Spunde (LV), Diāna Tamane (LV/EE), Neringa Vasiliauskaitė (LT/DE) and Kristina Õllek (EE).
About the curator:
Šelda Puķīte is a Latvian curator, publisher and researcher living in Estonia. She studied art history at the Art Academy of Latvia, receiving both bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Puķīte has worked on several international exhibition projects and art fair stands, curated educational programs, created catalogues for art festivals and continues to participate in international conferences and symposiums as well as writing reviews and essays for the Baltic press. She has collaborated with institutions such as the Latvian National Museum of Art, the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga Photography Biennial, Tartu Art House and Tartu Art Museum. Since 2020, Puķīte has been working at Kogo Gallery (Tartu) as their international project manager and exhibition curator. In 2021, together with other Latvian art curators and critics, she founded the cultural institution Wunder Kombinat, which in 2022 began issuing the yearly art publication WunderKombināts. Latvian Art Yearbook as well as producing other art projects.
Organiser: gallery “Arka” (Vilnius)
Partners: Kogo Gallery (Tartu) and Wunder Kombinat (Riga)
The exhibition is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture, the Lithuanian Artists’ Association, the Ministry of Culture of Estonia from the fund Estonian Culture Abroad, the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia.
More about the tour – https://www.arkagalerija.lt/visos/8654
Tour duration – 1 h. Entrance is free.
Tour language – English
