Date: July 16, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
Location: ART SECTION of the Immanuel Kant Public Library in Klaipėda (9 Janonio St., Klaipėda)

“Strange. We often say this when we don’t understand something, when we’re surprised, when we can’t accept it—or perhaps, on the contrary, when we’re amazed by curiosity, as if we’ve touched upon some as-yet-unknown aspect of reality. Sometimes we say this word with fear and doubt, because life is not fully understood.”

Life often seems strange to me. And I feel strange in it—too emotional, too sensitive, too childish. Over time, that strangeness in myself and others seems more and more beautiful and authentic to me. In that strangeness, I see plenty of room for creativity to flourish.

Thus, this exhibition reveals the strangeness of the external and internal worlds—trees that resemble people, people that resemble masks, and nature that has taken on the form of a dream.

Life is strange; it often transcends our limited understanding. Perhaps that is why my work is a bit strange—I have to resort to surrealism and symbolism to neutralize that intensity of reality…” —artist Agota Bričkutė.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Agota Bričkutė (b. 1993, Klaipėda) is a painter and art historian of the younger generation. In 2016, she earned a bachelor’s degree in Art History from the Faculty of Arts at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas. Since 2017, she has been pursuing a career in painting and has participated in over 20 group and solo exhibitions throughout Lithuania. The artist’s paintings are held in private collections in Lithuania, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United States, and Chile.

The artist’s work is characterized by the genres of portraiture and landscape, with the aesthetics of surrealism and symbolism taking center stage. Using the human face or natural forms, A. Bričkutė seeks to personify human states of being and to visualize on canvas the insights and sensations that arise in everyday life. When creating landscapes, the artist often draws on images that exist in reality, but she stylizes them, emphasizing the playfulness of everyday life and the unexpected interplay of forms, color, and light-and-shadow interplay.

In her painting, the artist places particular importance on an intuitive, automatic creative process that unleashes the impulses of the subconscious. The images that arise spontaneously during the painting process come together to form a symbolic and allegorical narrative, transporting the viewer to an intermediate space between reality and fantasy.

The exhibition will run through August 7.