On July 24 at 6 p.m., the “Energija” Gallery (8A Danės St.) will host the opening of “Žiotys,” a solo painting exhibition by Viltė Fuller, an artist originally from Klaipėda who is now based in the United Kingdom. This is the first presentation of her work in Lithuania. The exhibition will run through August 22. The project is curated by art curator Justė Kostikovaitė.

Viltė Fuller’s paintings explore the relationship between attraction and repulsion, closeness and discomfort. The artist, who studied at the prestigious Glasgow School of Art, has been using a technique combining oil paint and wax for more than a decade, which lends the surface a sense of layering, tactile memory, and visual instability.

In the exhibition “Žiotys,” Viltė Fuller explores the theme of food as memory and identity. Born in Klaipėda and raised in the United Kingdom, Fuller returns to the experience of migration in her latest series—not as an autobiographical narrative, but as a psychological state. Her travels in Lithuania and the Baltic region this year are not a form of documentation, but rather part of an artistic inquiry—a kind of game with references. The distance from her roots and the “exoticization” of her own origins become the driving force behind her exploration here, as if she were striving to move from a critical perspective to an experimental “what if” dimension, where the artist herself embodies both the role of the “local” Viltė Fuller and that of a tourist trying to taste and experience “strange local food.”

The “Energija” Gallery is an independent art and education platform founded in Klaipėda in 2025, operating within the “Klaipėdos Energija” industrial complex. Its director and founder is Liudas Andrikis, who previously headed the Klaipėda Culture and Communication Center for five years.

Exhibition partners and sponsors: “Art&Potatoes,” Klaipėda City Municipality, “Eglė” Publishing House, “TAAD Foundation.”

Opening: July 24, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. Exhibition dates: July 24 – August 22, 2026. Location: “Energija” Gallery, 8A Danės St., Klaipėda

Free admission.