We cordially invite you to the opening of \u017dilvinas Landzbergas\u2019<\/b> exhibition \u201cTell Me Your Name, Sister\u201d on Thursday, June 18, 2026, 6:00 p.m. at the Pranas Dom\u0161aitis Gallery (Liep\u0173 St. 33, Klaip\u0117da).<\/p>\n
\u017dilvinas Landzbergas (b. 1979) is a prominent Lithuanian artist. In 2017, he represented his country at the Venice Biennale and has participated in numerous other international exhibitions, such as the 2018 S\u00e3o Paulo and Riga Biennales. After completing his studies in sculpture at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, where he now teaches, and at the independent artists\u2019 institute \u201cDe Ateliers\u201d in Amsterdam, he became best known for his complex installations. These typically combine sculpture, painting, and drawing, and sometimes include moving-image works. Together, these elements create experiences that engage diverse audiences and are always exceptionally personal. Landzbergas also curates exhibitions. From 2011 to 2013, he directed the art project space \u201cMalonioji 6\u201d in Vilnius. The artist is represented by \u201cMeno parkas\u201d in Kaunas. <\/p>\n
Landzberg\u2019s approach to the exhibition affords greater freedom of action to him as the artist and to us as viewers and participants in the exhibition. He creates a vision and brings it to life, inviting us to follow along. He seeks to create a total work of art, a Gesamtkunstwerk<\/em>, which emerges through planning and improvisation, the development of strategies and quick thinking, and the fusion of narrative and atmosphere. His exhibitions have an \u201canalog,\u201d \u201chandmade,\u201d \u201cself-built\u201d feel that encourages us to immerse ourselves in the artistic vision and perhaps even get lost in it. At the same time, they are organized\u2014and organize us\u2014in the present, which is almost always ambiguous, demanding, and threatening. In other words, Landzbergas speaks to contemporary society not only as a free spirit, but also as a socially responsible artist. <\/p>\n A visual artist<\/em> is a designer who gives form to everyday life. This 20th-century Lithuanian concept still seems relevant, including in Landzberg\u2019s work, and especially because he long ago resisted the temptation to place the artist and his works on a pedestal. A socially engaged artist takes on the responsibility of initiating and sustaining dialogue, as well as convincing society of the value of his artistic vision. Today, this is no longer a top-down demand to give a human face to an inhuman regime, but rather an ethical approach to images and objects, spaces and audiences. It is a political, yet at the same time an artistic, approach to contemporary visual reality. <\/p>\n Like art institutions and the curators who oversee them, the artist works with other people, drawing on them and their work. For him and his works to come to life, viewers and participants are needed. Landzbergas clearly plays with this interconnection. Exhibition visitors are enticed to step into a simplified microcosm of reality, visually and emotionally intensified to resemble a film set, a theater stage, or a cabinet of curiosities. Here, he has chosen what may initially seem like a counterintuitive strategy. To enter this exhibition, we must obtain a lock code from the museum ticket office. <\/p>\n Once inside, we realize that everything is arranged to resemble someone\u2019s living space. Or perhaps this space imitates home life? The artist-designer has realized this idea in a stylized and abstract manner, as if searching for the most precise visual metaphors for the concepts of \u201chouse,\u201d \u201chome,\u201d \u201carena,\u201d or \u201cstage.\u201d We are invited to imagine that a large, multi-generational family lives on the museum\u2019s first floor. Grandma\u2019s room actually resembles a museum\u2014works of art hang on pedestals and on the walls. Dad\u2019s room is his workspace, while Mom seems to always be in the kitchen. <\/p>\n Judging by the overall composition of the exhibition and its title, the main character here is the daughter. Her presence is particularly suggested by the round, soft platform that we are invited to try out. In fact, Landzberg explains that he created the exhibition \u201cTell Me Your Name, Sister\u201d to recreate the treasure box that many girls keep. We\u2019re allowed to open the box and play with what\u2019s inside, but only by following certain rules of respect and politeness. This encourages us to recognize vulnerability and reflect on people\u2019s need\u2014or, in fact, their right\u2014to feel safe together. What would a family do at home on a day off? How would they spend time together? Unfortunately, in these times of war, such a pleasant routine is no longer a given or guaranteed. <\/p>\n A T-shaped platform leads us from the last exhibition hall into a surprisingly elegant garden that evokes a Japanese style, yet is unmistakably Northern European. \u017dilvinas Landzbergas wanted to include it in the exhibition, so he built a greenhouse tower there. We exit the garden and the exhibition through a door that leads us past the ticket counter and back out onto the street. <\/p>\n Anders Kreuger<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Curator Anders Kreuger<\/p>\n Language Editor Ilona \u010ciu\u017eauskait\u0117<\/p>\n Designer Egl\u0117 Kirlyt\u0117<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We cordially invite you to the opening of \u017dilvinas Landzbergas\u2019 exhibition \u201cTell Me Your Name, Sister\u201d on Thursday, June 18, 2026, 6:00 p.m. at the Pranas Dom\u0161aitis Gallery (Liep\u0173 St. 33, Klaip\u0117da). \u017dilvinas Landzbergas (b. 1979) is a prominent Lithuanian artist. 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