{"id":49208,"date":"2026-06-29T13:19:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/event\/opening-of-agota-brickutes-painting-exhibition-strange\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:19:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:19:39","slug":"opening-of-agota-brickutes-painting-exhibition-strange","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/event\/opening-of-agota-brickutes-painting-exhibition-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening of Agota Bri\u010dkut\u0117\u2019s Painting Exhibition \u201cStrange\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
OPENING OF AGOTA BRI\u010cKUT\u0116’S PAINTING EXHIBITION “KEISTA”<\/div>\n
Date: July 16, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
Location: ART SECTION of the Immanuel Kant Public Library in Klaip\u0117da (9 Janonio St., Klaip\u0117da)<\/div>\n
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\u201cStrange. We often say this when we don\u2019t understand something, when we\u2019re surprised, when we can\u2019t accept it\u2014or perhaps, on the contrary, when we\u2019re amazed by curiosity, as if we\u2019ve touched upon some as-yet-unknown aspect of reality. Sometimes we say this word with fear and doubt, because life is not fully understood.\u201d <\/div>\n
Life often seems strange to me. And I feel strange in it\u2014too 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. <\/div>\n
Thus, this exhibition reveals the strangeness of the external and internal worlds\u2014trees that resemble people, people that resemble masks, and nature that has taken on the form of a dream.<\/div>\n
Life is strange; it often transcends our limited understanding. Perhaps that is why my work is a bit strange\u2014I have to resort to surrealism and symbolism to neutralize that intensity of reality…” \u2014artist Agota Bri\u010dkut\u0117. <\/div>\n
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/div>\n
Agota Bri\u010dkut\u0117 (b. 1993, Klaip\u0117da) is a painter and art historian of the younger generation. In 2016, she earned a bachelor\u2019s 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\u2019s paintings are held in private collections in Lithuania, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United States, and Chile. <\/div>\n
The artist\u2019s 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. Bri\u010dkut\u0117 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. <\/div>\n
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. <\/div>\n
The exhibition will run through August 7.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OPENING OF AGOTA BRI\u010cKUT\u0116’S PAINTING EXHIBITION “KEISTA” Date: July 16, 2026, 5:30 p.m.Location: ART SECTION of the Immanuel Kant Public Library in Klaip\u0117da (9 Janonio St., Klaip\u0117da) \u201cStrange. We often say this when we don\u2019t understand something, when we\u2019re surprised, when we can\u2019t accept it\u2014or perhaps, on the contrary, when we\u2019re amazed by curiosity, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[499],"mec_locations":[567],"class_list":["post-49208","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-exhibition"],"acf":[],"mec_location":[{"id":567,"name":"Klaip\u0117da City Municipality I.Kant Public Library Art Department","slug":"klaipeda-city-municipality-i-kant-public-library-art-department"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/49208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49208"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=49208"},{"taxonomy":"mec_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_locations?post=49208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}