Open Studios in April 2016. Residents participating: Wen Chin Fu (TW/NL), Jenny Lindblom (SE), Maria A. Maeser (AT), Kevin Rodgers (CA), students and teachers of VVA Klaipeda faculty, Nida A-I-R team. |
Open Studios in May 2016
Open Studios in April 2016
Open Studios in April 2016. Residents participating: Wen Chin Fu (TW/NL), Jenny Lindblom (SE), Maria A. Maeser (AT), Kevin Rodgers (CA), students and teachers of VVA Klaipeda faculty, Nida A-I-R team. |
Open calls: Curatron residencies & exhibitions in Bergen, Copenhagen, Nida and Stavanger
Welcome to apply to the residencies and exhibitions in Nida and our partnering institutions where selection the selection process will be made by the artists themselves via Curatron algorithm. Various deadlines from June 1st to August 1st. |
Inaugural weekend at VAA Nida Art Colony: an exhibition, opening of the new building, and a birthday party
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of its activities, Vilnius Academy of Art’s Nida Art Colony will host an inaugural weekend on 21-22 May. It will feature the official opening not only of the new building of the colony, but also an exhibition that will be shown in the spacious exhibition hall in this new facility until 19 June. |
Exhibition “Climbing Invisible Structures. Ritualized Disciplinary Practices in Social Life. Part 2: Nida” 21th May – 19th June 2016
“Climbing Invisible Structures: Ritualised Disciplinary Practices in Social Life. Part 2: Nida” is the second part of an exhibition project comprising four venues, and the first one to include works by all ten artists. 21th May – 19th June 2016 Taikos str. 43, Neringa, Lithuania |
Exhibition “Climbing Invisible Structures: Ritualised Disciplinary Practices in Social Life. Part 2: Nida”
“Climbing Invisible Structures: Ritualised Disciplinary Practices in Social Life. Part 2: Nida” is the second part of an exhibition project comprising four venues, and the first one to include works by all ten artists. 21th May – 19th June 2016 Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts Taikos str. 43, Neringa, Lithuania |
Inaugural weekend on 21-22 May (photos)
Vilnius Academy of Art’s Nida Art Colony hosted an inaugural weekend on 21-22 May. We want to share some moments of the inaugural evenining and the opening of exhibition “Climbing Invisible Structures: Ritualised Disciplinary Practices in Social Life. Part 2: Nida” (exhibition will be shown until 19 June, 2016). Photos by Andrej Vasilenko |
Open Studios in May 2016
Open Studios in May 2016. Residents participating: Kristin Orav (EE) and Juhan Vihterpal (EE), Wen Chin Fu (TW/NL), Kevin Rodgers (CA), members of CAC, Nida A-I-R team. Photos by Julija Navarskaitė and Andrej Vasilenko. |
Returning residents will create new works for the exhibition “Hybrid(…)scapes” in June and July
A curated residency programme “Hybrid(…)scapes” in which invited artists will collaborate with the curator Vytautas Michelkevičius starts at Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts. |
The 7th issue of Nida Art Colony Log is online
The yellow colour means that the 7th Log of VAA Nida Art Colony is now available online in a convenient digital format (PDF, 13.2 MB). In this summer heat of July, we invite you to take a look at the Colony’s work period of June 2014 – September 2015. The paper version of the log is available at Nida Art Colony and in the office of Nida Art Colony at Vilnius Academy of Arts (Maironio St. 6, 1st floor, office No. 226). |
6th Inter-format Symposium on Hybrid Natures on 23–25 July 2016
The 6th Inter-format Symposium on Hybrid Natures, which will take place at Nida Art Colony on 23rd-25th July, will bring together more than 25 artists, scientists, curators, writers and architects, who will reflect on and experience hybrid states, natures and landscapes in Nida over two days. |
Exhibition “Climbing Invisible Structures: Ritualised Disciplinary Practices in Social Life. Part 3: Žeimiai”
“Climbing Invisible Structures: Ritualised Disciplinary Practices in Social Life. Part 3: Žeimiai” is the third part of an exhibition project comprising four venues, and the last one in Lithuania. It presents works of seven artists and an artists’ duo. Repeated as an echo of the previous exhibitions and climbing through different exhibition spaces, this show becomes a ritual itself and extends the climbing maps from art centers to the periphery of cultural history. This time the exhibition is on show at the Žeimiai manor estate. 30 July – 28 August 2016 Residency Centre YO YO, Žeimiai Manor, Draugystės St 28, Jonava district, Lithuania |
Exhibition “Hybrid(...)scapes” on 23rd July – 28th August
The “Hybrid(...)scapes” exhibition will open on 23rd July, 6PM, at Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (Taikos st 43, Nida). The exhibition presents new works by returning residents of VAA Nida Art Colony. In June and July 2016, the artists were living and working here, developing ideas they had explored in their earlier residency periods or proposed specifically for this show. The worksin the exhibition engage in a dialogue with the audience not only about constructed landscapes of Nida, but also about rapidly changing images of the global world. |
Photo reportage from the 6th Inter-format Symposium on Hybrid Natures
The 6th Inter-format Symposium on Hybrid Natures was running during the opening weekend of the exhibition “Hybrid(...)scapes” from 23rd to 25th of July, 2016 and brought together more than 40 artists, scientists, curators, writers and architects, who reflected on and experienced hybrid states, natures and landscapes in Nida over three days and nights. |
Photo reportage from the exhibition “Climbing Invisible Structures. Part 3: Žeimiai” opening
The opening of the exhibition “Climbing Invisible Structures: Ritualised Disciplinary Practices in Social Life. Part 3: Žeimiai” took place on 30th of July at Residency Centre YO YO, Žeimiai Manor, “Aikas Žado” laboratory (Draugystės St 28, Jonava district, Lithuania) with performances “Five Drawings” by Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir and “Skateboard Prayer, or Head Below the Heart” by Eglė Budvytytė. |
Nida Doctoral School “CO-ACTION” on 22nd – 28th August
Vilnius Academy of Arts (VAA) and Aalto University School of Arts will host the second Nida Doctoral School session, which will take place at Nida Art Colony on 22nd-28th August. This time the one-week courses will feature seven lecturers, academics and selected doctoral students who will reflect on the value of artist placements in non-arts organisations such as business, political and science bodies. |
Nida A-I-R in August 2016
Six residents Carla Castiajo (PT-EE), Kati Karki (FI/UK), Ariane Koek (UK), Jana Barthel (DE) and Jay Gard (DE) and Magda Buczek (PL) are working at Nida Art Colony in August. |
Last chance to visit the exhibition “Climbing Invisible Structures. Part 3: Žeimiai”
The exhibition“Climbing Invisible Structures: Ritualised Disciplinary Practices in Social Life. Part 3: Žeimiai” is now officially over, but we have a suggestion for this weekend. On the 3rd of September we organize a guided tour of the exhibition with the curator Eglė Mikalajūnė. A 19-seat bus will leave at 12 a.m. from Maironio st. 6 in Vilnius and will come back at 5 p.m. You are welcome to register by e-mail at info@nidacolony.lt if you wish to take the tour. Please note that the number of seats is limited. |
Photo reportage from the Nida Doctoral School “CO-ACTION”
The second Nida Doctoral School session “CO-ACTION: artists' placements in Non-Arts Organisations” took place on 22nd-28th August at Nida Art Colony. Nine lecturers, academics and eighteen selected doctoral students reflected on the value of artist placements in non-arts organisations such as business, political and science bodies. Curator of Nida Doctoral School is Justė Kostikovaitė. The programme is organised by the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania, and Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Partners: ArcInTex network |
Open Studios in August 2016
Open Studios in August 2016. Residents participating: Carla Castiajo (PT-EE), Kati Karki (FI/UK), Ariane Koek (UK), Jana Barthel (DE) and Jay Gard (DE), Magda Buczek (PL), Nida A-I-R team and participants of Nida Doctoral School. Photos by Julija Navarskaitė. |