| The participants of this year's Inter-format Symposium are starting to project their research and art works into the three full days of the symposium (19-22 May) where lectures will alternate with walks, coffee breaks, film screenings, body and music performances, beach strolls and wandering in the dunes. |
| The Open Studios evening took place on 26th of February at VAA Nida Art Colony. Colony’s residents Titas Silovas (LT), Bas Ketelaars (NL), Saulius Leonavičius (LT) and Sybille Neumeyer (DE) opened their studios doors and presented their projects. |
| We are very excited to introduce our new residents. Wolfgang Bender (AT), Margaret Tali (NL/EE), Johanna Schmeer (DE/UK), Liza Baliasnaja (LT/BE) and Sidney Barnes (UK/BE) will live and work at Nida Art Colony in March. |
| An artist-run organization Rejmyre Art LAB in collaboration with Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts is launching the call for participants for 2017 post-MFA workshop which will take place on 5th-11th of August in Rejmyre, Sweden. Post-MFA summer workshops Nordic Studio for Continued Engagement create an opportunity for continued engagement for a select group of recent graduates from leading international MFA programs. |
It took us a while to count and group all the received applications which reach a three-digit number! We want to thank all those who were interested in residency opportunity at Nida Art Colony and participation in our events! The artists selected for the 2017–2018 Artist-In-Residency programme and 7th Inter-format Symposium will be informed individually in the middle of April. Thank you for your patience! Yours, Nida Art Colony Team |
Hello, dear friends, Today we have tried to put time on hold for a while – not because it is Sunday, but because we have turned 6! This letter hardly has enough room for a summary of the past years and achievements, and we have almost lost count of the people who did residencies and internships, or simply stayed at the Colony at some point, and then came back again to create and dream, learn and teach, or probably even fall in love. We are happy to have had the opportunity to contribute to contemporary art, culture, and education processes over this period. Therefore we believe there is no point in stopping time even for birthdays, so that we can always keep up with the present. We thank everyone who has put their trust in us all this time. Today is the day when the number of fingers on one hand is no longer enough to count our years, and it becomes increasingly difficult to find the time needed to look through all of our shared moments captured in photographs. Thank you for being with us! Yours, Nida Art Colony Team |
| Each month VAA Nida Art Colony invites the public to visit studios of our residents. This provides an opportunity to see the artist’s work and find out about the techniques they use and the topics that inspire them. This time you are welcome to join us for our residents Margaret Tali (NL/EE), Johanna Schmeer (DE/UK), Saulius Leonavičius (LT), Liza Baliasnaja (LT/BE) and Sidney Barnes (UK/BE) open studios starting 5pm, Saturday, 25th of March at Nida Art Colony (E. A. Jonušo str. 3, Nida). Artists will present the projects they are developing during their residency. |
| If you are in Nida, you will easily find our resident Saulius Leonavičius' installation “Info point”, exhibited in a temporary project space on the main (Taikos) street, curated by Nida Art Colony. This is the first show in this alternative gallery. “Info point” will be on show until 9th of April. |
Current residents Liza Baliasnaja (LT/BE) and Sidney Barnes (UK/BE) will present a dance performance with acrobatic elements called “Figures” on 31st of March, Friday, at 6 pm, at VVA Nida Art Colony (E. A. Jonušo str. 3, Nida). |
We thank all DA and PhD students who were interested in participating in this year’s edition of Nida Doctoral School “Tweezers & Squeezers” and submitted their applications on time! We are also happy about the fact that we have received 40 applications from 20 different universities: from Nida Doctoral School’s partners Vilnius Academy of Arts, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture and University of the Arts Helsinki, as well as from 17 other European universities. All 16 selected applicants will be notified about the selection results by the end of April. |
| The discourses around public art have become thickly intertwined with those of cities and urban development. Little of this discourse, however, has addressed the specificities and disruptions presented by the notion of rural publics and rural public spaces. As an artist-run organization, located in rural Sweden, dedicated to long-term, place-based research, Rejmyre Art Lab in collaboration with Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (NAC) invites proposals for the upcoming seminar Reconstituting Rurality on 7–10 of May at Nida Art Colony. |
| An installation titled “Everything”by a current VAA Nida Art Colony resident, the Austrian artist Wolfgang Bender, will be presented in the temporary project space on the main (Taikos) street, curated by Nida Art Colony, on the 13th of April at 6 p.m. |
The Board of Nida Doctoral School (NDS) has finished the evaluation of applications. We have received 40 applications from 17 European universities. Many strong applications had to be turned down due to limited number of places. |
A few months ago we announced an open call for applications for our A-I-R programme at Nida Art Colony between August 2017 and July 2018. Since 2011 the Colony has been hosting about 50 artists, designers, architects, curators and art researchers per year. This year we have received a three-digit number of applications from 40 countries across almost all of the continents. We feel happy and grateful for this enthusiasm! The artists selected for the 2017/2018 Artist-In-Residency programme: |
| In early May, 7 artists have come together to develop their ideas for the forthcoming annual symposium at Nida Art Colony. The artists will reflect on the line as a very basic visual element and medium of knowledge. |
| An artist-run organization Rejmyre Art Lab is organising a special seminar entitled “Reconstituting Rurality” on 7–10 of May at Nida Art Colony. Over a three-day period the seminar includes a combination of presentations and practice-based exercises exploring contemporary experiments in rural public art. Check out the programme: |
An installation titled “Amber Beamer” by a former VAA Nida Art Colony resident, the artist Linas Kutavičius, will be presented in the temporary project space KIOSK on the main (Taikos) street, curated by Nida Art Colony, on the 11th of May at 10 p.m. |
| The 7th edition of Inter-format Symposium welcomes artists, scientists and practitioners from different fields to come together at VAA Nida Art Colony for three days of intense walking and thinking along lines. |
| The 7th Inter-format Symposium took place at VAA Nida Art Colony on 19th-22nd of May. Over three days and nights the transdisciplinary symposium engaged in a dialogue between artistic, philosophical and scientific research with presentations and performances in the woods, between moving dunes, inside the various spaces of the Colony and on the coast lines (on the seaside and lagoon). |
| Hello summer! Our new residents Indrė Ercmonaitė (LT), Yael Vishnizki Levi (PL), Emma Haugh (IE/DE) and Suza Husse (DE), Katarina Poliacikova (SK) and Cooltūristės (LT) are preparing for the exhibition “When the Sea Looks Back”, which will take place in July and August at Nida Art Colony. |
