| VAA Nida Art Colony kindly invites to visit studios of our two residents Indrė Ercmonaitė (LT) and Yael Vishnizki Levi (PL) on 29th of June at 6 p.m. at Nida Art Colony (E. A. Jonušo str. 3, Nida). |
| The exhibition WHEN THE SEA LOOKS BACK (A Serpent’s Tale) will open on 16th of July at Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (E.A. Jonušo str. 3, Nida, Neringa) and will work as a series of evocations and a radio magazine with international contributions. The show engages the sea and intercultural mythology, merging them with contemporary issues. |
For those who are on holiday in Nida but still want or need to work, we suggest you do it in our co-working space. You can use our Reading room, computers and the internet as well as books and publications from our library (check the electronic card index of all the books and publications) daily from 10 a.m. till 8 p.m. |
| Three new residents arrived to Nida Art Colony in July: Daphne de Sonneville (NL/UK), Daniel Falb (DE) and Ulrike Gerhardt (DE). |
| The Open Studios evening took place on 29th of June at VAA Nida Art Colony. Colony’s residents Indrė Ercmonaitė (LT) and Yael Vishnizki Levi (PL) opened their studios doors and presented their projects. |
The opening of the exhibition WHEN THE SEA LOOKS BACK (A Serpent’s Tale) took place on 16th of July at Nida Art Colony during the The 21st International Thomas Mann Festival. |
Current Nida Art Colony resident Katarina Poliacikova (SK) invites you to an informal presentation of what she has been working on during her stay in Nida. Open studio event starts at 6 p.m. on 28th of July. |
On 27 July, galerii galerii will start its week-long summer tour that will take the red art bus across the Baltics. During the tour the gallery will host a film project by Art Nõukas, titled “Lost and found”, specifically developed with the travelling gallery’s values and goals in mind. A new version of the film is created for each appearance of the gallery. The red art bus will visit VAA Nida Art Colony on 2nd of August from 12am to 5pm. |
The Summer School themed“Cultural Landscapes” begins at Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts on the 5th of August, and will run for one week. The project is carried out in collaboration with the Directorate of the Curonian Spit National Park and the Faculty of History of Vilnius University, and is expected to become an annual event. This year, 15 selected specialists and students of heritage protection, architecture, and art history disciplines will focus on the topic of cultural landscape. |
| Rokas Dovydėnas (LT), Theresa Stroetges (DE) and Bryndís Björnsdóttir (IS) will work and live at VAA Nida Art Colony in August. |
| The Open Studios evening took place on 28th of July at VAA Nida Art Colony. Colony’s resident Katarina Poliacikova (SK) presented project titled “Fires Venice Tequila Sunsets” |
| The exhibition The Many Headed Hydra #02: WHEN THE SEA LOOKS BACK (A Serpent’s Tale) will open on 16th of July at Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (E.A. Jonušo str. 3, Nida, Neringa) and will work as a series of evocations and a radio magazine with international contributions. The show engages the sea and intercultural mythology, merging them with contemporary issues. |
How many books have you read this summer? You still have some time, because we have new books and publications in our library. You are welcome to read them, use the library space and follow our constantly updated electronic catalog! This time you can find these new arrivals in our library: |
| Since July 2017 Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts has been involved as a partner in the project “4Cs: From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture”, which is a cooperation project in the framework of the European Union's programme “Creative Europe 2014-2020”. The aim of the four-year project is to explore how art, culture and creativity can become powerful resources for critical reflection on new forms of conflict and dealing creatively with the conflicts affecting today’s Europe through activities that promote audience development and capacity building within training and education |
| The “When the Sea Looks Back (A Serpent’s Tale)” exhibition has come to an end. VAA Nida Art Colony kindly invites you to join the the closing events on 25–26th of August. |
| The fifth Nida Doctoral School, themed “Tweezers and Squeezers”, runs from the 21st to the 26th of August at VAA Nida Art Colony. This year a multidisciplinary group of practice- and theory-based doctoral candidates together with distinguished international tutors and invited speakers focus on the methodological approaches and research methods in art, design and architecture. |
| The fifth Nida Doctoral School session “Tweezers and Squeezers” took place on 21st-26th August at Nida Art Colony. 15 selected participants from 9 different European universities together with distinguished international tutors and invited speakers focus on the methodological approaches and research methods in art, design and architecture. |
| Our former resident Jay Gard opens an exhibition “It’s the Frame Not the Painting” at the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center in Vilnius on 7th of September at 7pm. The artist presents a new series of his sculptural objects. |
| We begin the autumn with five new residents. Marta Vosyliūtė (LT), Christoph Sökler (DE), Hanna Husberg (FI/SE), Annette Arlander (FI) and Tomas Martisauskis (LT) will live and work at Nida Art Colony in September. |
| Since July 2017 Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts has been involved as a partner in the project “4Cs: From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture”, which is a cooperation project in the framework of the European Union's programme “Creative Europe 2014-2020”. The aim of the four-year project is to explore how art, culture and creativity can become powerful resources for critical reflection on new forms of conflict and dealing creatively with the conflicts affecting today’s Europe through activities that promote audience development and capacity building within training and education. |
