Art Residency Program

RESIDENTS (2023)

2 January – 28 February

Aaron McLaughlin ”Still Making Art“

Aaron McLaughlin is an Irish artist and curator working across interdisciplinary fields, including writing, sculpture, and performative arts. During his residency, he curated Still Making Art. Klaipėda, one of the first exhibitions to receive institutional support—a continuation of the original platform model.

10-31 October

Aleksandra Jakubczak ”Research around the Baltic Sea’’

Aleksandra is an artist working in the field of performative arts, navigating between theatre, installation, and performance. Her work explores the ecology of gifts and the formation of ephemeral communities. The KCCC residency marks an early stage of her new project Research around the Baltic Sea.

9 May – 4 June

Marie ir Bram ”Sound Diplomacy’’

Marien and Bram, a musician and a permaculturalist, have been exploring sound for many years. Their work spans visual arts, ambient sound recordings, experimental music, and ecology. During their residency at KCCC, they presented Sound Diplomacy, a sound installation developed as part of their research.

23-28 April; 2-9 May

Meryem Bayram ”Spatial performance’’

Maryem Bayram is a multidisciplinary artist, set designer, and curator whose practice encompasses installations, performances, and scenography. During her residency, she staged an original performance presented at the KCCC Exhibition Hall.

22 June – 6 July

Gemma Hansson Carbone Collective walk ”Die like a country’’

Gemma Hansson Carbone is a Swedish-Italian artist and filmmaker. During her residency, she presented Die like a country, a project that invited Klaipėda’s residents and visitors on a collective walk through the city’s historical and geographical landscapes.

28 August – 11 September

Mary Marinopoulou ”Absorb Ensembel’’

Mary Marinopoulou explores the sense of self in relation to place—examining physical, geographical, and mental states, as well as imagined spaces and memory spaces. During her residency, she invited participants to the workshop Absorb Ensemble.

25 September – 8 October

Tereza Nováková ”Flapping Butterfly Wings“

Tereza Nováková is an independent contemporary art curator and critic from the Czech Republic. Her work focuses on art in public spaces and the transformation of spaces for cultural purposes.

During her residency, she led the workshop Flapping Butterfly Wings in the Sculpture Park, exploring placemaking, environmental sensitivity, and the role of art in public spaces.

6-18 June

Monika Dirsytė ”Creative performance workshop’’

Monika Dirsytė is one of Lithuania’s most prominent performance artists, working at the intersection of installation and performance.

During her residency, she invited Klaipėda’s residents to a performance workshop, offering participants a hands-on experience with the genre. The workshop was based on the methodology of her performance The Ball.

31 July – 5 August

Domas Rinius  ”Analog photography workshop’’

Domas Rinius is an artist-photographer working with analogue photography. During his residency, he invited the public to a week-long workshop where participants could explore the principles of the analogue darkroom. Everyone had the opportunity to take a photograph using vintage bellows cameras, experiencing the old photographic technology firsthand.

17-22 April; 14-27 August

Robertas Narkus ,,Gut Feeling‘‘

Robertas Narkus is a Vilnius-based artist working across various media, including performance, photography, video, collage, and advanced technologies. During his residency, he developed the concept for Gut Feeling, a project presented at the Lithuanian National Pavilion at the 59th Venice Art Biennale in 2022. Like Venice, Klaipėda is a city by the sea. Narkus’ works, brought from Italy, were exhibited in the port city, specially adapted to new spaces and the Lithuanian seaside context.

RESIDENTS (2024)

1 January – 1 February

Auridas Gajauskas ”Research of the southern part of Klaipeda city‘‘

Auridas Gajauskas is an independent curator and humanities scholar. During his residency, he explored the city and its various districts, engaging with Klaipėda’s artists and creators. As part of the program, a meeting was organized where Gajauskas presented his research on the southern part of Klaipėda.

14 February – 3 March

Kristiana Karklina Presentation ”Art Festival Life Cycle and Production’’, performance ”All my dogs’’

Kristiana Karklina is a Riga-based curator and musician, co-curator of the content and program of the Riga Sculpture Quadrennial. During her residency, she delivered a presentation on Art Festival Life Cycle and Production and performed the audiovisual piece All My Dogs at the KCCC Exhibition Hall.

16 April – 19 May

Tata Frenkel ”Grand Synth‘‘

Tata Frenkel is an artist-researcher and educator from Vilnius, specializing in theremin and working in the fields of electroacoustics, experimental radio, and cultural education. In 2023, she won the main prize of the JCDecaux Award. During her residency, Frenkel and Jan Glöckner hosted a live broadcast of an episode of the radio show Grand Synth, which featured a live concert of experimental electronics by the two artists.

3-23 March

Justina Semčenkaitė ”What is fashion activism?’’

Justina Semčenkaitė is a fashion designer, lecturer in Sustainable Fashion at VDA, and fashion reviewer, currently working on her PhD in Design with a focus on fashion activism. During her residency at KCCC, Semčenkaitė delivered a lecture titled What is fashion activism? The lecture was followed by a workshop, where participants had the opportunity to not only explore the concept of activist garments theoretically but also contribute to their creative process.

4-27 June

Austėja Platūkytė  ”SeaLeather‘‘

Austėja Platūkytė is a creative researcher working at the intersection of material design, science, technology, and craft. She is a pioneer of material design and the Zero Waste philosophy in Lithuania, as well as the founder of the Biomaterials Library, the first and only sustainable material collection in the Baltic States. Platūkytė is also the creator and designer of Seaweed Foam. During her residency at KCCC, she collaborated with scientists from KU Institute of Marine Research. Using discarded seaweed from her field research, she created the SeaLeather installation, addressing the issue of eutrophication in the Baltic Sea.

28 June – 8 July; 28 July – 7 August

Laima Kreivytė Participation in the project  ‘’Reiškinys M‘‘

Laima Kreivyte has curated over 50 exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad, including the Baltic Pavilion at the 3rd Prague Biennial, the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennial, and the National Gallery of Art’s permanent exhibition of the 20th and 21st centuries. She is a laureate of the Government Prize for Culture and Art (2018). During her residency, Kreivyte conducted artistic research on the city of Klaipėda, and the performance created during this time was presented as part of the project Reiškinys M.

9-27 July

Karina Kazlauskaitė Resident of second international art triannal.

Selected as a resident for the second international art triennial Unpredictable Futures. Water, the artist creates conceptual jewelry, original art objects, and installations, blending photography, drawing, light effects, and video performance. Her work explores the confrontations between nature and culture, ecological threats, identity reflection and search, as well as critiques of power and force. During her residency, the artist created video performances and objects using materials found in Klaipėda.

9 -31 August

Emilija Škarnulytė Collaboration with Klaipeda’s Marine Research Institute

Working in the field of interdisciplinary art, Emilija Škarnulytė experiments with the possibilities offered by video, balancing between documentary and fiction. She often selects locations, objects, and subjects that require significant effort and courage, unveiling previously unseen, unexperienced, and unexamined spaces for the viewer. During her residency, the artist collaborated with researchers from KU Institute of Marine Research and explored archival material for her upcoming works.

6-29 September

Juan Duart Performance and exhibition ”Augury‘‘

Juan Duarte, an environmental sound artist originally from Mexico and based in Finland, focuses his research on the relationship between atmosphere, the act of listening, and the concept of deep tuning. His work delves into the symbiotic relationship between nature and technology, presenting artefacts that resonate with atmospheric energy. Duarte’s approach proposes various technologies adapted to nature. In 2024, he participated in residencies at Titanik Gallery (Finland) and Nida Art Colony (Lithuania). He exhibited his project Augury at KCCC from mid-October to mid-November, accompanied by an experimental music concert in Klaipėda.

1-27 October

Patricija Gilytė ”POSTFOAM SYSTEM’s SECRETS‘‘

Artist Patricija Gilytė lives and creates in Munich. The artist raises questions about the limits of the environment and the exploitation of nature, expressively using light and flexible materials and experimenting with the latest digital technologies. She is the founder of the FESTLAND_ALLIANCE platform for local artistic research and the initiator of the cooperative project FESTLAND. This project is funded by the Foundation of the Bavarian Ministry of Science and the Arts. During the residency artist invited to the workshop POSTFOAM SYSTEM’s SECRETS.

29 October – 30 November

Indrė Liškauskaitė Doctoral studies re search project ”Human Behaviour’’, workshop ”Time Planning Instruction’’

Indrė Liškauskaitė is an interdisciplinary artist and curator based in Vilnius, Lithuania. With a background of painting (bachelor) and textile (master) studies, Liškauskaitė currently doing doctoral studies in visual arts at Vilnius Academy of Arts. During the residency, she did continue developing her doctoral studies research project Human Behaviour. Human Behaviour is a research that investigates the complexity of human and non-human animal relation. The research draws attention, re-thinks and criticises the human perception of nature and anthropocentrism intent to direct everything around. Also during artist invited photography students to the workshop called Time Planning Instruction.