The Contemporary Art Center announces the name and list of artists of the 15th Baltic Triennial Culture

This year, the Baltic Triennale is curated by Tom Engels and Maya Tounta. Engels is currently the artistic director of the “Grazer Kunstverein” exhibition space in Austria, having implemented several curatorial initiatives in Belgium and other countries. Tounta is one of the founders of the independent space “Akwa Ibom” based in Athens, in addition, she founded the independent exhibition space “Montos Tattoo” in Vilnius with a group of like-minded people.

The exhibition presenting the work of more than 50 artists from different countries of the world will be called “Ta pati diena”. The curators borrowed the name from the poem, 1984. In an unpublished manuscript written in New York by the Greek poet Emerson, a collection of poetry and songs “Songs without Music” found in the archives of the Greek photographer George Tourkovasilis.

“Every day we wake up with a sense of a certain scenario. That scenario is strangely familiar, if not entirely clear. As the sun rises, a variation on a ruthlessly predetermined theme begins. Happy or sad, the day always invites you to resist – to live without a script. There are days to obey, there are days to rebel, there are days of truce. Most end in a draw or a loss. Less often – in victory. Every day is a separate and wonderful struggle. It renews and refills without promising anything. Some try to control this cycle. They observe, learn, remember and try to predict regularities, but every time they apply such knowledge, they only inhale, expand for a while – exhalation is inevitable. And yet sometimes that breath prolongs time so much that we forget the agreement between the earth and the sun. For others, a neatly lined schedule encircles the day so tightly that it becomes the day itself. By focusing solely on the precise movement of light, radical obedience begins to appear as a way to escape. The daily cycle easily lends itself to various interpretations, reflecting how differently we perceive it. One can be ensnared in its shackles or even experience them as almost the greatest freedom. You can get lost in the frame of a clear structure and not see yourself, but you can stop resisting it altogether and accept it as your own outline. Again, one can learn to feel the full force of the accumulating days, resisting the mechanical amnesia of their incessant change. Resolutely, but also without emphasis, even stubbornly deny that the rhythm of the day is enough. These are just some of the many possible variations of this theme, enriching it and promising new encounters with previously experienced happiness,” the curators write about what the name of the 15th Baltic Triennial hides.

Parodoje „Ta pati diena“ participation: Rey Akdogan, Nick Bastis, Kazimierz Bendkowski, Geta Brătescu, Matt Browning, Tom Burr, Elene Chantladze, Josef Dabernig, Aria Dean ir Laszlo Horvath, Gintaras Didziapetris, Jason Dodge, Kevin Jerome Everson, Simone Forti . Gustaniu, Elena Narbutaitė, Ewa Partum, Matthew Langan-Peck, Julie Peeters ir BILL, Cameron Rowland, Margaret Salmon, Stephen Sutcliffe, Tanya Syed, Jean-Marie Straub ir Danièle Huillet, Raša Todosijević, Thanasis Totsikas, Maria Toumazou, Rosemarie Trockel, Christos Tzivelos, Mare Vint, Tanja Widmann, Marina Xenophontos ir Eiko Yamazawa.

During the opening weekend of the 15th Baltic Triennale on September 6-7. a program of live performances by Andrias Arutiunians, Mette Edvardsen and Iben Edvardsen, Toine Horvers, Dana Michel and Eszter Salamon will be presented. A more detailed program of events will be announced soon. This year, the opening weekend of the Baltic Triennale coincides with the Vilnius Gallery Weekend, which will be held at the same time. In addition, Latvia’s biggest contemporary art festival opens in Riga on the same weekend – the “Survival Kit” exhibition is organized every year.

The exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center will run until 2025. January 12th. After its completion, the project will take a printed form – in 2025, it is planned to publish a special art publication compiled by Tom Engels and Maya Tounta, which will be illustrated by the author of the graphic design of the project, Julie Peeters.

in 2023 The opening event of the 15th Baltic Triennale took place at the Lithuanian National Drama Theater in Vilnius – the prologue, the title of which “Stay Zero” was also borrowed from a collection of Emerson’s poetry. The one-day event was attended by Betzy Bromberg, Drauų vardai, Emerson, Mette Edvardsen, Han-Gyeol Lie, Honour, Julie Peeters, James Richards, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Margaret Raspé, Remigijus Pacėsa, Seiko and Casio and Ugnė Nakaitė.

The project of the 15th Baltic Triennial is financed by the Lithuanian Council of Culture. The patron of the Contemporary Art Center and the Sapiegi Palace “Reefo”, project partners: Department of Culture of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, Government of Flanders, Phileas, Pro Helvetia, German Institute of Foreign Relations ifa, Goethe’s Institute in Vilnius, Lithuania contribute to its implementation the national art museum, the Lithuanian Institute of Culture, the Polish Institute in Vilnius, the Estonian Contemporary Art Center and LUX. The sponsors of the project are the Henry Moore Foundation and the Estonian Culture Support Fund.