I Am Plural – a new exhibition at the Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art explores identity in the age of artificial intelligence

Exhibition opening at 6 pm Wednesday, 17 June, 2026

Yuge Kurt and Egmontas Geras. I Am Plural, opened Wednesday, the 17th June at the LNMA’s Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art brings together two artists: Vilnius-based Yuge Kurt and London-based Egmontas Geras. Thousands of miles separate these two artists who before have not met in person, but they have been sharing their creative ideas for three years. This digital space dialogue is materialized by the exhibition for the first time. 

 

“It is the first exhibition by the Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art that looks at the transformation of contemporary identity in the globalized and virtual world, and the possibilities provided by the digital technology in relation to creative activity,” Ilona Mažeikienė, director of the museum places the event into context. „It invites us to contemplate how our identity and ways of existence are changed by the junctions of the physical and digital realities, and by the increasingly digitalised environment.  The artists presented rely on artificial intelligence and experimental creative processes to reflect the relationships of humanity, technologies, memory, and the self at these points of intersection of the physical and the digital realms.”  

 

 

Multilayered identity of our times

 

By employing contemporary technologies and artificial intelligence, both artists explore the condition of present-day identity and invite viewers to reconsider the forms in which we exist today. The artists experiment with a variety of techniques, integrating graphic art, photography, painting and printing processes. Identity for them is not a fixed given, but a process defined by different locations, languages, cultural experience and virtual space.

 

This approach reflects in the artists’ choices as well. Both have adapted their names: Vilnius-based Yuge Kurt took a name for her creative work beyond Lithuania, while London-based Egmontas Geras adapted his for the Lithuanian context. This way personal identity stops being a defined category and becomes a shifting configuration migrating between different geographic and cultural fields. Their artwork draws attention to the nature of human existence these days which unfolds not in a single form, but in numerous concurrent shapes in-between the physical and virtual reality, the local and global experience. The exhibition invites to consider how our identity is transformed when increasingly larger portions of our life relocate into digital space, and simultaneous existence in several places or filling in several roles becomes routine.    

 

 

Creative partnerships of humans and technologies

 

The artists deploy different creative strategies to develop these themes. In the art by Yuge Kurt, central is the dialogue of humans and artificial intelligence, meanwhile technologies are promoted from tools to active participants in the creative process.

 

“I analyze forms of digital authenticity, and how artificial intelligence, especially the branch of machine learning (when computers are taught to recognize patterns in data and make independent decisions), integrates into creative process of an artist. The digital tools not only open new opportunities, but become partners shaping my creative processes: I start with a static art object and allow AI generate new interpretations of it, next I cut again its output, combine and transform into a new object. I repeat the process until I arrive at my desired result,” the artist describes her creative process. She adds: “Technologies enable me to transcend the boundaries of the physical, tangible art making. I am curious whether the algorithms and similar systems can become self-regulating creators. Or does it always take a human to make that initial step? There is a strange, invisible collaborative relationship built between a human creator and technology.” 

 

 

Digital world as an alternative reality

 

Egmontas Geras is concerned with the relationship between humans and digital reality, he searches for alternative body and new identity forms.

 

“I call the world existing in the digital space and around it the digitality. That’s an alternative reality. In my art, I cultivate a concept of a body capable of storing digital memories and of communicating with the digital reality. My creative process is inseparable from computers and thinking about them.”  

 

Similar to Yuge Kurt’s art, in the artwork by Egmontas Geras, the technologies transcend the function of usual tools to become active participants of his creative process: „The computer to me is an everyday protagonist and partner enabling me to reach the digitality. The computers in my studio have been given anthropomorphic names, currently I work with “Vera”. In my art, I develop a variety of questions. If our world has a certain logic of making things, is it possible for an alternative logic to emerge in the digitality? What is the way we experience digital objects and they move from the digital into material reality? If we constantly expand our ability to experience digitality, how are our memories stored in this space? Does our “self” remain stable or split into plural?” – Egmontas Geras invites to see the exhibition and consider these questions.

 

The exhibition Yuge Kurt and Egmontas Geras. I Am Plural at the Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art of the LNMA will run until the 6th September. Visitors are invited to take part in the meetings with the artists, to tours, lectures and other accompanying events offering opportunities to delve deeper into the themes of identity, technologies and the contemporary human experience. Please visit the LNMA website and social media for details. 

 

 

Project director Ilona Mažeikienė

Curator Vilma Gradinskaitė

Designer Ula Šimulynaitė

Lighting technician Mantas Markevičius

Partners:

University College London
The Bartlett School of Architecture
Bartlett Manufacturing and Design Exchange
Digital Poetics
Vilnius University Business School
Linkedist

 

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+370 5 261 6764.
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