Some Cats Are Lions
5 June – 27 September 2026
Twenty-three cats and ten lions. One family, two species. Panthera leo and Felis catus. Soft paws and menacing fangs. Folk art and professional art. At the Pamario Gallery, cats and lions, as well as folk art and professional art, come together as members of the same family. Very different, yet inseparable. Speaking different languages but telling the same story. Some bring tenderness and warmth to our daily lives, while others demonstrate strength, power, and courage. Both tell us about ourselves – what we love, what we fear, and what we desire. About what our home is and how we want others to see it.
The exhibition features works from the collection of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, as well as the latest works by folk and contemporary artists. They all spin into a ball of meanings, traditions, and stories. The exhibition does not attempt to offer the viewer a single narrative about our relationship with cats and lions. On the contrary, it seeks to reveal the multifaceted nature and complexity of this relationship. The exhibition is perhaps an impossible-to-untangle ball of our gazes upon ourselves, where the viewer is invited not to follow a single, coherent story, but to play with the cats that have taken up residence in the gallery and to unravel a ball of yarn that may unroll differently each time, revealing different ends of the thread.
The exhibition features artists whose works are held in the collections of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art:
Antanas Šeduikis, Birutė Kuckaitė, Edvardas Römeris, Jadvyga Antanina Dobkevičiūtė-Paukštienė, Jadvyga Nalivaikienė, Jonas Leliuga, Julius Vertulis, Juzefa Beganska, Kanutas Ruseckas, Klemensas Čerbulėnas, Nijolė Izidora Meškytė-Urbonavičienė, Ona Römerienė, Pranas Šaulys, Stanislovas Riauba, Vytautas Nikša, Žymantė Vladislava Jonuškaitė
The following artists created or loaned works for the exhibition free of charge:
Akvilė Anglickaitė, Diana Kazragienė, Donatas Jankauskas-Duonis, Gintaras Makarevičius, Rima Zelvienė, Vita Opolskytė
Curator Tomas Daukša
Coordinator Elena Tarvainienė
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3 L. Rėzos st, LT-93101, Juodkrantė, Neringa, Lithuania.
+370 469 53 323, +370 46 410 412
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