The Migrating Museum in Juodkrantė: the synthesis of art and flavours 

4 October, 2025

The Pamarys Gallery in Juodkrantė (L. Rėzos St 3) continues its series Migrating Museum and invites, at 6 pm, 8 October, to the opening event of the season designed to marry contemporary art and the local culinary interpretations.  

 

The artwork inspired by the Atlantic Ocean at the Pamarys Gallery  

 

The opening event of the season’s series will present the artist Paulius Šliaupa. Šliaupa’s art stems from his study of the natural processes and their transformation into visual narratives woven of organic and synthetic elements. The artist is an explorer of the relationship of man and the ecosystems, embracing such aspects as the rhythms of land and sea terrains, emphasising the estrangement of our daily life to nature.  

 

The artwork on display at Pamarys residency is part of Paulius Šliaupa’s exhibition A Snowfall of Salt, premiered in France, Ville de la Rochelle. During his three-month La Rochelle residence, the artist explored the rhythms of the ocean, gathered shells and recorded low and high tides that dominate daily lives of all coastal inhabitants from fishermen to the smallest organisms.  

 

The objects thus collected and his residence experience were fused into Šliaupa’s art pieces: seaside sand was mixed with pigments, the shells and other organic elements integrated into his paintings, some of them were transformed into 3D objects. Alongside with paintings, the exhibition presents his video Gaja, cocreated with the actress Birutė Belada Tauterytė. In the film, Gaja wanders out-of-town streets reflecting on her finds.  The striking contrasted locations evoke the beauty of nature and the environments imprinted by human activity.  

 

The artwork by Paulius Šliaupa will be available for viewing at the Pamarys Gallery from noon till the end of the event.  

 

 

Palate treats and further travels of the Migrating Museum  

 

The art part of the event will be delivered with the treats for participants’ taste buds, by Gitana and Arūnas Šestakovai, from Nida. The famous seaside pancake-makers will treat the guests to French-culture-inspired buckwheat pancakes with different fillings of fish, Lithuanian cheese and seasonal fruit.  

 

This year’s Migrating Museum’s programme will include a lecture Why do paintings fall ill? It is scheduled on 23 November, at the Pamarys Gallery. It will be paired with an education event in gilding by specialists from the Pranas Gudynas Conservation Centre of the LNMA. The last event of the season, an installation by Vytautas Viržbickas, will open in December to run till early spring.   

 

The project Migrating Museum serves to create a year-round open museum to the locals and visitors to the Lithuanian seaside. It helps to promote the artwork in the care of the museum, to build a dialogue with the locals of Neringa and the arriving holidayers.  

 

The project is partially financed by the Municipality of Neringa.  

 

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3 L. Rėzos st, LT-93101, Juodkrantė, Neringa, Lithuania.
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