Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art opens a new exhibition that sets a stage for a shared dreamwork from leading artists
Exhibition opening at 6 pm Thursday, 20 November, 2025
At 6 pm Thursday, 20 November, Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art of the LNMA (A. Goštauto g. 1, Vilnius) opens an exhibition Merging Dreams, inviting visitors to enter the territory of introspection, the vibrant world of dreams and unexpected daydreams in a combined artistic construct by four established Lithuanian artists, Adomas Danusevičius, Alina Melnikova, Eglė Gineitytė and Eglė Kuckaitė.
“The exhibition curator Monika Krikštopaitytė revisits the oppositions, and the relationship, of nature and culture by submerging the visitor into the realm of dreams. The works on display open the most mysterious depths of human subconscious and evoke incredible feelings and dizzying emotions. They reach us from therein exciting and enriching also our fantasy and imagination. The exhibition is about four-artist encounter and their journey of self-discovery,” Ilona Mažeikienė, director of the Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art introduces the event.
“Two driving forces brought about this event. First, the desire to lure the colourful dreamlike nature’s vitality into our dark days of the year, to disorient the feelings by ambiguous identities, to thrill the eye with diversity and the sense of adventure. Second intent has been to revisit once more the concept of a contemporary emigrant. We perceive world-wars-related migration of Lithuanians as cutting off roots and exile, while present-day emigrants are different. They circulate in the world and continuously come back. These are the links we would like to perceive as a blood circulation system shared with Europe and the broader world,” Monika Krikštopaitytė talks through the concept of the exhibition.
The dissimilar art by the famous artists translates into a common dream experience
The exhibition brings together four artists, acclaimed in Lithuania and internationally. Despite each of them having a distinct creative experience and aesthetic contexts, they are kindred freely experimenting souls who have achieved their ingenuine idiom, far from being anchored on a single technique. Danusevičius practices paintings and creates clay objects, he paints in oils and draws in multicplour pens. Each of these mediums is applied to writing a story of reality and of its masks, to deconstruct the rooted in culture images of masculinity. Barcelona-based Melnikova combines oil-paintings with aerography, drawing, installation and performance, exploring through all these media human relationship with nature, instincts and culture. Gineitytė’s paintings produced in oils and printmaking inks, crayons and other media, walk a fine line between reality and abstraction – inviting the beholder to further refine the image in one’s imagination. By drawing in a fountain pen, combining painting and monotype prints with the artist’s signs, Kuckaitė pursues her poetic explorations of female identity. Despite distinct artistic pursuits of these four figures, situating them together leads to the discovery of convergent points, such as similar motifs, the sense of vitality, the broadness of the field of vision and empathy to the vast variety of human experience.
Escape from the seasonal dimness and a journey in contemporary emigrant’s shoes
The images of sprawling nature and life in the works on display point also towards experience of a contemporary emigrant and ways to conceptualize it. Gineitytė and Kuckaitė live and work in Lithuania, Danusevičius is based in Lithuania and Denmark, Melnikova – in Spain. Such creative geography not only traces the life trajectories of their lives, but evolves into a broader metaphor of contemporary migration, characterized not by exile, but by going and coming, as part of human global circulation.
“Even when settled in a particular place, we travel much more and are reached by images from far-away places, flickering, without invitation, across our screens. Our reservoirs are full of images, even variations of these, and upon seeing someone, we increasingly get a hunch of having met before. Therefore, the migrants are a little bit at home, while those who never left – on the road. A large amount of artwork on display is connected to travel, departure or visitation situations. Kuckaitė has been inspired by her journey to the Philippines, Gineitytė evokes her memories of a visit to a zoo. The works by Melnikova are dominated by the light brighter then is common in Lithuania. The protagonists in Danusevičius paintings strike as just having stepped out on the street,“ the curator of the exhibition explains how the concept of modern migration transpires from the assembly of works at the exhibition.
Curator Monika Krikštopaitytė
Architect Ieva Cicėnaitė
Designer Marija Jablonskytė
Coordinator Birutė Pankūnaitė
Organizer Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art
Partners: MO museum, THE ROOM, Institut Ramon Llull, dailininkams.lt
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