Lithuania receives the Golden Lion at the 58th Venice Biennale
- Published on Saturday, 18 May 2019 15:16
Artists Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Lina Lapelytė, Vaiva Grainytė and curator Liucia Pietroiusti. Photo by Andrej Vasilenko
| The jury of the 58th Venice Biennale awarded the top prize for best national participation to Lithuania. It was represented by opera-performance Sun & Sea (Marina) by a theater and movie director Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, a musician, composer Lina Lapelytė, and a writer, poet Vaiva Grainytė. |
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Lithuania won the Golden Lion, beating 89 other national pavilions, on Saturday at the Venice Art Biennale, the world’s oldest and most high-profile international exhibition of contemporary art. The award was received for the experimental spirit of the Pavilion and its unexpected treatment of national representation. The jury was impressed with the inventive use of the venue to present a Brechtian opera as well as the Pavilion’s engagement with the city of Venice and its inhabitants. Sun & Sea (Marina) is a critique of leisure and of our times as sung by a cast of performers and volunteers portraying everyday people. Commissioner: Rasa Antanavičıūtė |