Gabrielė Grigorjeva is a London-based spatial practitioner and researcher working at an intersection of visual arts, architecture, ecology, and geopolitics. She holds a MA in Environmental Architecture from the Royal College of Art (London). Her recent projects include Ex-Humus: Collective politics from below, presented at Sharjah Architecture Triennial (2019), where she worked as a research assistant; Intertemporal Ecologies: in more-than-human worlds, held at Arts Catalyst, London (2018); and she is currently working on a new video-podcast series exploring environmental architecture through mixed-media, film, and conversations beyond academia. At NAC, Gabrielė will build upon her ongoing research on forest ecologies to map and document the social, political and ecological systems and forces at play in the unique landscape of Neringa forest. She will develop work on the reciprocal relationships and multi-species alliances that contribute to a thriving forest and its communities.

Andrej Polukord is an artist living and working between Vilnius and Vienna. His installations, performances, and video art projects create ambiguous, unpredictable environments and absurd situations. The themes of everyday life, ecology, and the ethical relationship between human and nature in the artist's work are often revealed through the means of humor, adventure, and storytelling. Polukord’s recent and ongoing photography/performance project Woodstatues researches the purpose of tree-trunks, left by loggers standing alone in deforested fields, in former Ancient Wood forests. In 2020, Polukord reproduced the roof motif Roofs of Vilnius at the group exhibition Performing the Fringe in Konsthall C, Stockholm. In Nida, he will study the root structures formed by local trees and produce works that will remind of the forgotten practical uses of tree roots.

Monika Janulevičiūtė is a graphic designer and artist based in Vilnius. By examining historical and archeological knowledge, methods, and work traditions passed intergenerationally, she is looking at the technological processes accumulated over a broad timeline overarching thousands of years. The particular shifts, redundancies, and innovations that are investigated happen in multi-stage processes including fiber preparation, weaving, basketry and carpentry, practices of dyeing, staining, block printing, weathering, and tool making. This process goes tightly together with writing, drafting, and the prototyping of objects. The main art projects: The Lair (2020), solo exhibition Water Striders in the art space Editorial in Vilnius (2019), performances GIRLISONFIRE in Amsterdam, Madrid, London, Vilnius (2018). In Nida, Janulevičiūtė will continue her practical research on locally available materials and leftover resources. 

Adomas Zubė is a radio producer, covering arts and culture for the Lithuanian national public radio. Having more than six years of experience in radio production, he intends to explore how audio journalism can intertwine with sound art, oral history recordings, and poetry, opening new ways of telling stories through sound. Zubė is particularly interested in exploring how human voice and artificially-added sound elements (soundscapes, vibrations, music) can coalesce into one fluid audio texture - a radio/audio art piece. In Nida, Zubė will explore how traditional relationships with nature can help us find new ways of interacting with the environment, notice climate change, and make us more resilient. 

Aistė Ambrazevičiūtė is an experimental architect and artist living and working in Kaunas. During her master's studies at the Vienna Academy of Arts, Ambrazevičiūtė discovered her strengths in the experimental and interdisciplinary fields of architecture. Her projects focus on creating links between the natural and human-made environment, applying technology in practice, and synthesizing the arts in architecture. In 2019, she founded the 3D digital art studio Plantasia Lab, which aims to foster a variety of shapes and materials. During the residency, Ambrazevičiūtė plans to work on the ongoing project Forest Tectonics and create architectural prototypes according to the differences in the growth forms of tree parts.

Neringa Forest Architecture residencies are co-funded by NERINGA Lithuanian Capital of Culture 2021, Lithuanian Council for Culture and Nordic Culture Point.