For the months of June and July six artists are staying and working in Nida.

Jl Murtaugh

Kristina Ališauskaitė

Anni Laakso

Laima Kreivytė

Susanna Jablonski and Santiago Mostyn

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JL Murtaugh (Chicago-born, based in Vilnius and London) is an artist, curator, writer, and consultant. Since 2014, he has operated primarily under the alias of Syndicate—a fluid, nomadic contemporary art platform producing exhibitions, events, and publications in long-term collaborations with artists around the world. Since autumn 2020, Murtaugh also works as artistic director of Autarkia in Vilnius, Lithuania. At NAC, the artist will continue developing his long-term project Volume, an indexed synthesis of his artistic labour composed of essays, documentation, and ephemera. In February, together with Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, he co-organized the programme ‘Letters to Jonas Mekas: Correspondences’ at MACRO, Rome. Last winter, he was a resident artist at Lower Cavity in Holyoke, Massachusetts, US. Prior to founding Syndicate, from 2012 to 2014 Murtaugh was the director of Tenderpixel, London. He studied fine art at Goldsmiths College in London (MFA), Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and Columbia College (BFA), after acquiring education in architecture and design.

Kristina Ališaukaitė (born in Klaipeda, based in Vilnius), the artist uses her personal experiences as material for analyses of universal states. Although she doesn‘t use traditional archetypal imagery, an analogous result is achieved – it invokes the collective unconscious. By depersonalizing, leveling, fragmenting the characters she refines a state, an experience, a psychological situation as such and turns it / them into the main character. Memory becomes a significant thematic axis – the power of fuzzy remembrances to influence the present and the future.Ališauskaitė is the finalist of international exhibitions and contests: Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019, „Arte Laguna Prize“, „Saatchi Painted Faces“, „Incubarte“. She is the first and so far the only one from Lithuanian artists included into the publication of „Thames & Hudson“ publishing house called „100 Painters of Tomorrow“ – the top 100 list of the most prospective contemporary global painters.