Linas Kutavičius (b. 1979) is an artist based in Klaipėda, Lithuania. He graduated from Vilnius Academy of Arts. Using experimental materials, the artist designs and builds functional light objects for interior and exterior spaces. Since 1997 Linas takes part in different cultural events and exhibitions. He has been collaborating with other artists in a number of informal intercultural projects, and has designed the visual environment of various music festivals and other events.
Linas has received the 2016 Neringa Municipality art grant, and during this residency he will focus on developing his project titled "Amber Projector".

 Dr. Jennifer Vanderpool is a Los Angeles based artist who has exhibited extensively in North America, South America, and Europe.  In 2014 she exhibited “Super Natural” at the National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, and spoke about her practice at the “Collecting Geographies—Global Programming and Museums of Modern Art”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. She was a 2015 UCLA Hothouse Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance resident artist. In Nida Jennifer will explore the natural and cultural landscape of the place and will have a workshop with pupils from NidaHigh School on visual language in public spaces.

 Bernhard Huwiler is an artist from Switzerland. Bernhard's artistic work includes performance, installations and films. The artist understands performance art as empirical studies in a predominantly non-museum context which probe the state of "being in the situation of art". He often uses the video camera as an eye observing his own activities. By focusing on the everyday, the artist is captured not only as a performer, but also as a bystander, choosing a fraction of reality. Bernhard Huwiler is interested not in self-dramatization, but rather the setting as a whole. His performances open up connotative spaces intended to expand the everyday constraints. At the same time, they question and reflect upon the heroic myth of an artist.
In the residency at NAC Bernhard Huwiler will focus on two activities. First, he will work on a film in which he will reflect on the relationship between picking mushrooms and collecting art. Second, reflecting on the fact that we encounter overabundant pictures in the news we see everyday, he will examine what would happen if we changed the narrative and the context of these pictures. Would this also change the way things are or change our mind?

While at NAC, Yelena will produce a video documenting the feeling of incongruity associated with witnessing a shift in the use of public architecture. The project will focus on two churches turned art institutions during the Soviet period, one housing a film studio and cinema, the other an art gallery; both reverted to their function as sites of worship following the demise of USSR. Yelena will utilize archival footage and public research, as well as make scale models and several paintings for the video. The work aims to consider the role of public space in forming private memories, the use of film and painting as historic evidence, and the search for meaning and spirituality in post-Soviet Eastern Europe.