KIOSK
- Published on Sunday, 19 November 2017 11:46
KIOSK is a temporary small project space for the cold season, curated by Nida Art Colony. In the small wooden hut-stall located on the main (Taikos) street Nida Art Colony presents art works and projects by the Colony’s residents.
The project is partially funded by Lithuanian Cultural Council and Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania. The patron of the project Andrius Tamaliūnas.
Curators: Skaistė Marčienė and Indrė Liškauskaitė
The Return Home of the Mammoth by Evamaria Müller
November 15-25, 2019
Woolcarpet about the Song:
Whats driving there in the car and sticking out his long trunk? Its a mammoth, and its driving home.
(Rüsselmammuts Heimkehr, Adorno about Horkheimer)
The nature of humanity is impacting the earth in many fatal ways. Often when something's gone we realize that we would have needed it. For the past 20 years biologists worldwide are working on re-inventing live. The resurrection of the mammoth hybrid is part of a de-extinction process and could supposedly prevent a catastrophic global warming feedback loop by stopping greenhouse gas emissions in the arctic tundra.
The White Dwarf Magazine by Lena Sieder-Semlitsch
May 8-15, 2019
It is a part of the exhibition series The White Dwarf Magazine at White Dwarf Projects (Seidlgasse 14, 1030 Vienna, Austria) organized by Lena Sieder-Semlitsch together with Sebastian Doplbaur. Sieder-Semlitsch installed a special version of the magazine adjusted for the Kiosk space.
Photo by Lena Sieder-Semlitsch
Art Work by Marion Blume, Christine Cheung, and Christina Smiros
April 10–27, 2019
Artists worked there interchangeably and allowed viewers to witness their artistic practices. Marion Blume (DE) was carving apple seeds from an apple tree branch she brought from her parent's garden in Munich, Germany. Christine Cheung (CA) made drawings using sand, salt and other various materials. By the end of the project, she made an installation out of sand. Christina Smiros (US) was editing a series of video and film works.
Photo by Julija Navarskaitė
Hug by Laura Pugno
March 4-26, 2019
Hug (part of Laura Pugno’s ongoing project Mis-Love) wants to make an ironic point about this impending need to love plants, from the desire to protect them from disease, from the cold, and consequently raises more general questions regarding respect for nature and the ability of the human being to listen to the outside world. Project started with an analysis of the recently increasing attention that the media of the printed press is dedicating to the plant world. It is above all the contribution of digital media (social influencers first and foremost the army of re-bloggers) that has radically transformed a niche phenomenon into a global and pervasive trend. This rapid escalation has relegated the plant to a design object to be possessed, a feature to embellish your social profile.
Photo by Julija Navarskaitė
In the Sand by Kristina Marić
February 3-24, 2019
According to Kristina Marić, the departure from everyday life, control, and the eyes of others aim to cultivate the human need to escape from the world of dehumanization we live in. With this absurd act of suspension of the own view of reality, the author is warning us about what we have forcibly removed from our own memory and in front which we shut our eyes. The artist was inviting the visitors to join her in an act of sinking into the sphere of the unknown, dirty, and hidden.
Photo by Julija Navarskaitė
Forest by Marlaina Read
December 29, 2018 - January 27, 2019
The artist installed a frame with two textile pieces, that were dyed with moss and bark. On one of them Marlaina cut out a special generated unicode with the laser cut. The artist continued adding the textile pieces to the exhibition, at the end of the month sewing all the pieces into a dress and did a performance.
‘I am trying to make sense of a forest. Not a particular forest, but an idea of a forest. I want to make a monument to a forest. With hidden symbols, colours, smells.
I started with an image of a dust of snow on a tree. The snow is impermanent. Like a forest. Like any language I use to describe it.
A forest is vast. My monument is simple, contained. Personal. Domestic. A forest is contained. I am vast.’
Marlaina Read
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Photos by Andrej Vasilenko
Day Tripper by Katherina Heil, Cecilia Hultman, Norbert Tukaj & Demelza Watts
November 27 - December 28, 2018
The exhibition Day Tripper investigated the visitor, the tourist, the guest, the spectator, the toe dipper… What do you bring back from your holidays? Souvenirs, rocks, alcohol, chocolates, postcards, bottles of sand…
Photos by Raimonda Vyšnia
Sojourners R01 T02 by Teena Lange and Claudia Rohrauer
October 30 - November 24, 2018
Investigating the fictional and imaginative potential of scientific photography and terminology, two research paths, focused on individual artistic practices, are now combined temporarily for Nida Art Colony project space Kiosk. Surfaces and textures are projected for the human to visualize and to time frame the unknown of space. Legends of the dunes seem captured and retold with interstellar perception.
A sojourner is a person who resides temporarily in a place, a traveler. Sojourner is also the first robotic Mars Pathfinder that landed in the Ares Vallis region in 1997, and explored Mars for around three months.
Photos by Julija Navarskaitė
The Path Ahead by Hanna Schaich
October 5-29, 2018
Photos by Raimonda Vyšnia
Literally There by Marie Raffn and Signe Boe
April 11-29, 2018
The exhibition is an attempt to transform a literary space into a physical situation. The installation consists of elements unable to be reproduced with photographic means: a light-reflective backdrop is highlighting the absence of two bodies' movements through sand and wind, and at the same time it mirrors the presence of the viewer. The artists worked with a reference to the famous photo by Antanas Sutkus depicting the shadow of Simone de Beauvoir, walking in the dunes of Nida, however her body has been cropped out.
Photos by Marie Raffn
Come and Go by Heike Schäfer
February 27 - March 26, 2018
Heike Schäfer's (AT/DE) installation "Come and Go" deals with recent historical past, migration and restriction, illusion and disillusion. The access to the tiny space comes from underground. It looks like someone left traces by coming in, shortly stayed and then went back to the underground.
A covered shaft in the middle of the room.
Traces coming out and going into it.
Minimum of attraction: A heat lamp.
Will they come again?
Photos by Julija Navarskaitė
The Invisibility of Huge Things by Pedro Hurpia
January 27 ‒ February 19, 2018
There are two tuning forks positioned in front of each other. Each sound box (below them) play the sound of the respective tuning fork. They look the same, but one of them has a change in the fork, which emits a different touch of 440 Mhz, almost imperceptible. The idea is to bring a kind of dialogue between the two devices. The space between them is occupied by invisible sound waves.
Photos by Raimonda Vyšnia and Karolina Sadlauskaitė
How to Bake a Swan? by Marija Nemčenko
December 29, 2017 ‒ January 21, 2018
In July, 2003 UK tabloid newspaper “The Sun” printed a front page article titled “Swan Bake. Asylum Seekers steal the Queen’s birds for barbeques”. The article claims that Eastern European migrants are luring royal birds and barbequing them, the reason being that swans are perceived to be a national delicacy in some Eastern European countries (including Lithuania). The article became a dangerous tool of nationalism and it appeared, strategically, before Baltic countries joined European Union, which meant a great influx of ‘fresh migrants’ into wealthier Western states. And now, in 2017, in the post-BREXIT climate and almost 15 years post the article, I invite you, my dear guest, to witness the tradition that made Britain say GOODBYE to the union.
Photos by Rowan Markson and Linas Ramanauskas
The Witch is not at Home by Tanja Lažetić
November 24 ‒ December 26, 2017
Photos by Skaistė Marčienė
Lighthouse by Evy Jokhova
October 29 – November 26, 2017
The Colony’s resident has transformed the former news stand into an eclectic lighthouse. For this installation, the artist has used two old Soviet rotating lanterns arranged at different height. The large windows are pasted up with geometric shapes of different colors and imitate the sun(rise/set). The work reacts to the extinction of the Nida lighthouse’s old rotating beam lantern. Almost a year ago, the old light signal was replaced by a LED flash. Along with it, the local cultural landscape has changed as well. About half a thousand people signed an online petition for the Nida lighthouse to be reverted to its former mode. Today, when the tourist season is over and days are becoming shorter, the installation by Evy Jokhova attempts to simulate daylight and the light beam of the dismounted lighthouse lantern.
Photos by Linas Ramanauskas and Skaistė Marčienė
Amber Beamer by Linas Kutavičius
May 11-19, 2017
Linas Kutavičius received the 2016 Neringa Municipality art grant. This was the fourth grant assigned to VAA Nida Art Colony’s Artists-In-Residence programme. Since 2012 Neringa Municipality encourages artists to engage with the landscape of Neringa and find inspiration in the surrounding environment. During his month-long residency, Linas focused on developing his project “Amber Projector”, which exposes the inner structure of amber. The project was presented in Nida, Klaipeda, and during last year’s Berlin Gallery Weekend.
A focused beam of light fed through a piece of amber rotating around its axis projects the structure of the mineral into space. Regarded as a national symbol of Lithuania and usually used in applied arts, this time amber becomes a conceptually intimate object magnified by light. The shifting colour palette and the captured fossils meditatively captivate the viewers and transport them to primeval existence through a time loop.
Photos by Vitalij Červiakov
Everything by Wolfgang Bender
April 13 – May 7, 2017
Wolfgang Bender’s installation is a site-specific work created for THE KIOSK in Nida. It consists of different layers of the origins of recent art history as well as very concrete thoughts brought together by the artist to create a very specific intervention in public space. Wolfgang Bender’s artistic work can be best described as a thick woven fabric of many layers. All of his work contains rich references to contemporary art. His very personal approach to the world in general yields highly refined works that are always a result of very precise research of a place chosen in advance.
“Everything” has its origin in a work by Wolfgang Bender where he photographed a young lady at the MUMOK Museum two years ago. The bouquet of flowers one can see in the background was the starting point for his installation in Nida. In the Kiosk you will see real flowers laid down on a table as if for some ceremony. The bouquet is surely related to the art piece in Vienna, but here you will only see the flowers. The opening was held on the 13th of April, which is also known as the Holy Thursday in commemoration of the Last Supper, otherwise known as the night on which Jesus Christ was betrayed prior to his crucifixion. People who pass by will probably think of this very special date.
But the flowers are also part of a very personal encoded circumstance that you can only guess by seeing the two other parts of the work: the photograph mentioned above and a piece of windowpane in which some sentences and a special date are engraved with a diamond tool. Every part of the installation stands on its own, but seen as a whole they are clearly interrelated.
Photos by Skaistė Marčienė
Info Point by Saulius Leonavičius
March 20 – April 9, 2017
Once I went far away and got into a room without an exit. I was searching in vain, there were no doors there. Now I know: it can happen in any other room. There is no point in searching; the doors are not there.
Photos by Linas Ramanauskas