- Residency period: Summer 2025
- Neringa Wood Works
Jurga Daubaraitė and Jonas Žukauskas, are a duo of spatial practitioners currently based in Vilnius. Through architectural, curatorial and research projects they aim to create new relations between societies and their environment, past and future.
Jurga and Jonas curated the exhibition ‘The Baltic Material Assemblies’ at the AA Gallery and RIBA in London (2018), and were co-curators of The Baltic Pavilion – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale (2016), and co-editors of The Baltic Atlas published by Sternberg (2016). Together with Egija Inzule, they initiated Neringa Forest Architecture(NFA) at Nida Art Colony in 2019, as a research and residency programme that reflects and investigates the Curonian Spit cultural landscape forests as a case study, considering it as an entanglement of ecologies, representations, and both colonial and industrial narratives. In 2023 NFA curated and designed the Children’s Forest Pavilion — Lithuania at at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2023, in 2024 the playscape-exhibition Les pièces de la forêt at arc en rêve, Bordeaux and were shortlisted for the New European Bauhaus Prizes 2024 (“Re-connecting with Nature”). Since 2023 together they have led a COOP study group at the Dutch Art Institute, DAI and are working on the publishing initiative Kirvarpa Books.
Website: neringaforestarchitecture.lt
Instagram: @forestparts
