Special screening of 'Max Pechstein in Nidden – A Journey Through Time', Lecture by Prof Dr Aya Soika

Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts
E. A. Jonušo g. 3
Nida LT-93127

In the 38min video lecture Max Pechstein in Nidden – A Journey Through Time, Prof Dr Aya Soika examines Max Pechstein’s production in Nida, 1906–1939, and the wider practices of artistic production in the ‘remote places’ of the period. Soika situates Pechstein in relation to the ‘Sand Academy’ (Mollenhauer) – one of the names for Nida’s artists’ community at the time – and interrogates how an exoticising approach to image-making shaped representations of Nida: who produced and profited from those images, and how they functioned as identity-building references picked up in post-Soviet Lithuania in the 1990s. The lecture provides a historical and critical framework for problematising the so-called ‘Nida Art Colony’. 

The lecture is currently on view at the Thomas Mann House. 
Commissioned by and in conversation with Egija Inzule (Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts)
Camera, Sound and Editing: Anna Luise Schubert
Graphic design: HIT

Duration: 38 min

Funded by Lithuanian Council for Culture and Goethe Institute
Partners: Thomas Mann Culture Center