Call for residency applications, symposium on critical tourism and a trainee
Saturday, 15 December 2012 22:11

Welcome to apply for residencies for March-December period in 2013 - deadline for residency applications is February 15, 2013.

Nida Art Colony (NAC) welcomes proposals from artists, designers, architects, curators, and art researchers for its upcoming summer-autumn residencies on the Baltic Sea coast in the Curonian Spit National Park, Lithuania.

NAC is located in a remote and beautifully distinct landscape next to the resort town of...

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Lecture on worldwide residency opportunities by Bojana Panevska (TransArtists.org) in CAC Cafe on 10th Dec
Monday, 10 December 2012 00:59

On the occasion of the first Nida residents exhibition 'Taking Time' in Vilnius, Nida Art Colony is inviting all the Lithuanian artists to

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Poster of the exhibition Taking Time
Monday, 10 December 2012 00:20

 
Curated Residency Taking Time is finalising with exhibition in Vilnius in gallery Akademija on 10th of Dec 2012
Wednesday, 05 December 2012 20:30

Taking Time: Only the expanse of snow...

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Experts on Residencies are visiting Nida Art Colony
Tuesday, 04 December 2012 21:07

Nida Art Colony is developing its residency programme and inviting international experts, curators and critics to advance the residency programme and define its specific profile among the other residencies in the world. The public lecture on residencies and their models are planned in Vilnius on 10th of December at 4.30pm in CAC by Bojana Panevska from Trans Artists network which has over 1200 residencies in the database.

On November 18-21st curator Kitty Scott - director (2008-2012) of...

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Exhibition 'House of Grass by our resident Eva-Fiore Kovačovský in project space Malonioji 6 in Vilnius
Sunday, 02 December 2012 17:19

Welcome to see exhibition by our resident who spent more than 4 months in Nida Art Colony. Exhibition includes her work from Nida as well as her previous work. You can see the documentation online artnews.lt

In the House of Grass Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky explores formal properties of ordinary plants. In Vilnius the artist shows her previous work in combination with...

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A Talk by Jurij Dobriakov on Mapping the Self: Being Born In a Place One Does Not Belong In
Saturday, 01 December 2012 12:28

Welcome on Sunday (12.02) 6pm to the Colony to the lecture by Jurij Dobriakov Mapping the Self: Being Born In a Place One Does Not Belong In. He is Lithuanian culture critic and writer born in Sovetsk (Russian name, DE- Tilsit, LT - Tilžė) in 1983, grown-up in Klaipėda and now based in Vilnius.

Summary of the lecture:
How does one build one's connection with a place where one is merely a representative of the last wave of colonizers? How does one construct one's self in relation to this...

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Open Artists Studios 20.11.2012
Wednesday, 21 November 2012 20:19

Artists from East-West project in the process of preparing for the exhibition were taking part in the open studios with visiting curator Kitty Scott (former director of Visual Arts at Banff Centre, Canada).

Participating artists and researchers in residence:
Toni Ledentsa (FIN), Sigbjørn Bratlie (NO), Jeanie Sinclair (UK) and Luca Diffuse (IT), Marika Troili (SE), Vahag Hamalbashyan (Armenia), Natalia Zintsova (RU), Marta Bogdanska (PL).

Pictures from Open Studios.