About

The Nida Colony Library is a newly established collection of printed and digital material aimed at providing the critical and intellectual basis regarding Nida as a place for artists & curators working at the colony. It also functions as a spring board for students of the Vilnius Academy of Art, and from schools abroad, who come to study at the Nida Art Colony during the Summer/Winter workshops. The initial collection was curated by Virginija Januskevičiutė and developed by Vytautas Michelkevičius and Rasa Antanavičūtė

10 key volumes, 10 series, 10 periodicals, and 50 ways out

+ 279 other titles

KEY VOLUMES

Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century), MIT Press

Miwon Kwon, One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity

RE-tooling RESIDENCIES. A Closer Look at the Mobility of Art Professionals (PDF)

Thomas Mann, Užburtas kalnas / Magic Mountain

Kuršių nerijos nacionalinis parkas / Curonian Spit National Park (in 4 languages)

The Secret of Scent

Tiravanija’s Cook Book

Lithuanian Art 2000-2010: Ten Years, CAC

Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community

Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, 1990

The Baltic Postcolonialism

SERIES

VDA ACTA ACADEMIAE ARTIUM VILNENSIS

TATE monographs

AA Files

Whitechapel/MIT Documents of Contemporary Art

The Drawing Room Confessions (http://www.drawingroomconfessions.com/)

Strategic Questions (http://www.strategicquestions.org.uk/about.htmlf)

PERIODICALS

Frieze

7 meno dienos (Lithuanian cultural weekly on the arts)

Kultūros barai (Lithuanian cultural monthly magazine)

FOAM

Mousse

Cabinet

Afterall

Fuse (CAN)

Umelec (CZ)

Studija (LV)

ONLINE PUBLISHING

Artnews.lt

Blunt.cc

http://echogonewrong.com

http://we-make-money-not-art.com/

Servinglibrary.org

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The aim of these books is to introduce colony residents to intellectual ideas that compliment the landscape of the Curonian Spit and challenge the artists to critically engage with their surroundings. As a supplement to these ten key volumes, several periodicals, series and other books are held. The library also functions as an archive of artist books, projects and printed matter that have been developed by past A-I-R and Workshop participants.

Borrowing Materials

The materials in the Library must stay within the Colony Area. While we are still working on our circulation policy, we ask that books be taken out for a week at a time and returned, so that other residents can also use the materials.

Donating Materials

Since this is a new collection, we are actively seeking new materials to broaden and improve our library. If you would like to donate books or other texts to our library please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

FRIENDS OF THE NIDA LIBRARY

Books in the library donated by

CAC (Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius)

NGA (National Gallery of Art, Vilnius)

Banff Centre (Canada)

VAA Press (Vilnius Academy of Arts Press)

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