Kaunas Biennial is the largest, longest-lasting, most significant and most visited contemporary art festival in Lithuania and the Baltic states.
Alexey Shklianko, Olga Mirenkova, Alesia Pesenka, Viktorya Yaskevich, Aliona Mokhnach, Darya Korolkova, Eugene Zagorsky will take part in the Biennial with the project “Nemiga”, which will include video art, performance, animation, photo exhibition, etc.
The full description of the project, which was written by one of the participants of the EHU students’ group exposition, Darya Korolkova is available below:
“A small, but important and tireless river, Nemiga flows in Belarus. The same Nemiga, which in the Tale of Bygone Years, is mentioned as the place of the battle for the Belarusian lands between the Polotsk prince Vseslav Bryachislavich and the sons of the Kyiv prince Yaroslav the Wise in 1067. The tiny river goes all over the Republic of Belarus and unites the movement of the crowded streets with the silent forest areas. It unites the artist and his sleepless nights in search of that very idea in an endless, illusory stream. The flow of the river as our imagination brings powerful and fruitful connotations to the minds of the exhibition visitors.
We would like to present a contemporary art exhibition dedicated to seven various themes. This project is created by Belarusian postgraduate students of the Academic Department of Humanities and Arts at EHU active in-between 2019-2021. We are united by one aim – remind about the fact that we are nearby, and we are the neighbors. We are trying to underline and make visible the connection between Belarusian and Lithuanian nations. Literally, what we have done, we’ve done to overcome the cultural and mentality border between two geographical points.
European Humanities University is a university in exile. In 2004, the Belarusian authorities started to undermine the academic freedom and autonomy of the University. As a result, EHU was forced to cease its activities in Belarus. Now it is an independent institution located in Vilnius, where our nation unites us.
Blue-eyed Belarus, located so close, but it is still estranged for Lithuanians. We have lost count of the endless attempts to build a cultural bridge between countries and finally recognize the fact that we are working on the same vocabulary that is inherent in the European cultural space”.
