This week we hosted Valentinas Klimašauskas for another Zoom meeting with our Fellows!
Valentinas is a curator and a writer based in Vilnius, Lithuania. During his presentation, Valentinas talked about his curatorial practice, issues of speculative economies of language, his interest in linking agents, concepts and readers into new performative systems, the ability to create hybrids of culture and much more.
Valentinas Klimašauskas together with João Laia curate the 14th Baltic Triennial at CAC Vilnius (2021). With Inga Lāce he curated Saules Suns, a solo exhibition by Daiga Grantina for the Latvian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2019). He worked as a Program Director at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2017/18), and was a curator at CAC, Vilnius (2003/13). Recent curated projects include “Pulse” by Alexandra Pirici, enlivenment of the Kaunas Ninth Fort Monument; “Microorganisms & Their Hosts”, a collaborative solo by Mindaugas Gapševičius at Atletika, Vilnius. “The Cave & the Garden” at Futura CCA, Prague, “Columnists” at Editorial, Vilnius (2019); “Portals or location scouting in Kaunas”, presented by Spike Art Quarterly (2017). He is the author of Oh, My Darling & Other Rants (The Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt, 2018), Polygon (Six Chairs Books, 2018), and B (Torpedo Press, 2014).