Adomas Narkevičius is to curate the fifteenth edition of the Kaunas Biennial. Narkevičius is Lithuanian and said the exhibition ‘offers a unique opportunity to present a perspective from our so-called “semi-peripheral” region – embracing its irreverent, experimental, and self-reflexive ethos.’
Currently curator at Cell Project Space, London, he was previously curator at Vilnius’s Rupert Centre for Art, Residencies and Education, for three years until 2019.
Taking the title Life After Life, Narkevičius envisages an ‘exhibition that engages with our time – and, more precisely, its own. My aim is for it to imaginatively address the palpable shifts in the international order and the long-held ideas surrounding contemporary art, while, above all, serving as a space of possibility for the invited artists and their visions.’
The biennial, which will run 12 September to 23 November 2025, will include a satellite exhibition in collaboration with the 2024 Lyon Biennale (France) and CHRONIQUES – the Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques (France) teams, and the 2025–26 Biennale Gherdëina (Italy).
