Give Up the Ghost, 13th Baltic Triennial

The Baltic Triennial has historically taken place at the CAC Vilnius only. For its 13th edition, it will - for the first time - be organised by and happen in Lithuania, Estonia (opening on June 29th) and Latvia (opening on September 21st), where the Triennial will take the form of three different chapters and include different artists.  The exhibition in Vilnius, set within an ambitious architectural intervention designed by architect Diogo Passarinho, and which will considerably change the institution by opening it up and reconfiguring the entire space, tackles the concept of belonging by bringing together unstable territories and bodies. A large amount of works have been commissioned especially for the exhibition: Anna Hulačová creates a monument in the form of a fountain; Dora Budor takes over the space surrounding the terrace and turns it into a futuristic desolate landscape inhabited by animatronic birds; Augustas Serapinas has worked with a local community to address the heritage of the nuclear industry; Sanya Kantarovsky premieres a group of new, unique works; Daiga Grantina has created a large group of sculptures; Melvin Edwards revisits one of their iconic barbed wire pieces from the 1970s; Laure Prouvost creates an immersive installation in the form of a landscape; Pakui Hardware produce new works addressing technology and human perception; Ieva Rojūtė installs two new murals; Michael E. Smith infiltrates the space with sculptures and videos; Caroline Achaintre produces large-scale new sculptures... These commissions are accompanied by loans, shown for the first time in Vilnius, of important works by: Darja Bajagić, Nina Beier, Huma Bhabha, Miriam Cahn, Jayne Cortez, Melvin Edwards, Pierre Huyghe, E’wao Kagoshima, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Katja Novitskova, Max Hooper Schneider, Anu Põder and Rachel Rose. Drawings, paintings, installations, videos, music, texts, performances form a polyphony addressing the multiple artistic strategies of our time.  The Triennial celebrates the Centennial of the restored Latvia, Lithuania and EstoniaThe Baltic Triennial 13 is titled GIVE UP THE GHOST.

2018 

CAC, Vilnius, LTU

Curated by Vincent Honoré

Curatorial Team: Dina Akhmadeeva, Canan Batur, Neringa Bumbliene, Cédric Fauq, Anya HarrisonExhibition 

Exhibition Architecture by Diogo Passarinho Studio

Team: Daniel Huelseweg and Marta Fernandez, Charlotte Spichalsky 

Furniture in collaboration with pretty something 

Ghraphic design by Tadas KarpavičiusPhotos by CAC/Andrej Vasilenko

Exhibition dates: May 2018 CAC in Vilnius, Lithuania June 2018 at Tallinn Art Hall, EstoniaSeptember 2018 at Kim? Riga, LatviaIn 

collaboration with:Maria Arusoo, director of the Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in Tallinn, Estonia; Zane Onckule, programme director of kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, Latvia

Organisers: Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania; Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia; Centre for Contemporary Art Estonia (CCAE), Tallinn, Estonia

Supported by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuanian Council for Culture, Institut Français, Arterritory.com, Go Vilnius

Partners: Embassy of the Czech Republic in Vilnius, Institut Français in Lithuania, artnews.lt