Mykolas Valantinas. Father

Mykolas Valantinas. Tėvas

The exhibition space is kept deliberately clean—clean enough to work. White walls, wide margins, no excess. A sterile environment where surfaces remain neutral and value can be recalculated without distraction. This kind of clarity belongs as much to workshops and print rooms as it does to galleries: a place where copying demands precision and mistakes carry weight. Cleanliness here is not aesthetic, but operational—it protects the process.

The architecture operates through imitation. It studies the visual codes of the CAC and repeats them almost perfectly. One wall, in particular, performs authority with confidence—solid, proportional, institutional. It passes. Only on closer inspection does it begin to feel slightly off, like a counterfeit that succeeds by refusing to draw attention to itself. The space does not confront the institution; it mirrors it closely enough to make the original unstable.

Works are positioned with discipline and distance. Drawings, AI-generated images, and fragments of currency sit like assets in circulation rather than objects for contemplation. Money appears as a system—disassembled, reconstructed, tested—where inheritance merges with mythology and authorship becomes transferable. Architecture follows the same logic: not breaking rules, but learning them, repeating them, and bending them just enough to expose how legitimacy is made.

team:

Artist:
Mykolas Valantinas

With works by:
Rytis Valantinas

Film collaborator:
Nefeli Synesiou-Quay

Curator:
Povilas Gumbis

Architecture: 
Gabrielė Černiavskaja

Graphic design:
Vytautas Volbekas

Head of technical team:
Lukas Strolia

Technical team:
Almantas Lukoševičius, Vytautas Narbutas, Matas Šatūnas, Ilona Virzinkevič

Coordinator:
Kotryna Karyznaitė

Communication:
Karolina Augevičiūtė, 
Monika Valatkaitė

English translator, language editors:
Aistis Žekevičius, 
Dangė Vitkienė, 
Gemma Lloyd