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Politics of Space
Erdvės politika
Jun 23 2022
Gallery Atletika
Galerija Atletika
Galerija Atletika
The exhibition grows out of the understanding that space is never neutral. Walls, rooms, and buildings carry rules, expectations, and power relations long before they become aesthetic or functional objects. The architecture of the exhibition does not attempt to separate form from politics; instead, it treats space itself as an active agent—one that shapes behaviour, proximity, and visibility.
Rather than presenting finished positions, the space remains open and unsettled. Works are allowed to coexist without hierarchy, occupying the gallery as a shared field where domestic scales, institutional frameworks, and geopolitical imaginaries overlap. Architecture here does not resolve political questions, but holds them in suspension, making visible the ways power operates through spatial arrangements.
Emerging from the symposium Politics of Space, the exhibition extends its discussions into a physical experience. The gallery becomes a testing ground for spatial agency—where architecture is understood not as a fixed structure, but as a mutable condition capable of responding to social, ecological, and political realities.
Rather than presenting finished positions, the space remains open and unsettled. Works are allowed to coexist without hierarchy, occupying the gallery as a shared field where domestic scales, institutional frameworks, and geopolitical imaginaries overlap. Architecture here does not resolve political questions, but holds them in suspension, making visible the ways power operates through spatial arrangements.
Emerging from the symposium Politics of Space, the exhibition extends its discussions into a physical experience. The gallery becomes a testing ground for spatial agency—where architecture is understood not as a fixed structure, but as a mutable condition capable of responding to social, ecological, and political realities.
No walls needed: politics unfolds in shared space.
Artists:
Artūras Čertovas, Yona Friedman, Vytautas Gečas, Benas Gerdžiūnas, Povilas Vincentas Jankūnas, Millonaliu (Klodiana Millona and Yuan Chun Liu), Neo-futuristic Walks (Aušra Česnauskytė and Goda Verikaitė), Arno Brandlhuber and Christopher Roth, Traumnovelle, Erik Vojevodin
Artūras Čertovas, Yona Friedman, Vytautas Gečas, Benas Gerdžiūnas, Povilas Vincentas Jankūnas, Millonaliu (Klodiana Millona and Yuan Chun Liu), Neo-futuristic Walks (Aušra Česnauskytė and Goda Verikaitė), Arno Brandlhuber and Christopher Roth, Traumnovelle, Erik Vojevodin
Curators:
Martynas Germanavičius,
Vilius Balčiūnas,
Gabrielė Černiavskaja,
Mantė Valiūnaitė (film programme curator)
Martynas Germanavičius,
Vilius Balčiūnas,
Gabrielė Černiavskaja,
Mantė Valiūnaitė (film programme curator)
Architecture:
Gabrielė Černiavskaja
Graphic designer:
Rokas Sutkaitis
Light design:
Justas Bø
Technical support:
Ignas Pavliukevičius
Gabrielė Černiavskaja
Graphic designer:
Rokas Sutkaitis
Light design:
Justas Bø
Technical support:
Ignas Pavliukevičius