The historic hall of Radvila Palace is transformed into an environment that resembles a clinical surgery or hospital room, where human presence, with the exception of the visitors’ own physicality, is replaced by technology. Suspended between the physical and the virtual, the bodily and the digitised, the space is inhabited by transparent thermoformed ‘bodies’ abstracted into sculptural biomorphic shapes. Influenced by Lithuanian artist Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė’s paintings from the 1970s and 80s, the sculptures merge technology, draperies, organic and synthetic materials into abstracted states. 

Pakui Hardware represent Lithuania at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, together with the works by modernist Lithuanian artist Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė, opening on Saturday, 20 April 2024. The immersive joint exhibition of Pakui Hardware and Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė will address the ‘inflammations’ currently affecting humanity and the world. The Lithuanian pavilion is organized by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art (commissioner: Arūnas Gelūnas) and curated by Valentinas Klimašauskas and João Laia. The installation’s architecture will be made by Ona Lozuraitytė and Petras Išora. Inflammation is commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, presented by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, and financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.

Surveying twenty-five years of the multi-disciplinary practice of artist Paul Pfeiffer (b. 1966, Honolulu, Hawaii; lives in New York), Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom will celebrate a pioneering artist known for his incisive work that interrogates ideas of spectacle, belonging and identity. Inspired by televised sporting events and popular entertainment, Pfeiffer’s work deconstructs our fascination and obsession with celebrity culture, unpacking how collective consciousness is shaped and manipulated through his masterful editing of found footage. In tracing the global trajectory of image circulation, Pfeiffer demonstrates how desire, heroism and worship operate as part of the mechanisms of art, religion, politics, and nationhood. Bringing together more than thirty works and debuting a new commission, Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom is the first retrospective of the artist’s multi-disciplinary practice.