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After one day’ visual art showcase “Echoes: Joy”, only echoes and a joyful memory remain. We are sharing documentation of the performance art program (program curated by Vaida Tamoševičiūtė). Thanks to everyone who stopped by and we are glad to see the showcase growing stronger with each passing year. Participating artists: Agnė Šileikytė, Kamilė Šimkevičiūtė, Karolina ŠČ, Akvilė Ataitė, Ieva Drukteinytė, Giedrė Mačiulaitytė. Organizer: NGO “Alternatyvi Scena” (ALTR) Partner: Meno Parkas Gallery, Fondation François Schneider. The showcase is partially funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and the Lithuanian Artists’ Association. 📸 Viktorija Lankauskaitė.

After one day’ visual art showcase “Echoes: Joy”, only echoes and a joyful memory remain. We are sharing documentation of the audiovisual works (program curated by Arnis Aleinikovas). Thanks to everyone who stopped by and we are glad to see the showcase growing stronger with each passing year. Participating artists: Roos van Geffen (NL), Crystalle Bobbe (DE), Laura Hyunjhee Kim & Chris Corrente (USA), Manuel De Marco (IT), Ziyao Lin (UK), Muriel Montini (FR), AnimaeNoctis (RS), Antoni Hidalgo (Inercies) (SP), Michael Maurisens (DE), Vardit Goldner, Anna Solecka (PL), BEAUDOIN (EE), Topp & Dubio (NL), Lou Liska (AU), Ana Da Cunha Alves (PT), Salvatore Insana (IT), blanche the vidiot (HU), Jose Cruzio (PT), Ivana Larrosa (USA), Viktorija Lankauskaitė (LT), Izabella Retkowska (PL), Nuanqi-Chen (CH). Organizer: NGO “Alternatyvi Scena” (ALTR) Partner: Meno Parkas Gallery, Fondation François Schneider. The showcase is partially funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and the Lithuanian Artists’ Association. 📸 Viktorija Lankauskaitė.

𝟐𝟖 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟏𝟔 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝟗 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭! 🚁 On the 16th April join us in the @menoparkasgalerija for the second edition of visual art showcase “Echoes: Joy”. The showcase invites us to step away from the usual, superficial understanding of joy. Here, joy reveals itself not only as a bright emotion, but as a complex, multilayered experience—sometimes fragile, sometimes barely noticeable, emerging from memory, the details of everyday life, or even from contrasts with loss and transience. “Artists from different cultural and social contexts perceive joy in different ways: in some works, it is associated with inner peace and reflection; in others, with active creative energy, the people around us, or even irony. Thus, in the showcase, joy becomes an open theme that allows different artists, above all, to speak about the human relationship with oneself, with others, and with the world around us,” says Arnis Aleinikovas, curator of the audiovisual program and coordinator of the showcase. Participating artists: Roos van Geffen (NL), Crystalle Bobbe (DE), Laura Hyunjhee Kim & Chris Corrente (USA), Manuel De Marco (IT), Ziyao Lin (UK), Muriel Montini (FR), AnimaeNoctis (RS), Antoni Hidalgo (Inercies) (SP), Michael Maurisens (DE), Vardit Goldner, Anna Solecka (PL), BEAUDOIN (EE), Topp & Dubio (NL), Lou Liska (AU), Ana Da Cunha Alves (PT), Salvatore Insana (IT), blanche the vidiot (HU), Jose Cruzio (PT), Ivana Larrosa (USA), Viktorija Lankauskaitė (LT), Izabella Retkowska (PL), Nuanqi-Chen (CH), Agnė Šileikytė (LT), Kamilė Šimkevičiūtė (LT), Karolina ŠČ (LT), Akvilė Ataitė (LT), Ieva Drukteinytė (LT), Giedrė Mačiulaitytė (LT). The event is free of charge. The event will be filmed and/or photographed. Organizer: NGO “Alternatyvi Scena” (ALTR) Partner: Meno Parkas Gallery, Fondation François Schneider. The showcase is partially funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and the Lithuanian Artists’ Association.

After announcing all the video artists participating in the showcase, we now present the performers—emerging creators from across the country—who will appear in the performance program on April 16 at Meno Parkas Gallery. Karolina ŠČ is an artist working in the field of conceptual and interdisciplinary art. She allows creativity to flow through her in various forms – illustration, poetry, performance, and installation. In her graphic works, she analyzes her subconscious, exploring a self-created utopian world shaped by personal dreams, interests, and inspiration from the surrounding environment, most often nature. She is interested in fantasy, surrealism, and holism – often identifying herself as a fairy. In her performances and installations, she creates an experience closer to reality – interactive and intimate, allowing the viewer to engage and relate. Self-reflection and maturity are important to her, so in her works she reflects on the stages of her personal life, highlighting specific turning points. Ieva Drukteinytė is a graphic designer currently completing her bachelor’s degree at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Kaunas Faculty. She is the founder of the cultural magazine and platform for emerging artists “ate ate”. She is also an educator, leading creative workshops in which she uses art as a means of self-expression and dialogue while working with young people. In her performances, inspired by the ideas of C. G. Jung, she examines the relationship between the self and the other. The artist believes that we can see ourselves most clearly through another person – as if in a mirror. In her creative practice, the relationship between psychological content and aesthetic form is important, allowing the experience to be lived not only emotionally, but also visually. The free one-day visual art showcase “Echoes: Joy” will take place on April 16 at the “Meno Parkas Gallery” in Kaunas. Organizer: NGO “Alternatyvi Scena” (ALTR) Partner: Meno Parkas Gallery The showcase is partially funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and the Lithuanian Artists’ Association.

After announcing all the video artists participating in the showcase, we now present the performers—emerging creators from across the country—who will appear in the performance program on April 16 at Meno Parkas Gallery. Giedrė Mačiulaitytė is a painter who graduated in 2024 from the Painting programme at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Kaunas Faculty, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree. She is currently studying Art Therapy at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. The artist’s painting is characterized by a pink colour palette, complex themes, and a contrast between a soft surface and a rough painterly expression. In her work, she explores themes of eating disorders, identity crisis, and self-harm. Kamilė Šimkevičiūtė is a visual artist working in graphics and illustration, currently studying Applied Graphics at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Kaunas Faculty. In her work, she experiments across various forms of visual art. Expressing herself without constraints is important to her. In her performances, she explores the relationship between her body and the environment, seeking to sense those around her and to establish contact without words. Immersion in the present moment is important in her practice, as she attempts to grasp what is real and human. The free one-day visual art showcase “Echoes: Joy” will take place on April 16 at the “Meno Parkas Gallery” in Kaunas. Organizer: NGO “Alternatyvi Scena” (ALTR) Partner: Meno Parkas Gallery The showcase is partially funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and the Lithuanian Artists’ Association.

After announcing all the video artists participating in the showcase, we now present the performers—emerging creators from across the country—who will appear in the performance program on April 16 at Meno Parkas Gallery. Agnė Šileikytė - is an artist whose creative path began with photography studies at the Kaunas School of Applied Arts and continues with studies in Graphic Design at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Kaunas Faculty. She explores herself across different art forms, analyzing visual language and its possibilities. Painting and photography are not only creative practices, but also therapeutic processes for her – a quiet dialogue with herself, a transformation of emotions and experiences into visual form. Recently, performance art has become part of her practice, through which she seeks new forms of self-expression and broadens the boundaries of her work. Akvilė Ataitė - is a painter currently studying at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Kaunas Faculty. In her work, she explores the boundaries between inspiration and exhaustion, happiness and sorrow. Drawing from both personal and social experiences, she creates extreme imagery situated between enigmatic experiences and emotions. In her paintings, she reveals the duality of the artist in the creative process, while in her performance she explores the spectrum of emotions and the fragility of moments of loss. The free one-day visual art showcase “Echoes: Joy” will take place on April 16 at the “Meno Parkas Gallery” in Kaunas. Organizer: NGO “Alternatyvi Scena” (ALTR) Partner: Meno Parkas Gallery The showcase is partially funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and the Lithuanian Artists’ Association.

As we approach the one-day visual art showcase “Echoes: Joy”, we invite you to get to know the participating artists more closely. Viktorija Lankauskaitė is a lecturer and PhD student at Kaunas University of Technology, where she researches how animals appear and are represented in cinema, and teaches writing, media theory, and audiovisual communication. While much of her artistic portfolio comes from theatre – featuring photography and video projections – her interest in the more‑than‑human world shapes other aspects of her practice as well. Her individual projects explore nature both as a method and a site for making art, and invites viewers to consider different perspectives on the natural world. Vardit Goldner is a multifaceted artist specializing in photography and videography. Her artistic pursuits primarily focus on capturing the nuances of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, shedding light on the everyday lives of Palestinians. Additionally, she delves into social, environmental, and animal-related concerns through her work. She studied at the Faculty of Arts – Hamidrasha at Beit Berl College, Israel, where she completed the Postgraduate Fine Arts Program, and she holds an M.Sc. in physics. Her work has been shown in exhibitions and festivals such as Earth Rising at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, and she was selected as one of the laureates of Talents Contemporains of Fondation François Schneider, France. The free one-day visual art showcase “Echoes: Joy” will take place on April 16 at the “Meno Parkas Gallery” in Kaunas. Organizer: NGO “Alternatyvi Scena” (ALTR) Partner: Meno Parkas Gallery The showcase is partially funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and the Lithuanian Artists’ Association.

As we approach the one-day visual art showcase “Echoes: Joy”, we invite you to get to know the participating artists more closely. Crystalle Bobbe completed her elementary training in Paris at the “Conservatoire National des Arts du Cirque et du Mime”, at the “Académie Fratellini” and at the “Conservatoire de Dance Classique”. During her active carrer, she was trained in all subjects of circus arts and dance, specialized in tightrope dance and aerial techniques. Dance has become Crystalle’s primary influence and inspiring source. She has continued her brilliant career in Europe, creating new presentations of her acts on a regular basis. Since 2002, she has appeared on several occasions in the United States, notably at the celebrated dinner show, Teatro ZinZanni, in Seattle and San Francisco. Manuel De Marco lives and works in Milan. He graduated in “Industrial Design” from the Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche in Florence and in “Product Design” from the Iuav University of Venice. His practice explores existential themes and the relationship between the individual and the world, through painting, video, and performance. He has participated in exhibitions such as Terra Cognita (Viafarini, Milan), Infra-Ordinario Contemporaneo (Paratissima, Turin), Lo Spazio Vissuto (Italian Cultural Institute, Tirana), Nextarts (MAGA Museum, Gallarate-VA), and Domani in Arte (GAM, Rome). Lou Liska is a gender-queer performer, artist and human ecologist based in Vienna, Austria, whose work is positioned within societal, economical and political power dynamics. Questions of identity formation and the struggle for self-empowerment are important questions for the artistic research. The distinct, colourful, figurative and diagrammatic style picks up often unvoiced tensions, fears, as well as hopes of modern societies. The free one-day visual art showcase “Echoes: Joy” will take place on April 16 at the “Meno Parkas Gallery” in Kaunas.

As we approach the one-day visual art showcase “Echoes: Joy”, we invite you to get to know the participating artists more closely. Topp & Dubio is a conceptual multidisciplinary artist duo based in The Hague in The Netherlands. The duo studies reality from a multiple perspectives, uses a wide range of resources and media including film, photography, performance and site-specific installations. Their projects often arise in response to specific situations or opportunities, showing a particular fascination with [[temporality]] and the creation of moments tied to a specific place and time. In their work, they explore the boundaries between fact, fiction and meaning, and between art and everyday life. Izabella Retkowska as a long-time graphic artist and creative photographer, she has focused primarily on digital art since 2011. Her experimental video work transcends the formal boundaries of traditional audiovisual communication, exploring cinema that takes aesthetic risks. Sequences of images create a hypnotic atmosphere, evoking emotional introspection and internal questions about the human mind, identity, and memory, as well as provoking questions about the nature of perception itself. Her work has been presented at numerous festivals and art events worldwide. Paul Beaudoin is an interdisciplinary artist and composer whose work spans ambient and experimental music, video art, and visual storytelling. With a PhD in music composition and theory, Paul brings a deep understanding of structure and emotion to all facets of his creative practice. As a video artist, Paul approaches to creating immersive audiovisual works that challenge perception and explore themes of memory, liminality, and the passage of time. Paul’s interdisciplinary projects, blending sound, video, and photography, have been featured in galleries and exhibitions worldwide. The free one-day visual art showcase “Echoes: Joy” will take place on April 16 at the “Meno Parkas Gallery” in Kaunas.

As we approach the one-day visual art showcase “Echoes: Joy”, we invite you to get to know the participating artists more closely. Ziyao Lin is an artist and PhD researcher at Loughborough University. Her work spans digital art, experimental video, and installation, exploring the entangled relationship between individuals and nature, technological ethics, and micro-politics. She interrogates how technological systems can both alleviate and intensify the scarcities of contemporary life—emotional, temporal, and relational. Ziyao’s creations have been featured in Leonardo by MIT Press and presented at venues such as ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia. She has won the Share Prize in Italy and has been nominated for awards including the S+T+ARTS Prize at Ars Electronica. Michael Maurissens is a Belgian choreographer, filmmaker, and cultural practitioner based in Cologne, Germany. After a career in contemporary dance, he shifted toward visual media, developing an interdisciplinary practice that merges movement, film, and site-responsive research. Through his lens, Michael reveals what is often invisible: emotional landscapes, social ruptures, ancestral rhythms, and metaphysical presence., viewing dance and movement as a dynamic space where the body negotiates, connects, and expresses fluid forms, embodying the evolution of socially diverse societies across the globe. Over the past two decades, his work has been presented at festivals, biennials, and cultural institutions across Europe, Asia, Africa, USA and the Middle East. Ana Da Cunha Alves - director & Media Artist from Portugal. Her work delves into issues related to new technologies and, more recently, Artificial Intelligence. She has collaborated in advertising production at Krypton and in theater with Artistas Unidos and Possessos, working as a video collaborator. She was the First Assistant Director on the film O Segredo Segundo António Botto, which was presented at various festivals. She also served as a jury member in one edition of the CINENOVA Film Festival. The free one-day visual art showcase “Echoes: Joy” will take place on April 16 at the “Meno Parkas Gallery” in Kaunas.

As we approach the one-day visual art showcase “Echoes: Joy”, we invite you to get to know the participating artists more closely. Muriel Montini studied cinema. She lives and works in Paris. Since 2000, she has made several movies screened in different international important institutions (Musée du Jeu de Paume, Anthology Film Archives New York, ImagesPassages and more) and festivals (Hamburg International Short Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Rencontres Paris–Berlin, Ji-hlava International film festival, European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck and more). Nuanqi-Chen, as a creator who straddles the fields of advertising and filmmaking, combines experimental spirit with genre narrative in her works. The short film “Remains of the Hot Day”, which she participated in as an art director, won the Silver Bear Jury Prize for Short Film at the 74th Berlin International Film. Her latest work “Perfect Night” was shortlisted for important film festivals at home and abroad, such as the London Short Film Festival and HiShorts! International Short Film Festival. José Cruzio lives in Viseu, Portugal. He graduated in Fine Arts and Painting, and has a one-year post-graduate master degree in Contemporary Artistic Creation at the University of Aveiro. Currently he works as a teacher of Visual Arts and as an artist in multidisciplinary teams in media arts. The free one-day visual art showcase “Echoes: Joy” will take place on April 16 at the “Meno Parkas Gallery” in Kaunas. Organizer: NGO “Alternatyvi Scena” (ALTR) Partner: Meno Parkas Gallery The showcase is partially funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and the Lithuanian Artists’ Association.

As we approach the one-day visual art showcase “Echoes: Joy”, we invite you to get to know the participating artists more closely. Salvatore Insana (IT) pursues his research between moving images, photography and other forms of revision and erosion of the imaginary. His works have been presented within numerous festivals and multidisciplinary exhibition events in Italy and more than thirty other countries. From 2011 he creates with Elisa Turco Liveri, the Dehors/Audela collective, giving life to video-theatrical works, dance performances, audiovisual research projects, experimental documentaries, video dance works and experimental workshops. blance the vidiot (HU) consists of a artistis Szabina Péter and Kristóf János Bodnár duo. Szabina Péter - audiovisual artist, photographer, aesthete. Recently she is mostly active in the fields of multimedia, installation, photo, video art and electronic music. Kristóf János Bodnár - audiovisual artist, sound engineer, philosopher. Currently his chiefly working in the fields of video art and electronic music – mostly by means of analogue and digital sound synthesis. Ivana Larrosa (USA) is a visual artist from Spain living in New York City. Through photography, video and performances she investigates the impact of her permanent double vision and her experience of space, consequence of a car accident. Larrosa is interested in conceptual strategies that have to do with the body as an object of study and a medium to approach memory, trauma, ecology and architecture. Ivana holds a BA in Film and Media Studies from University of Navarra (Spain) and a Master of Fine Arts at Bard College-International Center of Photography (New York, 2016), where she was awarded with the ICP Director’s Scholarship and taught video installation and performance. Her work has been shown at at Art venues and Museums including Anthology Film Archives, International Center of Photography, The Exponential, Queens Museum, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Project Space Kleiner Salon, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, and Galeria Sicart, among others.