Mindaugas Gapševičius

😍Announcing the speakers and artists for the upcoming Minds in Motion event coorganized with @antneuro on the 15th of January 17:00-21:30. 🐶We are honoured that @gapsevicious will be exhibiting an installation and participatory sculpture that invites the audience to consider more-than-human friendships. Interfaces for Boris and Miga will be on display throughout the evening! 💡More on the marvellous Mindaugas Gapševičius: Since 2015, he has served as an artistic associate at Bauhaus University Weimar, transitioning to a research fellow role in 2022. Gapševičius played a pivotal role in founding Institutio Media, Lithuania’s premier media art platform, in 1998, and later co-founded Migrating Art Academies, a pan-European network supporting emerging artists from 2008 to 2017. In 2016, he collaborated with colleagues from the TOP association to establish Berlin’s inaugural TOP community biolaboratory. Gapševičius’s works have graced prestigious platforms worldwide, including the Ars Electronica festival in Linz (2019-2022), the Lithuanian National Gallery of Art (2019, 2021), MO Museum in Vilnius (2019), Piksel festival in Bergen (2018, 2021), Ostrale Festival in Dresden (2021), and Futureless Festival in Stockholm (2022). He has been the recipient of artist grants from the Lithuanian state in 2014, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2023, attesting to the enduring impact and relevance of his creative endeavors. Learn more about Miga 👀 / Thanks to all collaborators of the work Interfaces for Boris and Miga: Boris, Maria Safronova Wahlström, Brigita Kasperaitė, Mantas Talmantas, Jurgis Paškevičius, Mindaugas Miselis, and Kamilė Krasauskaitė. ✨Minds in Motion✨ will be an exploratory evening of personal stories, creative expressions, and the latest research in a space dedicated to empathy and connection. Over the next few weeks we will be sharing the other artworks and performers at this special event. 📅 Don’t miss out—register now! Link in bio! Co Organized with ANT Neuro #BerlinEvents #MentalHealthAwareness #MindsInMotion #Community #antneuro

The [Dried Out] Pond emerged from the larger project The Pond, developed at Bauhaus University Weimar as both an ecological experiment and an artistic intervention. Still on view today at Ars Electronica, Campus exhibition, Hauptplatz 8. The [Dried Out] Pond invites audiences to navigate an uneven terrain within the gallery space. It simultaneously recalls the clay floors that, until recently, were commonly used in domestic interiors. Composed of dried clay, the Pond reflects both human impact on ecological systems and the broader consequences of global warming. The work was created in collaboration with Felix Bonowski (clay), Vasili Macharadze (3D modeling), @herr.munske , @sabah.abouelhadid , Sebastian Veloza, and Alessandro Volpato (production). Additional contributions to The Pond came from Kerstin Ergenzinger, @klausfritze , @neginete.art , and @cosmoschueppel.de This project is supported by Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre and Horizon Europe (Grant Agreement No. 101135986). Special thanks go to the Chair of Media Environments at @bauhaus_uni and to Outi Wahlroos. Photos: @cosmoschueppel.de #arselectronica #bauhausuniversität

It has now been nearly four months since Love Letters to My Fellow Human was installed at the Stasys Museum in Panevėžys — with just two more days left to visit. Throughout this time, the artificial jellyfish has been tirelessly recording environmental changes. Photos are continuously uploaded at: /JellyFish/ Artificial Jellyfish is a series of objects designed to drift in the water or sit elsewhere on the ground. The chosen design references on one hand a poignant symbol of the beauty and fragility of our oceans and on the other reminds us of plastic contaminants. While drifting in waters or sitting elsewhere on the ground, the jellyfish narrates the profound impact of global warming and ecological degradation on our planet. My gratitude goes to Lina Albrikienė for curating the exhibition and for her ongoing updates, and to Tomas Styra for attentively caring for the installation throughout its duration.

Microorganisms and Their Hosts at the Rokiškis Regional Museum A couple of months ago, I had the great pleasure of presenting my installation Microorganisms and Their Hosts once again, this time as part of the larger exhibition Pienas (Milk) at the Rokiškis Regional Museum, which opened on May 17th. The exhibition remains on view until August 31st, 2025. This installation invites visitors to explore the complex relationships between selected microorganisms, their environments, and their human hosts. On a deeper level, it encourages reflection on the mutual influence between microbial life and our own biota—how microorganisms shape our health, and how, in turn, our bodies and behaviors affect them. Beyond biology, the exhibition also touches on how these microscopic agents may influence our aesthetic perception and lived experience. The installation features four interrelated artworks, each addressing the theme from a unique angle. The video Microorganisms & Their Hosts presents conceptual perspectives from the consumer, the scientist, and the artist, highlighting the diverse roles microorganisms play in culture and daily life. Glass Vessels demonstrates a scientific approach to yogurt fermentation, offering a close-up view of the transformation driven by microbial processes. My Collaboration With Bacteria for Paper Production invites hands-on engagement through a DIY lab, toolkit, video tutorial, manual, and ongoing workshops, allowing visitors to work directly with microorganisms and experience their transformative potential. A big thank you goes to the collaborators of the installation: Mark Eckstrand, Laura Kaminskaitė, Antanas Gerlikas (glass), Antanas Gerlikas, Kotryna Butautytė (exhibition architecture). Curator of the show Ausra Gudgaliene. Photos: Darys Baltakys & Aušra Gudgalienė Microorganisms and Their Hosts was created in 2019 in collaboration with microbiologist Auksė Gaižauskaitė, artists Mark Eckstrand, Antanas Gerlikas (glass), and Laura Kaminskaitė (exhibition design and glass), as well as curator Valentinas Klimašauskas. More on installation at /microorganisms-and-their-hosts/

International exhibition “And the Wind Will Take Us Away” @stasys_museum until 31st August curator @lina_albrikiene exhibition architect @sigita_simona photos @augisn_photography artists are tagged! Today, people on Earth are woken by a warm but worrisome wind, by the chirps of colourful birds and in some parts, by sirens – not by the creatures from Greek mythology, hybrids of birds and women who lured sailors to their deaths with the sweetness of their songs, but by the devices that provide emergency warnings of approaching danger. The radius of their sound and the quantity of people it can reach depends not just on their volume, but also on the wind which spreads the sound across the land. But wind is not just a force of nature that plays a significant role on Earth, it is also an important geopolitical concern around the world, along with all other substantial issues that make their impact on how humanity lives. However, at the Earth’s very foundation, at the core of all beginnings, lie two essential interconnected elements – soil and water. Both are significantly reflected in the exhibition “And the Wind Will Take Us Away” which unfolds a visually and sonically immersive map, addressing globally urgent issues through scientific and artistic research spanning multiple disciplines and media: installation, video, photography, painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, tapestry and performance. The exhibition introduces participating artists from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Norway, with a particular emphasis on Ukrainian artists. It reflects on themes such as war, migration, the discourse of colonialism and imperialism that spans several centuries and its profound consequences for humanity; territorial security; forced migration, trauma, and historical and cultural memory; the preservation of cultural identity; ecology and climate change.

I am pleased to contribute to the exhibition And the Wind Will Take Us Away with my installation Love Letters to My Fellow Human. The exhibition will be on view at the Stasys Museum in Panevėžys, Lithuania, from 10 May to 31 August 2025. The installation comprises several components, including the sculptural series Puddle Garden—melted glass forms intended for various scientific experiments—and Artificial Jellyfish, autonomous objects programmed to take photographs and upload them to the internet. The biological element of the work incorporates the model unicellular organism Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and the aquatic plant Anubias gracilis, both examined under the influence of conventional plant fertilizers. In collaboration with Mark Eckstrand (glass), Mindaugas Miselis and Felix Bonowski (electronics) More information is available at: /jellyfish/ Curated by @linaalbrikiene

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"Puddle Garden" is an installation of several glass pieces of two forms to be used as they are, or in combination with Jellyfish, a series of objects comprising an exhibition Love Letters to My Fellow Human. The glass objects were designed to be used for scientific experiments, initially presented with experiment #2. Glass objects from the Puddle Garden are made from melted glass, referencing global warming. The two forms reference the Baltic and Mediterranean seas. This piece is installed in the desert garden of the Centre for Non-Machines research, Athens, Greece. In collaboration with Mark Eckstrand (glass). Photo: Ingmar Riswick

Between February 22 – February 23, 2025 @ Project Space at Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin The Berlin artists’ magazine RUW in its 11th edition presented 1+1 artists. Each of the 11 participating RUW! artists invited a selected guest to contribute to the magazine and exhibition. Thanks @muhrlizza for the invite! My contribution was a drawing of an Artificial Jellyfish as a part of the magazine and the installation Love Letters to My Fellow Human. Photos: @muhrlizza

🐶 One of the most eye-catching elements of Minds in Motion 2025 with @ANTneuro was Interfaces for Boris and Mindaugas by the brilliant Mindaugas Gapševičius @gapsevicious Positioned right in the middle of the beautiful ballroom at Humboldt Innovation Forum, this interactive installation invited visitors to step into a unique sensory dialogue between human and animal. It blurred the boundaries of experience and communication and invited us all to examine our more-than-human friendships. 🤖Through biofeedback-driven interfaces, participants could explore the concepts of shared perception, making the piece not just something to observe, but something to feel. Watching people engage with the work was a highlight of the night. Miga is always able to merge technology, philosophy, and playfulness into thought-provoking installation. If you haven’t seen his work yet, you’re missing out! More about Interfaces here: /interfaces-for-boris-and-mindaugas/ More about Miga: / 📸 @pauguiomar #MindsInMotion #NeuroArt #Biofeedback #InteractiveArt #MindaugasGapševičius #InterfacesForBorisAndMindaugas

Saturday, 23 March 2024, 6pm Arkesinis 9, 11364 Athens Matthias Roth spent four weeks at the Centre for Non-machines Research among fresh lemons and oranges, surrounded by remnants from centuries ago, to find inspiration for some of his works. By reusing materials, he questions consumerism. At the end of the winter, Roth shows a reflection of the first Winter Olympics 2024 in Greece and presents the latest Cartier's spring collection. Matthias Roth lives in Berlin. He studied at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi. His work reflects social madness and memory culture using photography, video, new media and found footage. The works, which are created during Roth's restless travels, are directed against the ethnocentrism and hegemony of the mass media. His work is characterised by the demystification of the spectacle.