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Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonai

Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas. Photo by Berta Tilmantaite 2017

Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas. Photo by Berta Tilmantaite 2017

Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas (Lithuania, 1968 and 1966) are artists, educators, curators and co-founders of Urbonas Studio, an interdisciplinary research practice that facilitates exchange amongst diverse nodes of knowledge production and artistic practice in pursuit of projects that transform civic spaces and collective imaginaries. In collaboration with experts from different cultural and professional fields, these projects develop practice-based research models, merging a variety of materials and techniques from new media, urbanism, social science, ecology and pedagogy.

Urbonas work has been exhibited at the São Paulo, Berlin, Moscow, Lyon, Gwangju, Busan biennales, Folkestone Triennial; at the Manifesta and Documenta exhibitions; and in solo shows at the Venice Biennale and the MACBA in Barcelona among others. Urbonas co-edited Public Space? Lost and Found (MIT Press, 2017) an examination of the complex interrelations between the creation and uses of public space and the roles that art plays therein. Recently Urbonas curated the “Swamp pavilion” – future learning environment at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale 2018. Urbonas has been awarded a number of grants and high-level awards, including the Lithuanian National Prize (2007), the honorable mention for the Lithuanian national pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2007), Best International Artist at the Gwangju Biennale (2006), nomination for the Nam June Paik Award in 2012.

Nomeda Urbonas is PhD researcher at NTNU in Norway and a research affiliate at MIT. Gediminas Urbonas is Associate Professor at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (MIT).

Druzhba, 2003–ongoing

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