Curator

Adomas Narkevičius is a Lithuanian curator and art historian living and working in London, currently Curator at Cell Project Space, London, and the Chief Curator of Kaunas Biennial 15. He is interested in the nonlinear aspects of historical time as well as the body, sexuality, and the limits of representation. His research focuses on the notion of the untimely artwork to reconsider the ‘belatedness’ of post-war art in the Baltics and beyond.

Adomas Narkevičius was Curator at Rupert Centre for Art, Residencies and Education (2016–2019), running the Alternative Education Programme as well as co-curating the Public and Residencies programmes. In 2020, his MA dissertation, ‘Defiant Bodies: Untimely Art in the Baltics Under Soviet Rule’, at UCL, London, was awarded the Oxford Art Journal Prize.

Among his selected curatorial projects are solo and two-person exhibitions by Coumba Samba; Josefin Arnell and Max Göran; Ksenia Pedan; Niklas Taleb; Agnė Jokšė and Anastasia Sosunova; Cudelice Brazelton IV; Peng Zuqiang; and Renée Akitelek Mboya at Cell Project Space; 'We Don’t Do This. Intimacy, Norms and Fantasies in Baltic Art', MO Museum, Vilnius (2024); ‘The Prompt’, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna (2022); ‘Authority Incorporeal’, Rupert, Baltic Triennial 14 (2021); ‘Avoidance’, FUTURA, Prague (2021); the symposium ‘Enacting Knowledges’, Kaunas Artist House (2021); and the JCDecaux Emerging Artist Award, CAC, Vilnius (2018–19).

Recently, he has been a guest lecturer and visiting tutor at academic institutions including Goldsmiths, University of London; University College London (UCL); and the Royal College of Art (RCA) among others.