Kaunas 2022: Litvak Culture Forum

Kaunas – European Capital of Culture 2022 and the Memory Office programme invite everyone who cares about the city’s history, culture and the future of an open and democratic city to meet at the Litvak Culture Forum on 29-30 September. The Forum will take place over several days and will include discussions with renowned artists, scholars and representatives of the cultural world. We will ask questions: what does it mean to be Litvak today? How can art help us understand a complex history?

Kaunas Biennial recommends:

SEPTEMBER 30, FRIDAY

11:10 – 11:25 There And Not There – What the 11th Kaunas Art Biennial Did with Monuments

Paulina Pukytė (LT/UK)

Paulina Pukytė is an artist, writer, playwright, exhibition curator, and cultural critic. In 2017, she curated the 11th Kaunas Biennial There and Not There: (Im)possibility of a Monument in the public spaces of the city, dedicated to rethinking past, present, and future monuments in the paradigm of presence and absence. In the Forum she will present the aims, objectives, and results of this memorable project and talk about the relationship between the artist, the monument, and the viewer.

Paulina Pukytė: At the Forum I will present the 11th Kaunas Biennial There and Not There: (Im)possibility of a Monument. I will talk about the relationship between the artist, the monument, and the viewer.

The full programme of the Litvak Culture Forum is here.