Until 6 February, the VDA Gallery Artifex (Gaono St. 1, Vilnius) will present the exhibition “District” by Anton Lukoszevieze.
Anton Lukoszevieze's District is an intuitive and attentive exploration of the city through found, experienced, captured, imagined images, objects, sounds and texts. Here, images and objects interchange places and materialities, layering, reflecting and transforming into one another: objects become images, which become objects, which become sounds, which become images, which become objects again. The title of the exhibition is derived from the novella District by French writer Tony Duvert, which describes a gloomy, anonymous city district, while the works were generated by aimless long walks around the Naujamiestis district of Vilnius. The exhibition consists of photographs, drawings, drawings on photographs, collages, objects, moving images, and sound pieces, which bring together the melancholic fragments of contemporary city life as if in a concrete poem. All photographs are gelatin silver prints hand-printed by the artist from film negatives.
Jonathan Raban writes in Soft City: “Living in cities is an art and we need a vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between oneself and material that exists in a continual creative play on urban living. […] The soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps, in statistics, and in monographs.”
Anton Lukoszevieze is an interdisciplinary artist, musician and composer. In his practice he merges experimental sound, performance, photography, video, printing, drawing, painting, collage, found artefacts and text. He has collaborated with a vast array of international artists and organisations such as Christian Marclay, Beatrice Gibson, Jayne Parker, Lina Lapelytė, Philip Corner, Jim O’Rourke, Phill Niblock, Tony Conrad, Milan Knižak, Artūras Bumšteinas, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, Serpentine Gallery and Copenhagen Contemporary. He is the founder and Director of the experimental group Apartment House.
www.antonlukoszevieze.co.uk
Curator Paulina Pukytė
The exhibition is partially funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
Exhibition opening and sound performance: 14 January 2026 at 6PM at VDA Gallery Artifex (Gaono St. 1, Vilnius).
