Rupert continues its monthly reading sessions! Every month, a member of Rupert’s team or an invited guest selects material to discuss. The reading sessions are open to anyone by registration. Kiss me thru the… More

We are pleased to announce the selection of the following group of artists, curators and researchers who will take part in the 2021 Rupert residency programme, which will run from January to July 2021 (in… More

The centre for creative industries Pakrantė in partnership with Rupert centre for art, residencies and education invites to a series of informal events “Art Meadows”. During these gatherings, Lithuanian artists and culture professionals will… More

This upcoming Wednesday, 26 August, join current Rupert resident, Sean-Roy Parker for the two-part workshop exploring the biodiversity of the Neris river bank and building a healthy microbiome in your gut.  18.00 Wild Food… More

The fifth of Rupert’s online reading sessions will take place on Zoom, 19th of August, from 19:00 EEST. In this session artist-researcher Rowena Harris will lead a reading session as a way to explore,… More

Rowena Harris (United Kingdom) is an artist and art researcher focused on what is at stake for bodymind difference within the everyday technological regime. She is completing her CHASE funded PhD at Goldsmith’s College… More

Sean-Roy Parker (United Kingdom) is an artist, environmentalist and community cook based in London. His work builds social frameworks inclusive of marginalised voices and alternative currencies like labour exchange to encourage practical, post-capitalist action… More

Rupert is inviting everyone to join our current residents Arvydas Umbrasas (LT), Alexei Gordin (EE), Luīze Rukšāne (LV) for the Open Studio event which will take place on the last Thursday this month, 30th of July… More

26 July 10 pm Doors open on 9 pm Zuikio Daržas (Nidos-Smiltynės pl. 7a) The NAC Nightlife Event Programme is a series of collaborative events played out at local bars, clubs, and other friendly… More

26 July 4 pm NAC Library (E. A. Jonušo str. 3, Nida) Since Spring 2020 Druskininkai Artists’ Residency, Kaunas Artists’ House, Rupert, NAC, and Kintai Art have held online meetings discussing about their roles… More

Rupert alternative education programme invites to open event at Kintai Arts Residency on 24th of July at 20:00 i had to go to wakefield citilodge to solve the problem with quantum physics but i… More

From 7 to 31 July, 2020 Rupert presents outdoor sculpture installation by current artist-in-residence Arvydas Umbrasas. The sculptures will be installed near by Valakampiai II beach in the field behind the Pakrantė building (Vaidilutes… More

Rupert invites all to an online talk by Jos Boys as part of Rupert’s 2020 public programmes on care and interdependence.  The talk will be streamed online on Rupert’s Facebook page, 16th July, 2020… More

The fourth of Rupert’s online reading sessions, ‘Experimenting with Togetherness’, will take place on Zoom, on 9 July, 18:30 EEST. In this session, a researcher and Rupert’s resident Karolina Rybačiauskaitė in relation to her… More

Aistė Ambrazevičiūtė (b. 1988) is an experimental architect and digital artist based in Kaunas, Lithuania. During her master studies, Aistė formed her personal interests towards architecture and it’s shifting definition. She found her strength in the experimental… More

Anna Karanevskaya (b. 1998) and Valentin Duduk (b. 1997) often come together as an artist duo. While working with a variety of projects and media, they keep discovering points of convergence, among which are: intermutual… More

Artūras Čertovas (b. 1995) is an architect, artist and DJ based in Vilnius. He finished his BA studies in Architecture and Urban Design and now works independently as a spatial designer. In his art… More

Céline Mathieu (b. 1989) is an Antwerp-based artist whose practice intertwines linguistic and bodily sensibilities with an element of play. Her work is often temporary, ranging from performance to sculpture in non-permanent materials such… More

Dalia Maini (b. 1992) is a slow thinker, independent curator and practice-based writer. Her research moves in the threshold of cultural and survival production. After a BA in Cultural studies (Naples) and an MA… More

Guoda Šulskytė (b. 1997) is an interdisciplinary designer, researcher and filmmaker, interested in exploring diverse, imaginative methods of questioning reality. Moving from body, to socio-political, to cosmological her work relates personal and cultural phenomena with scientific practice,… More

plot twist is an Amsterdam-based literary collective initiated by Jo Kali (b. 1989) and Georgie Sinclair (b. 1991) in 2018. plot twist believes learning is relational and refuses hierarchical pedagogical practices. As such, plot… More

Jurgis Bernatonis (b. 1990) graduated from Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2016 with a Master’s in Graphic Arts. After studies, he started working with computer-generated imagery and since then he has been working in… More

NKO (b. 1992) is an interdisciplinary autist and maker. They research the political terrain of the interwebs and try weaving often obfuscated information into relatable threads by making videos, memes and storytelling. [nko@Rupert] mkdir… More

Sholto Dobie (b. 1991) was born in Edinburgh and lives in Vilnius. He works with sound, music and performances as well as organising events and exhibitions. Recent audio works include Preambula, Amplify Festival: quarantine… More

Vilius Vaitiekūnas (b. 1996) is an art educator and an artist currently living and working in Vilnius and Aleknaičiai. He holds a BA in Fine arts from Minerva Academy (NL) and finished a pre-master… More

Alexei Gordin (Estonia) is mainly known as a painter, however, he also works with photography, video and performance. Using black humour, Gordin draws attention to the absurdity of the (art) world and alienation, highlighting… More

Luīze Rukšāne (Latvia) is a young artist currently studying BA Visual Communication at the Art Academy of Latvia. Participating in group and solo exhibitions since 2017, in 2019 she was one of 7 Latvian… More

Rupert invites to a video lecture by artist, current resident at Rupert Marija Nemčenko and Prof. Barbara Helm. The talk will be live streamed on the Rupert’s Facebook page on 30th of June, 19… More

Artist Leah Clements is looking for people who have been patients in a Lithuanian hospital. The one-to-one interviews will take place over video call, audio call or by email depending on what the interviewee… More

Rupert invites all to a lunch-time talk by internationally renowned economic geographer, Katherine Gibson as part of Rupert’s 2020 public programmes on care and interdependence.  The talk will be streamed online on the Rupert… More

Somerset House Studios partners with Vilnius- based centre for art and education Rupert, the Lithuanian Culture Attaché in the UK, Lithuanian Culture Institute for an online residency to support a Lithuanian artist pushing the… More

an artist living in Vilnius. His sculptural work deals with the themes of cosmic bodies and their impact on people’s imagination. At Rupert he will be developing new outdoor sculptures inspired by the phenomenon… More

an Art Critic and a PhD student of Philosophy at Vilnius University, also graduated in History and Theory of Art at Vilnius Academy of Arts, now living between Vilnius and Prague. She studies the principle of… More

Rupert continues its monthly reading sessions! Every month, a member of Rupert’s team or an invited guest selects material to discuss. The reading sessions are open to anyone by registration.  The third of Rupert’s… More

On Friday, 5th of June from 9 pm Rupert’s three current residents – Marija, Aiste and Margarita – cordially invite you to an Open studios session. Through talks and discussions, the session will explore ideas… More

Rupert alternative education programme‘s Alumni board will advise in development of the programme and take part in educational process. Alumni board will help to create and foster educational ecosystem between past, present and future… More

Rupert’s residency programme is dedicated to local and international practitioners and thinkers (such as artists, writers, curators, researchers, cultural managers and academics), providing them with the opportunity to live and work in Vilnius from… More

Rupert kindly invites you to apply for the 8th edition of Rupert’s alternative education programme, which will take place between July and November 2020. The deadline for all applications is May 31 (Sunday) midnight,… More

Transdisciplinary art, residencies and education center Rupert together with “Vilnius Tech Park” invites artists, researchers, scientists, philosophers, critics, hackers and all visionaries to propose ideas about the futures after the pandemic. Instigated by immense… More

2020 participants are currently being selected. Application to alternative education programme can be found here: bit.ly/AEP_EN

Thursday, 14 May, from 17:30, join our current resident, Lithuanian artist and performer Denisas Kolomyckis and Rupert curator Kotryna Markevičiūtė for a virtual open studio meeting. In the conversation the artist will present his… More

Rupert continues its monthly reading sessions! Every month, a member of Rupert’s team or an invited guest selects material to discuss. The reading sessions are open to anyone by registration.  The second of Rupert’s… More

Rupert is pleased to announce an online talk given by artist Emma Hedditch as part of Rupert’s 2020 public programmes on care and interdependence. The talk will be streamed online on the Rupert Facebook… More

We are happy to announce artists, curators and researchers who will reside in Rupert from this week till the end of May. Aistė Ambrazevičiūtė – experimental architect and digital artist based in Kaunas, Lithuania. During her master… More

Rupert is pleased to announce the first of a series of online talks as part of its 2020 public programmes. The talk will be live streamed on the Facebook event page on April 22nd… More

Rupert is pleased to announce monthly reading sessions. On April 16th, from 18:30, our current artist in residence Monica Mays will be running the first session that weaves together extracts from several authors in relation… More

Rupert is inviting artists, curators and researchers currently based in Lithuania to apply for a two – four week residency in April-May 2020. Due to the current quarantine, Rupert has had to temporarily scale… More

Rupert is pleased to invite you to attend the first event of a new talk series focusing on contemporary art and collecting. Our first programme guest is David Roberts, British collector, property developer and… More

Current Rupert residents invite you to an informal presentation of what they have been working on during their stay. Performances start at 5pm. Wed 4 Jan -Hei -Labas -Hey, if you’re still out, could… More

Unthinkable and Rupert invites participants to the Unthinkable Nomos Workshop on November 6th at Rupert gallery space (Vaidilutės st. 79). Registration for participants is required, please send us a letter with brief info about… More

We are pleased to announce the selection of the following group of artists and curatorsto take part in Rupert’s Residency Program for the period of January – June 2017. Candidates were selected through a… More

Rupert is pleased to invite you to Jo-ey Tang’s screening “More More Than Than Lovers Lovers,, More More Than Than Friends Friends” on 22 October, from 6 pm at Ozas kino salė, Ozo str…. More

Rupert is pleased to invite you to “Word“, an exhibition of new works by a writer and current artist-in-residence Travis Jeppesen. The opening will take place this Thursday, 20 October, at 6 pm at… More

Rupert invites all for the Artists Open Studio on Thursday, September 22nd from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Vaidilutės str. 79, Vilnius. Current Rupert’s residents Bridget Currie (AU/ES) and Hanni Kamaly (NO/SE) will… More

Rupert’s Residency Program is suited for local and international thinkers: artists, writers, curators, cultural managers, and academics, providing them with the opportunity to live and work in Vilnius while developing individual projects and immersing… More

Rupert is happy to invite you to a two-part open discussion ‘Built | Unbuilt’ on yet un-accumulated archival collaboration between four interdisciplinary artists. The event will take place at the CAC Reading Room (Vokiečių… More

Rupert kindly invites you to a dance workshop by a Colombian artist Ericka Florez on 16th of August at 6 p.m. in creative studio ‘House of Puglu’ (Vilniaus str. 16, entrance through Labdarių str.)…. More

Rupert and Unthinkable kindly invites you to the second collective Reading Room of upcoming Reading Room series, opening space for discussions around cultural, social and geopolitical issues and turns in Central and Eastern Europe…. More

Rupert’s Educational program started a few months ago when Valentinas Klimašauskas brought all the programme participants to Liepkalnis skiing resort where plane spotters are watching planes and the house near Vilnius where Guantanamo prisoners… More

Rupert kindly invites all to join us for a concert ‘Ecologies II: Ecosystems of excess’ by Jacques Gaspard Biberkopf. The event will take place Thursday, July 7 and starts from 9 pm in the… More

Rupert and Unthinkable kindly invites you to the first collective Reading Room of upcoming Reading Room series, opening space for discussions around cultural, social and geopolitical issues and turns in Central and Eastern Europe…. More

Join us for a screening of Felix Kalmenson’s ‘A House of Skin’ on Friday, 3 June, 7pm at Ozo Kino Sale, Ozo g. 4, Vilnius. Food and drinks will be served after. The entry… More

On April 3-7 in Vilnius and Visaginas the workshop “How Does it Feel?” took place as a part of series events around the travelling exhibition “Double Bind”. The workshop was led by promising young… More

This entry is only available in Lithuanian. Būtina užpildyti iki 2016 m. gegužės 1 dienos. Gerbiamieji, primename, kad pagal LR Paramos ir labdaros Įstatymą, iki š.m. gegužės 1 dienos galite teikti paramą neatvėrę piniginės…. More

Dear All, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of our new YouTube Channel. So far, we have uploaded five videos from our “Double Bind” lecture series, which you can find on our channel by… More

Rupert invites you to talk by Joshua Simon at the CAC Reading Room, this coming Saturday at 4pm. The materiality of the commodity today is not limited to labor but expands to debt. Things… More

Dear all, please join us for a Rupert Reading Group session at Šaltinių st. 7 this coming Sunday April 24th at 4:00pm. We will discuss the Xenofeminist manifesto by the Laboria Cuboniks collective. We are happy that Katrina Burch, co-author… More

“Plays for the Strange Stranger” A performance by Jude Crilly & Floris Schönfeld Saturday 23 April 2016, 10pm at the CAC Basement Hall “Plays for the Strange Stranger” is a performance in four parts…. More

We are pleased to announce the selection of the following group of artists, curators and theater directors to take part in Rupert’s Residency Program for the period of July – December 2016. Candidates were… More

Friday, March 25th 18:30Performance 18:45Rupert, Vaidilutes g. 79, VilniusLuca Iemi (IT 1988) www.lucaiemi.comGarrett Nelson (CH/USA 1982) www.garrettnelson.chCiaran Wood (UK 1988)A break from consciousness is the proposal of an exhibition with Sleep Bar at Rupert Vilnius, during… More

Dear all, please join us for a Rupert Reading Group session at Šaltinių st. 7 this coming Thursday March 17th at 6:30pm. We will discuss Chapter 8 from Rupert’s guest lecturer’s Claire Bishop’s Artificial Hells called Delegated Performance: Outsourcing Authenticity. Artificial Hells is… More

The latest edition of Rupert’s Educational Program began when participants took their first field trip of the year to Liepkalnis and Antaviliai to look around the illegal CIA detention centre alternatively known as the Violet centre which incidentally… More

The workshop “How Does It Feel?” will take place in Visaginas between April 3 and 7. Vilnius Academy of Arts students age up to 25 years are invited to apply and participate in the… More

The selections committee, consisting of artist Liudvikas Buklys, Jonas Žakaitis (Rupert Board of Trustees), Augustas Serapinas (artist), Maya Tounta (Curator, Rupert) and Justė Jonutytė (Director, Rupert) selected new participants for the 4th edition of… More

Rupert’s Residency Program is suited for local and international thinkers: artists, writers, curators, cultural managers, and academics, providing them with the opportunity to live and work in Vilnius while developing individual projects and immersing… More

Opening reception: January 27, 6pm at Rupert (Vaidilutės g. 79, Vilnius)‘On the first day the snow fell,I went taking pictures,Not to miss the chance of capturing the moments,While the trees are still holding the… More

Rupert is happy to invite you to a lecture and workshop by the writer Travis Jeppesen on 13th and 14th of January, 2016. Object-oriented writing is a new approach – neither poetic nor art-critical, yet… More

Rupert’s Residency Program is suited for local and international thinkers: artists, writers, curators, cultural managers, and academics, providing them with the opportunity to live and work in Vilnius while developing individual projects and immersing… More

Dear All, Break, dance, work, shake, lava, ice, potatoes, Aneta’s novel, news, the cats’ gazette, vinyl, smoke breaks, Google Docs, balls, flightless birds, breaking beats, swinging, soggy and soft monuments, a smell, an explosion,… More

In the same way as Pa Ubu, after having taken over the throne of Poland (which is Nowhere, as Jarry wrote) and having been fired from it, took some rest in “a cave in… More

Do you think about the bookstore? We are thinking about a tropical lounge pretending to be a bookstore. Suppose it is possible that the lounge is, in a relation to a bookstore, prosthetic. In… More

The heterotopia begins to function at full capacity when men arrive at a sort of absolute break with their traditional time… Heterotopias always presuppose a system of opening and closing that both isolates them… More

“Getting back to the vertical position” Learn how to watch a movie The tools of the director, the gaze of the viewer Once when I was going to the cinema, viewers were well settled… More

DAY 1 Andros & Sandy meet Rupert group Studio visits take place all around Vilnius on the 15th of February, 2013 DAY 2 The Time Warp A performance workshop by Andros Zins-Browne and Sandy… More

Cinema does nothing more than opening for the time of a passage to the luminous presence of the Other. Cinema teaches us to tirelessly touch with our eyes where and at what distance from me… More

Rupert is taking a bath. A mud bath. A time-based sludge revelry of physiological speculations and absurd pathologies. “Is earth capable of being assimilated?” one may ask. “Or is it simply ballast for the… More

A writing workshop by Jennifer Teets On Saturday January 19th at 2pm, a writing workshop will ensue with Rupert participants at the CAC Reading Room (Vokiečių st. 2, Vilnius).  The workshop will trace the… More

2 January at 6pm: in the lecture Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez will talk about the notions of situated artistic research and reflexive residency programmes through her experience of co-directing the space for artistic research Les Laboratoires… More

An Event by Daniel Keller, Katja Novitskova & Amadeo Kraupa-Tuskany. Day 1 – Presentation and conversation Day 2 – Studio visits   One half of Aids-3D, DANIEL KELLER (b. 1986, Detroit, US). Studied at The… More

An evening with Robert Ashley, presented by Will Holder.   Evening 1 An evening with Robert Ashley, presented by Will Holder. 69.     No, you can’t 70.     get people to do perfect 71…. More

IF one’s a witch, one won’t drown. IF one’s not, one will drown. An evening is dedicated to superstition, fortune telling, lies, mistakes, magic tricks, seduction and appearance. It is essentially grounded within the… More

A Talk by Adam Kleinman. You lack the power of understanding; do you understand?   A funny thing happened on the way to the Fridericianum. There, right in front, a man dressed in all… More

A Talk by Adam Kleinman and Raimundas Malašauskas. A Talk About Talking. Please come and join Raimundas Malasauskas and Adam Kleinman, two former agents for dOCUMENTA (13), and more importantly roommates during this “epic… More

A close reading of a book “Qu’est-ce que la philosophie?” (“What is Philosophy?”) by Deleuze and Guatarri with a special attention to the 7th chapter. Event is hosted by Lukas Brašiškis and Jonas Skačkauskas. Location:… More

A Presentation of the first stage of projects by Rupert‘s participants. An event is open to Rupert’s participants and Advisors only.    

Happy Saturday. Fionn Meade visits studios of Gediminas Akstinas, Justina Zubaite&Mindaugas Bundza, Karolis Kaupinis, Viktorija Rybakova and Audrius Pocius. An event is open to Rupert’s participants only.   The event is held via Instant… More

  Day 1 The Broken Atlas The first seminar will introduce three concepts arising from research done at the close of the 19th century by cultural figures involved in developing new applications within quickly… More

An event by Aaron Flint Jamison. Aaron Flint Jamison (b. 1979) is the Portland-based artist. The latest shows at Castillo/Corrales, Paris, Artspeak, Vancouver, gallery Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin. He is the founder and the editor… More

Gediminas Akstinas organises a day for Rupert in Berlin, Germany.  

Rupert gets a car and drives to Kassel. Back on the 18th of September.

The Wayward Canon presents Dead of Night / Boundary Theory + +++ popcorns   Mark Aerial Waller (born in High Wycombe, UK in 1969. Lives and works in London) is an artist working in video, sculpture,… More

Kasia Redzisz at Rupert: studio talk. Kasia Redzisz is an Assistant Curator at Tate Modern. Her recent projects include Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds, Out of Place (co-curated with Ala’ Younis) and Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan (with Mark Godfrey). In addition… More

Studio Lunch with Francesco Pedraglio. Francesco Pedraglio is an independent writer, curator and artist living in London. Pedraglio is one of the directors of the London-based curatorial platform FormContent. He writes for several magazines,… More

Rupert participants meets Rupert advisors. An event is open to Rupert’s participants only.

A reason to party with summery desserts, lemonade and string quartet (Gertrūda Beinarytė, Rakelė Chijėnaitė, Arnas Kmieliauskas, Lora Kmieliauskaitė). An opening takes place in Rupert‘s summer studio yard in Malūnų g. 5, Vilnius.

To register to 2012-2013 Rupert’s programme, online Application Form should be sent.

A seminar by Reza Negarestani (via skype) with Mårten Spångberg as a coordinator. Wedges of Imagination. From Mechanical Combinatorics to Gestural Collaboration. The focus of the lectures will be on a modern theory of… More

Mårten Spångberg is a choreographer living and working in Stockholm. His interests concern choreography in an expanded field, something that he has approached through experimental practices and creative process in multiplicity of formats and… More

A lecture at Rupert’s  consists of few topics. At first glance, Jūris will present his impressions of the scientific world: the too serious and too practical education, the exact science and the less exact science, science as a profession and… More

A lecture and discussion by Rein Raud. System and Harmony. Rein Raud is an Estonian scholar and author. He graduated from the Leningrad State University (now called Saint Petersburg State University) in 1985 in Japanese… More