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Collections and Art Foundations. David Roberts in Conversation

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

Merike Estna, Jozs Bitelli, Andrea Zucchini – Smoke and Mirrors

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 Nomos Workshop

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

New Residents Announced for the First Part of 2017

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

Jo-ey Tang’s screening: ‘More More Than Than Lovers Lovers,, More More Than Than Friends Friends’

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

Travis Jeppesen: ‘Word’

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

ARTISTS OPEN STUDIOS: Bridget Currie and Hanni Kamaly

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

Open Call for Rupert’s Residency Program 2017

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

Open Discussion: Built | Unbuilt

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

A dance workshop “HEGELIAN DANCERS“ by Ericka Florez

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

Reading Room Sessions: “On The East-West Slope”

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

NO ESCAPE FOR NOW

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

J. G. Biberkopf – ‘Ecologies II: Ecosystems of Excess’

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

Reading Room Sessions: “Ideologies Of Eastness in Central and Eastern Europe”

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

‘A House of Skin’ by Felix Kalmenson

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

The workshop “How Does It Feel?” at Visaginas

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

2 % Support for Rupert

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

Launch of our New YouTube Channel

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

Joshua Simon: “The curatorial, the dividual and the materiality of debt”

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

Reading Room Sessions: “The Xenofeminist Manifesto”

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

“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

Rupert Residents Announced for July-December 2016

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

Open Studios: “The Little Death”

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

Reading Room Sessions: “Outsourcing Authenticity”

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

Trip to Liepkalnis and Antaviliai CIA site with Valentinas Klimašauskas

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

Workshop “How Does It Feel?”. Open Call for Vilnius Academy of Arts students

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

Educational Program 2016: New Participants Announced

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

Open Call for Rupert’s Residency Program 2016

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

Antoine Donzeaud: A thousand friends. Opening night

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

Travis Jeppesen: Object-oriented Writing

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

Open Call for Residencies 2015 January – June

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

Break Dance Workshop

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

Vilnius Pataphysics Institute

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?

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

Gediminas Akstinas & Rupert invite: Kamilė Mačiulaitytė

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

Rupert invites: Antonio Piazza

“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

Rupert invites: Andros Zins-Browne & Sandy Williams

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

Rupert invites: filmmaker and producer Antonio Piazza

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

Jennifer Teets invites: Rupert is taking a bath

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

Rupert invites: Jennifer Teets

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

Rupert invites: Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez

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

Rupert invites: Daniel Keller, Katja Novitskova & Amadeo Kraupa-Tuskany

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

Rupert invites: Will Holder

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

A Day by Audrius Pocius: WHICH IS WITCH?

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

Rupert invites: Adam Kleinman

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

Rupert invites: Adam Kleinman & Raimundas Malašauskas

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

Close Reading & Discussion on Deleuze/Guattari “Qu’est-ce que la philosophie?”

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

Projects in Progress

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

Fionn Meade

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

Fionn Meade

  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

AARON FLINT JAMISON

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

Day in Berlin by Gediminas Akstinas

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

Trip to Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany

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

Mark Aerial Waller

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

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

FRANCESCO PEDRAGLIO

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

INSIDE rupert STUDIO

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

official opening of
the Rupert programme

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.

applications submission

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

REZA NEGARESTANI

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

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

Jūris Kiškis

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

Rein Raud

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