email: lipsic.monika@gmail.com
2022
INVISIBLE FURNITURE, exhibition of historical furniture alongside contemporary art and design, curated with Vytautas Gečas and Marija Puipaitė. Museum for Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius. Participating artists:
WHEEL OF FORTUNE - Rupert 10 year anniversary event.
VIDEOGRAMS. Festival of artists' films in Vilnius.
DRIFTS gallery opening exhibition
2021
Exhibition AUDRA (The Storm) in Lithuanian National art museum Pamario gallery, Juodkrantė. Presenting the works by Stasys Krasauskas, Liucija Šulgaitė, Agnė Juodvalkytė, Gerda Paliušytė, Jonas Žukauskas, Eugenijus Byčenkovas, Marek Voida.
VIDEOGRAMS. Festival of artists' films in Vilnius.
2020
ROOM OF PERSPECTIVES curated show of video screenings @Sodas2123, Vilnius.
VIDEOGRAMS. Program curator for International Kaunas Film Festival together with Viktorija Šiaulytė.
2019
IDEAS EMERGING TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE AT THE SAME TIME, curated performance event with Stan de Natris, Philomene Pirecki, Maarten de Brijker, Dovilė Stalioraitytė Dodomuno, Paul Paper, Ieva Sriebaliūtė in Druskininkai Summer Amphitheatre, part of DAR Residency by Lithuanian Composers Union curated by Gailė Griciūtė.
SHIFTING ZONE WITH A CHANGING CONTENT. GOODBYE, EASTERN EUROPE! - curated talks and group discussion on the Eastern European identity in global shift with dr. Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, dr. Jacob Mikanowski, dr. Viktorija Rusinaitė, Miglė Bareikytė, Ignas Krunglevičius, MO Museum Vilnius.
JAUNA MUZIKA, a festival for contemporary lullabies and sound art, co-curator 2019. www.jauna.org
TIMELINES. THEY'RE MULTIPLYIN' curated video program for Tallinn CCA.
2018
THE FUTURE IS CERTAIN; IT’S THE PAST WHICH IS UNPREDICTABLE, a group show curated at Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, Texas. Artists: Tacita Dean, Maria Loboda, Deimantas Narkevičius, Felix Kalmenson, Slavs and Tatars, Jonas Mekas, Robertas Narkus, Emilija Škarnulytė, Juan Pablo Villegas, Emily Newman, Jura Shust and Goda Palekaitė.
FROM EAST TO NORTH Europe – research project on infrastructure and relational architecture in the Nordic-Baltic countries with Ona Lozuraitytė, Petras Išora, Jussi Koitela and Viesturs Celminš.
2017
MOUTH TO MOUTH Slavs and Tatars survey exhibition curator in Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius
THE FUTURE IS CERTAIN; IT’S THE PAST WHICH IS UNPREDICTABLE, a group show on writing history curated at Calvert22 Foundation, London. Artists: Deimantas Narkevičius, Felix Kalmenson, Slavs and Tatars, Jonas Mekas, Emilija Škarnulytė, Juan Pablo Villegas, Emily Newman, Jura Shust and Rather Than Happiness.
DAUSUVA, a group exhibition curated in National Library of Lithuania, based on the project www.thedeepsplash.com
CEC Artslink Award and residecy at CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco.
2016
MII4II performance by Rūta Butkus (Comma8) @ Rupert, Vilnius.
JOY & MIRROR. PORT CITY, group exhibition at 427 gallery, Riga, Latvia with Rūtenė Merkliopaitė, Marija Olšauskaitė, Gediminas G. Akstinas, Jurgis Paškevičius, Antanas Gerlikas, Rytis Saladžius, Emilija Škarnulytė, Jonas Žukauskas, Ona Lozuraitytė and Petras Išora.
PLAYS FOR THE STRANGE STRANGER, a performance by Jude Crilly (UK) and Floris Schonfeld (NL, US) in Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) Vilnius.
SLAVS and TATARS. Molla Nasreddin: Embrace Your Antithesis. A lecture-performance in Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) Vilnius. Accompanied by the reading group The Book To Come with artists.
VESTIBULAR PERFORMANCE NIGHT co-organized with Alissa Šnaider, Aapo Nikkanen and Jurgis Paškevičius in Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) Vilnius with performances and appearances by GoraParasit (dir. Gintarė Minelgaitė), Alex Bailey, Kroot Juurak, Aapo Nikkanen, Andrius Mulokas, Josefin Arnell, Alissa Šnaider.
2015
MONTH OF PROMISES performance series produced in Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) Vilnius.
Ieva Misevičiūtė, TONGUE PhD. Role: Curator and producer. Premiere: Playground Festival, Leuven. Travelling to Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) Vilnius and The Kitchen, NY.
Styrmir Orn Gudmundsson, THE DEATH SHOW (adaptation of a performance). Role: Curator and Outside Eye, video documentation director.
Austėja Vilkaitytė STELLA SALONEN. External Sensations.
KARAOKE POLICE group performance at SPF'15 Kunstverein Amsterdam with David Bernstein, Gunnar Gunnsteinsson, Jokūbas Čižikas, Jurgis Paškevičius, Marija Olšauskaitė.
2014
KARAOKE POLICE. Great Minds Gather in a Headless Park. A group performance in a sculpture park Villa Cellimontana. With David Bernstein, Jurgis Paškevičius, Marija Olšauskaitė, Sophia Holst, Andrea Polichetti, Styrmir Orn Gudmundsson. As part of Spring Series events organized by Nomas Foundation, Rome.
SECOND WATER solo exhibition in 427, Riga, Latvia.
WHAT THINKS ME. A group exhibition and series of events in Taiga Art Space, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Participating artists: John Baldessari, David Bernstein, Ragna Bley, Jacques Gaspard Biberkopf, David Raymond Conroy, Jesse Darling, Jugedamos, Nikita Kadan, Rebecca La Marre, Lina Lapelytė, Slavomir Leontjev, Taus Makhacheva, Marija Olšauskaitė, Roman Osminkin, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Jurgis Paškevičius, Daniel Shanken, Viktor Timofeev, Technopoetry, Julijonas Urbonas, Robin Vanbesien, Mark Wallinger. Co-curated with Justė Kostikovaitė.
2013
AGENCY. SCRIPTED BY CHARACTERS. An exhibition by Agency (Brussels) artist collective, presenting law cases on intellectual property. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.
KARAOKE POLICE. A Game of Opposites. Group performance with David Bernstein, Jurgis Paškevičius, Marija Olšauskaitė and Styrmir Orn Gudmundsson in CAC, Vilnius.
EXHIBITION ON STAGE – video group exhibition filmed in theatre. Participating Artists: Agata Erlacher, David Bernstein, Robertas Narkus, Dainius Liškevičius, Marija Olšauskaitė, Gediminas Akstinas, Rūta Junevičiūtė, Julius Kuršys, Petras Olšauskas, Jurgis Paškevičius.
COLLECTING MATTERS, a fellowship initiated by Nomas Foundations (Rome), Kadist Art Foundation (Paris) and David Roberts Art Foundation (London). Research assistant and blog editor: http://collecting-matters.tumblr.com/
2012
COLLECTOR exhibition in Contemporary Art Centre CAC Vilnius. Artists: Gediminas Akstinas, Gediminas G. Akstinas, Antanas Gerlikas, Linas Leonas Katinas, Elena Narbutaitė, Marija Olšauskaitė, Kazys Varnelis, Ezio Castellucci, G. K. Kortling, Franz Peleschka, Eduardo Rossi and Unknown Artist.
Chiara Fumai SHUT UP, NO ACTUALLY TALK dOCUMENTA’13 opening performance in Kassel.
Co-curator of a duo show ᴩᴀᴙᴏᴅᴀ by Gediminas Akstinas and Antanas Gerlikas. The Gardens, Vilnius.
Alex Cecchetti COMRADES OF FEAR AND WONDER. Co-curator, CAC Vilnius.
2011
Assistant in PHOTOFINISH, an exhibition show by Raimundas Malašauskas, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius.
Work:
2017 till now curator @ www.thegoodneighbour.lt
2017 assistant to Deputy Director at European Film Forum SCANORAMA
2012-2016 on and off Curator in Contemporary Art Centre CAC Vilnius
2015-2016 Coordinator at CORPUS 2013-2017 performance production platform. A network of institutional partners If I Can‘t Dance, Amsterdam (NL), KW Institute, Berlin (DE), Tate Modern, London (UK), Bullegoa, Bilbao (ES), Playground festival, Leuven (BE), Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius(LT)
2012 - Research Assistant in Nomas Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Rome, Italy
2011-2012 culture events manager in Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, Vilnius
2013 till now Founder of COMMON INTERESTS (Všį "Bendri reikalai"), independent art organization
2013 till now Curator of JOY & MIRROR. Traveling residency for Baltic artists
