Exhibtion Goda Palekaitė
From 21 September to 16 December, Goda Palekaitė will occupy the Beursschouwburg exhibition space as a prelude to a novel in the making.
Goda Palekaitė is a Lithuanian artist living in Brussels. She works at the intersection of contemporary art, performance, artistic research, literature, and anthropology. Her practice revolves around the politics of historical narratives, the agency of dreams and imagination, and the conditions of creativity.
Compounding commonly used terms such as ‘eye crust’ or ‘sleep dust’, the title alludes to the bodily relics of a dream. The exhibition pictures a disjointed temporality, its protagonists hailing from different times, places and cultural imaginaries. Through fiction, the artist relates to characters from the past. Their biographies and the historiographical rumors surrounding them constitute the work’s raw matter, that Goda translates into performance, writing, film, installation, sound and scenography.
Goda had solo shows at Västerås Art Museum, Kunsthal Gent / Editorial Vilnius , Centre Tour à Plomb in Brussels, Konstepidemin in Gothenburg , and RawArt Gallery in Tel Aviv. Lately, her performances and installations have been presented at Whitechapel Gallery in London, BOZAR Brussels, Tranzit Bratislava, Swamp pavilion in The Biennale Architettura 2018 in Venice, Georg Kargl gallery in Vienna, Vilnius Contemporary Art Center, among others. Goda holds a BFA in fine arts (Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts), MA in social and cultural anthropology (University of Vienna), Post-Master in artistic research (A.pass, Brussels) and currently is a Ph.D. candidate at Hasselt University and PXL-MAD School of Arts.
RELATED PROGRAMME
Thursday 21.09, 17:00 - 23:00
Opening of the exhibition with performative interventions 'A Toast to the Sleeping Princess' by Goda Palekaitė and Jonas Palekas at 18:30 and 20:00
Friday 13.10, 18:00
Reading group on Courtesan Poetry with Goda Palekaitė
FREE on reservation
Thursday 14.12, 20:00
Film screening Swallower of Shades by Graham Kelly and Goda Palekaitė, 2023, 30', Belgian premiere
FREE
