Team
Artistic directors of the residency programme:
JUSTINA ZUBAITĖ-BUNDZĖ is an art historian and curator of literary and publishing projects. From 2014 to 2019 and again from 2021 to 2025, she worked as a Reading Room Curator at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, where she developed and presented dozens of public programmes with professionals from the fields of art, literature, and publishing. In 2011, together with friends and family, she founded Six Chairs Books, Lithuania’s first contemporary art bookshop. In 2018, Six Chairs Books published its first book and has since continued publishing one book a year. From 2019 to 2022 and again in 2024, Zubaitė-Bundzė curated the events programme of the Kaunas Art Book Fair. She is also a member of the curatorial team of the literary festival Paviljonas Book Weekend in Vilnius.
ASTA VAIČIULYTĖ is an art historian, curator and editor of art publications. Her curatorial practice often focuses on various aspects of non-verbal experience, poetic gestures and sustained dialogue within the creative process. From 2008 to 2025, she worked at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Vilnius, where she curated exhibitions and other projects by Lithuanian and international artists, and edited the institution’s publications, including the bilingual magazine CAC Interviu from 2010 to 2015. In 2017, Vaičiulytė was co-curator of the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. In her work on art publications and texts, she often draws on conversation as a way of reflecting on artistic processes and their contexts. In 2022, she edited Conversations about Lithuanian Contemporary Art, published by the CAC – a collection of 30 conversations with artists, curators, art critics and other cultural practitioners spanning three decades of Lithuanian contemporary art. The book received an award in the Long Form category at the Lithuanian Art Criticism Awards in 2023.
The April residency programme was dreamt up by:
DANUTĖ GAMBICKAITĖ is an art critic and researcher, cultural manager and curator, with extensive experience developing exhibitions, public programmes, screenings, and residency programmes. Her writing on contemporary art has been published in cultural magazines, including Dailė, 7 meno dienos, artnews.lt, echogonewrong.com, among others, as well as in exhibition catalogues and other publications. In recent years, Gambickaitė’s practice has focused increasingly on cultural management and curating. She has also edited several books, most recently Choreography: Art Writing in Contemporary Art Criticism, whichexamines the concept of art writing and its growth within the context of contemporary art in Lithuania. Since the beginning of her career, she has actively pursued collective writing and curatorial practices. She is currently one of the initiators and leaders of the cultural complex SODAS 2123and, since 2023, has served as a chief editor and director of Artnews.lt
VITALIJA JASAITĖ is a co-founder, curator and producer of the art space Editorial in Vilnius, and editor of Echo Gone Wrong, an online magazine dedicated to contemporary art in the Baltics. Jasaitė studied philosophy and social sciences at Šiauliai University and art theory at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. She worked previously as a producer at the cultural complex SODAS 2123, was deputy director at Rupert, and was project manager and director at Galerija Vartai. With over 15 years of experience in the field, she has collaborated extensively with artists, curators, and others, initiating and delivering a wide range of art and cultural projects.
BORIS SYMULEVIČ is a contemporary art collector and founder of Artnews.lt
Team:
JURGIS GRIŠKEVIČIUS
Graphic design for April
SAULĖ GERIKAITĖ
All the beautiful photographs
GIEDRĖ KAVALIŪNAITĖ
Website programming
DANGĖ VITKIENĖ
Copyediting of Lithuanian texts
GEMMA LLOYD
Copyediting of English texts
