Exhibition
Augustas Serapinas holds a solo show at sculpture park Lichtenfels Sculpture in the Austrian Waldvierte. The project, titled Greenhouse from Užupis and curated by Olivia Thurn-Valsassina and Margherita Belcredi, features a greenhouse. Every house would once have had such a structure nearby within which to grow simple vegetables, but with the modern food industrial complex, supply chains, and supermarkets, in a short period of time it is a distant way of life.
“But it’s more like Camden,” Serapinas says, adding that “at the beginning, maybe, they had the potential to change – at least, that’s what I’ve been told – but it quickly faded, because the prices for property and rent were going up.” A familiar pattern for any city, accelerated in Vilnius after EU accession with associated business and tourist growth. It is said that politicians now live in Užupis, and visitors are less likely to find genuine counter-culture than an expensive pizza restaurant within an aesthetic of street art, alternative medicine shops, and the chance to buy bijou coffee then wander into a pop-up gallery.
7 May – 29 October 202
Friedersbach, Austria
