This month, LINA fellows will be in residence in Vilnius, carrying out artistic research: Lucille Leger and Jacques-Marie Ligot from ‘Learning with the Ghosts’, and Diāna Mikāne and Paula Veidenbauma from ‘gel office’.

This week – on 5 June – during the “OPEN SODAS” event, we invite you to meet the residents and discover their previous work in the Architektūros fondas space. The residency is organised in collaboration with SODAS 2123 and the French Institute in Lithuania.

During the month-long residency curated by Martynas Germanavičius, the artists will explore different temporal regimes and their impact on the development of urban spaces. They will host open creative workshops, a public screening of video works, and develop ideas for a site-specific piece to be presented next year as part of Architektūros fondas’ public programme.

Lucille Leger is an artist and curator whose work explores the relationships between domestic space, organic matter, and material infrastructures. In her hybrid sculptures—combining everyday objects with plant, animal, and human forms—she investigates how materials shape perception and affect. She is the co-founder of the art space ‘Domestic Cults’ and a member of the collective ‘Groupe Liaison Concrète’, which examines the politics of shared knowledge and art spaces.

Jacques-Marie Ligot is an architect and artist working across installation, performance, and publishing. Collaborating with dancers, collectives, and operating in rural contexts—such as the Aubrac Natural Park and Finistère—he explores the politics of attention, affective space, and embodied knowledge. He is a guest lecturer at ENSA Saint-Étienne, curates the ‘Rencontres’ programme at Formalocal in Paris, and will organise a series of conferences at ENSA Marne-la-Vallée in 2024–2025.

Paula Veidenbauma is a Vienna-based artist working across visual arts, architecture, and performance. Her practice explores the politics of real estate, speculative urbanism, the limits of flexibility, and project(ed) dramaturgies.

Diāna Mikāne is an artist and curator whose practice is shaped by research-based and collaborative approaches. Moving across writing, project-making, and performance, she focuses on the politics of waiting, situated spatial practices, and parafiction.