Difficult Pasts. Connected Worlds

Difficult Pasts. Connected Worlds includes works by artists from the three Baltic countries, Ukraine, Poland, Finland and the Netherlands. The experiences the works evoke are ones that are often forgotten or ignored, excluded from official histories. Artists in the exhibition narrate those experiences through individual stories, while evoking broader layers of cultural memory. Overcoming local and national borders, the exhibition calls for reflection on the relationships between difficult pasts and their impact and presence today through the perspective of a shared history — opening dialogue, forging connections and foregrounding solidarities between the different difficult histories that are often perceived as incompatible or in competition with each other.

From April 29, the exhibition "Difficult Pasts. Connected Worlds" dedicated to the painful histories of Eastern European countries is on view at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius. The exhibition organized by the LCCA and National Gallery of Art will be open until 28 August 2022.

Artists: Anastasia Sosunova (LT), Eléonore de Montesquiou (FR/EE), Jaana Kokko (FI), Laima Kreivytė (LT), Lia Dostlieva & Andrii Dostliev (UA/PL), Matīss Gricmanis (LV) & Ona Juciūtė (LT), Quinsy Gario & Mina Ouaouirst (NL), Paulina Pukytė (LT/GB), Ülo Pikkov (EE), Vika Eksta (LV) and Zuzanna Hertzberg (PL).

Curators: Ieva Astahovska (LV), Margaret Tali (EE/NL) and Eglė Mikalajūnė (LT).