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Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (VAA NAC)

Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (VAA NAC)
Photo: Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (VAA NAC)

Landscape Curionian Spit

Landscape Curionian Spit
Photo: Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (VAA NAC)

Art Residency in Lithuania

Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (VAA NAC)

Art Residency in Lithuania

Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (VAA NAC)

Date:

August 01, 2025 – April 30, 2026


Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (VAA NAC) is part of the Vilnius Academy of Arts. As a space for art and artistic research, it is characterized by its open structure that seeks to foster links between academia, the local and international cultural scene, and the public. As a place for art education, production, research, and social interaction, NAC is open to all, though mainly aimed at academics and creatives. The Nida Art Colony offers residencies for artists, designers, architects, art critics, and curators. The program seeks to promote innovation in art and art communication and to connect its guests with the local art scene in Lithuania. Program participants are invited to get involved in local cultural initiatives, work with Lithuanian institutions, and engage with local topics.

VAA NAC is located on the Curonian Spit, a 98-km (61-mile)-long forested sand dune shared by Lithuania and Russia. The Curonian Spit is a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site. In 2019, the art and research program Neringa Forest Architecture was launched to research and read the cultural and natural landscape and to reflect on different ways of seeing and understanding the forest. The Nida Art Colony is a fixture in the international arts scene, and from it have emerged several projects that have been realized at, among other places, the Lithuanian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, including the opera “Sun & Sea,” which won the Golden Lion in 2019. The project managers developed this work at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. Since then, there has been contact with Clara Herrmann, today head of the JUNGE AKADEMIE.

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Artists in Residence and Director Art Residency 

Goda Palekaitė is an artist, writer, researcher and curator working in the intersection of contemporary art,performance, artistic research, literature, and anthropology. Her practice evolves around projects exploring the politics of historical narratives, the agency of dreams and fiction, and alternative discourses of knowledge. In the last decade she presented installations, films and performances in solo and group shows in various venues in Europe and beyond. Since 2024 she is the curator of the Alternative Education Program at Rupert, Vilnius. She is an author of three books as well as various essays and experimental texts. Goda Palekaitė holds a BFA in fine arts, MA in social and cultural anthropology, Post-Master in artistic research, and Ph.D. in visual arts.

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Gerta Xhaferaj is an Albanian visual artist. She has an MSc in Architecture and is currently pursuing her MA in Fine Arts at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. She won the 2024 Ardhje Young Visual Artist Award of Albania and a grant from the VID Foundation for Photography in 2022. Emplyoing a documentary visual language, her video works interweave historical and personal narratives. Her work work focuses on phenomena of everyday life and how they reflect different manifestations of the oppression of both the environment and living beings. She lives in Tirana and Basel.

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Neringa Bumblienė is a curator and writer whose work engages with contemporary art practices that sensitively reflect upon today’s global challenges while helping to imagine better futures. Often working on projects that involve new commissions, she invites artists into situations that stretch beyond their usual realm of practice.

Bumblienė is director of Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, the artistic director and curator of the Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art, which held its inaugural edition in 2023. She curated the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 59th Biennale di Venezia in 2022 and 2014-2025 worked as a curator at the CAC in Vilnius.

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