Kaunas Biennial 15 – Echoes Between Forests and Mountains 

Created as part of the Kaunas Biennial 15, Echoes Between Forests and Mountains is a dialogue between Lithuanian and Italian artists, exploring the intricate interplay between nature, myth, technology and human intervention. Rooted in their respective landscapes – from the Lithuanian forests to the Alpine valleys – the artists offer sculptural and sensorial experiences that reflect a shared concern for our relationship with the natural world and its transformations. Across sculpture, film, installation and sound, the exhibition unfolds as a conceptual landscape where ecological processes, human histories and speculative futures converge.

Organic matter – gathered, reimagined or digitally simulated – forms the foundation of many works, reflecting the hybrid nature of life and its continuous evolution. Materials once associated with fragility or urgency are reconfigured into symbols of resilience, while the quiet intelligence of organisms such as lichens becomes a metaphor for rethinking the relationship between human and non-human worlds. Through this lens, the exhibition invites viewers to explore alternative modes of perception and reconsider the dominance of an anthropocentric worldview.

Woven through cinematic sequences and spatial interventions are meditations on deep time and ecological fragility, where slow movements, amplified textures and resonant soundscapes challenge our perception of being. This is a space of quiet disruption, where nature is unsettled, and every form reveals the tension between beauty, instability and the unknown. In holding these contradictions, Echoes Between Forests and Mountains offers new ways of sensing, imagining and coexisting.

Curated by Lorenzo Giusti and Neringa Kulik, the exhibition includes works by Atelier dell’Errore, Arnold Holzknecht, Ruth Beraha, Aistė Ambrazevičiūtė, Andrius Arutiunian, Maximilian Oprishka.