Kaunas Biennial 15 – Life After Life

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2025

The 15th Kaunas Biennial, Life After Life, curated by Adomas Narkevičius, brings together over 30 artists to reflect on the conditions and moods of transition and uncertainty. Across multiple venues in Kaunas, this itinerant edition centres on temporal and emotional states that recur, stall, or remain unresolved. A moment that feels at once like an endless present looping back on itself and an after end-of-history interlude, though what, if anything, is shifting, remains unclear. Life After Life approaches biennial-making as an adaptable form, if at times strained and overwhelmed. It works through shifts in scale, tempo, and tone, negotiating their friction as method.

The 15th edition of Kaunas Biennial will be accompanied by a satellite exhibition presenting works by Lithuanian and Italian artists as a result of international collaborations with the Lyon Biennale (France) and CHRONIQUES – the Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques (France) in 2024 and Biennale Gherdëina (Italy) in 2024-2025. The satellite exhibition will take place at “Meno parkas” Gallery and Kaunas City Museum’s branch at the Town Hall.