| Year of stay: | 2025 |
| Website: | https://egleambrasaite.com/ |
| Instagram: | egleambrasaite |
Eglė Ambrasaitė is a Lithuanian artist, an independent curator and a researcher. She is based across multiple locations, including Žeimiai (LT), Berlin (DE), and New York (USA). She is the founding director of Aikas Žado Association and the curator of Aikas Žado Laboratory, a collectively-run, non-profit interdisciplinary art institution based in Žeimiai Manor House (LT). Her practice weaves (crip) materialities, decolonial and more-than-human perspectives, affect theory, and dark ecology into curatorial frameworks that imagine alternative futures. Through exhibitions, public programmes, and collaborative research, Ambrasaitė creates interdisciplinary spaces where human, non-human, artificial, and inanimate agencies meet - inviting acts of care and forging forms of interdependence.
Her curated both solo and group exhibitions are:
- “It’s a Balance Trick” (2025), Residency Unlimited’s (RU) House in Governor’s Island, NYC, USA. Artists: Yakira Ament (IL), Rosario Aróstegui (ARG), Caecilia Goeken (DE), Laura Lewis (CAN), MIMOZA LIZA (DE/XK), David Monnet (CH), and Eden Auerbach Ofrat (IL).
- “MURMURS & ROARS” (2024), UAR Studios, Brooklyn, New York City, USA. Artists: Mikaela Montenegro’s (EC), Sigrid Luitsalu’s (EST), Ciel Miao’s (CHN/USA), Llewellyn Skye Quabba’s (AU), Sherly Fan’s (CHN), Juan Luis Landaeta’s (VE), Ana Julia Vilela’s (BR), Victoria-Anne Rosales’ (USA), Faye Harnest’s (CAN), Giorgia Marras’ (IT), Simla Iceli’s (TR), Wilson Orellana (EC), Jason Chung Yin Lam’s (HKG), McKinna Anderson’s (USA), Kaio Wu Hiu Nam’s (HKG), Sining Zhu’s (CHN), Yinna Higuera’s (CO/EC), Summer McCroskey’s (USA), Rosaline Dou’s (CHN/USA), Anika Kowalik’s (USA), Elina’s Abdrakhmanova’s (UA/RU/NL).
- “Venusian HC” performance (2024), Aikas Žado Laboratory (AŽL), Žeimiai, Lithuania. Artist and director: Laura Marija Balčiūnaitė (LT). Performers: Inga Zybailaitė (LT), Alina Pilecka (LT), Ella Jo Skinner (WLS), Pooja Sethi (IN), and Gabija Pernavaitė (LT).
- “Exuviation Fervor” (2024), AŽL, Žeimiai, Lithuania. Artist: Tabita Rezaire (GF).
- “Elektra” (2024), VU Observatory of Ideas, Vilnius, Lithuania. Artist: Emilija Povilanskaitė (LT).
- “(Hope)stalgic materialities and wishful horizons” (2024), Residency Unlimited’s (RU) House in Governor’s Island, NYC, USA. Artists: Mihael Klanjčić (HR), Anna Nemes (HU), Ivie Ada Onaiwu (CH), Siahne Rogers (AU), Ai Sugiura (JP), and Beyza Dilem Topdal (TR).
- “Angsty Places” (2023) and performance “Sideworks: Manor House” (2023), AŽL, Žeimiai, Lithuania. Artists: CASE duo (Ieva Lygnugarytė (LT) and Xavier Mitchell (USA)).
- “Mimeses” (2022), AŽL, Žeimiai, Lithuania. Artists: Domas Noreika (LT) Delphine Lejeune (NL), Aistė Ambrazevičiūtė (LT), Eglė Ambrasaitė (LT), Ieva Marija Andrulytė (LT), Enrika Stanulevičiūtė (LT), Ieva Gudelaitytė (LT), Aušra Vismantaitė-Silva (LT/MEX), Jerzy Zieliński (PL).
- “Enchanted Landscapes” (2020), AŽL, Žeimiai, Lithuania. Artists: Dorota Gawęda (PL) and Eglė Kulbokaitė (LT), Ieva Lygnugarytė (LT), Rūta Vėbraitė (LT) and Sofia Bordin (FR), OFF2Ensemble (HU/TR), Domas Noreika (LT) and Enrika Stanulevičiūtė (LT), Urte Kat (LT).
- “Nothing to Regret” (2019), AŽL, Žeimiai, Lithuania. Artists: Aikas Žado Laboratory Collective (LT) and Enrika Stanulevičiūtė (LT).
- “Decay(-ing)” (2019), AŽL, Žeimiai, Lithuania. Artist: Sevda Khatamian (IR).
- “Bio-fantômas’ic sessions” (2018), AŽL, Žeimiai, Lithuania. Artists: Anna Belousova (RU), Gailė Griciūtė and Viktorija Damerell (LT), Jack Finerty (USA), Domas Noreika (LT), Eglė Ambrasaitė (LT).
Eglė Ambrasaitė’s residency is made possible with the support from the Lithuanian Council for Culture.