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Augustina Lavickaitė

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Augustina Lavickaitė is a designer and researcher who interprets inherited histories, landscapes, and infrastructures by telling narratives across text, image, and space. She is interested in different modes of witnessing and remembering, especially through objects or terrains. Her self-initiated projects often deal with archives and archival practices both as a source of materials and as a format. In her practice, she looks for ways to give new or found material a voice to tell stories.

Information Smuggling (2023)
Information Smuggling (2023) - The multimedia installation delves into the media ecosystem of illicit publishing and dissemination of information as acts of resistance against Russian oppression and cultural erasure in Lithuania. Filmed in the forest borderlands between Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, and Kaliningrad, the work employs various modes of witnessing – via the landscape, historical narratives, and the viewer's perspective – to position the terrain as an active participant, facilitating the smuggling of information.
The Fates (2025)
The Fates (2025) - Referencing the myth of the Fates, who wove the destinies of mortals, the project reflects on how the spaces and conflicts we inherit shape the threads of our lives. Through moving image and print, Lavickaitė searches for sediments of history, observing how gestures, objects, and terrains record what has been. Filmed in Dzūkija, a forested region in southern Lithuania saturated with histories of resistance and occupation, the video follows a figure guided by yarn as they attempt to untangle it. Here, inherited spaces are knots that need to be untied and tied again in order to be understood. On the other wall, fragile textiles are engraved onto steel plates, turning unintentional documents of daily life into permanent monuments.
Dunes, reconstructed (2024)
Dunes, reconstructed (2024) - A strip of sandy terrain, at times only 400 meters wide, separates the Baltic Sea from the Curonian Lagoon. This sand houses myths, legends, and songs of longing and belonging within a desolate landscape – from towns buried under the dunes to meticulously planted forests designed to anchor the shifting sands. Is a landscape defined by its physical form, or by the songs written about it, the myths told to explain it, and the maps drawn to claim it? The project deconstructs the Lithuanian seaside through its mediated forms and reassembles it from scratch. Peeling back layers of symbolic intervention, we uncover not just a place, but a testament to the ways we shape and are shaped by the terrain.
Oh - To Be Instituted (2025)
Oh - To Be Instituted (2025) - The Actual Main Institute (TAMI) is a range of imagined cultural institutions – from public museums to research departments, and art galleries. TAMI investigates what defines a valid cultural context by turning around the order of supply and demand between practitioners and institutions. "Oh – To Be Instituted" brings to life three fictional institutions based on the hopes and frustrations of Rotterdam’s artists and designers. The TAMI showroom presents a catalog of alternative institutional realities, materialised in facade costumes and invented histories. The Actual Main Institute is a collaboration with Maren Bang.
Citizen’s Assemblies (2024)
Citizen’s Assemblies (2024) - Every aspect of democracy has been designed, therefore it can be designed differently. For the exhibition All In! Redesigning Democracy, the Bundeskunsthalle and the Kunstgewerbemuseum have commissioned two citizens’ assemblies. Thirty five randomly selected citizens came together to develop a list of recommendations on how the museums could become more open and inclusive. Together with videographers Karnik Gregorian and Uwe Wröbel, the process and the outcomes of the citizens’ assemblies were processed into an artistic multi-media installation. Both host institutions have committed to implement the citizens’ recommendations or react to them in another appropriate way. In collaboration with Studio Folder, Jennifer Carniel, Susanna Tomassini, and Louisa Wolf.

Oh - To Be Instituted

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Locatie: Huidenclub
In samenwerking met: The project is generously supported by Stimuleringsfonds and Gemeente Rotterdam. The Actual Main Institute is a collaboration with Maren Bang and Guus Voorham.

During the first edition of Design Biennale Rotterdam and Art Rotterdam 2025 "Oh – To Be Instituted" brought to life three fictional institutions based on the hopes and frustrations of Rotterdam’s artists and designers. The TAMI showroom presents a catalog of alternative institutional realities, materialised in facade costumes and invented histories.

https://theactualmaininstitute.com/

RE:FWD:

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Locatie: Kunstlinie (Almere) and NDSM FUSE (Amsterdam)
In samenwerking met: Bijbels Museum

Reply:Forward is a Bijbels Museum group exhibition of 21 artists under 35, exploring intertwined crises and imagining hopeful futures through art about hope, transformation and action. It was shown at Kunstlinie Almere and at NDSM FUSE (Amsterdam), alongside a public programme with artist talks and artist tours.

https://bijbelsmuseum.nl/kunsttentoonstelling-reply-2/

HeyHuman! residency

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Locatie: Domestic Data Streamers

HeyHuman! is a nonprofit artist-in-residence program in Barcelona (founded 2021) offering time and space for artists and researchers to experiment and develop new directions within the Domestic Data Streamers studio. Since 2023 it runs in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut. I was selected as a resident for the 2024 edition, a two-month residency, which ended in a public presentation moment together with the other 3 residents.

https://www.domesticstreamers.com/spin-offs/

Design Research award

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Locatie: Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius (LT) and VDA Telšiai Gallery, Telšiai (LT)
In samenwerking met: Design Innovation Center of the Vilnius Academy of Arts

Young Designer Prize is an annual Vilnius Academy of Arts award highlighting standout designers in different caterogies. I received the Design Research Award in 2024 and exhibited at the Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius (LT) and VDA Telšiai Gallery, Telšiai (LT).

https://jdp.lt/en-gb/augustina-lavickaite-2/

All In! Redesigning Democracy

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Locatie: Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
In samenwerking met: Studio Folder (exhibition design), Karnik Gregorian (filmmaker), Uwe Wrobel (filmmaker)

All In! Redesigning Democracy explores how democracy can be redesigned. For the exhibition, the Bundeskunsthalle and the Kunstgewerbemuseum commissioned two citizens’ assemblies: 35 randomly selected citizens developed recommendations to make the museums more open and inclusive. The process and outcomes became a multimedia installation, and both institutions committed to implement or respond to the proposals.

https://www.bundeskunsthalle.de/en/demokratie

Salone del Mobile

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Locatie: BASE
In samenwerking met: The exhibition is generously supported by Stimuleringsfonds.

At Salone del Mobile 2024, BASE Milano (a hybrid cultural centre in Milan’s Tortona district) hosted the exhibition programme We Will Design: We have an IDEA, presenting new forms of coexistence through collaborations and networks. IDEA stands for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility. I participated with my project Information Smuggling.

https://base.milano.it/en/information-smuggling-augustina-lavickaite/
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