PAULIUS ŠLIAUPA EXHIBITION "FALLING“

On Thursday, January 29, at 6:00 PM, Kaunas Picture Gallery (K. Donelaitis St. 16, Kaunas) continues the exhibition series Young Artists’ Platform and invites you to the opening of Paulius Šliaupa’s exhibition “Falling.” During the event, Birutė Belada Tauterytė will present the performance “Gaia,” which will live-extend the narrative of the video work “Gaia” (2020–2024), transferring it from a fixed image into the present moment.

"Falling" is an exhibition in which falling is understood not as collapse, but as a sensitive way of relating to the landscape. Through films, installations, and painting, Paulius Šliaupa explores natural forces as quiet processes that shape our senses and memory across different landscapes.

The drone camera used in the films relinquishes control, becomes vulnerable, and enters states of drift, descent, and self-observation. The landscape operates not as a backdrop, but as a force that carries bodies, technologies, and memories. Within the exhibition, technologies function as sensory organs, responsive to the environment and its transformations.

In painting, this mode of seeing continues through a process that accumulates traces of time and erosion. The works abandon clearly defined images and focus instead on micro- landscapes—moss, frozen ice, rural sand, and marine patterns—on touch and duration.

The exhibition invites viewers to understand falling as a form of unity, and the landscape as a living structure that shapes us.

Paulius Šliaupa (b. 1990) is a young Lithuanian artist living and working in Belgium. Paulius works in several fields. Having started with painting, the artist creates video works, installations, and writes art texts. Paulius holds a bachelor's degree in painting and a master's degree in sculpture from the Vilnius Academy of Arts, a master's degree in media art from KASK, and has completed a post-academic residency program at HISK in Ghent, Belgium. The artist has participated in art residencies such as Fondation Fiminco in Paris (2024-2025), France; M.A.P Heritage space, Hanoi, Vietnam (2024); Centre Intermondes, La Rošelis, France (2024); SIM, Reykjavik, Iceland; ARE Holland, Enschede, Netherlands; 2023 RAVI, Liège, Belgium. Paulius won the ArtContest22 (Brussels, Belgium) the main prize in the competition for young Belgian artists and the main prize in INPUT/OUTPUT 2023 Brugge (Belgium), as well as the 2024 Simultan Technology Festival prize, Timisoara, Romania. Paulius' work has been presented by the Meno Niša gallery since 2015.

Exhibition funded by: the Lithuanian Council for Culture
Exhibition sponsor: “Meno niša” Gallery

The event is open to the public and may be filmed and photographed. By attending, you agree to be featured in photographs and videos of the event and are informed that these materials may be made public.