ART VILNIUS 2025

Inspired by a 1934 German publication of so-called “non-European” flags, Libeskind’s work consists of silkscreen paintings on canvas that investigate the form and function of the flag as symbol. The artist strips away identifying marks—many of which once represented geographies that no longer exist, erased from collective memory. What remains are outlines and contours: skeletal boundaries of flags without nations.

Visitors are invited to take part in Happenings with Alexandra—movement sessions accompanied by music composed by Juan Gabriel Sanguino—that awaken the senses, attuning us to the vibration of every atom as our bodies shift and our feet echo the earth’s rotation.

Alongside, works by Mario Asef and Kirstin Burckhardt extend their long-term research into the Sea Ranch architectural complex north of San Francisco. Their practice asks how architecture might respond today in a world of dwindling environmental solutions, while also addressing a timeless question.

Sabeth Buchmann writes that Mario Asef and Kirstin Burckhardt critically and mimetically engage with the legacy of Anna and Lawrence Halprin by combining archival research, performance, and material installations to reframe the Sea Ranch’s utopian ideals of collective creativity, ecology, and diversity.