Archive
2021
KubaParis
Planet of People
Location
Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Derelitti, Venice, Italy / Organised by Rupert, Centre for Art and Education in VilniusDate
19.05 –20.11.2021Curator
Jan BoelenPhotography
Aistė Valiūtė and Daumantas PlechavičiusSubheadline
The Lithuanian Pavilion transformed the interior of the Renaissance-style church of Santa Maria dei Derelitti into the Lithuanian Space Agency’s (LSA) laboratory. In this laboratory, Julijonas Urbonas (the LSA’s founder, artist and researcher) presents his most recent project Planet of People. The LSA explores what it would actually take to realise the architectural fiction of Planet of People, raising questions about its sociopolitical implications. In addition, the project explores current aesthetic, ethical and political issues concerning space prevalent in existing national and commercial programmes such as cosmic culture and imagination, space colonialism and pollution, policies governing the activities of space exploration and the privatisation of outer space. Presented by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and organised by Rupert, Centre for Art and Education in Vilnius, the LSA exhibition is commissioned by Rupert’s director Julija Reklaitė and curated by Jan Boelen, artistic director of Atelier LUMA in France, rector of Karlsruhe University of Art & Design (HfG) in Germany and the founder and former artistic director of Z33 – House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture in Belgium.Text
Lithuanian Space Agency’s programme Planet of People in progress