CV Marija Nemčenko (born 1989, Lithuania)
Education
2016 MFA at Glasgow School of Art (Merit), Glasgow, UK
2013 BA(Hons), Sculpture, Camberwell College of Art and Design, UAL, London, UK (1st)
Selected solo exhibitions
2024 SWANBACK, Centrala Gallery, Birmingham, UK
LAK ii, Takeover gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2023 SWANBACK, David Dale, Glasgow, Scotland
2022 In the hands of our eclectic physicians, Swallow Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
Blessed are the ones that move, Verpejos, Marcinkonys train station gallery, Marcinkonys, Lithuania
2021 LAK i, 50th anniversary of Kaunas Artist House exhibition, Kaunas Artist House, Kaunas, Lithuania
2019 In the eyes of LISA, CIVIC ROOM, Glasgow, UK
BRUT, 101 Gallery at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
2018 IVANKA CHAI, Berlin Project Space Festival, Maybachufer Market, Berlin, Germany
BRUT, Glasgow International 2018, Fairfield Heritage Center, Glasgow, UK
How to bake a swan, CCA, Glasgow, UK
2017 How to bake a swan, Nida Art Colony Project Space, Nida, Lithuania
Selected group exhibitions
2024 Love on the dull, Queens Park Railway Club, Glasgow, UK
2022 Pillusion Film Festival, Tyrol, Austria
Don’t ask me where I am from, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida, US
Don’t ask me where I am from, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
2020 East End(s)? at Põhjala Tehas, Tallinn, Estonia
2019 Don’t ask me where I am from, Imago Mundi; Trieste, Italy
Don’t ask me where I am from; Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
2017 Common Characters, Mint Collective, Marrakech, Morocco
MFA Selected, Citizen M Hotel, Glasgow, Scotland
2016 Pulses and Pauses, Philippines Art Month, Manila, Philippines
Pulses and Pauses, VI Marrakech Biennial, Marrakech, Morocco
Selected residencies
2025 Dissolutions: Post Soviet Decolonial Practices, Yerevan, Armenia; Tbilisi, Georgia, organised by Goethe Foundation
2024 Orient Institut Beirut. Affiliated Researcher, Lebanon
Jardin Le Coq residency, CreArt, Clermont Ferrand, France
Our Many Easts, academic residency, MG+MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Moasherat: Hader Halal/summer residency module, Unidee, Biella, Italy
2023 Fieldworks Creative Writing School, London, UK
2022 Magic Carpets Residency, Kaunas Capital of Culture 2022, Kaunas, Lithuania
SODAS 2123 Residency, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020 Rupert Residency, Vilnius, Lithuania
Residency Laboratories, Kaunas Artist House, Kaunas, Lithuania
Station Kulturen Urbaner, nGbK, Berlin, Germany
2019 A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ways of Traveling Residency, Ramallah, Palestine
2018 CHTO DELAT? Summer school and scholarship, Berlin, Germany
Studio Pavilion Summer Residency, Glasgow, UK
2017 Nida Art Colony, Nida, Lithuania
Selected curatorial and professional practice
2023 - Present Programme curator; Videogramos Video Art Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
2024 LAK ii, performance-lecture at Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon
2022 - Present; Resident at Vilnius Radio, فول radio program on contemporary Arab music
2021 Guest tutor, Rupert Alternative Education Program, Vilnius, Lithuania
Project curator, BRUT Summer NON-School, Agile City, Glasgow, Scotland
2019 Project curator, In the eyes of LISA, community engagement, website and events, www.intheeyesoflisa.org
Project curator, BRUT Boredom. Book launches and events in Kaunas, Glasgow, Budapest, and Berlin.
Eastern European artist and identity lecture; Presenter. Birmingham University, UK
How to bake a swan, performance lecture, Centralla Gallery, UK
LAK, lecture at A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine
2018 Archives Curator for Timespan’s Institutional History; Timespan, Helmsdale, Scotland
Project curator, BRUT Europe, symposium, Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland
Selected writing and publications
2025 A Future Reading from Lithuanian and Palestinian images, Journal of Visual Culture, London, UK (online)
Huesos de Solidaridad Internacional. No es un Fénix. Des Bordes, NÚMERO 0.73, Argentina (online)
2024 What is there to do?, Writer. Article in Commons Journal (online)
2022 Right to public space. Right to movement. Writer. Article in Į magazine, 4th issue
2020 Who eats potatoes? Writer. Article in the EchoGoneWrong online portal (online)
The invisible seams of a working body. Writer. Article in The Tribune Mag, UK (online)
The invisible seams of a working body. Writer. Article in KAJET 4th issue, Bucharest, Romania
2019 Do we have a moral obligation to the market?, Writer. Article in KAJET, 3rd issue, Bucharest, Romania
BRUT Boredom. High-rises, emptiness, and play. Self-published, Lithuania and Scotland
Don’t ask me where I am from, exhibition catalog, Aga Khan Museum, Canada
Selected awards
2024 Lithuanian Culture Ministry, Grant for SWANBACK promotion, Lithuania
2023 Creative Scotland Open Fund development grant SWANBACK, Scotland, UK
European Culture Mobility grant, EU
Hope Scott Trust award SWAN BACK
2022 Lithuanian Culture Ministry, Stipend for In the hands of our eclectic physicians
Lithuanian Film Center, Research grant for initial SWAN BACK research
2021 Creative Scotland, Project development grant BRUT summer NON-school
2020 Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award, VACMA, Scotland
2019 Glasgow City Heritage Trust, Project development grant
Glasgow City Heritage Trust, Project development grant
2018 European Commission, European Heritage tender winner
Glasgow City Heritage Trust, Project development grant
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