Residents

Robertas Narkus works at the threshold of art, management, and everyday life — initiating projects that operate as events, enterprises, and social experiments simultaneously. By hyperbolising and lightly ironising the nebulous systems of neoliberal power, and generously using the tools they offer, he creates his own unique order — one that leverages societal mechanisms as strategies aimed at an aesthetic, relational, or performative product. Such hybridity makes his work uniquely bound to the systems in which it operates: the art world, the art market, and society itself. Among his initiatives are the Vilnius Institute of Pataphysics, an artists’ day care centre Autarkia, an experimental engineering camp eeKulgrinda.

His work has been shown at the Baltic Triennial, Performa , Whitechapel Gallery London, and Ballroom Marfa. In 2022 he represented Lithuania at the 59th Venice Biennale with Gut Feeling — a project that pointed equally to entrepreneurial instinct and the microbiology of the human gut.