We are glad to invite you to our new exhibition. This time, we turned to vernacular photography — and more specifically, to women within it. The exhibition brings together photographs of women from different collections we work with, creating a space where these images can be seen together, in conversation with one another. We didn’t settle on a single title for this exhibition — and that is intentional. Depending on how you choose to look at it, this exhibition becomes a slightly different thing each time.

While the internet is flooded with images from 2016, the Ivan Lutskevich Belarusian Museum in Vilnius invites visitors to a new exhibition titled “1926: An Exhibition About the Future.” The exhibition features Belarusian books published in 1926, love letters written that year by students of the Vilnius Belarusian Gymnasium, and postcards by Belarusian poets. “1926 may not seem particularly remarkable at first glance,” admit the museum’s curators. “Yes, in Minsk the leading linguists of the time were gathering for a legendary conference, the Soviet authorities were investing in new printing typefaces, and from that year onward Belarusian books published in Vilnius and Minsk would never again follow a single shared visual style.

THREADS: From Hands to Memory What stays with us when we leave home? Why is women’s handwork once again becoming a language of remembrance? And how can tradition live today — not only in museums, but in contemporary life? “Threads: From Hands to Memory” is an exhibition about intergenerational connection, women’s experience, and Belarusian culture that continues through hands, fabric, ornament, and stories. In the exhibition: 🧵 traditional and reconstructed Belarusian folk costumes 🧵 hand and machine embroidery as a living, evolving tradition 🧵 dolls dressed in regional costumes 🧵 a collective installation made of women’s stories and textile fragments 🧵 contemporary interpretations of ornament as a language of memory and belonging

Dear friends, We invite you to visit Bits and Pieces, an exhibition of paintings by Marco Antonio Lillo. The opening will take place on October 30th at 18:30. It’s fair to say that Marco Antonio Lillo has lived several lives. His teaching career has taken him to many corners of the world, before he finally found a sense of home with his family in Belarus. His artistic journey is just as diverse — never confined to a single style.

Vilnius Belarusian I. Lutskevich Museum opened a new exhibition, presenting empty paper from 1910s to 2010s from the museum’s archives. The paper presents the unseen pages, literally,of the Vilnius Belarusian activists, folklorists, writers, artists and a newspaper, as well as some exhibits from the collective farms of former North-West Belarusian SSR collective farms. Curatorial team - Paulina Vitushchanka (concept and texts), Ilia Magin (montage, design,layout, title) and Andrei Antonau (material commentary, descriptions) invite to visit the exhibition during the autumn months, and also to enjoy the catalogue of the exhibitionon museum’s archive.

We invite you to support the free political prisoner on the anniversary of her arrest. Asia Bulybenka will transform her experience through painting and performance, which will take place on Tuesday, October 17, the day she was detained. And the exhibition of works will last 10 days - that’s how many days Asia spent in confinement. In total, Asia spent two years in prison, but during this performance she will speak about her detention under an administrative article.