Inesa Brašiškė
ABOUT
I am an art historian and curator moving between curatorial and scholarly work along the modern and contemporary art axis, currently serving as head of research and curator at Sapieha Palace in Vilnius, Lithuania. I hold an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies (MODA) from Columbia University. My research has been supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture, the Paul Mellon Centre, Getty, and ISLAA. I love running and cycling.
WRITING
"Seeing Difficulties." ANOTHER LOOK. The MO Collection from Different Perspectives, ed. Marius Armonas and Miglė Survilaitė. Vilnius: MO Museum, 2025
"Aleksandra Kasuba’s Spaces for Senses". Mousse 86 , 2024
“André Cadere's Peripatetic Art.” Charting Space: The Cartographies of Conceptual Art. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023
"Nomadic Subjects or a Suitcase before a Satellite". NJP Reader #12 Tunes of Comradership: Paik and Mekas, Nam June Paik Art Center, 2023
Guest editor of Exhaustion, a special issue of artnews.lt, November 2022
Co-editor. Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022
"Aleksandra Kasuba's Shelters." MoMA C-MAP Post, 2021
“Space-Making: Early Experimentations.” Aleksandra Kasuba: Shaping the Future. Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts and The Lithuanian National Museum of Art, 2020
“Sun and Sea in Venice.” CAA News, 2019
“Speaking Together.” Sharon Lockhart: Rudzienko. CAC Vilnius, 2019
“Technology, Politics, and Art: Interview with Alexander R. Galloway.” Echogonewrong, 2016
“Mindaugas Navakas’ Things.” Mindaugas Navakas. Glory Was at The Fingertips. Vilnius: Lithuanian Art Museum, 2015
“Gintaras Didžiapetris: Art and Aesthetics in the Perspective of Actor-Network Theory.” Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis. Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts, 2014
CONFERENCES & TALKS
"Frames, Curtains, and Walls: On Gestures". Invited talk at LCCA Summer School Art, Agency and Institutional Transformation. Alūksne, 6–11 August 2025
"On Voices", together with Agnė Jokšė, Bye Bye Binary, and Oksana Karpovets. AWARE, Paris, 2024
The Skin of the Painting, 36th CIHA World Congress - Lyon 2024
The Work of the Archives: Notes from the Baltics, CAA Conference, Chicago, 2024 February 14-17
Women Artists in Postwar Europe: Technology, Media, Intermedia, chair of a session, CAA Conference, NYC, 2023 February 15-18
Warhol, People and Things: 1972-2022, Casa São Roque in Porto, Portugal, invited talk, January 2023
Organizing Global Connections, The European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM) Conference "Globalising the Avant-Garde", Lisbon, 2022 September 1-3
Location, Mobility, and Moving Images: Nam June Paik, Shigeko Kubota, and Jonas Mekas , Presentation at the symposium, Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, 2022 July 29
Jonas Mekas Expanded, The National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, 2022 February 7
Within the Spirit of Time and Place: What does Art Care about Today? Moderator of a discussion, The Vilnius Gallery Weekend, 2020
Paper Experiments in the 60s and 70s: Book as Exhibition, Page as Artwork, invited talk at Kaunas Art Book Fair 2019
Navigating the Art World: André Cadere's Peripatetic Art, The Association for Art History Annual Conference 2019, Brighton, UK
Galerie 1-36 and Conceptual Exhibition Making in 1970s France, CAA 2019 Annual Conference New York
What is Established is Destroyed, What is Stiff Creeps Everywhere: André Cadere’s Tactics, Northwestern University, Chicago, 2017
The Post-Socialist Object: Contemporary Art in China and Eastern Europe (symposium), Columbia University, CAA 2017 off-site event, New York City. Co-chair
What Now? Collaboration & Collectivity, Art in General and the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics, The New School, New York, US, 2014. Respondent
Image Flow and Online Thinking (roundtable), National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, 2014. Discussant
Thinking Contemporary Art (lecture series) Vilnius, 2013-ongoing. Founder
EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Eyes and Fields: Rose Lowder and Kazimiera Zimblytė, MO Museum, Vilnius, 2025
Eva Koťátková: Interviews with the Monster, Sapieha Palace, 2025
Promises, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, 2024
Agnė Jokšė and Su Friedrich: Unconditional Love and Rules of the Road, e-flux Screening Room, New York, 2023
Jonas Mekas and the New York Avant-Garde, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, 2021-2022
Sharon Lockhart: Rudzienko, CAC Vilnius, 2019
Babette Mangolte and the New York Avant-Garde, CAC Vilnius, 2018
Grazed Images: Harun Farocki, Hito Steyerl, Seth Price, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Pierre Huyghe, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Factum Arte, CAC Vilnius, 2015
The Gardens, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2011-2014. Co-founder of a project-space
Jason Dodge, CAC Vilnius, 2011