Saulius Leonawičius Invites
28 May 5-8pm
28.05-06.06.2026
Thursday, Friday 11-6pm
Saturday 12-4pm
(also open Sundays 11-2 by appointment)
Saulius Leonawičius invitesJez Dolan, Sam Curtis, Tom Cardew, Lewis Graham, Joanne Masding, Daniel Pryde-Jarman,
Paul Vivian, James Winnett, Ana Mastretta, Melina Merlin, Piers Veness
A group exhibition centred around a solo performance; Your Ancestors Were Freaks Too by Saulius Leonawičius.
As part of this programme, ten invited artists present works and artefacts engaging with ancient histories, folklore, Neolithic culture, and ritual practices. These contributions expand the exhibition into a collective inquiry.
6 June 2-8pm
OLD EUROPE 2.0 draws on the historical framework of Marija Gimbutienė’s theories of a peaceful, egalitarian, pre-Indo-European society. By juxtaposing this vision of past social organisation with contemporary anxieties shaped by geopolitical instability, the project opens a space for reflection. In a time marked by war and uncertainty, Leonawičius proposes a moment of retreat, an opportunity to reconsider cultural memory and future possibility.
Rather than treating Gimbutienė’s research as a static historical artefact, the project reimagines it as a living ideological diagram. By projecting this model of a peaceful, matriarchal society onto the present, the exhibition asks whether such imaginaries might offer resources for meaningful cultural and ideological transformation today.
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