LUKAS BRASISKIS

CURATED EXHIBITIONS & SCREENING PROGRAMS

e-flux, curator of film and video. January 2021 – present. At e-flux Screening Room, I program, present, and moderate screenings and discussions of artists' films and experimental cinema as well as curate lecture series that explore intersections of moving image and contemporary art. I also curate e-flux Film online program, which extends the reach of our screenings to global audiences.

The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Artistic Director (together with Anton Vidokle and Hallie Ayres). SeMA, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea, 2024-2025.

Phoenix Cinema: Meeting with Alexander Kluge, curator and interlocutor. e-flux Screening Room and e-flux Film, June 13-July 17, 2024. A special series of in-person and online events featuring works by and discussions with Alexander Kluge, with an emphasis on the diverse and extensive body of work by a renowned figure in post-war German cinema, literature, art, and cultural theory.

The 14th Shanghai Biennale: Cosmos Cinema, co-curator. The Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China. November 2023 – April 2024. A major exhibition accompanied by screening series and public programs exploring workings of the cosmos on earth and focusing on artists who address political, ethical, and aesthetic aspects of humanity’s relation to the cosmos.

Ecocinema Beyond the Iron Curtain, co-programmer (with Masha Shpolberg). Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA. April 25 – April 29, 2024. A film series addressing environmental sensibility shaped by historical time in films by established film directors from the former Eastern Bloc.

Marie Menken and Jonas Mekas, Film Program in Three Chapters, co-curator (with Inesa Pavlovskaitė Brašiškė). Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. February 4 – February 19, 2023. A retrospective of the avant-garde films by Marie Menken and Jonas Mekas, presented in three distinct chapters followed by discussion panels.

Aesthetics of Resistance: Straub-Huillet and the Contemporary Moving Image, programmer. e-flux Screening Room, Brooklyn, New York. December 1, 2022 – March 20, 2023. A screening and discussion series focusing on the contemporary reverberations of the work of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet in the moving images by today's artists.

Ecology After Nature: Industries, Communities, and Environmental Memory, curator. Tramway Contemporary Art Center, Glasgow, Scotland. November 18-23, 2022. A moving image program followed by discussions on the current state of eco-consciousness and eco-criticism in works by contemporary artists.

Jonas Mekas’ Cinematic Friendships: Collaboration, Care and Support, co-curator. Mana Contemporary, New Jersey, USA. 2022 February-April. A program of screenings and talks on the infrastructures the New York avant-garde and Jonas Mekas' role in building them.

Jonas Mekas and the New York Avant-Garde, co-curator (with Inesa Pavlovskaite Brašiškė). The National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania. 2021 November - 2022 March. The major retrospective exhibition on the work of Jonas Mekas focusing on the intersection between his art practice and the infrastructure of the New York avant-garde.

The State of the Moving Image, curator. e-flux, New York, USA. September 17 - 19, 2021. An international symposium on artists’ films, their exhibition, curation, criticism, and surrounding discourses.

Programmed Lives / Coded Real: Artist Film Screening & Lecture, programmer and lecturer. July 10, 2021, West Bund Museum/Pompidou, Shanghai, China. A curated program of artists films followed by the lecture.

Baltic Modernist Cinema: Between Imaginary and Real, guest-programmer. Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA. April-May, 2021. A film series and a symposium.

Elemental Relations in Artists' Films, co-curator (with Weixian Pan and Xin Zhou). NYU Shanghai, Shanghai, China. March-May, 2021. A series of screenings and discussions on the elemental turn in artists' film.

True Fake: Troubling the Real in Artists’ Films, curator. e-flux Film. February-April, 2021. An online series of screenings and discussions that highlights 20 contemporary and historically important films and videos that examine unstable boundaries between fact and fiction, nature and artifice, objectivity and subjectivity, mediation and exposition.

From Matter to Data: Ecology of Infrastructures, co-curator (with Inga Lace). Post, the Museum of Modern Art’s online resource devoted to art and the history of modernism in a global context. MoMA, New York, USA. 2020 June - August. A series of screenings, texts, and discussions on today's video art in East-Central Europe.

Future's Past's, Past's Futures: Environmental Memories in East-Central European Video Art, guest-programmer. Annual International Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia. December 11–15, 2019. A program showcasing video art from East-Central Europe with a focus on the history and environment.

Jonas Mekas Expanded, programmer and curator. New York University, New York, USA. October 26, 2019. A screening followed by a panel discussion with Ed Halter, Melissa Ragona, and Andrew Uroskie exploring Jonas Mekas' expanded cinema practices.

Mermaid With A Movie Camera, programmer. The Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, USA. April 21, 2019. The New York premiere of Emilija Skarnulyte’s films, followed by a Q&A with the artist.

Landscape to Be Experienced and to Be Read: Time, Ecology, Politics, programmer and curator. Contemporary Art Center Cinema, Vilnius, Lithuania. February 14–17, 2019. A retrospective of James Benning’s films, focusing on ecological and temporal themes in his landscape films.

CCamp: Annual Summer Moving Image Symposium, programmer and curator.

2019: “Electrified Identities” at Rokiskio Salu Dvaras, Lithuania. Guests included Madsen Minax, Akosua Adoma Owusu, and Elena Gorfinkel.

2018: “Imperfect Cinema” at Rokiskio Salu Dvaras, Lithuania. Guests included Peggy Ahwesh, Erika Balsom, and Ed Halter.

2017: “Welcome to the Anthropocene” at Antaliepte, Lithuania. Guests included Ben Rivers, Denis Côté, and Emilija Skarnulytė.

Field Recording and Documentary Sound: Practice, Ethics, and Aesthetics, co-curator and co-chair (with Leo Goldsmith). New York University, New York, USA. December 5, 2018. A discussion on field recording and its ethical and aesthetic implications in creative documentary and artists' films.

Poetic Realism as Ethnography: Unforgettable Portraits in Baltic Documentaries, curator and chair. New York University, New York, USA. October 17, 2018. A series highlighting the poetic documentary tradition of the Baltic region, followed by a panel discussion.

Human. Material. Machine, co-curator (with Leo Goldsmith). Contemporary Art Center Cinema, Vilnius, Lithuania. August 5–16, 2015. A two-week program examining the intersection of humans, machines, and materiality in cinema and art.

Nathaniel Dorsky: Devotional Cinema, programmer and curator. Contemporary Art Center Cinema, Vilnius, Lithuania. June 11–15, 2014. The first Lithuanian retrospective of Dorsky's films, accompanied by a lecture series.

Contemporary Past: Moving Images as a Fluid Memory, programmer and curator (with Gintė Žulytė). Nida’s Art Colony, Lithuania. June 7–21, 2011. An international film workshop, symposium, and film program exploring the fluid nature of memory preserved in moving images.

Meno Avilys, curator. Vilnius, Lithuania. 2005–2009. One of the four initiators of Meno Avilys, an independent film education, presentation, and preservation center in Lithuania.

Next Festival, organizer and programmer (with Paul Paper and Lina Cerniauskaite). Vilnius, Lithuania. 2005–2007. An international moving-image festival focusing on experimental cinema and contemporary visual art.