December 2. Remote sensing. Encounter with Emilija Škarnulytė

Sunday, December 2, 17:00 (doors), 17:30 (start)
Remote sensing
Encounter with Emilija Škarnulytė

Emilija Škarnulytė (b. 1987) lives and works in Berlin and Tromsø.
Emilija has been making films and videos for the last ten years mostly in places where contemporary political issues are staged, and in particular, issues between human and nonhuman worlds. Škarnulytė investigates the shifting boundaries between documentary and fiction, between ecological and cosmic forces: feeling out all kinds of nonhuman and posthuman scales, in the depths of space and time.

Škarnulytė has an MA from Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art, based above the Arctic Circle. Most recently she was shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize 2019 and was awarded prizes including the Kino der Kunst Project Award, Munich (2017); Spare Bank Foundation DNB Artist Award (2017), and the National Lithuanian Art Prize for Young Artist (2016). Škarnulytė is also a founder of Polar Film Lab, a collective for 16mm analogue film practice located in Tromsø, Norway. She has upcoming shows: 1st Toronto Biennial of Art, Canada; 95% of the Universe is Missing, Science Gallery, London, UK.

Recent solo shows include: Mirror Matter, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2017); Manifold, Podium, Oslo (2017); QSO Lens, CAC, Vilnius (2015). She participated in the  Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art RIBOCA (2018); the Baltic Pavilion for the 15^th Venice Biennale of Architecture (2016) and Universe in Universes, w. Como Clube, 31st São Paulo Biennial (2014). Her work has recently appeared in film festivals and group shows such as: Hyperobjects, Ballroom Marfa, Texas (2018); The Future is Certain; It’s the Past Which Is Unpredictable, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (2018); Bold Tendencies, London (2018); On Earth, Structure and Sadness, Serpentine Galleries (2018), If These Stones Could Sing, Kadist, San Francisco (2018); Baltic Pavilion, AA and RIBA, London (2018); Directing the Real: Artists’ Film and Video in the 2010s, Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain, Brest (2018); Ex-ante, Artspace, Auckland (2017); The Future is Certain, Calvert 22 Foundation, London (2017); Agency of Living Organisms, Tabakalera Center for Contemporary Art, San Sebastian (2016); Random Rapid Heartbeats, Kunsthalle Tallinn (2016); International Film Festival Rotterdam (2015); Artists’ Film International – Season 7, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015) and International Short Film Festival OBERHAUSEN, International Competition (2013).

Photos by Benjamin Busch