Augustas Serapinas

Augustas Serapinas

BornNationalityBased In
1990LithuanianVilnius
Biography

Augustas Serapinas (b. 1990, Vilnius, Lithuania) lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania. Serapinas's practice is invested in recomposing public spaces in order to foreground and problematise the assumptions that shape them. Researching specifically each site his work appears in, he uncovers hidden dynamics of social hierarchy, economy and memory that decide on how institutions function, how people interact, who they pay attention to and which objects are passed unacknowledged. He strategises and weaponises the physical existence of secrets and access to spaces, uncovered through researching the history of materials, their usage and traditions. By inverting the customary functions of objects and spatiality, Serapinas toys with the possibilities of our encounters with space: pragmatic, emotional, cultural and local. ...

Selected Artworks
Greenhouse from Užupis
Augustas Serapinas
Greenhouse from Užupis, 2023
300 x 700cm
Roof from Rūdninkai, Segment 5
Augustas Serapinas
Roof from Rūdninkai, Segment 5, 2022
190.5 x 185 x 10.4cm
Ąžuolas & Dying Gaul Dumbbell
Augustas Serapinas
Ąžuolas & Dying Gaul Dumbbell, 2023
30 x 30 x 90cm
Gallery Representation
Biennals
Toronto Biennial of Art2022 - Toronto
Toronto Biennial of Art2022 - Toronto
Toronto Biennial of Art2022 - Toronto
Belgrade Biennale2021 - Belgrade
Belgrade Biennale2021 - Belgrade
Belgrade Biennale2021 - Belgrade
Riboca2020 - Riga
Riboca2020 - Riga
Venice Biennial2019 - Venice
Venice Biennial2019 - Venice
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art2015 - Moscow
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art2015 - Moscow
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