International Photography Symposium
NIDA. Meeting Photography
13-19 September 2021
VAA Nida Art Colony (E. A. Jonušo St. 3),
Curonian Spit History Museum (Pamario St. 53),
Nida Community Center (Taikos St. 17)
Amber Gallery-Museum (Pamario St. 20)
Lectures, artist talks, workshops, exhibition openings, photo-books and open-air screenings in public spaces will take place during the International Photography Symposium “Nida. Meeting Photography”. One photographer will be awarded the Neringa Mayor's Prize.
If you woul like to become a part of night projection program on topic „NEW BORDERS“, please send your work via Picter platform here.
Monday, Sept. 13. Workshops
Artūras Šeštokas. Wet Colodion Workshop II
Romualdas Požerskis. Long-Term Projects. Selection, Execution, Finalising
Visvaldas Morkevičius. Exercise
Tuesday, Sept. 14. Opening
11.00–17.00 Registration (LFS Infocenter, Nida Community Centre, Taikos St. 17)
17.30 Remigijus Treigys exhibition opening (Thomas Mann Museum stairway, Skruzdynės st. 17)
18.00 Vaclovas Straukas exhibition opening (Curonian Spit History Museum, Pamario st. 53)
Opening of International Photography Symposium NIDA. Meeting Photography
Neringa Mayor’s Prize award
18.30 Kazimieras Mizgiris exhibition opening and book launch. (Amber Gallery-Museum, Pamario st. 20)
20.00 Opening party. Concert by Ruta Mur. Zuikio daržas (Nidos-Smiltynės Rd. 7a)
Wednesday, Sept. 15
Lectures (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
10.00 Virginijus Kinčinaitis. The Vitality of War Tourism
11.00 Indrek Grigor (Estonia). A curator’s confession on the occasion of the exhibition “Silver Girls. Retouched History of Photography”
12.00 Inga Bruvere (Latvia). Riga Photography Biennial (RPB)
17.00 Artist talks (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
Jessica Backhaus (Germany) <on-line>
Indre Urbonaite (Netherlands/Lithuania)
Philippe Gerlach (Germany); presented by "si:said" gallery
PARALLEL - European Photo Based Platform / Kaunas photography gallery residency artists' presentation: Sofia Okkonen (Finland), Ida Nissen (Denmark), Šarūnas Kvietkus (Lithuania), Ramona Güntert (Germany/UK)
19.30 Nida OFF. Zuikio daržas (Nidos-Smiltynės Rd. 7a)
Thursday, Sept. 16
Lectures (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
10.00 Agnė Narušytė. Excess Emotions in the Ecosystem of Art Processing Internet Images
11.00 Skaidra Trilupaitytė. Counterfeit Faces
12.00 Sonia Voss (Germany). What Do We Know about Eastern Germany Photography?
13.00 Presentation of workshops
17.00 Artist talks (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
Robertas Narkus. Disappearing From View
Anna Melnykova (Ukraine)
20.30 Projection night. Louis Roederer Discovery Award finalists' works (Kaštonas, Naglių St. 18b, next to the marina)
Friday, Sept. 17
Lectures (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
10.00 Tomas Pabedinskas and Arvydas Grišinas. Points of Change: Photography and Politics
11.00 Natalija Arlauskaitė. Microsurgery of Stagnation: Photographic Visuality of Medicine and Political Imagination in the Late Soviet Era
12.00 Valentinas Klimašauskas. Artificial Intelligence and the Future for Artists: Imagining New Roles for Artists and AI
17.00 Artist talks (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
Rein Jelle Terpstra (Netherlands)
Peter Bialobrzeski (Germany) <on-line>
Andrej Polukord (Lithuania, Austria). Wood Statues
20.30 Projection night. NEW BORDERS: Screening of competition finalists’ works (Kaštonas, Naglių St. 18b, next to the marina)
Saturday, Sept. 18
Lectures (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
10.00 Monika Krikštopaitytė. Photographing writers
11.00 Laima Kreivytė. Photography as architectural and conceptual core of exhibition. Zane Muholi in Venice Biennale
12.00 Kristine Kern. Contemporary Nordic Photography
17.00 Artist talks (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
Jonas Kulikauskas (USA)
Ludovica Bastianini (Italy)
Chirag Jindal (New Zealand)
19.00 Closing of the festival (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
20.00 Concert by Lapkričio 20-osios orkestras. Zuikio daržas (Nidos-Smiltynės Rd. 7a)
A few moments from the last year: Nida 2020
The Association has the right to change the program.
Lithuanian Photographers Association, 2021
www.photography.lt