International Photography Symposium NIDA. Meeting Photography
Lectures, artist talks, workshops, exhibitions, projections
September 15–21, 2025
Venues:
Nida Culture and Tourism Information Centre “Agila” (Taikos St. 4)
Vilnius Academy of Arts Nida Art Colony (E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
Curonian Spit History Museum (Pamario St. 53)
Mizgiriai Artist Residency (Pamario St. 20)
Thomas Mann Memorial Museum (Skruzdynės St. 17)
During the international photography symposium NIDA. Meeting Photography, the program will include lectures, art workshops, artist talks, exhibition openings, nighttime projections in public spaces in Nida, and informal gatherings with lecturers and guests. A special Neringa Mayor’s Prize will be awarded to a photographer working on coastal themes.
A bookshop will be open at the event info centre throughout the entire event.
PROGRAM
Monday, September 15 – Art Workshops
Mindaugas Meškauskas – 19th-Century Emulsion and 21st-Century Fiction: Albumen Print and Promptography
Arturas Valiauga – Still Life Photography: The Tradition of Evolution and the Conceptual Expression of Visual Ideas
Algimantas Aleksandravičius – Portrait Photography
The workshops will take place September 15–17.
Tuesday, September 16 – Symposium Opening
11:00–17:00 – Registration (Nida Culture and Tourism Information Centre “Agila”, Taikos St. 4)
17:30 – Opening of Corina Gertz’s photo exhibition “The Averted Portrait” (Thomas Mann Museum stairway, Skruzdynės St. 17)
18:00 – Opening of Tadas Kazakevičius’s exhibition “Between Two Shores” (Curonian Spit History Museum, Pamario St. 53)
19:00 – Opening of Aleksandras Ostašenkovas’s exhibition “From the Archives of the Seminar (1979–2008)” (Mizgiriai Artist Residency, Pamario St. 20)
20:00 – Opening of the international symposium NIDA. Meeting Photography and Awarding of the Neringa Mayor’s Prize (“Agila”)
Remigijus Treigys and Raimundas Urbonas. "Lend me time relay..."
Opening film with live score “Once Upon a Vilnius” (dir. E. Doškus, 23 min., 2022). Live soundtrack by V. Kisevičius and P. Kilbauskas
Wednesday, September 17
Lectures (Nida Art Colony)
10:00 Agnė Narušytė. Weaving a Silver Web: An Imaginary Sisterhood of Women Photographers in Early 20th Century
11:00 Justė Jonutytė. Collecting Contemporary Art and Photography: What Collectors and Artists Need to Know
12:00 Sonia Voss (Germany/France)
Artist Talks (Nida Art Colony)
16:00–18:00 – introduction to the work of Deimantas Narkevičius, including film screenings
19.30 – Nida OFF (“Sangrita”, Taikos St. 32A)
Thursday, September 18
Lectures (“Agila”)
10:00 Ingrida Radovič / LATGA. From Frame to Code: The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Photographers
11:00 Erika Grigoravičienė. An Essay of Images and Words About Remnants, Remains, Debris (What Is Left After the Essence Has Departed)
12.00 Laima Kreivytė. Throughout the Night: Reflections on the Exhibition Between Dawns and Museum Collection Policy
13:00 Workshop Presentations (“Agila”)
16.30 Interactive installation "In Situ. Excessive Document" by Paulius Rukas (“Agila”)
17:00 Artist Talks (“Agila”)
Mercè Torres Ràfols (Sweden)
Corina Gertz (Germany)
Laurie Griffiths and Jonty Tacon (UK)
21:00 Film night with Mindaugas Meškauskas – The Archives Detective
Friday, September 19
Lectures (“Agila”)
10:00 Jana Johanna Haeckel (Belgium). The Living Archive: Synthetic Images as Multi-Sensory, Dialogical Spaces of Experience in Contemporary Art
11:00 Natalija Arlauskaitė. Memorabilia: Julius Sasnauskas’ Theory of Photography
12:00 Danguolė Ruškienė. Raimundas Urbonas: “Life Under the Table and... On the Table”
13.00 Meetings at the Bookstore
17:00 Artist Talks (“Agila”)
Mykolas Juodelė and Sandra Rivero Ortiz (Lithuania/Argentina)
21:00 Film night. “Focus on Infinity”. Dir. K. Kravtsova, doc., 128 min. (“Agila”)
Saturday, September 20
Lectures (“Agila”)
10:00 Kristyna Müller (Sweden)
11:00 Dainius Junevičius. Introducing Eustachy Poklewski-Koziełło (1843–1899), Secretary of the French Photographic Society
12:00 Skaidra Trilupaitytė. Imagination from Memory: On a Few Ghosts of Čiurlionis
17:00 Artist Talks (“Agila”)
Sam Margevicius (USA)
Isabelle Le Minh (France)
19:00 Closing (“Agila”)
20:00 Closing Event. Live concert: ievaie („Agila" terrace)
