Switzerland
Lithuania, 1987
Dorota Gawęda (Poland/Switzerland) and Eglė Kulbokaitė (Lithuania/Switzerland) are multidisciplinary artists who graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2012. Their practice encompasses performance, painting, sculpture, video, fragrance, and installations. Their work explores themes such as the disintegration of language, gender, and the transfer of knowledge across different bodies, spaces, and times, establishing connections between disparate fields such as ecology, technology, science, magic, non-human intelligence, and shared speculation. They have exhibited at international institutions including Thaddaeus Ropac and Centre Georges-Pompidou in Paris; Kunsthalle Mainz and Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf; EPFL Pavilions in Lausanne; Shedhalle in Zurich; Kunstverein Hamburg and Kunsthalle Freiburg; Lafayette Anticipations and Palais de Tokyo in Paris; as well as at biennials in Vilnius, Athens, and Basel, in addition to other venues such as the ICA in London, the Swiss Institute in New York, and the Swiss Institute in Palermo/Milan. Between 2013 and 2021, they founded Young Girl Reading Group, a collaborative project, and have received awards such as the Allegro Artist Prize 2022, the CERN Collide Residency 2022, and the Swiss Performance Art Award 2021, solidifying their research-based artistic practice and an integrative vision that connects art, science, and philosophy.
They graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2012. They work across multiple disciplines, encompassing performance, painting, sculpture, fragrance, video, and installation, where language disintegrates and one genre transforms into many. By transferring different bodies of knowledge across space and time, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė cultivate a research-based practice that intertwines seemingly disparate fields: ecology and technology, science and magic, non-human intelligence and shared speculation. They have exhibited in major venues such as Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris; Vilnius Biennale; Kunsthalle Mainz; EPFL Pavilions, Lausanne; Shedhalle, Zurich; Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna; CCS, Paris; Kunstverein Hamburg; Istituto Svizzero, Palermo/Milan; Swiss Institute, New York; Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf; Kunsthalle Freiburg; Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Athens Biennale; Kunsthalle Basel; and the ICA, London, among others. They are founders of the Young Girl Reading Group (2013–2021) and have received awards such as the Allegro Artist Prize 2022, the CERN Collide 2022 residency and the Swiss Performance Art Award 2021.
