Exhibitions
Exhibition
ALEKSANDRA KASUBA Imaginer le futur
25.10.2024 > 23.03.2025
Event organised as part of the Lithuanian Season in France 2024
Imagining the Future is the first major exhibition in France, and also in Europe, of the pioneering artist Aleksandra Kasuba (1923-2019), known for her multidisciplinary practice on the threshold of design, architecture and experimental art.
Curator: Elona Lubytė
A Lithuanian-born US artist Aleksandra Kasuba (born Fledžinskaitė-Kašubienė, 1923–2019) was a visionary of the 20th century space exploration era. A retrospective of her work is constructed as a bright, inspiring narrative about losses and possibilities as well as futures that emerge in the face of turbulent times.
It is the story of Kasuba who was forced to flee her home country after World War II and emigrated to the USA. She studied sculpture and textiles at the Kaunas School of Arts and Vilnius Art Academy in Lithuania. In 1944, as a consequence of the Nazi and Soviet occupations, she fled the country with her sculptor husband, ending up in a displaced-persons camp in Germany until 1947, when the couple moved to America. In 1963, she settled in New York and became an artist creating visionary spatial environments made of tensile fabrics; a story about an imaginary future without right angles as a habitat for
the wandering soul.
Aleksandra Kasuba is best known for her large-scale works in public spaces and her architectural textile environments. Kasuba’s Space Shelters, environments made of fabric and without ninety-degree angles, testify to her desire to harmonise people, nature and technology.
The exhibition presents the works and an archive of documents donated by the artist to the Lithuanian National Museum of Art in 2014–2019. The originals of these documents are kept at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C. The exhibition is complemented by contributions of the artist’s friends – a perfumer Danutė Pajaujis Anonis, actress and cinematographer Pola Chapelle, Fluxus artist George Maciunas and avant-garde film maker Jonas Mekas.
3rd floor
