During Antwerp Art Weekend, Goda Palekaitė and Darly Benneker will engage in a conversation in the cloister garden of Kunsthal Extra City and MORPHO. The conversation will be moderated by artist Maja Bekan. They will discuss how contemporary artistic and curatorial practices relate to institutions, histories, and systems of knowledge. The conversation draws connections between the exhibitions Lapsarian 3.0 (Kunsthal Extra City) and Walls, Soft as Listening (MORPHO), and explores how fiction, storytelling, speculation, and site-specific practices can open up new ways of understanding the world.

Through different artistic strategies, both artists imagine alternative realities and perspectives. In Lapsarian 3.0, Palekaitė engages AI as a tool to create distance and estrangement, allowing other narratives and possible worlds to emerge. In Walls, Soft as Listening, Darly works through the physical qualities of materials and natural agents such as the rubber tree, weaving together memory, fiction and history. While their approaches differ, both artists respond closely to specific places – from the Catacombs of Rome to the botanical gardens of Medellín – revealing layered stories about identity, ecology and belonging.

This event is made possible with the support of Lithuanian Culture Institute.

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Free admission
Location: Monastery garden of Kunsthal Extra City & MORPHO
The conversation is conducted in English

Image: Brent Mertens