Building M, 2024
site-specific installation; recycled disused power plant building
M-1 Disused power plant, Danės g. 8
Visit the exhibition and meet the artist September 24-29, 3:00-7:00 p.m.
The schedule for visiting changes from October 4. Fridays 3.00-6.00 p.m., Saturdays-Sundays 12.00-3.00 p.m.
This abandoned industrial building, one of the disused buildings of the old Klaipėda Thermal Power Plant, was in need of recycling into a letter. It could become a new urban landmark of Klaipėda and a venue for various art and cultural events.
M is not only for city, but also for art, science, myth, love and, finally, metaphor. This city already has a K-shaped building (Klaipėda), which will be joined by an M-shaped building (Memel), and as we know, K + M = KM (hot love between different cultural traditions).
Paulina Pukytė
Photo: Paulina Pukytė
Non-round Circle, 2024
found situation
M-11 Žvejų g. 16
Klaipėda has the Old Crossing over the Lagoon, but there is an even older one, the River Port Passenger Station on the left bank of the Danė, which for a long time served as a passenger terminal for the ferries to the Smiltynė. The elegant early modernist building (1961, architect Albinas Čepys) was probably designed according to a typical design, only slightly modernised by the author. Its distinctive feature is the rounded portholes, which come from the interwar streamline moderne and art deco style of the transatlantic liners. Such circles were popular in port and seaside architecture. A circle is the most perfect, fundamental, efficient, simple, symbolic, magical, robust geometric form. But one of the circles here has been transformed into an oval. It takes a tremendous force to crush an architectural circle into an oval. Here it means only one thing: collapse.
Paulina Pukytė, Marija Drėmaitė
Organiser: Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre.
Funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Klaipėda City Municipality.