Tom Engels Announced as Curator of the 15th Baltic Triennial

Concluding an invitation-based competition organised during the last six months, the Contemporary Arts Centre Vilnius announces that Tom Engels, a curator based in Brussels and Graz, will lead the artistic vision of the 15th Baltic Triennial. The main programme of the fifteenth edition will take place in mid-2024 in the reopened main building of the CAC.

Taking the newly renovated CAC building as its starting point, Engels’ proposal opts for a concentrated approach to maximise the depth of engagement. Exhibition, performance, music, and text will revolve around each other in the triennial that is set to highlight the sensitising capacities of poetic experience in its material, gestural, and written forms. Through new commissions and existing works, both regional and international, his proposal taps into the core of the Baltic Triennial’s legacy – an environment that has continued to host experimental and speculative expressions with a dedication to poetic gesture while being sensitive to the socio-political realities that shape its forms and existence.

According to Kęstutis Kuizinas, Director of the CAC Vilnius, “Tom Engels’ curatorial vision for the 15th Baltic Triennial invites us to imagine a ray of light refracting through a prism and transforming into a multitude of narratives that complement, extend and challenge each other. Engels’ multidimensional gaze is directed towards an intuitive perception of the world based on poetic principles and mechanisms, and through them, seeks engagement with the complex reality and awareness of the ever-changing (geopolitical) reality. I believe that it is this sensitively balanced curatorial approach that will meaningfully continue the history of the Baltic Triennial.”