Creative Workshop with Ara Radvilė: Exploring Inner Cosmology

We invite you to an experiential creative journey where self-reflection, poetry, and intuitive painting come together. Creative Workshop with Ara Radvilė is an opportunity to pause, set aside rational thinking, and explore your inner world through visual expression.  

The workshop will begin with a symbol meditation. During this process, we will use symbolic cards created by the artist, inspired by the paintings exhibited in the show “The House in the Shadow of a Magnolia.” This practice helps participants settle into a calm state and intuitively choose an image or sign that resonates personally.  

The meditative experience will be accompanied by poetry by Rumi, opening deeper layers of symbolic meaning and inviting personal reflection.  

In the creative part of the workshop, we will paint on large-format paper placed directly on the floor — stepping away from traditional easels and conventional boundaries. This setting allows freedom of movement and uninhibited expression. Each participant will translate their intuitively chosen symbol into visual form, creating a personal “cosmology” — a unique inner map.  

All necessary materials (paints, paper) will be provided. We recommend wearing comfortable clothing suitable for working on the floor.  

The number of participants is limited; advance registration is required: https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSckx4z6Bjk.../viewform... 

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More about the exhibition:

Ara Radvilė’s painting exhibition “The House in the Shadow of a Magnolia” invites visitors into a space where the human being is no longer merely a figure or portrait. Here, the human becomes architecture — a temporary house where memories, fears, experiences, and forms of growth accumulate.  

In Radvilė’s paintings, the body transforms into a constantly reconstructed structure: cavities open within chests, gardens dwell in wombs, surfaces crack to reveal inner constructions. These are not illustrations, but inner maps, inviting navigation through personal rather than physical territory — where the outside becomes the inside.  

The exhibited works reveal the walls we build in order to survive. They protect, yet they also confine. Monumental bodies fracture not out of weakness, but out of growth — from the need to surpass what was once necessary but has become too narrow.  

Beneath the shadow of the magnolia unfolds a field of the subconscious — a space before systems and definitions. Swans, mermaids, and animal silhouettes speak here. The bright hall invites a state before form, while the dark hall presents shadow as a phase of transformation, where collapse becomes the beginning of a new structure.  

We invite you to experience the exhibition as a journey through inner architecture — where form is never final, and the body remains an open, continuously rewritten space.  

Ara Radvilė Juozapaitytė is a painter of the younger generation who holds a Master’s degree in Scenography from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. For the past five years, she has been actively developing her creative practice in the field of visual arts. Her work is characterized by a clear and refined color composition and figuration, in which the female body becomes an archetypal symbol. The central axis of her practice is light as a vital force — shaping not only the visual space but also conveying inner human states.  

Curator: Gretė Ona Tvarkūnaitė  

Sound in the exhibition: Godo Yorke  

The workshops will take place on March 14 and 21 at 3:00 PM. The workshops will be held in Lithuanian. On other Saturdays when the workshops are not taking place, the author of the exhibition will also be present to welcome visitors and will be able to share more about her creative work.  

Opening: March 6, 7 PM  

Exhibition dates: March 6 – April 11  

Gallery hours: Wed–Sat, 1–6 PM  

Address: Užupio St. 2A  

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