Aleksandra Kasuba. Imagining the Future
October 25, 2024 – March 23, 2025
Carré d’Art–Musée d’art contemporain
Place de la Maison Carrée. 30000 Nîmes, France
Tel: +33 (0)4 66 76 35 70
Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes in France, in partnership with the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, presents the first retrospective of American-Lithuanian artist Aleksandra Kasuba.
From October 25, 2024 to March 23, 2025, and as part of the 2024 Lithuanian Season in France, Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes presents Imagining the Future, 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.
The Lithuanian-born US artist Aleksandra Kasuba (born Fledžinskaitė, 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 how Kasuba who was forced to flee her home country after World War II and emigrated to the USA. 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.It 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.
About Carré d’Art
Inaugurated in 1993, the opening of Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes is a successful example of the opening up to contemporary art and the policy of decentralisation undertaken in France from the 1980s onwards. Situated between the CAPC in Bordeaux and the Abattoirs in Toulouse to the west, and the MAC in Marseille and the MAMAC in Nice to the east, the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes is a link in a chain that has been completed over the years with a view to promoting and disseminating contemporary art in the Mediterranean region.Like its Parisian model, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Carré d’Art houses the media libraryand the museum of contemporary art, offering Nîmes residents and visitors from abroad a new place to live. It was in 1983 that Jean Bousquet, newly elected Mayor of Nîmes, confirmed his plans to raise the city’s cultural profile around the major project of creating this new institution.Begun in 1986, with considerable help from the Direction des Musées de France, the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art now comprises almost 600 works.
Exhibition curator Elona Lubytė
Organisers: Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes
Lithuanian Season in France is implemented by the Lithuanian Cultural Institute and the French Institute of Culture.
Other exhibitions and events of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art in the programme of the Lithuanian season in France 2024 and during the season in France:
- Exhibition Les ambassadeurs
- Marija Olšauskaitė exhibition The Softest Hard at the Carré d’Art-Musée
- Project The Amber Road across France
- The exhibition Parlez-leur d’ambre, de métal et de vie : bijou contemporain lituanien 1990–2023
