Artists in residence

Pakui Hardware was founded in 2014 by Lithuanian-born artists Ugnius Gelguda and Neringa Černiauskaitė. The duo currently lives and works between Vilnius and Berlin. In their installations and research, Pakui Hardware explores the relationship between materiality, technology, and economy. How technology is shaping the current economy and the physical reality itself, including the human body.

The duo’s work has been presented in numerous institutions including BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (UK, 2021), Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig MdbK (Germany, 2019), 16th Istanbul Biennale (Turkey, 2019), MAXXI museum (Italy, 2018), Kunsthalle Basel (Switzerland, 2017). Pakui Hardware will represent Lithuania in the 60th Venice biennale (2024) together with a modernist painter, Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė.

Thier project Technologies of Vulnerability aims at exploring how we can build vulnerability within the internal structures of the current and future technologies that are being developed. Looking to prevent asymmetrical power relations with upcoming technologies, perhaps vulnerability could be a tool to construct more inter-dependent, trans-corporeal kinship with technological beings? The project consists of a research on this topic, made through reading and in-person meetings and discussions with philosophers, anthropologists, social scientists as well as technology-developers, which will be followed by further reflections, writing and material experimentations through sculpture and installation making in later stages.

Sanjeeyann Paleatchy was born in Le Port, La Réunion, in 1989. From an early age, he showed a love for plants and flowers. At the age of five, he attended Hindu spiritual courses at Le Port’s Ashram and discovered the paintings of Patrick Nantaise, a painter from Le Port, particularly his paintings of Hindu mythology. This was the beginning of Sanjeeyann Paleatchy’s taste for poetry, and his admiration for art.

It is in this world of oriental philosophy and passion for flowers that Sanjeeyann Paleatchy cultivates himself. He studied at the École Supérieure d’Art de La Réunion from 2008 to 2014 where he obtained his Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique. These years led him to installation, photography, and writing; but it is in contact with nature that his work takes on its full scope. Admiring the works of Andy Goldsworthy and Wolfgang Laib, he tried his hand at installation and sculpture.

Eider Yangana belongs to the Ancestral Yanakuna Reserve of Rioblanco Sotará. Lives and conducts his studies in Popayán, Colombia. His areas of research are interdisciplinary artistic practices. In his work, he reflects on hegemonic discourses on a global scale, establishing a critical vision from the thought, organization, and cosmology of his territory of origin. His work also addresses the correspondences and tensions between the rural and urban, experienced personally, familially, and generationally as a Yanakuna indigenous community.

Eider is the director of Yanacroma, a collective body where he mobilizes artistic, pedagogical, exhibition, and intervention processes.

He has participated in various collective exhibitions such as the Proyecto Tesis MAC Bogotá (2015), the Salón Nacional de Artistas AUN (2016), the Salón de Arte Indígena Quintín Lame (2015-2016), the 16th Regional Salon of Artists, Pacific Zone (2018), ARTBO, Artecámara Section 15th Edition (2019), 21 obras en el cambio de tiempo, Museum la Tertulia, Cali (2022), Epistemologías Vibrátiles, 46th National Salon of Artists, Inaudito Magdalena, Barranquilla (2022), and the exhibition Sembrar la duda, Bank of the Republic (2023). He was also one of the selected artists in the retrospective exhibition Premio Arte Joven in (2024). Internationally, he has been part of the exhibition Dysfunctional Formulas of Love at The Box Gallery, Los Angeles, California (2017) and Susurros, prácticas ciudadanas en Pandemia, Bienal Sur, UCA Argentina (2022).

Eider Yangana (Colombia) is in residence through the “Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Knowledges of Colombia x Cité internationale des arts” programme