The cycle of contemporary art exhibitions continues at the Kintai Arts residency, located in the Pamaris region. Following Kristina Žalytė’s solo exhibition “Taelpa” in the cellar spaces in April and Živilė Minkutė’s outdoor textile installation “Raised Not to Fight” by the entrance, contemporary artist and curator Vytenis Burokas will now present his work in Kintai.
On Wednesday, May 28 at 5:00 PM, we invite you to the opening of Vytenis Burokas’ solo exhibition “Potpourri”. Join us at the Kintai Arts Residency Gallery, Kuršių St. 30, Kintai.
Once, “potpourri” referred to a fermented stew—a mix of meat, beans, and vegetables, even called a “rotten pot.” Later, the term became associated with a mix of aromatic herbs, spices, and petals, and eventually came to mean a curated collection of various selected items—a kind of aesthetic sensitivity-based selection.
Let it be a keyword through which we look at works once “fermented” in the studio—warm, moist, feeding creative hunger. Over time, they have been dried, preserved, taken off the heat, and moved beyond the studio—into exhibition spaces and eventually hidden away in archives.
But most of them survive this removal from their original kitchen. And through that, they become something else—vessels carrying scents, memories, or newly emerging images in encounters with others. They persist in time—preserved through drying, yet decaying like something that once bloomed, nourished, and was fragile.
How can stories created in different times be cooked into a new stew—and served in the decadent pot of an exhibition, containing both decay and life, and the thread that connects the two?
About the Artist:
Vytenis Burokas (b. 1990) is an artist and curator based between Vilnius and Lauryniškės. He graduated with a BA and MA in Sculpture and Art Education from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. In 2013–2014, he was a participant in the Rupert alternative education program. His works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions and art fairs, including Drifts at Art Rotterdam (2025, duo), Hotel Warszawa Art Fair (2024, duo), Linings, Drifts Gallery (2023, solo), Echoes of Ukrainian History, Radvila Palace Museum of Art, Vilnius (2022), The Order of the Spur: These Boots Are Made For Walking, apiece, Vilnius (2022, solo), Growing Out? Growing Up? Contemporary Art Collecting in the Baltics, Zuzeum, Riga (2022), Avoidance, Futura, Prague (2021), Draft Wanderings, Editorial, Vilnius (2020, solo), The Sea Monster, The Bear, lítost, Prague (2020), Sanatorium, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2019), Play within the Walls of Academy, MOCAK, Krakow (2018).
Visiting Hours: Tue–Sat, 10:00 AM–6:00 PM (outside working hours by phone appointment at +37061238585), Kuršių St. 30, Kintai.
Kintai Arts is supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.