This summer, the central space of the CAC will host Garden Exit – a solo exhibition by Polish artist Piotr Bury Łakomy featuring new works created specifically for the show. The title gestures quietly towards a willful departure from Eden – an allegory reinscribed within the urban present as a quasi-organic intervention in the gallery space.
Although the artist does not consider his works to be site-specific, their hybrid and constellatory nature – combining industrial materials, organic remnants, and objects reclaimed from architecture – extends his investigation into how bodies inhabit modernist and artificial structures, and how those structures, in turn, become home to sporous, seemingly reciprocal organisms.
Garden Exit further develops a dialectic between inner and outer worlds, where the works seem to merge with architectural elements such as window frames and stairwells, as if cultivating a garden within the very fabric of the gallery space.
More information coming soon.
PIOTR BURY ŁAKOMY (b. 1983) lives and works in Poznań, Poland. His practice interweaves themes of embodiment, architecture, and garden cultivation, frequently responding to the precarious conditions of contemporary urban life – from overcrowded balconies to elusive patches of green.
His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2025); Stereo Gallery, Warsaw (2024); The Sunday Painter, London (2022); Kunstverein Braunschweig (2021); Simian, Copenhagen (2021); Stavanger Museum of Art (2023); Dürst Britt & Mayhew Gallery, The Hague (2022); BOZAR Centre, Brussels (2017); Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin (2016) among other significant galleries and institutions.
Garden Exit marks the artist’s first presentation in Lithuania.
EDVARDAS ŠUMILA is a scholar, writer, and curator at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius and a doctoral candidate at the New School for Social Research. Trained initially as a pianist, he later turned to philosophy, eventually focusing on critical theory, aesthetics, and political engagement, with a particular interest in the thought of Theodor W. Adorno. His recent research explores the concept of second nature in relation to environmental theory and artistic production under neoliberal conditions. Šumila is one of the founders and curators of AHEAD, a festival for electronic sound practices, and has curated and directed numerous festivals, events, and exhibitions.