From January 23–25, the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) joins the Vilnius Light Festival. During the festival, the animated film The New Sun by Polish artist Agnieszka Polska will be screened in the CAC Sculpture Courtyard. The work offers a preview of the CAC’s autumn 2026 programme, which will include the artist’s solo exhibition – the first comprehensive presentation of her work in Lithuania.
The animated film The New Sun centres on a character of the Sun: a child-faced star with a beautiful voice. In a half-sung, poetic monologue, the Sun addresses its lover, a human, and – unsettlingly – presents a gloomy vision of a collapsing world, in which the only lasting and immutable elements are words and language. The Sun‘s speech juggles styles and moods, moving from elevated,emotionally-charged confessions to goofy stand-up comedy, and culminating in an interpretation of I Got Love, a song from the 1970 musical Purlie. While the film’s overall atmosphere is dark, the sung monologue leaves space for hope and underscores the significance of words as tools of social responsibility.
The installation will be shown on a loop in the CAC Sculpture Courtyard (entrance via the gates on Rūdninkų and Dysnos gatvė) from 23–25 January, 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm.
Film duration: 12 minutes
Free admission
AGNIESZKA POLSKA (b. 1985, based in Berlin) is a visual artist and film director whose computer-generated works reflect on individuals and their social responsibility within information-driven environments. Her work has been presented internationally, including at the New Museum and MoMA, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; and the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC. Solo exhibitions have been held at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Frye Art Museum, Seattle; Nottingham Contemporary; and Saltzburger Kunstverein, among others. She participated in the 57th Venice Biennale, the 11th Gwangju Biennale, the 19th and 24th Biennale of Sydney, the 14th Shanghai Biennale and the 13th Istanbul Biennial. In 2018, she was awarded the German Preis der Nationalgalerie.