On Wednesday 3 June at 6 pm, the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) invites you to a guided tour of the international group exhibition ‘Superglue, or Inventing the Friend’ with its curator, CAC director Valentinas Klimašauskas.

‘Superglue, or Inventing the Friend’ begins with a set of questions: what kind of glue today could bind together a fragmented society? Is it still possible to establish a relationship with the other? Could this be one of the functions of contemporary art? Bringing together historical and contemporary works, the exhibition reflects on encounters with the other through different notions of otherness, the emergence of the posthuman figure, and contemporary art itself as something not entirely knowable – something foreign.

In the words of its curator, the exhibition is “a sincere gesture, perhaps even a somewhat naïve invitation to rethink the function of contemporary art and its roles in today’s dramatically troubled world”. During the tour, visitors will be invited to explore more than one hundred works across the CAC’s spaces, search within their diversity for possible answers to the questions raised by the exhibition, and perhaps form a new relationship – with contemporary art, with the CAC, and with one another.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

  • The tour will be held in English.
  • Price: visitor ticket. Places are limited, so tickets must be purchased online in advance. For more information about tickets, please call +370 673 67042.
  • If the minimum number of participants is not reached, the tour may be cancelled 24 hours before it is due to begin. Participants will be notified by email, using the address provided when purchasing the ticket. If the tour does not take place, tickets can be refunded or exchanged for another tour.
  • For private tours, please contact [email protected]


VALENTINAS KLIMAŠAUSKAS – director of the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), curator, and writer.

Among his major international projects are: the 1st Klaipėda Biennial ‘Sunset Every Two Years”’(2025); the Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (co-curated with João Laia; artists: Pakui Hardware and Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė; Lithuanian National Museum of Art, 2024); the contemporary art festival ‘Coast Contemporary’ in the Lofoten Islands, Norway (2023); the 14th Baltic Triennial ‘The Endless Battle’ (co-curated with João Laia, CAC Vilnius, 2021); a choreographic project by Alexandra Pirici at the Ninth Fort Memorial in Kaunas (2020); and the Latvian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (co-curated with Inga Lāce; Daiga Grantina’s solo exhibition ‘Saules Suns’, 2019).

In 2024, Klimašauskas published his English-language book Telebodies. Bleeding Subtitles for Postrobotic Scenes (Mousse Publishing, Milan), based on his doctoral dissertation in art at Vilnius Academy of Arts. He is also the author of the books Daugiakampis (Six Chairs Books, Kaunas, 2018), Oh, My Darling and Other Texts (The Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt, Vilnius, 2018), and Alfavilnius (Kitos Knygos, Vilnius, 2008).

His texts have been published in A Prior Magazine, As a Journal, Beyond, Cura, Dot Dot Dot, Flash Institut, Flash Art, Kim Docs, Kunstnernes Hus, Good Times & Nocturnal News, Šiaurės Atėnai, ŠMC Interview, Metropolis M, Mousse, Nero, Paletten, Spike, and others.