Curatorial Conversations: Adomas Narkevičius and Cell Project Space

Adomas Narkevičius is a Lithuanian curator and art historian based in London and Vilnius, currently working as Curator at Cell Project Space, London. He is interested in nonlinear aspects of historical time as well as the body, sexuality, and the limits of representation. His research focuses on the notion of the untimely artwork to reconsider the ‘belatedness’ of post-war art in the Baltics and beyond. Adomas Narkevičius was Curator at Rupert Centre for Art, Residencies and Education, running the Alternative Education Programme for emerging art practitioners as well as curating the Public and Residencies programmes. In 2016, he initiated Rupert’s Reading Room and Live Art programmes. In 2020 his MA dissertation ‘Defiant Bodies: Untimely Art in the Baltics Under Soviet Rule’ at UCL, London was awarded the Oxford Art Journal Prize. Among his recent selected projects are solo and two-person presentations by Ksenia Pedan; Niklas Taleb; Agnė Jokšė and Anastasia Sosunova; Cudelice Brazelton IV; Peng Zuqiang; Renée Akitelek Mboya at Cell Project Space; group exhibitions ‘The Prompt’ at Gianni Manhattan, Vienna (2022); ‘Authority Incorporeal’, Rupert, Baltic Triennial 14 (2021); ‘Avoidance’ at FUTURA, Prague (2021); symposium ‘Enacting Knowledges’ at Kaunas Artist House (2021) and the JCDecaux Emerging Artist Award at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2019-20).