Shaping the Future. Environments by Aleksandra Kasuba

This film, directed by Virginija Vareikytė, presents the unique work of the visionary artist Aleksandra Kasuba (1923–2019) in the context of the exhibition ‘Shaping the Future. Environments by Aleksandra Kasuba’ held at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius in 2021.  Born in Lithuania, Aleksandra Kasuba moved to the United States after World War II to embark on a career in modern art. From the late 1960s, she developed an interdisciplinary practice, creating contemporary art, architecture, and art for public spaces. The artist also took part in the ground-breaking movements of Experiments in Art and Technology and Art in Science, which propagated new artistic thinking, appearing in their exhibitions, quite often as the only woman artist. A highly original aspect of her work are the stretch-fabric environments that she created using an original technique with extraordinary imagination, and which were presented both in private and public spaces. In the film, the artist’s daughter Guoda Kašubaitė, exhibition curator Elona Lubytė, art historian Inesa Brašiškė, design historian Viktorija Kašubaitė-Matranga, and architects Jing Liu and Nick Goldsmith discuss Aleksandra Kasuba and her oeuvre.

The film was produced by the Lithuanian Institute of Culture in cooperation with the National Gallery of Art / the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, with support from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.