We are pleased to announce our participation in Art Rotterdam 2025!

For Art Rotterdam 2025, Drifts presents selected works by two Lithuanian artists – Morta Jonynaitė (b. 1995) and Vytenis Burokas (b. 1990) – both artists are interested in the interplay of personal and collective memory. Their works are in search of splintered traces of cultural influences and weave collective and personal experiences into subtle time-faded memory landscapes.

In the latest series of work, Morta Jonynaitė employs the narrative method borrowed from Annie Ernaux’s novel The Years (2008). Jonynaitė seeks to articulate the fragility of memory by combining intimate and very often painful personal experiences with collective memory. Hand weaving and knotting become a way to tell the intimate stories and build the spaces where relationships between different experiences and participants are interconnected.

Vytenis Burokas is preparing for his solo show at Drifts in April 2025 where he will present the series of drawings and objects the Uncertainty Gardens – the inner landscapes with splintered traces of cultural influences which bridge the gap between language and image. Each Burokas’ work is a preparatory sketch for the next one, and a stain in one drawing can become a facial feature or a life line in the palm of another.

Preview & Opening: Thursday, 27 March 2025

Visit us at booth C13 in Art Rotterdam’s new location at Rotterdam Ahoy.