The 15th Kaunas Biennial

The 15th Kaunas Biennial, titled Life After Life, will take place in Lithuania from September 12 to November 23, 2025, and the biennial is curated by Adomas Narkevičius.

Life After Life will explore themes of uncertainty and transition, experimenting with the biennial as a malleable form—one capable of suspending and reorganising the established dynamics of contemporary art’s social and aesthetic fluency. Embracing fandoms of diverse artistic practices and genres, whether conventionally categorised as “contemporary art” or not, Life After Life poses a critical question: If the globalised biennial format has reached an impasse with reality, what shape might the contradictions of the present take when they are no longer wished away?

Following the Biennial’s itinerant structure, the 15th edition will, for the first time, take place in the historic Stumbras distillery, founded during the Tsarist era, and the interwar Temporary M.K. Čiurlionis Art Gallery. Alongside other locations across the city, these venues underscore Kaunas’ ongoing transformation.

Continuing its tradition of fostering new artistic production, the 15th Kaunas Biennial will feature a significant number of commissioned works, inviting artists to respond to the edition’s theme and the unique context of its venues.

The 15th edition of Kaunas Biennial will be accompanied by a satellite exhibition presenting works by Lithuanian and Italian artists as a result of international collaborations with the Lyon Biennale (France) and CHRONIQUES—the Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques (France) in 2024 and Biennale Gherdëina (Italy) in 2025-2026.