Augustas Bidlauskas. The Garden of Unparadise

From May 12 to 30, 2026, the Vilnius Graphic Art Centre gallery ‘Kairė-dešinė’ will host an exhibition by Augustas Bidlauskas titled ‘The Garden of Unparadise’. The opening will take place on 12 May 2026 at 6 pm.

Having been expelled from paradise for a long time, we are still trying to create postcolonial gardens. Meanwhile, everyone keeps devouring everyone. States eat states. Saturn devours his children. Most bite off words. In May, bitches howl under the chestnut trees. Moon-coloured cats press keys. Everyone is waiting for August, when Sirius appears. Then we will be able to sow trees of otherworldly life again.

We live after everything. Or maybe it only seems that way. But we want to leave a dot of our own. After sentences whose plots feature cult and animal, mythology and community, food chain and dirty dances.

Three fauns watch the buttocks of a sleeping beauty in the museum hall.

Everything is digested by cutting metal, carving lines into it that branch off into other paths. In them, causes are inseparable from effects, and bodies from meanings. Too precise to be true.

Barnabas Dulis, a vagabond and a scribbler

Augustas Bidlauskas (b. 1981) is a graduate of the Vilnius Academy of Arts (2010), and a lecturer at the VAA Department of Graphic Art. Since 2007, Augustas has been actively taking part in exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad, and has held solo shows in Vilnius and Klaipėda. He exclusively uses the mezzotint technique in his work. Augustas’ works focus on the theme of the human, which the artist interprets allegorically, exploring the limits and weaknesses of humanity with overt irony.