Pakui Hardware
Pakui Hardware is the name chosen by collaborative artist duo Neringa Černiauskaité and Ugnius Gelguda. Pakui Hardware refers to Pakui – special attendant of Hawaiian Goddess, a runner who could circle an island six times in a day, thus embodying velocity and mythology, and Hardware which stands for materiality, bodies, and resources.
The duo's work explores plasticity of bodies, their yet undiscovered potentials. They trace how diverse technologies expand, test and control these bodily promises. Hybrid materials that the artists employ correspond to hybrid bodies that surround us. These questions are analyzed through such examples as invasive and transformative relationship to bodies, automation, synthetic biology and new materiality.By combining natural and man made materials, sterile and organic forms, the artists merged design, biology and art history into hybrid and curious creatures immersed in their autonomous environments.
Pakui Hardware (1977 and 1984, Lithuania) live and work in Vilnius. The artistic duo has been chosen to represent Lithuania at the 60th Biennale di Venezia in 2024, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. In October 2023 Pakui Hardware opened their seminal solo exhibition at the National Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. Past solo exhibitions include East Contemporary, Milan; BALTIC Art Center, Newcastle, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren; Future Gallery Mexico, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (MdbK), Bielefelder Kunstverein, EXILE, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna (MUMOK). Past group exhibitions include MOCO La Panacée, Montpellier; Istanbul Biennial; CCA Tel Aviv; MAXXI, Rome; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; Kunshalle Basel; Kunstverein Braunschweig.
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Exhibitions at carlier | gebauer
- 03/22 Maria Thereza Alves / Tacita Dean / Jimmie Durham / Cecilia Edefalk / Michel François / Asta Gröting / Mathew Hale / Pakui Hardware / Lena Henke / Iman Issa / Tarik Kiswanson / Guillaume Leblon / Juan Maidagan / David Maljković / Aernout Mik / Jean-Luc Moulène / Bojan Šarčević / Nida Sinnokrot / Mark Wallinger / Dolores Zinny, Standing
- 11/20 Pakui Hardware, Absent Touch
- 06/20 Hélène Delprat / Cecilia Edefalk / Asta Gröting / Kyungah Ham / Pakui Hardware / Iman Issa / Guillaume Leblon / Julie Mehretu / Laure Prouvost / Thomas Schütte, Basel By Berlin
- 06/20 Cecilia Edefalk / Pakui Hardware / Iman Issa / Julie Mehretu / Laure Prouvost / Tarik Kiswanson, Basel En Madrid
News
Biography
Texts
- AS A Journal: X-Rays of Our Society: Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė and Pakui Hardware, 2023.
- Artforum: Pakui Hardware eastcontemporary via Giuseppe Pecchio, 03.10.2021-15.11.2021
- Flash Art: Bio-Hazard: Pakui Hardware, 22.09.2021
- Frieze: Pakui Hardware’s Vision of Post-Pandemic Healthcare, 17.05.2021
- Art Review: Take the Long View with Pakui Hardware, 01.04.2021
- Flash Art: Pakui Hardware “Virtual Care” BALTIC / Gateshead, 18.06.2021
- Elephant: Pakui Hardware Reflect On Reimagining the Aesthetics of Care, 22.02.2021
- Charlotte Silbermann: Körper sind poröse Wirte des Lebens - Neuer Materialismus und Corona, in monopol, 07.04.2020
- Saliva: Interview with Pakui Hardware, 12.05.2020
- Echo Gone Wrong: Pakui Hardware on entanglements between bodies, economy and technological development, 20.03.2019
- Artforum: Pakui Hardware, Mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Museumsplatz 1, 04.06.2016-09.10.2016
Publications
Pakui Hardware
Underbelly
Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, 2020
(Ed) Alfred Weidinger, Jeannette Stoschek
ISBN: 978-3-86060-048-1
Pakui Hardware
Vanilla Eyes
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst, 2016
(Ed) Rainer Fuchs
ISBN: 978-3-86335-966-9