Pakui Hardware
Artistic duo Pakui Hardware, comprised of Ugnius Gelguda and Neringa Černiauskaitė, has been tracing how capital travels through bodies and materials. 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 between Berlin and Vilnius. Recent solo exhibitions include East Contemporary, Milan; BALTIC Art Center, Newcastle. Past solo exhibitions include 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; Liverpool biennial; Istanbul Biennial; CCA Tel Aviv; MAXXI, Rome; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; Kunshalle Basel; Kunstverein Braunschweig.
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Biography
Texts
- Saliva: Interview with Pakui Hardware, 12.05.2020
- Charlotte Silbermann: Körper sind poröse Wirte des Lebens - Neuer Materialismus und Corona, in monopol, 07.04.2020
- 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
- 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