We welcome you to the exhibition opening on 25 May at 3:30 PM at the Vilnius University Library.
The exhibition will remain open from 25 May to 15 June 2022.
An exhibition “Art between the walls” features the artworks made by migrants living in the detention camps in Lithuania. This exhibition allows us to meet those who have become hostages to the migrant crisis that started in the summer 2021, and to see the creative, thoughtful and full of feelings individual behind the term ‘migrant’.
Art is one of the few ways for these people to cope with the difficult everyday life in the camps and tell their stories. Art is the only expression of their freedom.
This social exhibition seeks to draw the society’s attention to the migrants, their personal stories and different experiences, so that we get to see those who often remain unseen and who are still trapped behind the walls, even though they have been in Lithuania right by our side for already nine months.
The exhibition presents 10 artists from Iraq, Turkey and the Republic of the Congo. A short presentation of each of them will be available in Lithuanian and English.