Eglė Ridikaitė's exhibition "Nuėmimai" at St. George the Martyr Church

The Church Heritage Museum presents an exhibition by artist and National Prize laureate Eglė Ridikaitė in a historic Vilnius location – the Church of St. George the Martyr. This space, closed for nearly 80 years, is being opened to visitors for the first time.

Eglė Ridikaitė's exhibition uses a unique artistic gesture to connect different places of faith, painful historical experiences, and a sense of present-day vulnerability. "Removals" unfolds as a quiet yet conceptually dense narrative about the city, simultaneously experiencing the layers of pre-war Jewish and Christian Vilnius, exploring processes of survival and disappearance, past life, and memory and oblivion.

At the center of the exhibition is a gigantic structure hanging in the church space, made of the artist's canvases joined into a single entity with "removed" fragments of the destroyed Great Synagogue space, full-scale floors of the synagogue's bimah and mikvah, moon-like column bases, and other exposures.

The exhibition takes place at the Church of St. George the Martyr (entrance from K. Sirvydo St. 4, through the old gates).

The exhibition will be open from May 14 to October 3,

Tuesday–Friday from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM,

Saturday from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM.

ATTENTION! Tickets for the exhibition can be purchased online via the "Paysera Tickets" system. At the exhibition venue (Church of St. George the Martyr), tickets can only be purchased by card. Cash tickets can only be purchased at the museum ticket offices: the Vilnius Cathedral Bell Tower or the Treasury (Šv. Mykolo St. 9).

More information at www.bpmuziejus.lt, tel. +370 5 269 7803, or email muziejus@bpmuziejus.lt.

The museum's activities are funded by the Vilnius Archdiocese, the Lithuanian Council for Culture, and the Vilnius City Municipality.