Neringa Bumblienė
15.—23.09.2025
→ Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca
Neringa Bumblienė is a curator and writer whose work engages with contemporary art practices that sensitively reflect upon today’s global challenges while helping to imagine better futures. Often working on projects that involve new commissions, she invites artists into situations that stretch beyond their usual realm of practice.
Bumblienė is the artistic director and curator of the Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art, which held its inaugural edition in 2023. She curated the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 59th Biennale di Venezia in 2022 and 2014-2025 worked as a curator at the CAC in Vilnius.
Her curatorial projects span large-scale international group exhibitions and performance festivals – including co-curating ’Borders Are Nocturnal Animals’ at the Palais de Tokyo and KADIST in Paris in 2024, and its second chapter at the CAC in Vilnius in 2025, and the Baltic Triennial 13 in 2018 – as well as solo presentations of emerging and established artists, including Augustas Serapinas in 2025, Robertas Narkus in 2023, 2022 and 2020, Pierre Huyghe in 2022, Michael Rakowitz in 2020, Alejandro Cesarco in 2019, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané in 2018, Liam Gillick in 2017 and 2014, among others.
Her texts have been published in exhibition catalogues and art publications, including the Palais de Tokyo Magazine, Guide of the Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art, the catalogue of the 59th Biennale di Venezia, and the catalogue of the Baltic Triennial 13.
2024-2025 Bumblienė served as a mentor at the AAMC – Association of Art Museum Curators fellowship programme in New York. 2021-2024 she was a Board Member of the IKT – International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art.