Programme of Accompanying Events “Another Turn of the Sleepers” 

“Another Turn of the Sleepers”

Programme of Accompanying Events

Linas Leonas Katinas (1941–2020) was one of the most distinctive modernist artists born and working in Lithuania. His creative biography, spanning six decades, captivates with its unique playfulness, vibrant energy, and a mysticism of his own.

The artist was deeply fascinated by existence itself, or transcendence, understood as a spiritual experience beyond ordinary sensory perception and the limits of earthly matter. The exhibition invites visitors to explore this intriguing dimension of Katinas’s work. His individual worldview intertwines with fragments of myths and archetypes from ancient civilisations, while transcultural, timeless references and symbols speak of transience, a longing for eternity, and human, almost naive attempts to grasp the unfathomable mysteries of the universe.

Most of the works presented in this exhibition were created in the 1970s and 1980s, when the artist’s liberated imagination was ablaze with colour and, as he himself put it, transatlantic ornamental threads connecting Lithuanian folk bedspread patterns with the colours of the chakras. A self-taught painter (he studied architecture), Katinas developed his own personal mythology – playful, like a child building fragile bridges between East and West, the profane and the sacred, naivety and grandeur. In his cosmological vision, the idea of eternal cyclical change recurs: a return to the cycle of birth, death, and renewal.

Public Lecture

The Path of Buddhism to Lithuania During the Soviet Era 

Prof. Dr. Audrius Beinorius

How did Buddhist ideas reach Lithuania, and under what circumstances did the first communities of practitioners begin to form? This public lecture presents a little-known yet significant chapter in Lithuania’s religious and cultural history – the arrival of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in the 20th century. The lecture focuses on the Lithuanian community that preserved a Tibetan Buddhist tradition brought from Buryatia, along with its teacher, Bidia Dandaron (1914–1974) – a prominent Buddhist teacher of Buryat origin, philosopher, and one of the most important proponents of Buddhism during the Soviet era. It explores how his teachings and personality attracted a wide circle of students, including Lithuanians, and how this tradition was both persecuted and sustained under the difficult conditions of the Soviet period. The lecture will also address the role of Lithuanian students within this milieu; the transmission of Buddhist practices and texts through informal intellectual networks; the spread of Buddhist ideas in Lithuania during the late Soviet period; and the significance of this tradition for contemporary understandings of Buddhism in Lithuania. 

The lecture is intended for anyone interested in the history of religions, Eastern philosophy, Lithuanian cultural history, and alternative spiritual movements during the Soviet era. 

May 19, 6 pm

Audrius Beinorius is a Doctor of Philosophy and Professor at the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University. His research interests include Indian philosophy and religion, comparative religious studies, cultural psychology, and postcolonial theory. Beinorius studied in India and has worked at universities in the United States, Japan, India, and across Europe. He has also taught as a visiting professor at Sapienza University of Rome, the University of Malta, Ghent University (Belgium), Reykjavík University, the University of Tartu, Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya, and the University of Calcutta (India). To date, he has published five books: Sąmonė klasikinėje Indijos filosofijoje (Consciousness in Classical Indian Philosophy) (2002), Imagining Otherness: A Postcolonial Perspective on Indian Religious Culture (2007), Budizmo raida Indijoje (The Development of Buddhism in India) (2011), Indija ir Vakarai: kultūrų sąveikos pjūviai (India and the West: Aspects of Cultural Interaction) (2012), and Samvada: filosofiniai pokalbiai su Indija (Samvada: Philosophical Conversations with India) (2024). He has also prepared Lithuanian translations of the Dhammapada (2005), from Pali, and the Upanishads (2013), from Sanskrit. In addition, he has published over 90 scholarly articles in Lithuanian and international academic journals. 

Guided Tour-Lecture

Among Linas Katinas ’s Paintings  

Dr. Viktoras Liutkus

  The lecture, conducted as a guided tour of the exhibition, will explore the personality of the artist Linas Katinas, the sources of his worldview, and the inspirations behind his work. It will examine the artistic qualities of his paintings, the distinctive features of his technique, and the recurring motifs that shaped his imagination – from starry nights (inspired by Vincent van Gogh) to a constant presence in his daily life – red wine. Liutkus will share numerous stories from his time spent with the artist, recount the circumstances surrounding curated exhibitions, and reflect on Katinas’s thoughts on folk and fine art, as well as his assessments of painters – particularly those in Lithuania. As participants move through the exhibition, they will hear about the themes unfolding within the paintings, the techniques employed by the artist, and the sounds and symbols he himself devised in his solo shows. Attention will also be given to the painting process itself, many aspects of which can be linked to the fundamental principles of Buddhism and its core values. What was Linas Katinas’s place within the broader context of Lithuanian painting? One possible answer lies in the Buddhist saying, “One is in the many, the many are in One”: he embodied both a movement and a style, an artistic phenomenon, and a loner within the crowd. 

May 30, 2 pm

Viktoras Liutkus is a Doctor of Art History, art historian, exhibition curator, former lecturer at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, head of the Department of Painting, and former director of the Academy Museum. He has authored monographs on painters Viktoras Vizgirda (2000) and Antanas Samuolis (2006), sculptor Antanas Mončys (2003), the “Penketas” group of painters (2015), and the first Lithuanian avant-garde artist Vytautas Kairiūkštis (2024). He is a co-author of several studies on art history and art criticism (XX a. lietuvių dailės istorija (History of 20th-Century Lithuanian Art), vol. 3, 1990; Šiuolaikinės lietuvių dailės horizontai (Horizons of Contemporary Lithuanian Art), 1992; Išeivijos dailė (Art of the Diaspora), 2003), as well as curated numerous exhibitions, including “Lithuanian Painting. 1920–1940” at the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (1999), an exhibition of Šarūnas Sauka’s work in Kristianstad (Sweden, 2007), an exhibition of Lithuanian painting in Athens (2008), an exhibition of Vytautas Kairiūkštis’s works at the National Art Gallery in Vilnius (2010), an exhibition of Antanas Mončys’s works at the Vytautas Kasiulis Museum in Vilnius (2015, 2021), as well as exhibitions of works by Vladas Eidukevičius, Algimantas Jonas Švėgžda, Linas Leonas Katinas, Justinas Vienožinskis, Antanas Samuolis, Algimantas Kuras, Algis Skačkauskas, and other important artists in Vilnius, Panevėžys, Palanga, and elsewhere. Liutkus is a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Union and, since 1991, a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) (he also served as president of the Lithuanian section from 1991 to 1995), as well as a member of the painter and art historian group “24” (active 1989–2000).   

Public Lecture

A Buddhist Perspective on the World and Its Transcendence 

Ayya Piyadassī (Aloka Centre)

What do Buddhists mean by “the world”? What does it consist of, and why should it be “transcended”? This lecture invites us to view the world through a Buddhist lens – exploring what constitutes it, which characteristics are common to all forms of life, and why the goal of the Buddhist path is to transcend the world while helping others do the same. Both the external world – Buddhist cosmology – and the internal world – Buddhist psychology – will be considered, along with the points at which they intersect and what lies beyond them. 

July 22, 6 pm

Ayya Piyadassī is a Theravāda Buddhist nun of Lithuanian descent. She has been practising Buddhist meditation since 2007, and since 2013 she has done so as an ordained nun. In Myanmar, where she was ordained and spent nearly seven years, she not only deepened her meditation practice but also completed a master’s degree in Buddhism and the Pali language. Currently, under the guidance of Venerable Luangta Narongsak, a monk of the Thai forest tradition, she lives and teaches Buddhist theory and practice at the Aloka Centre in Klaipėda District. 

Practical Session

Meditation as Conscious Sleep, Sleep as Unconscious Meditation 

Daumantas Lukošiūnas

During this sound journey and meditation, instruments from various eras and cultures are performed live: gongs, crystal bowls, didgeridoos, shamanic drums, and other frequency-based instruments that help balance the body’s energy centres. Participants lie on their backs, comfortably and warmly covered, with their eyes closed. Guided by sound, we enter an inner landscape where subconscious images and suppressed emotions may arise – to be fully experienced and thus released – or simply to allow the body to relax and settle into pleasant sensation. Meditation can help navigate the challenges of daily life, strengthen emotional awareness and mindfulness, and support overall well-being. 

August 2, 4 pm

Daumantas Lukošiūnas is a sound engineer, multi-instrumentalist, and sound meditation guide. His work revolves around vibration, rhythm, and sound in all its forms. As a drummer and sound artist, he explores how different frequencies affect the body and inner states. In his sessions, he performs live using gongs, crystal bowls, the didgeridoo, and other instruments, creating a space for deep relaxation and inner exploration. His practice unfolds as an organically evolving soundscape, where technology and intuition merge into a continuous, flowing experience. 

Practical Workshop

Dream Creation Workshop 

Virginija Vareikytė

During the workshop, participants will share their dreams and explore how dream material can become a source of creativity. This process is based on a structured listening method – using specifically formulated questions, precise wording, and a clear methodological framework that allows unexpected creative forms to emerge from the dream. The dreamer’s recorded words are returned to them in a chosen form – read aloud, sung, acted out, drawn, or otherwise – depending on the form selected by the dreamer. Participants will work in pairs, taking turns in both roles: that of the dream-sharer and that of the creator working with the dream material. 

August 29, 2 pm

Virginija Vareikytė is a documentary filmmaker, intimacy coordinator in film and theatre, and facilitator. She is the creator of FUEL, a self-development workshop held at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius in 2025. She is currently studying somatic sexology and developing a practice that combines storytelling, intimacy, and physicality. 

Short Film Programme

Dreamwalkers 

The programme follows the gaze of Linas Leonas Katinas as it unfolds through his work, shaped by a personal interest in exploring what lies beyond everyday perception. These are films in which cinema is used to create not so much a narrative, but a state of consciousness. They unfold between wakefulness and dream, slowness and repetition, reality and fiction, and – by cultivating a particular kind of attentiveness – evoke an experience approaching a meditative state. Here, vision does not serve analysis; the image functions instead as a field of experience, where observation becomes a mode of being. The visual language of Tsai Ming-liang, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and Bi Gan enters into a quiet dialogue with the sensibility and thinking present in Katinas’s work. The films act as thresholds between experience, perception, and the intuitive – they do not seek explanation or translation into words or other forms of rational understanding. This programme lingers in memory as a series of intuitive impressions and dreamlike recollections. 

Perhaps, in this case, watching is closer to a state of presence and wakefulness, where what matters is not so much what is happening, but what gradually emerges. 

Programme Curator: Bon Alog

September 12 at 6 pm, Garsas Cinema Centre, Stasys Museum

Educational Workshop

The Conscious Gaze 

The experiential educational workshop invites participants and visitors to slow down, step away from everyday routines, and consciously return to the present moment. Through mindfulness-based practices, participants are invited to experience the works within the exhibition through different sensory modalities – sight, hearing, touch, and spatial awareness. Participants explore artworks through guided sensory exercises, developing focus, imagination, and a personal relationship with art. The sessions take place in exhibition and educational spaces, combining individual and collective experience with shared discussion, and aim to create a safe, open environment in which the works on display become a vivid, lived experience. 

The educational sessions are designed for adults and school groups and will begin on May 26. 

Guided Tours 

We invite you to explore the exhibition Another Turn of the Sleepers with a guide from the Stasys Museum. During the tour, the guide will provide a coherent and engaging introduction to the exhibition’s concept, context, the works on display, and their creator. Guided tours – both scheduled and private – are designed for adults and school groups and will begin on April 30. From May 28, free guided tours in sign language will also be available for groups of deaf and hard-of-hearing visitors. 

For more information and advance registration for private tours and workshops, please contact us via email at education@stasysmuseum.com or by phone at +370 664 90711. To register for scheduled tours, please scan the QR code below. 

Guided tours with exhibition curator Jolanta Marcišauskytė-Jurašienė 

July 25, 2 pm, and September 13, 2 pm 

For more information and advance registration for private tours and workshops, please contact us via email at education@stasysmuseum.com or by phone at +370 664 90711. To register for scheduled tours, please scan the QR code below. 

All works by Linas Leonas Katinas presented in the exhibition belong to the collection of the physician Virgilijus Norvaiša.

Curator Jolanta Marcišauskytė-Jurašienė
Architect Ieva Cicėnaitė
Graphic Designer Laura Grigaliūnaitė
Film Authors: Gintaras Šeputis, Jolanta Marcišauskytė-Jurašienė
Sound Installation Creators:   
Composer Agnė Matulevičiūtė
Voice Gediminas Rimeika
Poetry Linas Leonas Katinas
Sign Language Interpretation: Raimonda Vaičeliūnienė, Birutė Šimkienė, Lijana Čiplienė
Cinematographer Dinas Marcinkevičius
Video Editing Arnas Dambrauskas
Translation and Editing Alexandra Bondarev
Technical Production of the Exhibition: Irmantas Kuskys (MB „Irsaul“), Vadim Šamkov, Liudvikas Kesminas, Rytis Urbanskas, Tomas Styra, Paulius Lalas
Exhibition Lighting Designer Renaldas Bartulis
Financed by Panevėžys City Municipality 
Sponsored by UAB „Kalnapilio-Tauro“ grupė, OWEXX, 2go
Media partner LRT
Organised by Stasys Museum