Valentinas Klimašauskas’ talk focuses on his curatorial engagement in the 2021 edition of the Baltic Triennial 14 titled The Endless Frontier. The Triennial focused on the so-called former Eastern Europe and emphasise arts’ inscription in an expansive social landscape, mirroring current frictions between an assortment of endpoints and new beginnings. Klimašauskas will explain how the triennial will engage with a paradoxical time of fragmented integration, where conflicting ecologic, economic, and political agencies are enacted. Baltic Triennial 14 - Endless Frontier was be held at Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, 4 June-15 August 2021. The talk was streaming live on Zoom, and Facebook Live.

Valentinas Klimašauskas is a curator and writer. Together with João Laia he curates the 14th Baltic Triennial at CAC Vilnius (2021). With Inga Lāce he curated Saules Suns, a solo exhibition by Daiga Grantina for the Latvian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2019). Klimašauskas' previous engagements include Program Director at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2017/18), and a Curator at CAC, Vilnius (2003/13). Recent curated projects include “Pulse” by Alexandra Pirici, enlivenment of the Kaunas Ninth Fort Monument; “Microorganisms & Their Hosts”, a collaborative solo by Mindaugas Gapševičius at Atletika, Vilnius. “The Cave & the Garden” at Futura CCA, Prague, “Columnists” at Editorial, Vilnius (2019); “Portals or location scouting in Kaunas”, presented by Spike Art Quarterly (2017). He is the author of Oh, My Darling & Other Rants (The Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt, 2018), Polygon (Six Chairs Books, 2018), and B (Torpedo Press, 2014).