Valentinas Klimašauskas



Valentinas Klimašauskas (b. 1977, Lithuania) is curator, writer, and director of the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius since January 2025. Recently, he curated the 1st Klaipėda biennial (2025), the Lithuanian pavilion at the Venice Biennial 2024 (with João Laia, artists: Pakui Hardware and Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė). Together with João Laia Valentinas curated The Endless Frontier, the 14th Baltic Triennial at CAC Vilnius (2021). With Inga Lāce, they curated Saules Suns, a solo exhibition by Daiga Grantina for the Latvian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2019). Other recently curated projects include Ocean Eyes, the Coast Contemporary festival in Lofuotta/Láfot/Lofoten Islands (2023); Today, yesterday, tomorrow, a non-commercial part of the ArtVilnius’23; nEYEYEght at Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon (2023); Fluid bodies, a series of 5 exhibitions at Nemuno 7, Zapyškis (2022); An Incomplete & Unreliable Guide to Social Media War Room as part of the Curated by festival at Georg Kargl Gallery, Vienna (2021) and The sex lives of fruit flies at Low gallery, Riga (2021). Klimašauskas is the author of Telebodies. Bleeding Subtitles for Postrobotic Scenes (Mousse Publishing, 2024), Polygon (Six Chairs Books, 2018), Oh, My Darling & Other Rants (The Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt, 2018), and B (Torpedo Press, 2014).