Emilija Škarnulytė

Emilija Škarnulytė is a Lithuanian-born artist and filmmaker. Working between documentary and speculative fiction, her video works take viewers through decommissioned nuclear power plants, deep-sea data storage units, forgotten underwater cities, and uncanny natural phenomena. The artist has most recently exhibited her work at the Gwangju Biennale, Helsinki Biennale, Vilnius Biennale, and the Henie Onstad Triennale and presented her works in solo exhibitions at Canal Projects, Kunsthaus Göttingen, and Ferme-Asile. Emilia Škarnulytė is a co-founder and co-director of the Polar Film Lab, a collective for analogue film practice located in Tromsø, Norway, and is a member of the artist duo New Mineral Collective.

Emilija Skarnulyte by Visvaldas Morkevicius WE Bres
Landscapes of an Ongoing Past Uli Golub Babushka in Space 2017 The Palace of Specials ©

Landscapes of an Ongoing Past

Looking at the landscapes of the Ruhr area, Landscapes of an Ongoing Past traces questions of industrial production and relates them to the aftermath of socialist ideologies.