The Yury Popka Belarusian Museum An exhibition at the Ivan Lutskevich Vilnius Belarusian Museum This exhibition presents a collection brought to Vilnius this past spring from Leimen, Germany. The collection is shown here in its entirety — the whole totality of it: textiles (towels, bedspreads, clothing); art and decorative pieces; the museum’s library; and Yury Popka’s personal correspondence and photo album. After the death of its owner, the Yury Popka Museum ceased to exist, despite all his efforts to ensure otherwise.

This year we organized our very first literary festival dedicated to Belarusian women writers — and we think it turned out to be a really special event. When we started planning it, we had one simple idea: what if a literary festival was designed primarily for readers? Very often literary festivals follow a familiar pattern. You come, you listen to writers reading from their books, maybe you buy a book, and then you leave.

We are glad to invite you to our new exhibition. This time, we turned to vernacular photography — and more specifically, to women within it. The exhibition brings together photographs of women from different collections we work with, creating a space where these images can be seen together, in conversation with one another. We didn’t settle on a single title for this exhibition — and that is intentional. Depending on how you choose to look at it, this exhibition becomes a slightly different thing each time.