On Saturday, 21 February at 2pm, as part of the finissage of the exhibition On Fragile Grounds. Sirje Runge and Light, Kai Art Center will host a public curator-led tour, guided by Mėta Valiušaitytė.

 

This is a rare and final opportunity to experience the exhibition from the curator’s perspective. The tour offers insight into the making of the exhibition, the artist’s work across different periods, and the key ideas running through the show.

 

The tour will be held in English and is included with an exhibition ticket.

 

Mėta Valiušaitytė (born in Lithuania, lives and works between Paris and Berlin) is a curator and researcher. She holds a PhD in art history and has served as scientific advisor to Peter Weibel at ZKM Karlsruhe, assistant curator at the Musée national Picasso-Paris, and most recently postdoctoral fellow at Académie de France – Villa Médicis in Rome, among other roles. Her work focuses on scale and size, fragility, modern ruins, with a particular interest in the materiality of works and in the medium of drawing. One of her recent exhibitions, Picasso on Wood, is currently on view at the Museo Picasso Málaga; another, André Derain. Thinking Small: Repetition and Reduction, will open in Berlin in early 2026.