As told by exhibition Curator Deima, Collection Manager Ieva and Curators Ugnė, Gabrielė and Miglė
This year was full of change and transformation for all of us. We had to concentrate and reschedule the exhibitions and the timetable. Working on exhibitions is like running a marathon, it requires a long-time practice. The process gets even more complicated with the participation of international partners. International aspect became a tremendous challenge during the pandemic. To complete Saskia Boddeke and Peter Greenaway’s exhibition Why Is It Hard to Love? we had to wait until the artists could travel from the Netherlands. We also had to change our autumn plans accordingly. A large-scale project which includes cooperation with over 20 foreign museums and collectioners scheduled for autumn had to be moved to spring.
Rescheduling logistics of some 150 artworks from five countries was a true challenge. The small exhibition that was supposed to set the context for the main exhibition and introduce the multicultural Vilnius art scene between 1939 and 1949 was also postponed. The gap in the small exhibitions schedule was filled in together with the team of the Vilnius City Opera and we successfully opened an exhibition From That Opera in September. The Travelling Museum project opened a new page in the life of MO, we visited four cities in Lithuania with the fragments of the exhibition The Origin of Species. 1990s DNA. In this section we will tell you more about the exhibitions in 2020. 17
