My Vilnius. Virgilijus Usinavičius-Augulis
May 16, 2026 - July 18, 2026
Photography can be a way not only to record a city but to feel it.
In My Vilnius, Virgilijus Usinavičius-Augulis turns to a personal way of seeing the city: intuitive and free of expectation and function. These are photographs made “for himself,” with no wish to record an event or explain reality.
His images are not tied to the decisive moment; they exist as a space for contemplation. There is more silence in them than event, more feeling than fact.
Working with a panoramic camera, he widens the frame and lets the city unfold differently: more slowly, more deeply, with a sense of distance. The fog that often appears in the work does not hide things; on the contrary, it builds the composition, brings out what matters and moves the image away from the everyday.
An important part of the project is the analogue prints, made by the artist by hand. In them the photograph becomes an object: imperfect but alive, keeping the trace of time and of the gesture.
My Vilnius is not a document of the city but its inner image. A space of memory, mood and presence.
Opening: May 16 at 15:00
Free entry to the opening
From May 17: a donation to the gallery from 100 UAH
Events during this program
Artist talk: Virgis Augulis-Usinavičius
Working with panoramic photography, the artist turns to a personal, intuitive way of seeing the city. His work is an attempt not just to record the city but to live it through rhythm, silence, light and presence.
Lecture by Volodymyr Tarasov: New visuality in contemporary Lithuanian photography
Talking about contemporary Lithuanian photography means trying to answer a few questions: how do you overcome the pressure of tradition? How do you raise the bar even higher without betraying your own creative identity?
Screening: Under the Red Light / Požerkis: In Focus
Romualdas Požerskis is a photographer whose work has become an important part of the history of Lithuanian humanist photography. His series document everyday life, religious festivals, hospitals, old towns, memory and human vulnerability, often under a system that tried to control the very possibility of an independent view.
Lecture: A chronicle of the Ukrainian photobook since independence
A photobook is more than a way of putting photographs in one place. It is a format that records change, searches for a language to talk about experience and builds its own cultural context.
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Book club: Walter Benjamin, Aura. Four Essays on Photography
Join us for a meeting of the On Photography book club. This time we are reading Walter Benjamin’s Aura. Four Essays on Photography (in Ukrainian).
Interview with Alexander Glyadyelov
The Pohliad creative photography association was one of the key circles in Ukrainian photography in the late 1980s and 1990s. It was around Pohliad that a new documentary photography took shape: a new way of talking about reality, people and time through images.