The Rooster Gallery opens its 2026 season with the group exhibition What Artists Dream Of, curated by Dr. Tomas Daukša. Running throughout February, the exhibition forms part of the cultural route SUMENĖK.

Dreams take many forms – some we are eager to escape, others we long to stay inside. Some invite esoteric interpretation, others lend themselves to psychoanalysis. Others still inspire scientific discoveries – the ring structure of the benzene molecule, the periodic table of elements, and more.

Eleven artists, ten worlds, one dream. Will it offer a prophetic glimpse of the future, or lead us astray through a sequence of seemingly unrelated images? Will it provide gentle oblivion, or intensify the anxieties of the present? Just as we cannot know what we will dream of before falling asleep, I don’t know the answer to these questions in advance. I know only this: the dream will be in colour. Everything else will become clear only if we dare to plunge into it together.

Some might say that there are far more urgent and relevant matters than dreams today. Yet we should not forget that this exhibition takes place in a city born of a dream. Dreams, at least in part, shape our reality. This raises a simple but pressing question: what do artists dream of today, and what do their dreams bring into being? And what do you dream of?

The exhibition presents works by artists Raminta Blaževičiūtė-Mozūraitienė, Kazimieras Brazdžiūnas, Tomas Daukša, Eglė Karpavičiūtė, Vytautas Kumža, Eglė Norkutė, Vita Opolskytė, Sandra Strėlė, Ieva Trinkūnaitė, Andrius Zakarauskas, and the duo Vasarė + Lukas.

The opening will take place on January 30 at 6:00pm. The exhibition will be on view until March 1.

Gallery opening hours: IV-VI 16:00-19:00, VII 14:00-17:00.