On September 17, 2025, the opening of the photography exhibition Black, White, Grey by Düsseldorf-based artist Neringa Naujokaitė took place at the Valdas Adamkus Presidential Library-Museum. The event was attended by the artist, art historian Prof. Rasa Žukienė, and moderated by Prof. Dalia Kuizinienė, literary scholar at the Vytautas Magnus University Lithuanian Emigration Institute.

Neringa Naujokaitė’s exhibition presents three series reflecting her relationship with cities significant to her – Düsseldorf and Kaunas. The series Last Day captures the final day of the Kaunas Zoo before its closure for reconstruction. Seeking to convey childhood-related nostalgia, the artist chose the medium of analog photography. In the series Schwarz Weiß Grau (Black, White, Grey), attention is focused on details of modernist Kaunas interiors – the interplay of architectural forms and lines with light, and the resulting dynamics within a black-and-white palette. Both series have never before been shown in Lithuania. The large-format color series Grey Zone addresses themes of barriers, migration, social exclusion, and stereotypes, focusing on the “grey zones” that have emerged in recent years on the maps of Düsseldorf and Büren.

In her projects, the artist explores social issues, the interaction between the individual and their environment, and pressing societal challenges. Photography and video are particularly close to her practice due to their direct connection with reality – media that best reveal the documentary qualities characteristic of Naujokaitė’s work in depicting people as well as social and urban spaces. Neringa Naujokaitė studied at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and completed audiovisual media studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Since the 1980s, she has lived and worked in Germany.

The artist participates in international solo and group exhibitions. In recent years, her works have been exhibited at the Kesselhaus Museum in Berlin (2025), Butler Gallery in Kilkenny, Ireland (2025), the Digital Icon Festival in Thessaloniki, Greece (2025), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2025), Crisis Gallery in Lima, Peru (2024), the Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art in Vilnius (2023), the ValenciaPHOTO Festival in Valencia, Spain (2023), and the Frauenmuseum in Bonn, Germany (2023). Naujokaitė’s works have received numerous awards, including the NRW CityArtist Prize, the International Women’s Foundation Die Höge Award, the Ida Gerhardi Prize, the Düsseldorf Fine Arts Prize, and the Bremen Video Art Prize.

The exhibition at the Valdas Adamkus Presidential Library-Museum (25 S. Daukanto St., Kaunas) will be open until October 31, 2025.