Capital traveling through bodies and materials
Pakui Hardware is a name for collaborative artist duo Neringa Cerniauskaite and Ugnius Gelguda. Pakui Hardware refers to Pakui – special attendant of Hawaiian Goddess, a runner who could circle an island six times in a day, thus embodying velocity and mythology, and Hardware which stands for materiality, bodies, and resources.
The duo's work explores plasticity of bodies, their yet undiscovered potentials. They trace how diverse technologies expand, test and control these bodily promises. Hybrid materials that the artists employ correspond to hybrid bodies that surround us. These questions are analyzed through such examples as invasive and transformative relationship to bodies, automation, synthetic biology and new materiality.
Pakui Hardware is represented by carlier | gebauer, Berlin
More information: http://www.carliergebauer.com/artists/pakui_hardware
Contacts: info@pakuihardware.org
BIOGRAPHY
Pakui Hardware is a duo formed by artists Neringa Cerniauskait? and Ugnius Gelguda in 2014. Solo exhibitions of Pakui Hardware’s work have been held at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, and MUMOK Museum of Modern Art, Vienna. Pakui Hardware has participated in the Istanbul Biennial, the 13th Baltic Triennial in Vilnius, the Biennale Gherdeina in Urtijei, Italy, and the Kaunas Biennial, as well as exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Basel, the MAXXI in Rome, the National Gallery of Art in Prague, the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, the Ujazdowski Art Centre in Warsaw, and the BOZAR Museum in Brussels. In 2023 the duo was also invited to curate the annual program at La Casa Encendida Centre for Contemporary Art in Madrid. Pakui Hardware represented Lithuania at the 60th Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art together with Marija Terese Rozanskaite (1933–2007).
Ugnius Gelguda is an artist based in Vilnius and Berlin.
Neringa Cerniauskaite is an artist, curator, writer. She contributes texts for exhibitions’ catalogues and international magazines (Artforum, Flash Art, Parkett, ARTMargins.com, MAP, Mousse magazine). She is an editor of the web-based art magazine www.artnews.lt that was launched in 2008. She is a M.A. graduate, 2014, at Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, NY.
Both artists are based in Berlin and Vilnius.
Awards
2025
Government Culture and Art Award, Lithuania
2018
Günther-Peill-Stiftung grant, Germany
2014
Iaspis Art Grant, The Swedish Arts Grants, Stockholm, Sweden
2013
Nominee for the HENKEL ART.AWARD.2013, Vienna, Austria