Housekeeping in a Dangerous Time

A Group Exhibition at Sapieha Palace

From 24 April to 31 December 2026, Sapieha Palace presents Housekeeping in a Dangerous Time, a group exhibition that turns its gaze toward the forces reshaping how generations relate to one another. Drawing its title from Bruce Cockburn’s 1984 track Lovers in a Dangerous Time, the show is threaded with questions about the intergenerational contract — what we owe those arriving into the world and those leaving it, against a backdrop of deepening conflict, demographic shifts, economic stagnation and ecological emergency.

The exhibition also turns inward, scrutinising the digital social spaces woven into daily life that foster what the curators describe as widespread social infantilisation. Algorithmic systems driven by consumerist imperatives blur the boundaries between maturity and immaturity, and the artists gathered here interrogate precisely that erosion.

Artists and Themes

The participating artists — Ethan Assouline, Anna Clegg, Jeremy Deller, Ryan Gander, Saulė Gerikaitė, Camille Henrot, Nojus Juška, Marc Kokopeli, Robertas Narkus, Phung-Tien Phan, Josiane M.H. Pozi, Piotr Skiba and Niklas Taleb — each address the role everyday technologies play in the self-formation of contemporary individuals. Their works explore notions of maturity alongside the societal expectations and infrastructures that define and sustain it.

Home, understood here as both a physical space and a virtual environment, becomes a site where life narratives unravel and reassemble, relationships intertwine, fragments of popular culture converge and streams of information flow without pause. The exhibition treats domesticity not as a retreat from crisis but as a charged terrain where care, dependency and identity are negotiated in real time.

Curatorial Framework

Curated by Inesa Brašiškė, Edgaras Gerasimovičius and Povilas Gumbis, the show positions artistic practice as a means of reckoning with the conditions that structure contemporary life. Rather than offering didactic commentary, the curators have assembled a constellation of works that hold open space for ambiguity — between generations, between the analogue and the digital, between dependence and autonomy.

The exhibition runs for over eight months, an unusually extended duration that itself mirrors the slow, cumulative nature of the intergenerational questions at its core.

Practical Information

Housekeeping in a Dangerous Time opens on 24 April 2026 at Sapieha Palace and remains on view through 31 December 2026. Further details regarding opening hours and programming are available through the venue.