Berlin Art Week 2025: Urban Spree presents "Spinning with Rats" by Faktura
- Sep 10, 2025
During Berlin Art Week 2025, Urban Spree Galerie presents "Spinning with Rats", the first solo exhibition in Germany of the Lithuanian visual artist Ervinas Blažys a.k.a Faktūra.
The exhibition's Opening will be held on September 12th, 2025 from 18:00 to 22:00 in presence of the artist who also curated an all-Lithuanian outdoor techno music program featuring Matas Petrikas @matas (live), Elektro Plasma Sound System, @elektroplazma (live), Matas Bernotas @mountakk, Matas Gancevičius @learntocontent, and Gražvydas Ivaškevičius @mr_grazzmatazz
We invite you to discover a deeply-rooted visual universe, dense and tense, achieved in a unique way: the artist glues multiple layers of street paper posters onto canvas, then sands and grinds until revealing the underlying layers and creating colors and shapes with few or no paint involved, texture like skin, parchment, encapsulating organic elements, figurative and real.
The exhibition "Spinning with Rats" was partially created in Berlin during a Residency at Urban Spree in August 2025. "Spinning with Rats" pushes Faktūra further into a cycle of escape and return, of breaking habits only to form new ones. It is art as confrontation: with material, with place, with the impossibility of standing still.
Between past and present, surface and underworld — Spinning with Rats is an exhibition about movement, transformation, and the raw grind of creative survival.
Biography:
Ervinas Blažys a.k.a Faktūra is a unique artist of the younger generation, living and working in Vilnius. His work combines innovation, artistic expression, and visual experimentation. He actively participates in local and international exhibitions, festivals, and residencies, gaining recognition for his ability to create distinctive visual concepts that draw viewers into his artistic world and invite them to explore the connections between environment, architecture, and art.
Exhibitions:
2025 – Solo exhibition “Phase 1”, Vilnius
2025 – Group exhibition “Rave Nation - Dancing to the Sounds of Freedom, 1992-2004", National Museum of Lithuania, Vilnius
2024 – Group exhibition “Spectrum 2”, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius
2022 – Solo exhibition “The Most Important Quality”, Autarkia, Vilnius
2022–2024 – Creator of the visual and artistic concept for the “Audra” Festival, Art Director of the visual section
Team:
Exhibition design and architecture: Justina Tarasovaitė
Creative process assistants: Ąžuolas Merčaitis, Bartas Jankauskas
Acknowledgments to the exhibition and residency patrons:
Dmitrijus Borisenka, Irma Šimanskytė, Cultural Attaché of the Republic of Lithuania in the Federal Republic of Germany, the Lithuanian Cultural Institute, Urban Spree
Ervinas Blažys a.k.a Faktūra
Spinning with Rats
Solo Exhibition
Urban Spree Galerie
Revaler Str. 99
10245 Berlin
Catalogue & Info: pascal@urbanspree.com
