Visit: Shelters for the Senses

Tate St Ives presents the first UK museum exhibition of the work of Aleksandra Kasuba.

Kasuba fled Lithuania after the Second World War, emigrating to the United States where she settled in New York, and then New Mexico.

The exhibition spans seven decades of work, exploring Kasuba’s artistic journey, from her early paintings and mosaics to her later sculptures and architectural designs. Her love of the natural world is clear throughout her work, which was often inspired by the shapes and forms of nature, such as shells, rocks, vegetation and marine life.

Kasuba was driven by a desire to forge a deeper connection between humanity and nature, and to imagine alternative ways of living. She felt that the exchange of ideas could push the boundaries of creativity and innovation. Kasuba explored this idea through collaborating with a pioneering collective (Experiments in Art and Technology, or E.A.T), made up of artists, engineers, and scientists, throughout the 1960s.

Image: Aleksandra Kasuba, Rock Hill House, New Mexico, 2005. Digital Archive of Aleksandra Kasuba, Lithuanian National Museum of Art.