On November 28, the Vilnius art space Editorial will open a site-specific installation by New York–based Latvian artist Viktor Timofeev, titled Exact Fantasy. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in Lithuania.
Timofeev’s interdisciplinary practice weaves together personal experience and speculative imagination, combining video, painting, software, installation, and sound to construct semi-fantastical environments.
Created specifically for Editorial, Exact Fantasy presents two parallel domestic spaces filled with belongings of their fictional inhabitants – a prolific artist and an amateur astronomer who live as neighbors. Both seem driven by an obsessive attempt to understand and systematize their surroundings, employing logic, empiricism, and scientific theories while immersing themselves in visions shaped by imagination and fiction. One character focuses on the Moon, after noticing a mysterious movement in one of its craters through a telescope. Meanwhile, the walls of the artist’s studio are covered with drawings and paintings reflecting visual research – from observation-based depictions of a small medieval town to abstract, visionary works.
The two neighbors symbolically represent two approaches to scientific research – empirical and theoretical. One tries to understand the environment through observation and study, while the other creates a logical yet idealized system imposed upon the world; one looks inwards, the other outwards. Structurally, the exhibition is also divided into two parts: a partition faces the entrance, allowing visitors to see both spaces as they enter. The artist draws inspiration from Ilya Kabakov’s total installations, Stanislaw Lem’s science fiction, and Karen Barad’s non-fiction writing.
Viktor Timofeev (b. 1984, Riga) is a New York–based artist holding a BA from Hunter College in New York, and an MA from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, Netherlands. In 2018, he founded No Moon, an event space in Brooklyn hosting film screenings, performances, sensory deprivation listening sessions, and other diverse events. He has held multiple solo exhibitions, including Other Passengers at the National Museum of Art, Riga (2025); Pedagogical Games 1: Agents and Boundaries at Gallery 427, Riga (2024); DOG at Interstate Projects, New York (2021); and God Objects at Karlin Studios / Futura, Prague (2020). Recent group exhibitions include the 1st Klaipėda Biennial: Sunset Every Two Years (2025); the 19th Tallinn Print Triennial (2025); Patience (Game) at Malmö Art Museum, Sweden (2025); Breaking the Joints at Sapieha Palace, Vilnius (2025); Intercession CSS Bard at the Hessel Art Museum, New York (2025); Signals Intelligence at eyesneversleep, New York (2025); New Address: Eden at Kim?, Riga (2024); and Tallinn Photomonth (2023), among others.
Exact Fantasy will be on view at Editorial (Latako Str. 3, Vilnius) until January 17, 2026.
Admission is free. Visitors are welcome to bring their pets, especially guide or service dogs.
Technical team: Rytis Urbanskas, Kazimieras Šližys
Translator and Language Editor: Alexandra Bondarev
The exhibition is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality.
Editorial opening hours: Wed–Fri 3–7pm / Sat 12–4pm
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