Spanish artist Lita Cabellut arrives in Lithuania for the first time with an exceptional project presented at the Žemaičių dailės muziejus (Samogitian Art Museum).
With more than four decades of international trajectory and a distinguished career shaped between Spain and the Netherlands, Cabellut presents the powerful cycle Blood weding × Bodas de sangre by Lita Cabellut, revealed to the public for the first time as a complete project.
The exhibition will run from May 17, 2026 to August 19, 2026.
In the palace and stable hall spaces of the Samogitian Art Museum, in Plungė.
Alongside it, the exhibition Life Tearing Through Art offers a broader view of the conceptual foundations of her work. Together, these two bodies of work create a dialogue that transforms the exhibition spaces into a territory of reflection, emotional intensity, and uncompromising contemporary commitment.
STABLE HALL
Blood Wedding x Bodas de Sangre by Lita Cabellut
In the museum’s former stables, the historic cycle of Cabellut’s works is presented, inspired by the renowned Spanish writer Federico García Lorca’s play Bodas de sangre.
Far from providing a literal illustration of Lorca’s play, Cabellut delves into its emotional and symbolic essence. Her proposal is rooted in a radical conception of love: love for language, for truth, for identity, and for the human condition. Through painting of great expressive force and psychological depth, she establishes a direct dialogue between Lorca’s tragedy and the tensions of our contemporary world.
The exhibition addresses issues of urgent relevance, including women’s equality, the construction of identity, and the critical reassessment of inherited roles. The exhibition path also reflects on distrust, resentment, fear of loss and death, and the ethical fragility of a society shaped by overexposure and artifice.
Within this context, Cabellut’s work emerges as a contemporary mirror—an invitation to introspection and to both individual and collective questioning. A body of work that does not offer closed answers, but rather proposes an intense and transformative experience.
PALACE HALLS
Life Tearing Through Art: five pillars, one dialogue
Alongside the exhibition in the former stables, the museum’s main building presents Life Tearing Through Art: Five Pillars, One Dialogue, offering a journey through the fundamental ideas that run throughout Cabellut’s entire oeuvre. Rather than a conventional retrospective, the project provides a conceptual reading that reveals the profound coherence of her artistic language.
The artist has consolidated a distinctive voice, recognizable for its material strength and psychological intensity, grounded in five conceptual pillars that structure her creation:
LIFE · PASSION · POWER · IDENTITY · FREEDOM
The selection curated by Eloy Martínez de la Pera is organized around these axes, without following a chronological order, in order to highlight the conceptual consistency and enduring relevance of her work. Each piece becomes part of a narrative that transcends the pictorial surface and turns into a space for ethical and emotional reflection.
Life Tearing Through Art reflects a singular trajectory: harsh and delicate, poetic and brutal, reflective and sudden, harmonious and raw… yet always woven through beauty. It is a body of work that surpasses the limits of canvas and color to enter the depths and dichotomies of the human condition.
Through her intense, vulnerable, and challenging gazes, Cabellut invites us to reflect on fragility, passion, solitude, and redemption. Her works function as mirrors in which we recognize our struggles and hopes, immersing us in the tension between good and evil, love and hate, vice and virtue, freedom and determinism, reason and passion.
In this intimate dialogue with the viewer, her painting compels us to pause and contemplate the complexity of life from a renewed perspective—more honest, more uncomfortable, and precisely for that reason, more human.
This project at the Žemaičių Dailės Muziejus marks a significant moment both in Cabellut’s international artistic trajectory and in the cultural life of Lithuania.
The exhibition is conceived not merely as a presentation of artworks, but as an immersive experience—a space where painting, architecture, and dramaturgy merge into a unified encounter.
By bringing together two intense creative cycles in the museum’s exceptional spaces, the Žemaičių Dailės Muziejus offers a rare opportunity to engage with one of the most compelling voices in contemporary art.
Exhibition curator: Eloy Martínez de la Pera
Executive general manager: Daiva Balvers
Biography
LITA CABELLUT
Lita Cabellut (1961, Spain), regarded as one of the most relevant artists on the international art scene, lives and works in the Netherlands. She has developed a remarkable ability to blend disciplines, ensuring that technique never becomes a limitation to her language but rather a vehicle for its expansion.
In her creative process, the artist immerses herself in a spiritual dialogue with her subjects; it is visceral and physical, and this is reflected in the texture, gestural force, and unrestrained emotional intensity of her large-scale works. Her technique is an amalgam of influences, distinguished by a bold use of color and texture, combining traditional methods with contemporary applications of paint. It is a balance between technical control and absolute surrender. In her studio, she bends the canvas to her will, endowing her works with a distinctive surface and a profound sense of transformation.
Lita Cabellut’s connection to her Spanish roots is palpable in her work, yet her vision transcends geographical and cultural boundaries. Her intention to capture the universality of the human experience gives rise to a global visual language that resonates with audiences of diverse backgrounds.
She has received numerous distinctions, including an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from the University of Barcelona (2024) and the Encomienda of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic (2024), among other awards. Her works form part of major international contemporary art museums and prestigious private collections. Her exhibitions have been presented at institutions such as the RABASF, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Madrid), Fundación Bancaja (Valencia), MAC Museum of Contemporary Art (La Coruña), Fundación Vila Casas (Barcelona), and Museo Goya (Zaragoza) in Spain; the Pivot Center for Art + Culture (Seattle) in the United States; the Seoul Arts Center (Seoul) in South Korea; the MacS Contemporary Art Museum (Sicily) in Italy; the CSMVS – Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (Mumbai) in India; the Hälsingland Museum (Hudiksvall) in Sweden; the RAK Art Foundation (Riffa) in Bahrain; the YUZ Museum (Shanghai), Westred Art Museum (Harbin), Raffles City (Beijing), and Shanlight Art Museum (Guiyang) in China; the PMMK Museum (Ostend) in Belgium; the Kölnisches Stadtmuseum (Cologne), Kunststation Kleinsassen (Berlin), and KulturHaus RomnoKher (Mannheim) in Germany; The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas in Finland; and the Museum Jan (Amstelveen), Het Noordbrabants Museum (’s-Hertogenbosch), Museum Jan Cunen (Oss), Katwijks Museum (Katwijk), The Paul van Rensch Foundation (Limburg), and The Joop & Janine van de Ende Foundation in the Netherlands, among many others.
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