In Castles in the Sky, Donatas Norušis continues his ongoing exploration of sculpture and sound. As its point of departure, the exhibition takes the idea of subtle, unfelt earthquakes, attuned to a tension that unsettles before rupture.
The central sonic element of the show and the title of the exhibition comes from his 2024 work of the same name. The piece interprets seismic sounds of the gallery through a virtual environment composed entirely of “risers,” the sound fragments that gradually build a sense of tension, typical of trance and electronic music. With silence as an unknown variable, the resulting environment behaves like a living organism, each work responding to the same internal pulse, or perhaps anticipating it, forming a field that expands throughout space.
Through gestures of friction, tracing, and stretching, Castles in the Sky creates an architecture of anticipation. Rather than staging a collapse, Norušis focuses on what precedes it, the moment that never quite arrives.
DONATAS NORUŠIS (b. 1990) is a Lithuanian sculptor based in Berlin. His practice revolves around sound as a core medium and extends into installation, performance, and video art. Positioning technology as a silent yet omnipresent backdrop, he captures internal states of being through spatial, sculptural, and acoustic gestures. Resisting closure, his work cultivates porous mythologies shaped by constant flux and a techno-poetic perspective. Donatas holds a BA in Sculpture from the Vilnius Academy of Arts and an MA in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts from the Berlin University of the Arts.