03/03/2026
On 6 March 2026, 7pm, ‘Apparatus Pinokis’, an exhibition by Kristaps Ancāns and Marc Hulson, opens at apiece as the latest in a series of their collaborative sculptural works.
A dense aggregate of enigmatic structures is arranged within the vitrine-like frame of the apiece gal-lery, combining industrial steel elements, kinetic components, and found domestic furniture into a qua-si-abstract diorama reminiscent of a cluttered inventor’s or magician’s workshop. Populated by hybrid effigies—handcrafted wooden objects that reference the human form while resembling oversized toys or balloons—the installation evokes a minimalist, mechanised puppet theatre. An implied narrative un-folds, yet it remains unclear whether something is being dismantled or assembled: an automaton under construction, or the autopsy of a puppet. The exhibition title, echoing the archetype of Pinokis (Pinoc-chio), revisits paradigms of an object becoming a subject.
Kristaps Ancāns is an artist and educator working across installation, sculpture, text, and augmented reality (AR). His practice explores the relationships between humankind, materiality, nature, and ma-chines through conceptual play, tracing historical and structural connections between art and science.
Marc Hulson is a London-based visual artist. Informed by a longstanding engagement with experi-mental, speculative, and supernatural fiction, his paintings and drawings chart a distinctly pictorial and personal field of the weird, alternating between the spectral and the visceral within a densely interwo-ven lexicon of imagery.
Exhibition curators: Milena Černiakaitė and Aušra Trakšelytė
Graphic design: Marek Voida
Text translation: Martynas Galkus
The exhibition is funded by the Lithuanian Councilfor Culture, Latvian State Culture Capital Founda-tion, Research at Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London
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Open 24/7, until 21 April 2026
More information: apiece.lt
