Upcoming events
ACT IV
22 – 28 June 2026
Temporal Choreographies for IV edition will take place in collaboration with art space Gåsebäck Konstscen in Helsingborg, Sweden, co-curated by Ruta Butkute, Madeline Stillwell, Kyoco Taniyama.
These four-day public events will include performance workshops, podcasts, talks, studio visits, performances, and a final exhibition that celebrates the power of connection and exchange through performance and installation. Artists Ruta Butkute, Madeline Stillwell, and Kyoco Taniyama will explore the material tools, objects, and sounds involved in their performances, questioning their roles in the daily lives of artists. All creative methods are welcome, and the artistic processes will flourish through exchange and collaboration, inviting audience participation.
The participating artists for the TC IV exchange session: Sigrid Duus, DuoDuo, Lisa Fjellman & Anna Lönn Franko, Line Poulsen, Orca Eroticae.
#1 image left / right: Line Poulsen presentation
Thank you for generous support: Gåsebäck Konstscen, Regionskane, Helsingborgsstad, Mondriaan Fonds.
ACT III
4 – 5 April 2025
The event will now take place in Berlin for ACT III, in collaboration with artists Kyoco Taniyama and Madeline Stillwell.This initiative is made possible by the participating artists. Temporal Choreographies is an art platform founded in 2023 by artist Ruta Butkute. Each event is carefully co-curated in collaboration with participating artists.
This two-day event will embrace the power of meeting and exchange through performativity. Contemplation of tools, objects, sounds that take place in the performance, questioning their roles in daily life of artists to perform. Everything is valid, and the creative processes will come to life during performances held in two vibrant studios in Berlin. This strong and diverse program showcases artists sharing their work through video and live performances.
Participating artists: Pierre-Etienne Morelle, Ruta Butkute, Aurelie Pertusot, Carina Pesch, Anette Rose, Kyoco Taniyama & Madeline Stillwell
#1 image left: discussion #2 image right: Anette Rose #3 image left: artist talk Kyoco Taniyama #4 image right: Aurelie Pertusot
ACT II
6 July 2024
Temporal Choreographies is an artist meeting initiated by Ruta Butkute. After a first edition in her studio in Amsterdam in November 2023, the second edition of this private event will be hosted by Movement Exposed Gallery Space in Utrecht. Temporal Choreographies II delves into the ideas and development of contemporary artists, united in their interest for process and exchange. Departing from different fields of knowledge and experience – choreography, visual art, performance, writing – they explore the overflowing qualities rising from encounters and collisions between arts and media.
Temporal Choreographies editon II participating artists: Ruta Butkute, Nina Glockner, Richtje Reinsma and Madeline Stillwell.
Temporal Choreographies II
#1 image left #2 image right: Richtje Reinsma, Huidwandeling, Brakke Grond, 2024, photo Simon Pillaud
Supported by: gallery Movement Exposed Utrecht & artists initiative. Curated in a collaboration with Movement Exposed gallery Utrecht.
ACT I
2 December 2023
As part of my ongoing investigation into the performative aspects of material, I organised my first curated private event in my studio in Amsterdam. The event brought together artists, choreographers, and other art professionals for a conversation and a short video screening programme titled Temporal Choreographies.
Participating artists (screening programme): Kyoco Taniyama, Mella Jaarsma, Natalia Ossef, Ruta Butkute, Madeline Stillwell, and Sara Bjarland.
This gathering marked the beginning of Temporal Choreographies, a nomadic art platform founded in 2023. The platform emerged from a shared interest in exploring how sculpture, performance, and moving bodies generate new forms of dialogue and collaboration.
“In my practice, I situate sculpture within a spatial realm shared by time, gesture, and bodies in motion. Objects expand beyond modern concepts of autonomy into a field of interconnected agencies that create and sustain temporal choreographies.”
music: https://gailegriciute.com
Open studio event is curated by Ruta Butkute (Temporal Chroreographies)
Supported by: The project ‘How materials become concepts’ (2023): Stichting Niemeijer Fonds, Stichting Stokroos (Hanzenfonds of the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds), Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK), Amarte Fonds, NL
