Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.

Manifesta 15 Barcelona took place in Barcelona and 11 surrounding cities ot its metropolitan region.

Emilija Škarnulytė, LT

Emilija Škarnulytė is a Lithuanian-born artist and filmmaker. Working between documentary and speculative fiction, her video works take viewers through decommissioned nuclear power plants, deep-sea data storage units, forgotten underwater cities and uncanny natural phenomena. Škarnulytė is the recipient of the 2023 Ars Fennica Award and the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize. The artist has most recently presented work at the Gwangju Biennale, Helsinki Biennale, Vilnius Biennale and the Henie Onstad Triennale. Recent solo exhibitions include: Canal Projects, Kunsthaus Göttingen and Ferme-Asile. Škarnulytė is a co-founder and co-director of the Polar Film Lab, a collective for analogue film practice located in Tromsø, Norway, and is a member of the artist duo New Mineral Collective.