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Pakui Hardware, formed in 2014, is the collaborative duo of Neringa Černiauskaitė and Ugnius Gelguda. Their practice investigates the plasticity of bodies and their untapped potentials, tracing how technology expands, challenges, and regulates the limits of the human form. Working with a wide range of materials that blur the line between the organic and the synthetic, they address themes of technological automation and emerging materialities as they shape everyday life.
Solo exhibitions of Pakui Hardware’s work have been held at Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2025), BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2021), and MUMOK Museum of Modern Art, Vienna (2016). Pakui Hardware has participated in the 1st Bukhara Biennial (2025), 16th Istanbul Biennial (2019), the 13th Baltic Triennial, CAC Vilnius (2018), Biennale Gherdëina 7 in Ortisei, Italy (2020), and the Kaunas Biennial (2021), as well as exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Basel, the MAXXI in Rome, the National Gallery of Art in Prague, the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, the Ujazdowski Art Centre in Warsaw, and the BOZAR Museum in Brussels. In 2023, Cerniauskaite and Gelguda were invited to curate the annual program at La Casa Encendida Centre for Contemporary Art in Madrid. Pakui Hardware represented Lithuania at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) together with Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė (1933–2007).