Artists live and work in Paris. SetPStanikas (Svajonė and PauliusStanikai), artists whose creative path is continuing for a third decade, have participated in many prestigious exhibitions and projects, among which Venice Biennale (they represented Lithuania in the 50th edition of the Biennale), Liverpool, Moscow and Beijing Biennales, Pompidou Center, Gallery VU in Paris, “White Box” in New York, Other Gallery in Shanghai etc. SetPStanikas many times participated in Rencontres Arles photography festival in group and personal shows.
Their work was shown in “Dans la nuit des images” at the Grand Palais in Paris and large scale diptych “Downfall” was exhibited in the exhibition “Traces du Sacre” at the Pompidou Center in Paris in 2008. In 2012 they created the installation “L’Ouvrier, la Paysanne et l’Aigle” at the event “Nuit blanche” in Trocadero gardens.
The duo was invited to teach at the Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains and L’EcoleSuperieur d’art des Rocailles in Biarritz.