Oscar Chan Yik Long at The Radvila Palace Museum of Art Vilnius
Oscar Chan Yik Long /They always look from an imagined above /Nov 27, 2025 – Mar 15, 2026 / The Radvila Palace Museum of Art of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art 24 Vilniaus StreetVilnius, Lithuania T +370 5 250 5824Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, 11am – 7pmThursday 12am – 8pmSunday 11am – 5pm lndm.lt Oscar Chan Yik Long (Hong Kong, 1988, lives in Helsinki) works mostly in Chinese ink. His paintings and drawings are mostly based on motifs from East Asian mythology or other esoteric traditions. This is his first solo exhibition in a museum, and it contains both new and existing works. Its title, They always look from an imagined above, also names a temporary ink mural (2025) on the vaulted ceiling of the a seventeenth-century Radvila Palace. Who are ‘they’? What is the ‘above’ and why is it ‘imagined’? Chan is not telling us. He has placed Cosmic egg (2021), a woollen rug, under the mural. The rug alludes to a creation myth, but again without explanation. In an adjacent space, the walls and ceilings receive the projected work Patrol (2025), where ‘they’ …
