Part of European Renovation, one night only group exhibition that took place in a private apartment in Stockholm on 14th of June 2025. 

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Extract from the exhibition text by Marie-Alix Isdahl:

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Lina Kruopytė’s sculptures, appearing as oversized colour swatches, may at first sight seem structurally minimalist (the art variety), cultivated through a lineage of minimalism passed down from someone like Anne Truitt. Yet the sculptures Verticality No. 1 (Nobile, Sunkissed, Peach Sky, Keisergul, 2025) and Verticality No. 2 (Sonoma Oak, Birch, Santana Oak, Sanremo Oak, Sheffield Oak, 2025) also feature faux-wood laminate surfaces and color schemes reminiscent of the interior style known as evroremont.

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Short for “euro-renovation,” evroremont was an Eastern European renovation trend that emerged in the 1990s, aspiring to an imagined Western aesthetic. A fantasy of Europeanness was assembled from magazines, hotels, and IKEA catalogues, and realised through wood-effect veneer, peach- coloured walls, spotlights, and ornamental restraint. This post-Soviet performance of modernity

smoothed over the structural instabilities (taste, class, ideology) that sustained it. By “returning” these mis-imagined inheritances to Northern Europe, in a domestic setting that has itself become anachronistic, Kruopytė’s sculptures introduce a pluralism of minimalisms.