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As city days grow longer and the earth slowly awakens – tree buds bursting and winter dreams fading – we gather once again around the fire: welcome back to the OVEN PAVILION. On Saturday, 26 April, let’s ignite the second season together! 
Our very first fire will be lit alongside Oven Pavilion guests Clémentine Vaultier, Sophie Wolgemuth, and Marion Aeby. Readings, conversations, a lecture, and a shared dinner prepared in the pavilion itself will warm both hearts and minds 
PROLOGUE
(04.25 Friday)
12–7PM
Sourdough readings | Reading performance by Sophie Wolgemuth
On the eve of the event, the oven will be gently warmed by Sophie Wolgemuth’s ongoing six-hours reading performance addressed to the artist sourdough Walter on care work, feminism, nurture, and empowerment. With words and writings by Audre Lorde, Tian Zhang, Joanna Zylinska, Sylvia Rivera and many more, the performance addresses the sometimes paradoxical simultaneities of agency and codependence, differentiation and belonging. It confronts the challenge of balancing resources for self-care and caring for others. On Saturday, sourdough bread will be baked in the oven as part of a scenographic dinner.
OPENING DAY
(04.26 Saturday)
12–9PM CONNECTING THE SCRAPS | Performative collective cooking, baking, and dining experience
On the opening day, the process of making dinner from scratch awaits. On Saturday at 12PM, we’ll begin with a joint trip to the market, where we’ll gather local ingredients to eventually craft a situational menu inspired by what we find.
Back at the Oven Pavilion, resident Clémentine Vaultier and Marion Aeby will invite you to a waffle baking workshop as part of their joint project Cuire Ensemble Ici (Baking Together Here). Using heat as both a tool and a symbol, they explore inherited recipes and contemporary cooking rituals.
Meanwhile, Sophie Wolgemuth will continue the performative part of the dinner-making process, Connecting the Scraps, by inviting people to bake a Walter sourdough bread together.
During the dinner preparations, an Easter Egg Roll Competition will take place. If you have any leftover Easter eggs, be sure to bring them along!
The evening will culminate in a communal dinner – a big table for everyone. We will taste, share, listen to one other, and enjoy the warmth of a shared meal.
You’re warmly invited to join this lively process whenever you can, according to your own rhythm and availability – each participant and their stories are an essential ingredient of the evening.
9PM ATLAS OF OVENS | Lecture by Clémentine Vaultier
In the surrounding warmth of the OVEN PAVILION, Vaultier will delve into the Atlas of Ovens – an ongoing collaborative research project on heat infrastructures, alongside Ciel Grommen and Maximiliaan Royakkers. This project collects archives and engages people around heat sources and related narratives, exploring the way ovens function not only as physical energy containers but also as relational infrastructures – connecting territories, ressources, and communities.
Opening Day Programme:
12–3PM Market trip (registration coming soon)
4–7PM Cooking
4–7PM Easter Egg Roll Competition
7–9PM Oven Pavilion Season Opening Dinner
9–10PM Lecture: Atlas of Ovens by Clémentine Vaultier
About the artists:
Clémentine Vaultier is a French artist based in Brussels. Although trained as a ceramist, her interest lies more in the surroundings of the fire than in the production it engenders. Her long-term research focuses on how we raise, use, and diffuse warmth, connecting the worlds of ceramics, performance, and pedagogy, both literally around the fire and through documentation.
Sophie Wolgemuth (she/her) explores the themes of embodiment, care work, agency, community, and collective knowledge. To engage with these concepts step by step, she uses long-format endurance work with objects and her own body, experimental collaboration, and the element of repetition.
Marion Aeby is a Brussels-based designer and textile artist who explores public space through immersive installations that merge design and textile art. With her experience as a baker, Marion pays particular attention to bread preparation and baking.
The programme is free of charge and open to all visitors.
The readings, dinner preparation, and lecture will be held in English.
OVEN PAVILION, Cultural Complex SODAS 2123, Vitebsko Str. 21-23, Vilnius
The Oven Pavilion is an interactive architectural sculpture that functions as a localised public space for community gatherings, education, cultural events, and more. The work is a collaboration between interdisciplinary artist Kamilė Krasauskaitė and architects Ona Lozuraitytė and Petras Išora. The structure brings together the ideas of all three creators, blending functionality with sensitivity to the surrounding environment. It unites the oven itself, the architectural pavilion built around it, and the shared space it generates – forming a dynamic and inviting social hub.
Text editing and translation by Alexandra Bondarev
Graphic Designer: Tauras Stalnionis
The activities of SODAS 2123 are financed by the Lithuanian Council of Culture and Vilnius City Municipality.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
The event will be filmed and photographed. Videos and/or photo material captured during the event may be published and live-streamed on the organiser’s social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube), website, and other promotional or informational platforms.