ylaite
Klaudija Ylaite is a visual artist and researcher whose practice explores ritual structures, embodied knowledge, and altered states. working with ritual structures, she taps into subtleties of embodied knowledge and altered states. Intense physical experience, repetition, prolonged duration, and site-responsive materials are the building blocks of what she calls ritual-to-performance. Within this ritual-to-performance methodology, she attempts to illuminate transition(s)—whether mental or physical—as a lived phenomenon.
Ylaite believes that human and other-than-human lives are built in cycles and threshold stages, where one cycle ends but another is not yet beginning. She sees this dynamic made visible in the contemporary age, shaped by colonial and capitalist regimes, in which the Earth’s inhabitants have become catatonically suspended in a threshold: “old systems have failed, while the new ones are not yet born.”
Working through a hauntological lens, she then revisits the past, unearthing forgotten cycles, failed futures, and buried rituals to mirror the present moment.
Tinker, performance, 4 hours, VHDG, Leeuwarden, NL
Life Moves Pretty Fast (Something’s Passed...), performance, 3 hours, Block C, Groningen, NL
Zandbank Issue #2 launch, performance, 2 hours, Walter’s Bookstore, Groningen, NL
That One Time The Landscape Changed, group show, 8mm film, 2.2 minutes, Kunstcentrum De Ploeg, Wehe-Den Hoorn, NL
2025
#SEEN x ZOT, performance, 15 minutes, WEP Gallery, Groningen, NL
storying
Night of Philosophy, performance, 3.5 hours, Forum, Groningen, NL
DIHAN: ℕ¤☩ α ѿℜ¤㏏ ǽ, performance, 15 minutes, Berger & de Vries, Groningen, NL
CoTranspose Festival, group performance, 20 minutes, Dikaia, GR
DIHAN: s e t t l e, performance, 10 minutes, Berger & de Vries, Groningen, NL
(eng. when the awl poked its way out of the sack)
private ritual performance, 1 hour 30 minutes, 1 hour 30 minutes, Antanavas, LT
H-O-R-I-Z-O-N, group show, private performance image documentation, Het Resort, Tschumi Pavilion, Groningen, NL
last updated April 2026