This international exhibition examines hybrid warfare, propaganda, and military rhetoric through contemporary visual art and literature. 

As part of NATO’s strategy to reinforce its eastern borders in response to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, Germany is permanently stationing a brigade in Lithuania. In Bells and Cannons: Contemporary Art in Times of Militarisation, this event becomes a starting point for an in-depth examination of hybrid war strategies and their various entanglements, implications, and rhetorics through the lens of contemporary visual art and literature. In the extensive group exhibition and research project documented in this catalog, international artists and scholars examined the intersections between war, militarization, and artistic imagination, focusing primarily on Central and Eastern Europe. The catalog gathers contributions by Felix Ackermann, Victoria Donovan, Annett Gröschner, Svitlana Matviyenko, Egle Rindzeviciute, and others to explore the relationship between militarization and artistic imagination.