VILNIUS GALLERY
WEEKEND
22-25.10.2020

This year, the 5 th edition of the Vilnius Gallery Weekend brings together over 30 different art spaces. The participants include not only private galleries, but also project spaces run by artists and independent curators, galleries of well-established organizations with deep traditions, as well as museums, art centres and private collectors.

The Vilnius art scene is special in that today it combines many art spaces with different intentions, ideas and functions. Only at first glance may these spaces appear similar, yet each has a unique position in a common field: not only do they offer different experiences to various audiences, but they also shape the art world, simultaneously influencing what is being created in artists’ studios.

This time, the event invites you to look at the Vilnius art scene as if from above – so that both its scale and interrelations can be seen. In order to give such a perspective, a very special place has been chosen: the oldest former observatory in Vilnius (now the Vilnius University White Hall). During the weekend, the hall will host a unique interpretation of the capital’s present-day art field, inspired by the results of a special collective exercise of imagination: after the participants of the 5 th Vilnius Gallery Weekend were invited to think about what celestial body they could identify with, experimental architect Aistė Ambrazevičiūtė created a chimeric installation based on their ideas, which, symbolically exhibited at a former observatory, acts as an independent work of art.

Besides inviting the visitors to immerse themselves in the imagination of the field of art, attend numerous exhibitions and events, this year the Vilnius Gallery Weekend is also initiating three discussions on topical issues. Active participants in the field of art will try to discuss not only the state of art currently being created, but also the roles taken on by art criticism, as well as which intersections of art and education could be most productive in cultivating a culturally mature society.

The project is initiated and organized by the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association in cooperation with Public Institution “Mene”.

Project sponsors and partners: JCDecaux, Kazys Varnelis House-Museum, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius University Library.
Information sponsor: artnews.lt
The project is partly funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.

EXHIBITIONS

Observatory: Experimental Architecture Installation by Aistė Ambrazevičiūtė
Curators: Dovilė Tumpytė and Akvilė Anglickaitė

22–24 Oct
Thu–Sat 12:00–21:00
Vilnius University Library
Address: Universiteto st. 3, Vilnius
White Hall (Professors’ Reading Room)

Imagine art venues as celestial bodies. Each one of them with their gravitational fields and satellites, invisible zones, and orbital trajectories. What constellation of these planets, quasars, and asteroids would line up in Vilnius’ contemporary art sky? One of the possible answers – a unique and created specifically for VGW experimental architecture installation by artist Aistė Ambrazevičiūtė at the former Vilnius University Astronomical Observatory.

The display is situated in a classicist architecture space: here in XIX century active observations of the sky took place, and today one can find an interpretation of the imagination of members of the art scene who identified themselves as celestial bodies. Invisible connections and intensities are transposed into chimeric installation materials, textures, and architecture to become a complex meshwork of roots. In the words of philosopher Emanuele Coccia, “the sky is not what is above. It is everywhere”. With this idea in mind, the artist brings closer members of the art system that often look distant and invites viewers at least for a short while to become observers of not always tangible terrestrial cosmos.

The installation can be visited only on 22–24 of October.

Registration is required and available at https://forms.gle/stJuiXSuL1HsBUwf7

The project is partly funded by The Lithuanian Council for Culture.

GALLERIES

“1 mm Matters”
Rimantas Milkintas

22 Oct–21 Nov
Thu, 18:00–20:00
Fri–Sat, 12:00–19:00
Sun, 12:00–17:00
Address: Totorių st. 5, Vilnius

www.av17gallery.com

AV17 presents a solo exhibition by sculptor Rimantas Milkintas. Artist’s 25 th career anniversary exhibition shows recent sculptural objects and installations. “1 mm Matters” encompasses Milkintas’s physical research of materials he uses in his practice and corresponds to his contexts.
The display acts as a reference to the process of ceaseless change and movement.

Events:

22 Oct
18:00
AV17
Totorių st. 5, Vilnius
Opening of Rimantas Milkintas’s exhibition “1 mm Matters”.

24 Oct
13:00
Guided tour of the show with Rimantas Milkintas.

Rimantas Milkintas “1 mm Matters”, 2020.

“Viktoras Paukštelis. Painting”
Viktoras Paukštelis
Curator: Dr Simona Skaisgirytė-Makselienė

19 Oct –7 Nov
22 Oct, 10:00–18:00
23 Oct, 10:00–18:00, 18:00–19:00 (concert)
24 Oct, 12:00–16:00, 16:00–17:00 (concert)
Address: Ligoninės st. 4, Vilnius

www.kunstkamera.lt
www.facebook.com/Kunstkamera.lt/

On Vilnius Gallery Weekend Kunstkamera Gallery will present Viktoras Paukštelis solo exhibition.
The exhibition will showcase the artist’s works from the past few years that witness the author’s continuous stylistic development while consistently elaborating on leitmotif themes of his artistic practice. Philosophical themes of man and nature, man and animal, as well as interpretations of an animal as a totem, unfold in the works that often appropriate citations from Western Art
masterpieces. The exhibition will be accompanied by two solo concerts, during which Viktoras Paukštelis, who is not only a painter but also a pianist, will play gems of classical music.

Events:

23 Oct, 18:00
24 Oct, 16:00
Kunstkamera Gallery
Ligoninės st. 4, Vilnius
Two chamber music concerts played by Viktoras Paukštelis (length – 45 min).
There is no registration, however, the number of seats is limited to 30.
Free admission. Children under seven years old are not allowed.

Viktoras Paukštelis “Easy Rider II”, 2020, oil on canvas, 150 x 180 cms.

“Camouflage”
Jolanta Kyzikaitė

25 Sep–24 Oct
23 Oct, 12:00–18:00
24 Oct, 12:00–16:00
Address: J. Basanavičiaus st. 1

www.menonisa.lt
www.facebook.com/menonisa

“Camouflage” is Jolanta Kyzikaitė’s ninth solo exhibition. Kyzikaitė’s artworks were shown in over sixty group shows in Lithuania and abroad. Kyzikaitė about “Camouflage”:

I had explored the relevance of masks in art before in my project “Painting at Play”. Today masks can be found not only in art but in everyday life, they must be worn in public. Mask is paradoxical in that it disguises and reveals at the same time. It is interesting how much the revealed character is hiding from their ‘true self’, or maybe that’s precisely when they reveal themselves.
Communication is changing because when recognition recedes often people’s true feelings start to show – anger, mistrust, indifference.

It is not necessary to portray masks in painting to show relations. I am interested in the situation itself: how physical withdrawal, assisted by masks or social distancing, affects our relationships with people and the surrounding environment. When I’m exploring the present I try to peer into the future. I am interested in the word “after”, it refers not to a specific place (under a stone, underneath a mask) but to time (after quarantine, after the financial crisis). The relationship between place and time became important like never before.

Jolanta Kyzikaitė “Flight”, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 198 x 248 cms.

“The Returns”
Curator: Edvidas Žukas

15 Oct–31 Oct
Thu–Fri, 12:00–19:00
Sat–Sun, 12:00–18:00
Address: Užupio st. 16, Vilnius

www.menutiltas.lt
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The exhibition presents paintings, sculptures, and graphic works by Litvak artists from father and son’s, Eugenijus and Martynas Tinfavičius, private collection.
The works presented in the exhibition will be up for sale.

Artists: Jose Gurvich, Samuel Bak, Theo Tobiasse, Moshe Rosentalis, Michel Kikoine, Arbit Blatas, Zoma
Baitler, Pinchus Kremegne, Boris Lovet- Lorski, Mane Katz, Lasar Segall, Jaques Lipchitz

Samuel Bak “Still Life With Pears”, 1979–1981, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cms.

“Garden and Cosmos”
Agnė Gintalaitė, Alfreda Gintalienė, Birutė Zokaitytė

10 Sep–31 Oct
22–24 Oct, 11:00-19:00
Polocko st. 17, Vilnius

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“Garden and Cosmos” is the latest project by artist Agnė Gintalaitė, who is known for her colorful photomontages of soviet garage doors. Surreal photomontages remind of antique herbariums and were created to understand why the artist’s mother Alfreda Venslovaitė-Gintalienė who is herself a graphic artist has not held a pencil or a burin in more than 20 years. Alfreda Gintalienė is the only graphic artist in Lithuania to master the stone engraving technique. Her work, which stylistically is close to Surrealism, was mainly created in the late twentieth century. She lives a secluded life in a village. Even though at the first glance it might seem that she has given up art completely, this is not so: she is creating a mystery garden with the same passion she used to etch stone and metal for a dozen hours a day.
The exhibition also includes a work ‘An Orphan’ (2020) by the contemporary graphic artist Birutė Zokaitytė, Alfreda Gintalienė’s oldest daughter.

Agnė Gintalaitė “Garden and Cosmos”.

“Ruins, Remains, Relics and Still Lives’’
Eglė Norkutė
Curators: Justina Augustytė and Jurgita Juospaitytė-Bitinienė

15–29 Oct
Thu–Sat, 16:00–19:00
Sun, 14:00–17:00
Address: Vilniaus st. 24
(entrance from the Radvilas Palace courtyard)
For visits outside these hours please contact us at info@roostergallery.eu
or via phone on +37062907226

www.roostergallery.eu

The exhibition “Ruins, Remains, Relics and Still Lives’’ is a dialogue between personal and global problems, and is a painter’s reaction to the current surreal and extraordinary situation in the world. In her practice, the artist explores contexts of art history, mythology, places of memory, and contemporary media. While evading feelings of falseness and confusion, as well as uncertainty
regarding the value of a work of art, Norkutė mixes motifs, themes, and images, and creates unexpected and tragicomical encounters, and connections of meaning.

Event:

24 Oct
15:00
The Rooster Gallery,
Vilniaus st. 24 (entrance from the Radvilas Palace courtyard)

Guided tour of the exhibition with artist Eglė Norkutė.
Registration is required.
Please register at info@roostergallery.eu

Eglė Norkutė “(Un)Believable”, 2020, Oil on canvas, 70 x 90 cms.

“1xN Person”
Malvina Stankutė

8 Oct–5 Nov
Tue–Sat, 14:00–20:00
Address: Vytenio st. 6

www.tsekh.com.ua

Malvina Stankutė, who has been working in fashion and trademark design for almost a decade, will make her debut in painting with more than twenty abstract monochrome portraits, all of which were created “in one breath”. Minimalistic calligraphically painted faces are unique personalities which can be transformed by viewers according to their personal experiences and stories. According to the artist: “Each person has many different personalities inside, which surface as a result of different emotions. Each of them has a “face”, a character, and is telling a different story. Everyone has them, but not all of us want to get to know them, meet oneself, and find harmony between the imperfect versions of self. These faces formed by abstract strokes represent my internal emotions and personalities, but every viewer has an opportunity to perceive them through their inside world”.

“1xN Person” exhibition poster.

“The Morphogenesis of Mass”
Henrik B. Andersen

22 Oct–20 Nov
22 Oct, 18:00–21:00
23 Oct, 12:00–18:00
24–25 Oct, 12:00–16:00
Address: Vilniaus st. 39, second floor

www.galerijavartai.com/exhibitions/forthcoming

Henrik B. Andersen in his exhibition “The Morphogenesis of Mass” will present most recent practices which consist of the artworks, specifically created for the Vartai gallery. Andersen will represent a series of new sculptures and drawings that are inspired by the research in nonlinear dynamics of biological systems and the modern understanding of space in physics. Andersen’s works can be described as a completely new hybrid phenomenon, in which domains such as synthetics, simulation, technology, and organic forms and their traces merge to become artificial and natural hybrids, evolving and changing in their wave field.

“La Collection Moderne (Ciurlionis)”
Dag Erik Elgin

22 Oct–20 Nov

The exhibition “La Collection Moderne (Ciurlionis)” is a presentation of works by the Norwegian artist Dag Erik Elgin consisting of text paintings developed especially for this occasion in dialogue with the Lithuanian painter and composer Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis (1870-1911). “La Collection Moderne” is a longstanding painterly investigation of iconic modernist paintings, their provenance and the contextual and visual content of their museum labels.

Henrik B. Andersen „The Morphogenesis of Mass“, 2020, the fragment of a drawing, ink on paper.

PROJECT SPACES

“Turn”
Kazimieras Sližys
Curators: Milena Černiakaitė and Aušra Trakšelytė

22 Oct, from 19:00
Since 23 Oct, 00:00–24:00
Address: T. Ševčenkos g. 12 A, Vilnius

www.apiece.lt
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K. Sližys’s artwork “Turn” came out of the research he has been consistently developing in recent years and is associated with moving light as a signal. The artist is interested in how the surfaces of found objects, marked by defects received in different contexts, can become glowing objects and can correlate with the surrounding exhibition space.

Kazimieras Sližys “Turn”, 2020, organic glass, LED band, electronics, scratches, Ø 198 cms.
Photo: K. Sližys.

“and Wardrobe Planning”
Karolina Janulevičiūtė and Kasia Gorniak

17–30 Oct
12:00–19:00
Address: Vitebsko st. 21, Vilnius
(Cultural complex SODAS 2123)

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www.facebook.com/atletikagalerija
www.andwardrobeplanning.121.lt

“and Wardrobe Planning” is a durational performance and exhibition by Karolinos Janulevičiūtė and Kasia Gorniak during which the artists will sow a line of clothing at “Atletika”. The project aims to underline the visibility of the making process of clothing by juxtaposing it to the end product. The artists are striving to respond and criticize processes of the modern fashion industry, as well as notions of their duration and requirements of work power. Also, the two artists are exploring labor as art-making, the social role of crafts, ethical and environmental aspects of mass production of clothing, and bring to light the meaning of the production process that we tend to take for granted.

Excerpt from the video “and Wardrobe Planning”. Artists’ property.

Room of Perspectives. Part I (artists’ film programme)
Morgan Quaintance, Amar Kanwar, Ieva Kotryna Skirmantaitė
Curator Monika Lipšic
Architect Vladas Suncovas

2020.10.22–2020.10.25
17:00–19:00

The artists’ films presented in the program talk about melting boundaries, framing thoughts, seeing through walls; about what we see in memories & the ability of a moving image to move the viewer in time and light.
A look into the distance, horizon line, the penetration of the gaze into the wall, leaving marks on it — vision, optics, physics; if you look at the wall for a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very long time, it would eventually become translucent.
These thoughts and ideas inspired the “Room of Perspectives”, the name of which was inspired by illusory wall painting: since ancient times the Romans have painted the interiors of buildings with various images, often reproducing landscapes beyond the wall & thus creating the illusion of a larger space. Palazzo Altemps in Rome is an art of painted perspectives: its fresco depicts a 16th century city we can no longer see today. The city has changed, but the gaze from another time perspective has remained on the wall.
“Room of Perspectives” is also a room of attitudes, paradigms, opinions, ways of looking and gazing.

Films:
Morgan Quaintance “Anne, Richard and Paul” (United Kingdom, 2018, 15’ 10’’)
Amar Kanwar “A Love Story” (India, 2010, 5’ 37’’)
Ieva Kotryna Skirmantaitė “I Love the Past, I Do Look Forward” (France, Lithuania, 2018, 18’ 4’’)

Registration is required and available at
https://tinyurl.com/Room-of-Perspectives

Events:

23 Oct
17:00
Atletika (Cultural complex SODAS 2123)
Vitebsko st. 21, Vilnius

A discussion about the fashion scene “Between the creation of a garment and its existence”. The artists Karolina Janulevičiūte and Kasia Gorniak will share their experiences about organizing the exhibition and will reflect on the textual and theoretical sources that informed their artistic research.

The discussion will be in Lithuanian and English.
Registration for the discussion is required and available at https://forms.gle/9tmnDkCm4TgSWsmb8

24 Oct
17:00
Atletika (Cultural complex SODAS 2123)
Vitebsko st. 21, Vilnius

A meeting and workshop with artists Karolina Janulevičiūte and Kasia Gorniak. The artists will invite visitors to join in the production of the line of clothing and create an additional “and Wardrobe Planning” product from leftover fabrics. The workshop will take action depending on how many textile scraps are left and what skills are required. The workshop will be in Lithuanian and English.

Registration for the workshop is required and available at https://forms.gle/9tmnDkCm4TgSWsmb8
Available vacancies – 10.

“Standard”
Curator: Lukas Strolia

9 Oct–5 Nov
15:00–19:00
Address: Naugarduko st. 41

www.autarkia.lt
www.facebook.com/autarkiaspace

The group show “Standard” discusses universal and local social, political, cultural contexts, new tendencies, and problems. The exhibition presents artists and their works that break stereotypes about gender, identity, and creation which are prevalent in society and the art world.

Artists: Ahmed El Gendy, Anton Šebetko, Denisas Kolomyckis, Dominykas Canderis, Edvinas Grinkevičius, Ieva Gražytė, Julius Pristauz, Mitchell Thar, Tim Kliukoit

The project is partly funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.

“Gvalda’s Room: Made in ‘Taros’ Office”
Kęstutis Gvalda

24 Sep–26 Nov
Thu, 12:00–19:00
Fri, 16:00–19:00
Sat, 13:00–16:00
Address: Vitebsko st. 23-N24, Vilnius

www.dizainofondas.lt

It is the first exhibition by the Design Foundation in the new premises, culture hub SODAS 2123, and is organized in memory of artist Kęstutis Gvalda (1925–2011). The exhibition presents graphic design artifacts, posters, trademarks, unique catalogues, project sketches created between 1964 and 1984 at the experimental container and packaging construction office “Taros” which is associated with Kęstutis Gvalda’s entire creative path and social activity.

Gvalda’s room in his Vilnius’s apartment on Minties street was loaded up to the ceiling with boxes of different sizes, binders and specialized books, posters, trademarks and packaging projects – it was like a time capsule. Today artifacts from Gvalda’s room tell stories not only about the “Taros” office, history of design processes, artists and their works, but also about time, identity, sustainability, ecology, and even respond to today’s pandemic context. The display is by curator Karolina Jakaitė, architecture – Marija Repšytė, design – Marius Žalneravičius.

Events:

22 Oct
12:30
SODAS 2123
Vitebsko st. 23, Vilnius
Guided tour with curator Karolina Jakaitė and designer Marius Žalneravičius.

23 Oct
17:30
Guided tour with curator Karolina Jakaitė.

24 Oct
14:00
Guided tour with the exhibition architect Marija Repšytė.

“Gvalda’s Room: Made in ‘Tara’ Office”, 2020, exhibition view.
Photograph: Karolis Milaševičius

“Under One’s Breath”

22 Oct–28 Nov
22 Oct, 19:00–21:00
23 Oct, 11:00–19:00
24–25 Oct, 11:00–16:00
Address: Latako st. 3

www.editorial.lt

This year all cards are shuffled. As a result, the special second-time exhibition of unique and limited edition artworks, scheduled to take place at the end of the year, was moved to October. “Under One’s Breath” things are not loud, but one wants to keep them for themselves. Or share them in a whisper with a friend. The exhibition presents artworks provided by the artists who had their shows at “Editorial” in the past three years.

Artists: Vytenis Burokas, Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė, Kaspars Groševs, Ellie Hunter, Ona Juciūtė, Marta Trektere, Neringa Vasiliauskaitė

Event:

22 Oct
19:00–21:00
Editorial
Latako st. 3
Exhibition opening of “Under One’s Breath”.

Design: Nerijus Rimkus

“Untitled”
Gintaras Didžiapetris
Curator: Montos Tattoo

From 22 Oct
00:00–24:00
Address: Kauno st. 1 A–408

www.montostattoo.lt

On the opening night of Vilnius Gallery Weekend neon works “Untitled” by artist Gintaras Didžiapetris will be lit on the building in which project space Montos Tattoo is situated. The neons were first shown in 2013 at the 55 th Venice Biennale in a joint Lithuanian and Cyprus pavilion. The contours of neons match the lines of a drawing, and their shine reflects the necessary energy resources. The two scribbles were inspired by the living forms that shine in the depths of water and whose lives depend on the city’s energy.

Event

23 Oct
18:00
Montos Tattoo
Kauno st. 1 A, Vilnius
A meeting with Montos Tattoo curators. During the event, the installation of Gintaras Didžiapetris’s work “Untitled” (2013) will be presented by Montos Tattoo curators Liudvikas Buklys, Gediminas G. Akstinas, and Gerda Paliušytė.
The event will be held outside, registration is not required.

Gintaras Didžiapetris “Untitled”. View in Venice (2013). Photograph by Robertas Narkus.

“Hypha:1.0”
Šarūnas Petrauskas
Curator: Dr Tomas Grunskis

22 Sep–27 Oct
Mon–Fri, 14:00–19:00
Sat, 15:00–19:00
Address: Šv. Stepono st. 14

www.0-x.eu

Hypha (gr. ὑφή, hyphē) – “network” – branched, tangled, and thickly intertwined filament. A multitude of thin hyphae forms mycelium. Today art, science, technologies, and nature play equal parts in the process of creative experimentation, however, principles that prevail in nature and their application can still very rarely be seen in contemporary architecture. The goal of the project is to look for a new matter, form, and aesthetic in architecture by conducting artistic research and experimenting with myceloid bio-structures. In this research, a hybrid creative process is applied when a final result is unpredictable and not finite. The process is determined not only by the artist but also by an inhuman intellect. In such a way, an imperfect aesthetic is created – an incomplete
architecture changing in time. The project aims to look into the human relationship with nature and draw attention to modern human relations with their surrounding natural environment.

Exhibition poster. Photograph: “To the Power of Zero”

“White Walls Symposium”
Curators: Simonas Nekrošius, Ieva Tarejeva

22–25 Oct
17:00–22:00
Address: Pylimo st. 20–24

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We are stating that white is not white but the beginning of everything. A space for a stream of consciousness. In this case, a white emptiness is impossible and therefore is not to be judged, it stimulates curiosity and opens up the imagination. Is white creation meant to be put in a drawer and cannot be exploited in culture? Is white verse like a white horse is a bad reference and is not worth sharing? We are stating that it is. “White Walls Symposium” invited young artists to look into nooks of the art product, and raised a question about the artist’s relationship with the creative process.

Events:

22–25 Oct
17:00–22:00
Studium P
Pylimo st. 20–24
“White Walls Plein Air”
Painting plein air will take place at Studium P gallery before the opening of the exhibition and will invite artists to paint white walls. The exhibition will present artworks painted during the plein air which will be framed by the walls on which they were painted. Participants will be determined before the opening of the show.

22 Oct
“SOLO Improvisation”
Intimate dialogue with an instrument.
Artists: Mėta Gabrielė Pelegrimaitė (flute), Arminas Bižys (saxophone), Klaudijas Indriliūnaitė (electric guitar), Mikas Kurtinaitis (tuba)

23 Oct
“White Poetry Readings”
A transmission of creative stream.
Artists: Lina Laura Švedaitė, Edvinas Valikonis, Ramūnas Liutkevičius, Paulius Janušonis, Lina Simutytė, Urtė Karalaitė, Algimantas Černiauskas, Nojus Saulytis, Dovilė Bagdonaitė, Ieva
Tarejeva, Aušra Kaziliūnaitė

24 Oct
Performative image and sound installation “Bigger Than You”
Site-specific image and sound installations will run in different rooms of the apartment.
Artists: Jūra Elena Šedytė ir Julija Panova

25 Oct
Electronic music performance “Fryzbye”
Fryzbye – experimental dance music duo. The main focus of the duo is improvisation, live loops, and links between the associative everyday sounds and electronic music.
Artists: Paulius Večeris, Adomas Palekas

Visitors must wear protective masks that cover the face and nose.

Photograph by Simonas Nekrošius and Ieva Tarejeva.

“Regeneration”
Džiugas Katinas ir Linas Liandzbergis
Curator: Aistė Kisarauskaitė

23 Oct–22 Nov
Tue, 16:00–19:00
Thu, 16:00–19:00
Address: Vitebsko st. 23

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This year Trivium presents works created in the last decade of the XX century. During this time Džiugas Katinas and Linas Liandzbergis had been actively organising joint exhibitions, performances, happenings, and performance festivals “Dimension”. Works presented in the exhibition had been decaying in Linas Katinas’s garage for decades and were saved and regenerated for this show. The exhibition presents a collaborative artwork “Classes” (“Jutempus” (1994), “Vartai” (1995), “ArtGenda” (1996), Nikolajkirche Copenhagen), a documentation of the 1992 exhibition at the Contemporary Art Centre, and “Burial Methods” by Džiugas Katinas. Today these works are inviting viewers to test their relevance and to see if stories about eternal themes, death and mourning rituals, are still readable.

The project is supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality.

Džiugas Katinas “Burial Methods”, 1992–2020, detail. Artist’s photograph.

“White Frost”
Mažvydas Truklickas
Curator: Dainius Liškevičius

10 Sep–10 Nov
10.00–18.00
Address: Kauno st. 36, Vilnius.
Second-floor foyer, “Dailė” training center.

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VITRINA & Bench starts a cycle of exhibitions of young artists’ work and presents Mažvydas Truklickas show “White Frost”. A subtle installation features many natural artifacts that blend with other objects and works collected by the artist into a coherent poetic narrative. An important part of the display – a literary text written by the author. Currently, Mažvydas Truklickas is studying for a master’s degree at the Department of Sculpture at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. During the meeting with the artist specially for the visitors of Vilnius Gallery Weekend, a musical performance will be performed.

Event:

23 Oct
16:00–18:00
VITRINA & Bench
Kauno st. 36, Vilnius
A performance and a meeting with the artist.

Photograph: Mažvydas Truklickas

GALLERIES OF ORGANIZATIONS

“MINSK МИНСК МІНСК – Photographs from Belarus”
Curators: Peter Bialobrzeski ir Andrea Rauschenbusch

13–25 Oct
Tue–Fri, 12.00–18.00
Sat, 12.00–16.00
Address: Stiklių st. 4 (Didžioji st. 19)

www.photography.lt

In April 2018, led by professors Andrea Rauschenbusch and Peter Bialobrzeski, a group of master’s students in the “Culture and Identity” program from Bremen art school went to Belarus hoping to create images of the country. They came with photo cameras, sound recording devices, and no preconceptions. The result – ten individual art stances, out of which eight were photography and two – works with image and text. A hundred and thirty page book “MINSK МИНСК МІНСК –
Photography and Research in Belarus” documents the works and analyses the everyday in Belarus, which exists between traditional values and prevailing reality. A part of the photographs created during this trip is presented by Goethe Institute in Lithuania with Lithuanian Photographers Association.

Artists: Laura Achenbach Peral, Olia Balakireva, Anna Bauer, Sarah Fricke, Öncü Gültekin, Christina Rabe, Ana Rodríguez Heinlein, Maximiliane Scheller, Christina Stohn, Aleksandra Weber

Sarah Fricke „Frontlines“.

“PW 44”
Valentyn Odnoviun

7–31 Oct
Tue–Fri, 12.00–18.00
Sat, 12.00–16.00
Gedimino pr. 43 Vilnius

www.photography.lt

The exhibition presents a series of work “Plastered bullet holes” by one of the most active photographers working today. Plastered bullet holes remain as traces of events that occurred during the Warsaw Uprising from August 1 until October 2 of 1944 against Nazi German occupation. The author’s artistic research is linked with historical or socially engaged events and problems through the “abstract-looking” image, working with the imagination of the viewer to create more concrete communication with the help of interpretation and conceptual thinking.

Valentin Odnoviun “Plastered Bullet Holes”

IX Lithuanian textile biennial “Limit # 30”
Curator: Prof. Žydrė Ridulytė

7–30 Oct
Tue–Fri, 12:00–19:00
Sat, 12:00–16:00
Address: Aušros Vartų st. 7

www.arkagalerija.lt/ix-lietuvos-tekstiles-meno-bienale-riba-30

This year’s biennial refers to a vanquished workshop-style distribution of artists and a changed notion of the textile as the art of weaving. Among more than fifty artists, one finds both established and new names. The exhibition unites textile artists of different generations with artists working in various media (graphics, painting, video art) that present works created specifically for this show.
Textile artists collaborate with members of other art disciplines such as literates and scientists and showcase artworks that employ unconventional materials and technologies. The theme of limit as separation is broadly interpreted by the artists who make semantic associations, poetic metaphors, material, and technological statements, and often try to provoke with entanglements of tradition and
innovation.

Artists: Ina Adomaitienė, Rūta Adomaitienė, Ieva Baltrėnaitė, Inga Betuža-Bertuža, Indrė Biekšaitė, Eglė Ganda Bogdanienė, Danguolė Brogienė, Valentinas Butanavičius, Zinaida Irutė Dargienė, Virginija Degenienė, Dileta Deikė, Gitana Evseičikaitė, Barbora Gediminaitė, Martynas Gediminas, Jolanta Gegelevičiūtė, Austė Guogaitė, Feliksas Jakubauskas, Jūratė Jarulytė, Žaneta Jasaitytė-Bessonova, Džina Jasiūnienė, Lina Jonikė, Gintarė Juodelė, Silvija Juozelskytė-Vaičiulienė, Liucija Jūratė Kryževicienė-Hutcheon, Žydrūnė Kriūkaitė Juciuvienė, Inga Laužonytė, Violeta Laužonytė, Giedrė Luckutė, Virginija Kirvelienė, Aušra Kleizaitė, Karolina Kunčinaitė, Greta Matevičiūtė, Indra Marcinkevičienė, Rasma Noreikytė, Laima Oržekauskienė, Simona Pabrėžaitė, Stefanija Giedrė Paukštytė, Jūratė Petruškevičienė, Jolanta Sendaitė-Paulauskienė, Vytautė Račiūnaitė, Lina Ringelienė, Eglė Rusteikaitė, Birutė Sarapienė, Marius Strolia, Alevtina Ščepanova ir Edita Sabockytė-Skudienė, Kristina Šorienė, Gražina Aleksandra Škikūnaitė, Marijona Sinkevičienė, Laima Švelnytė Stauskienė, Lolita Tučinskaitė, Jolanta Vazalinskienė, Zinaida Vogėlienė, Marta Vosyliūtė, Lina Zavadskė, Ričardas Zdanavičius, Daiva Zubrienė, Monika Žaltauskaitė Grašienė-Žaltė, Julius Žėkas

Indrė Biekšaitė “Eco Farming”, 2019–2020, tapestry, cotton, wool, 120 x 190 cms.

Rupert exhibition “Other Rooms”
Curators: Leah Clements, Kotryna Markevičiūtė, Yates Norton

2–31 Oct
Thu–Sat, 10:00–21:00
Sun, 12:00–15:00
Address: Vokiečių st. 2, Vilnius

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Rupert is pleased to announce an international group exhibition, “Other Rooms”. This exhibition brings together Rupert’s past residents and an alternative education participant through new work commissions and existing artworks.
Support structures extend in complex webs in which we are inextricably, helplessly tangled. These structures can be fragile, sometimes rough and awkward. Often, they are hardly-noticed gestures, feelings and atmospheres, like the texture of a blanket in a hospital that is soft to the touch or the sound of a voice that sustains a memory. They can emerge from our local environment and they are built from tiny details and with care, attention and tacit understandings. These structures of support form a kind of erratic vernacular architecture, woven together with stories that are gathered, shared and reconfigured. They might keep things going or nudge us toward repair and restoration. They can give us the capacity to imagine, daydream and hope when it feels as if there is little time, space or energy to do so.

Artists: Kah Bee Chow, Leah Clements, Milda Januševičiūtė, Renée Akitelek Mboya, Joshua Schwebel, Edward Thomasson, Romily Alice Walden

Events:

22 October
19:00
Artists’ Union Gallery
Vokiečių st. 2, Vilnius
Guided tour of the exhibition “Other Rooms” with the curator Yates Norton (in English).

23 October
19:00
Artists’ Union Gallery
Vokiečių st. 2, Vilnius
Guided tour of the exhibition “Other Rooms” with the curator Kotryna Markevičiūte (in Lithuanian).

Rupert „Other rooms“, 2020, Vilnius. Design: Mantas Rimkus and Nerijus Keblys.

“FUTURE2050”
Evelina Paukštytė

1–25 Oct
22–24 Oct, 10:00–21:00
25 Oct, 13:00–17:00
Address: Pamėnkalnio st. 1

www.facebook.com/PamenkalnioGallery

Evelina Paukštytė’s latest exhibition presents artist’s paintings and objects and is dedicated to planet Earth and visual musings about the Earth’s past, present, and future. Scientists warn that at the current economic and consumerist rate man-made systems will reach a point of no return before the mid 21 st century or 2050, after which lies the end of human civilization. The Earth will become a desolate planet. Goodbye coral reefs, Amazon jungles, Australian koalas, African baboons, Arctic glaciers. Farewell, human! While scientists are estimating, the artist presents her dystopian vision.

Event:

22 Oct
20:00
Pamėnkalnio Gallery
Pamėnkalnio st. 1
Guided tour with Evelina Paukštytė.
The artist will talk about her artistic practice, will invite visitors to speculate about possible scenarios of human survival after 2050, and will share how she is inspired by the ideas of Aldous Huxley.

Evelina Paukštytė “NEW ERA”, 2020. Photograph: Evelina Paukštytė.

“Reclamation”
Gediminas Pranckūnas
Curator: Monika Krikštopaitytė

20 Oct–14 Nov
22–23 Oct, 11:00–19:00
24–25 Oct, 11:00–16:00
Address: Latako st. 3

www.facebook.com/grafikoscentras

In Gediminas Pranckūnas’s photographs, nature is allowed to invade Vilnius, it dominates the pictures – thrives, wreathes, overshadows. It is a natural and fragile fantasy when every year in a rapidly urbanized city entire blocks are being built in the old town, while communities painfully hurry to remind about the importance of preserving the city’s green areas. This story foremost is sensuous, its formal aspects – shot’s graphic density and abundance of lines which create rhythm in the display – are significant.

Gediminas Pranckūnas, from the “Reclamation” series, 2014–2020, analog photography.

“Reportage Drawings”
Medilė Šiaulytytė

20 Oct–14 Nov

The drawings in the exhibition of the two-time Golden Stage Cross winner Medilė Šiaulytytė portray the artist’s life and work in two cities. The display is composed of series of drawings of Vilnius and Rome and reveal an attentive look to nature. They are colorful visual diaries of the city life – images from museums and cultural events accompanied by texts and collages. According to the artist, “taking photos with a pencil” is one of the most important ways of expressing her identity. The exhibition questions the migration of contemporary artists and its
effects on their artistic practices.

Opening of FLUX Festival Lituano delle arti. Mirga Gražinytė Tyla and Santa Cecilia orchestra, Auditorium Parco della Musica, 2018, mixed media.

Events:

22 Oct
18:00
Kairė-dešinė
Latako st. 3
An exhibition tour with artist Medilė Šiaulytytė.
During the event, the artist will introduce visitors to her practice and talk about drawing reportages from the FLUX Lithuanian art festival in Rome, art fair ArtVerona, opera festival in Estonia, and streets of Vilnius and Rome.

24 Oct
12:00
Kairė-dešinė
Latako st. 3
A guided tour of Gediminas Pranckūnas’s exhibition.
During the event, the curator and the artist will invite visitors to think about green Vilnius and try to identify places portrayed in the photographs.

“Textures: One Surface After Another”
Viltė Žumbakytė

6–24 Oct
22–24 Oct, 12:00–18:00
Address: Pilies st. 44

www.facebook.com/galerija.akademija

Viltė Žumbakytė (b. 1993) is an emerging artist and a winner of the first M. K. Čiurlionis stipend. The exhibition presents objects that embody acoustic experiments and a cycle of charcoal drawings which was started in 2019 during the artist’s stay in a residency in Germany. Using nature observations and her intuition the artist makes multilayered monochrome charcoal drawings, which express contradiction between movement and suspended moment.

Viltė Žumbakytė “Lightness”, 2019.

“The Garden of Earthly Delights”
Dainora Vingytė

Dainora Vingytė (g. 1993) – is an emerging graphic artist and a third-place winner in the 2019 international A. Švėgžda drawing competition. The exhibition presents drawings and woodcuts, in which products of the artist’s imagination and appropriated images merge into a manifold, often chaotic, narrative filled with humor and irony. The drawings and woodcuts were created by drawing inspiration from Hieronymus Bosch’s painted visions, by starting a dialogue with the past and rhetorically asking – how would the famous Dutch artist portray the colorful modern world? The exhibition invites us to forget what is real and what is not and to ask: what on Earth is going on?

Dainora Vingytė “The Case For Adam”, 2019.

“Memory Skin”
Gabrielė Gervickaitė
Curator: Karolina Rimkutė

22–23 Oct, 12:00–18:00
24 Oct, 12:00–20:00
25 Oct, 12:00–16:00
Address: VDA textile gallery Artifex, Gaono st. 1

www.vda.lt/galerija-artifex
Facebook/Instagram: @VDAARTIFEX

“Memory Skin” is an interactive installation. The central object of the exhibition is a waterproof oilcloth that has been used in medicine since the Soviet era. With materiality akin to human skin, it refers to intimate friction between the human body and antibody and suggests the intervention of medical apparatuses. In her practice, G. Gervickaitė explores relations between the human body and the medical industry. To make artworks she uses her body as a repository for archival material. Meanwhile, observing channels of contemporary media, social and political phenomena, the artist investigates why and how non-normative bodily images are created in our society.

Gabrielė Gervickaitė (b. 1982) is a member of the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association. She is currently completing her Ph.D. at Vilnius Academy of Arts.

Photo: Gabrielė Gervickaitė.

Event:

24 Oct
16:00
Artifex
Gaono st. 1
Guided tour of the show with artist Gabrielė Gervickaitė

Visitors entering the gallery are required to wear protective masks and will be asked to use disinfectant liquid and keep a distance with others of at least 1 meter. Visitors will need to complete the contact form for COVID-19.

“Signals and Songs”
Audrius Janušonis

8 Oct–7 Nov
12:00–18:00
Address: Vilnius Academy of Arts exhibition halls “Titanic”,
ground floor, Maironio st. 3

“Signals and Songs” is a mixture exhibition – pop powder covered in romanticism oil. With a little bit of space dust and intimacy. The exhibition is filled with objects that vary in articulation, scope, and intensity. It is determined by different work with objects strategies. At times it is traditional molding with an almost coherent narrative, other times it is a reproduction using matrices and hints, and sometimes it’s castings filled with accidents referencing a cosmic dimension.

Audrius Janušonis “Untitled”, 2020.

“Instinct”
Ieva Trinkūnaitė

9–24 Oct
12:00–18:00

The “Instinct” tries to draw attention to the modern world in which urban structures push their way into the domain of wild nature. The human being is forced to face that, whose home in the wild have disappeared. An individual living in this constantly changing environment is forced to adapt to the volatile life conditions and search for new models of existence.

Ieva Trinkūnaitė “Instinct”, 2020.

Events:

24 Oct
14:00
Exhibition halls “Titanic”
First floor, Maironio st. 3

A meeting with artist Ieva Trinkūnaitė
This year the artist graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts Graphic art department. She will present a project (a collaboration with Olegas Sucharevas) inspired by human behavior in nature, personal experiences, and observations of external events.

15:00
Exhibition halls “Titanic”
Ground floor, Maironio st. 3

A meeting with artist Audrius Janušonis
The artist will present his latest works that were created over the past three years and will answer all the questions from the public. Audrius Janušonis: “I am a sculptor – I delve into the surfaces, but also a fitter – I cut and connect.”

CENTRES FOR ART, RESIDENCIES AND EDUCATION

“Other Rooms”
Curators: Leah Clements, Kotryna Markevičiūtė, Yates Norton

2–31 Oct
Thu–Sat, 10:00–21:00
Sun, 12:00–15:00
Address: Vokiečių st. 2, Vilnius

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Artists: Kah Bee Chow, Leah Clements, Milda Januševičiūtė, Renée Akitelek Mboya, Joshua Schwebel, Edward Thomasson, Romily Alice Walden

Events:

22 October
19:00
Artists’ Union Gallery
Vokiečių st. 2, Vilnius
Guided tour of the exhibition “Other Rooms” with the curator Yates Norton (in English).

23 October
19:00
Artists’ Union Gallery
Vokiečių st. 2, Vilnius
Guided tour of the exhibition “Other Rooms” with the curator Kotryna Markevičiūte (in Lithuanian).

Rupert „Other rooms“, 2020, Vilnius. Design: Mantas Rimkus and Nerijus Keblys.

“Michael Rakowitz. Return”
Michael Rakowitz
Curator: Neringa Bumblienė

11 Sep–8 Nov
12:00–20:00
Exhibitions are open every day except on Mondays
Address: Vokiečių st. 2

www.cac.lt
www.facebook.com/cacvilnius

Chicago-based sculptor, activist, detective, radio broadcaster and occasional chef, Michael Rakowitz (b. 1973 in New York) is one of the most celebrated contemporary artists working with cultural heritage and museums. The exhibition occupies three spaces of the CAC and comprises four works, which employ sensitivity and humour to expand on notions of migration, nostalgia and the destinies of both people and objects that are trapped in a whirlpool of complex cross-border political relations.

“Splitting the Atom”
Curators: Ele Carpenter and Virginija Januškevičiūtė

18 Sep–25 Oct

There are two nuclear power plants in the vicinity of Vilnius: Ignalina (decommissioned) and Astravets (not yet operational). A third, and infamous other, is Chernobyl, eerily present following the effects of its catastrophic failure, and more recently via the popular television series that focuses on the disastrous consequences of lies and neglect. The exhibition “Splitting the Atom” offers insight into the different cultural contexts of these plants and their role in the global infrastructure of the nuclear cycle – from natural resource extraction to waste.

Artists: Lise Autogena & Joshua Portway, Erich Berger, U. Kanad Chakrabarti, Thomson & Craighead, Jurga Daubaraitė & Jonas Žukauskas, Hector Dyer, Finger Pointing Worker, Gershom Garlngarr, Jeremiah Garlngarr, Zaccheus Garlngarr, Jehosaphat Garlngarr, Isao Hashimoto, Gabriella Hirst, Martin Howse, Kristina Inčiūraitė, Erika Kobayashi, Sandra Lahire, Aimee Lax, David Mabb, Cecile Massart, Alex Ressel & Kerri Meehan, Deimantas Narkevičius, Yelena Popova, Lisi Raskin, Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson, Susan Schuppli, Augustas Serapinas, Emilija Škarnulytė, Ignas Krunglevičius & Siri Harr Steinvik, Himali Singh Soin with David Soin Tappeser, Kota Takeuchi, Mark Aerial Waller, Peter Watkins, Andrew Weir.

“JCDecaux Prize 2020: The Words I Have”
Curators: Milda Dainovskytė ir Vytenis Burokas

24 Sep–22 Nov

The exhibition “JCDecaux Prize 2020: The Words I Have” presents works by five artists dealing with human interrelationships and the human relationship to the non-human, the pulsation of beings and talking through different senses – not just verbally, as if stones rising from the mud were whispering covered in an ozone layer. The JCDecaux Prize is an annual exhibition series established by CAC and JCDecaux in 2016, aiming to promote the works of young Lithuanian artists, their dissemination in Lithuania and abroad, and public interest in contemporary art. The one-time prize of 4000 euros established by JCDecaux is awarded to one artist or team participating in the exhibition for the originality and relevance of the presented work and its artistic expression.

Artists: Karolina Janulevičiūtė, Saulė Noreikaitė, Emilija Povilanskaitė, Sallamari Rantala and Aistė Marija Stankevičiūtė

Event:

22 Oct
18:00
Contemporary Art Centre
Vokiečių st. 2
Guided tour of the Michael Rakowitz’s exhibition “Return” with curator Neringa Bumblienė.

Photograph: Dainius Putinas

PUBLIC MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS

“Jetlag”
Alvydas Lukys

15 Oct–15 Nov
22–23 Oct, 15:00–19:00
24 Oct, 11:00–17:00
Address: Malūnų st. 8

www.mekas.lt
Facebook: Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center

“Jetlag”, an installation made up of multiple video projections, continues to explore the ideas of emotional everyday experiences, touched upon in JMVAC’s previous project “DJV” (including photo essay book “Past Continuous”). Visible everyday life beads as if on a chronological axis creating in the consciousness a story of that day’s experience, which later becomes a story of the entire life. Sometimes due to various psychophysical reasons, we are affected by emotional ‘visions’ which can permute situations of chronological axes. “Past Continuous” looked into the psychic effect of déjà vu, when past experiences are felt in the present. This time around the focus is the collapse of imagery which hardly beads onto the chronological axis due to psychological fatigue experienced in travel.

Photograph by Alvydas Lukys.

A permanent collection of K. Varnelis’s optical compositions
and Danguolė Brogienė’s exhibition
“Optical Play”
Curator: Daliutė Ivanauskaitė

3 Jun–25 Oct
10:00–18:00
Address: Didžioji st. 26

www.facebook.com/KVnamaimuziejus/

Kazys Varnelis House-Museum is a visual encyclopedia where optical artworks by Varnelis can be seen alongside works of visual and applied arts from Western Europe. The spectacular compositions create an impression of optical illusion in which you will discover ornaments from European cultures – a labyrinth, serpentine, knot, patterns of Lithuanian fabrics. You will feel the rhythm of geometric abstractions. The permanent collection display is accompanied by Danguolė Brogienė’s optical compositions – semantic sign structures, references to Lithuanian cultural heritage and national identity, created by an intimate touch. The artworks exhibited in the exhibition were made using a unique textile technique with silk threads, painted and hand-stretched by the artist on the plates of different geometrical shapes, which acquire new forms and create an optical effect due to the changing lighting.

View of the permanent collection display.

Thu, 12:00–20:00
Fri–Sat, 11:00–19:00
Sun, 11:00–17:00
Address: Konstitucijos pr. 22

www.ndg.lt

Permanent Collection
Curators: Lolita Jablonskienė, Laima Kreivytė, Agnė Narušytė, Jolanta Marcišauskytė-Jurašienė

National Gallery of Art offers a permanent collection, part of which was renewed just last year, which presents the Lithuanian art of the 2nd half of the 20th c. and the 21st c. When Lithuania restored independence in 1990, remarkable changes also occurred in the Arts. Artists were no longer restricted in their choice of subjects and means of expression. Postmodern manifestations of contemporary art were mastered: objects, installations, performances; video art, new photography and postmodern painting became popular. After 2000, the collection of the Lithuanian Art Museum was enriched with artworks by contemporary Lithuanian artists that can be viewed at halls 9-11.
Permanent collection.

“Ferdynand Ruszczyc. Golden Room”
Curator: Algė Andriulytė

1 Oct–23 Dec

Ferdynand Ruszczyc (1870-1936) during his time of residence in Vilnius created a pastel with an intriguing title The Golden Room (1913), in which he depicted the interior of the apartment he rented in Užupio street no. 24. In the pastel picture, the shapes of the objects are drawn as if through a mist, not sharply defined, while through the windows an all-overwhelming light is flooding in.
For the 150 th anniversary of the artist’s birth this year, an idea was brought forward, to recreate the Ferdynand Ruszczyc’s Golden Room as a short-term intervention in the permanent exposition at the National Gallery of Art.

Events:

23 Oct
17:00
Nacionalinė dailės galerija
Konstitucijos pr. 22
Guided tour of the permanent collection, rooms 9-11, with a gallery guide.
Visitors must register at edukacija@ndg.lt

24 Oct
12:00
Guided tour of the permanent collection, rooms 9-11, with a gallery guide.
Visitors must register at edukacija@ndg.lt
15:00
A meeting with artist Julijonas Urbonas next to his artwork “Euthanasia Coaster” (2010).
Visitors must register at edukacija@ndg.lt

25 Oct
13:00
A screening of Lithuanian video art. The program was prepared from NDG’s video archive by a cultural researcher and curator Jurijus Dobriakovas.
Visitors must register at edukacija@ndg.lt
15:00
A meeting with photographer Arturas Valiauga next to his artwork “A Week has Eight Days” (1999).
Visitors must register at edukacija@ndg.lt

All events are free of charge, however, due to safety requirements, the number of visitors will be limited.
All the events require registration which is available at edukacija@ndg.lt

Photograph: Gintarė Grigėnaitė.

“Protest Art: The Rebels of the Soviet Era”
Curator: Arūnas Gelūnas

9 Oct 2020–2022
Tue–Sat, 11.00–18.00
Sun, 12.00–17.00
Address: Vilniaus st. 24

www.lndm.lt
www.facebook.com/lietuvosnacionalinisdailesmuziejus

The newly renovated Radvila Palace Museum of Art reopens with an exhibition “Protest Art: The Rebels of the Soviet Era” from the collection of jazz musician Vladimir Tarasov donated to the museum. The exhibition presents the works of forty artists who worked under the conditions of ideological dictate, censorship, and restricted freedom of movement during the 1960s and 1980s in the Soviet Union. The creative works of the Moscow Conceptualists and the Lithuanian Silent Modernists are central to this collection. As different as they are in terms of artistic expression, they all share a common quality: defiance towards the prevalent ideological and aesthetic attitudes of their time and an effort for creative freedom.

Artists: Valentinas Antanavičius, Andrei Bitov, Leonid Borisov, Griša Bruskin, Erik Bulatov, Ivan Čiuikov, Eugenijus Antanas Cukermanas, Jurij Dyšlenko, Vladlen Gavrilčik, Eduard Gorochovskij, Ilja Kabakov, Dalia Kasčiūnaitė, Linas Leonas Katinas, Vincas Kisarauskas, Igor Kopystiansky, Svetlana Kopystiansky, Ene Kull, Viktor Mariniuk, Raul Meel, Viktor Pivovarov, Ivars Poikāns, Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė, Sirje Runge, Raimundas Sližys, Jurij Sobolev, Leonid Sokov, Eduard Šteinberg, Vladimir Tarasov, Oleg Vasiliev and others.

Leonid Sokov “Mausoleum”, 1997, cast iron. The Lithuanian National Museum of Art.

PRIVATE MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS

“Why Is It Hard to Love?”
Curators: Saskia Boddeke, Peter Greenaway

20 Jun 2020–31 Jan 2021
10:00–20:00
Address: Pylimo st. 17

www.mo.lt
www.facebook.com/momuziejus

In the exhibition, curators join engaging site-specific installations and artworks by contemporary Lithuanian artists that come from MO and other collections. “Why Is It Hard to Love?” tells a story about how people look for balance in life: by choosing between good and evil, trying to erase differences between rich and poor, inequality between women and men, confrontations between generations and races. Works by renowned Lithuanian artists reveal harsh historical events that impacted our country: occupations, aspirations of freedom, and drastic social changes.

“From That Opera”
Curator: Algė Gudaitytė

3 Sep 2020–10 Jan 2021
10:00–20:00
Address: Pylimo st. 17

MO Museum and Vilnius City Opera present a joint project – the exhibition “From That Opera”.
Visitors are invited to explore the opera world in an unconventional way by discovering its behind the scenes, getting to know the soloists better, taking a close look at and even getting inside of the impressive scenery created by scenographers Dick Bird and Marius Jacovskis. Fragments of well-known operas come to life in new forms: they are complemented by projections by multimedia artist Rimas Sakalauskas, as well as by the ferrotypes by photographer Mindaugas Meškauskas, who works with the old technique of wet collodion.

“1918–1945 / Kaunas–Vilnius”
Curators: Dovilė Barcytė ir Ieva Burbaitė

27 Aug 2020–1 Jun 2021
22–23 Oct, 12.00, 14.00, 16.00
24–25 Oct, 11.00–16.00
Address: Užupio st. 40
(at the door press “TARTLE”)

www.tartle.lt

Lithuanian Art Centre TARTLE invites visitors to discover provocative art from the interwar period. The third TARTLE exhibition presents a unique part of the collection, which reveals a broad spectrum of art life in between the wars and during World War II in Vilnius and Kaunas. A contrasting exhibition features a variety of works and asks its viewers “who would you be, if you lived in the interwar: a nurturer of tradition and legacy in Vilnius – the historic capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania or a builder of temporary but new and modern capital Kaunas?”

Artists: Adomas Galdikas, Antanas Gudaitis, Jurgis Hopenas, Bronislovas Jamontas, Juozas Mikėnas, Tymonas Niesiolovskis, Petras Rimša, Antanas Samuolis, Liudomiras Slendzinskis, Stasys Ušinskas, Justinas Vienožinskis, Antanas Žmuidzinavičius.

Event:

22–23 Oct
12.00, 14.00, 16.00
TARTLE
Užupio st. 40
Guided tour of the exhibition “1918–1945 / Kaunas–Vilnius” with the curators (available only with a ticket which can be purchased at www.bilietai.tartle.lt).
Duration: one hour. Up to ten visitors in one tour. Adults – 10 Eur;
people under 18 years old, students and seniors – 5 Eur.
Tickets are limited.

24–25 Oct
11.00–16.00
Exhibition open to the public.
Free admission.

DISCUSSIONS

EVENTS

12:00
TARTLE
Užupio st. 40, Vilnius

Guided tour of the exhibition “1918–1945 / Kaunas–Vilnius” with the curators

(available only with a ticket which can be purchased at https://bilietai.tartle.lt/). Duration: one hour. Up to ten visitors in one tour. Adults – 10 Eur; people under 18 years old, students and seniors – 5 Eur. Tickets are limited.

12:30
SODAS 2123, Dizaino fondas
Vitebsko st. 23, Vilnius

Guided tour with the exhibition’s “Gvalda’s Room: Made in ‘Taros’ Office” curator Karolina Jakaitė and designer Marius Žalneravičius.

14:00
TARTLE
Užupio st. 40, Vilnius

Guided tour of the exhibition “1918–1945 / Kaunas–Vilnius” with the curators

(available only with a ticket which can be purchased at https://bilietai.tartle.lt/). Duration: one hour. Up to ten visitors in one tour. Adults – 10 Eur; people under 18 years old, students and seniors – 5 Eur. Tickets are limited.

16:00
TARTLE
Užupio st. 40, Vilnius

Guided tour of the exhibition “1918–1945 / Kaunas–Vilnius” with the curators

(available only with a ticket which can be purchased at https://bilietai.tartle.lt/). Duration: one hour. Up to ten visitors in one tour. Adults – 10 Eur; people under 18 years old, students and seniors – 5 Eur. Tickets are limited.

17:00–22:00
Studium P
Pylimo st. 20–24, Vilnius

“White Walls Plein Air”. Painting plein air will take place at Studium P gallery before the opening of the exhibition and will invite artists to paint white walls. The exhibition will present artworks painted during the plein air which will be framed by the walls on which they were painted. Participants will be determined before the opening of the show.

“SOLO Improvisation”. Intimate dialogue with an instrument.
Artists: Mėta Gabrielė Pelegrimaitė (flute), Arminas Bižys (saxophone), Klaudijas Indriliūnaitė (electric guitar), Mikas Kurtinaitis (tuba)

Visitors must wear protective masks that cover the face and nose.

18:00
Contemporary Art Centre
Vokiečių st. 2, Vilnius

Guided tour of the Michael Rakowitz’s exhibition “Return” with curator Neringa Bumblienė.

18:00
AV17
Totorių st. 5, Vilnius

Opening of Rimantas Milkintas’s exhibition “1 mm Matters”.

18:00
Kairė-dešinė
Latako st. 3, Vilnius

An exhibition tour with artist Medilė Šiaulytytė. The artist will introduce visitors to her practice and talk about drawing reportages from the FLUX Lithuanian art festival in Rome, art fair ArtVerona, opera festival in Estonia, and streets of Vilnius and Rome.

18:30 – 20:00
Kazys Varnelis House-Museum
Didžioji st. 26, Vilnius

VGW discussion “Within the Spirit of Time and Place: What Art Cares About Today?”.

Discussion will be held in Lithuanian.

19:00
Artists’ Union Gallery
Vokiečių st. 2, Vilnius

Guided tour of the exhibition “Other Rooms” with the curator Yates Norton (in English).

19:00–21:00
Editorial
Latako st. 3

Exhibition opening of “Under One’s Breath.”

20:00
Pamėnkalnio Gallery
Pamėnkalnio st. 1

Guided tour with Evelina Paukštytė. The artist will talk about her artistic practice, will invite visitors to speculate about possible scenarios of human survival after 2050, and will share how she is inspired by the ideas of Aldous Huxley.

12.00
TARTLE
Užupio st. 40, Vilnius

Guided tour of the exhibition “1918–1945 / Kaunas–Vilnius” with the curators

(available only with a ticket which can be purchased at https://bilietai.tartle.lt/). Duration: one hour. Up to ten visitors in one tour. Adults – 10 Eur; people under 18 years old, students and seniors – 5 Eur. Tickets are limited.

14.00
TARTLE
Užupio st. 40, Vilnius

Guided tour of the exhibition “1918–1945 / Kaunas–Vilnius” with the curators

(available only with a ticket which can be purchased at https://bilietai.tartle.lt/). Duration: one hour. Up to ten visitors in one tour. Adults – 10 Eur; people under 18 years old, students and seniors – 5 Eur. Tickets are limited.

16:00
TARTLE
Užupio st. 40, Vilnius

Guided tour of the exhibition “1918–1945 / Kaunas–Vilnius” with the curators

(available only with a ticket which can be purchased at https://bilietai.tartle.lt/). Duration: one hour. Up to ten visitors in one tour. Adults – 10 Eur; people under 18 years old, students and seniors – 5 Eur. Tickets are limited.

16:00–18:00
VITRINA & Bench
Kauno st. 36, Vilnius

A performance and a meeting with the artist Mažvydas Truklickas.

17:00
Atletika (Cultural centre SODAS 2123)
Vitebsko st. 21, Vilnius

A discussion about the fashion scene “Between the creation of a garment and its existence”. The artists Karolina Janulevičiūte and Kasia Gorniak will share their experiences about organizing the exhibition and will reflect on the textual and theoretical sources that informed their artistic research.

The discussion will be in Lithuanian and English.
Registration for the discussion is required and available at https://forms.gle/9tmnDkCm4TgSWsmb8

17:00
National Gallery of Art
Konstitucijos ave. 22, Vilnius

Guided tour of the permanent collection, rooms 9-11, with a gallery guide.

Visitors must register at edukacija@ndg.lt

17:30
SODAS 2123, Dizaino fondas
Vitebsko st. 23, Vilnius

Guided tour with the exhibition’s “Gvalda’s Room: Made in ‘Taros’ Office” curator Karolina Jakaitė.

17:00–22:00
Studium P
Pylimo st. 20–24, Vilnius

“White Poetry Readings”. A transmission of creative stream.

Artists: Lina Laura Švedaitė, Edvinas Valikonis, Ramūnas Liutkevičius, Paulius Janušonis, Lina Simutytė, Urtė Karalaitė, Algimantas Černiauskas, Nojus Saulytis, Dovilė Bagdonaitė, Ieva Tarejeva, Aušra Kaziliūnaitė.
Visitors must wear protective masks that cover the face and nose.

18:00
Montos Tattoo
Kauno st. 1 A, Vilnius

A meeting with Montos Tattoo curators. During the event, the installation of Gintaras Didžiapetris’s work “Untitled” (2013) will be presented by Montos Tattoo curators Liudvikas Buklys, Gediminas G. Akstinas, and Gerda Paliušytė.

The event will be held outside, registration is not required.

18:00
Kunstkamera Gallery
Ligoninės st. 4, Vilnius

Two chamber music concerts played by Viktoras Paukštelis (length – 45 min).

There is no registration, however, the number of seats is limited to 30. Free admission. Children under seven years old are not allowed.

18:30 – 20:00
Vilnius Academy of Arts
Malūnų st. 3 (building C), Vilnius

VGW discussion “The Power of Words: The Role of Criticism in Contemporary Art”

Discussion will be held in Lithuanian.

19:00
Artists’ Union Gallery
Vokiečių st. 2, Vilnius

Guided tour of the exhibition “Other Rooms” with the curator Kotryna Markevičiūte (in Lithuanian).

11.00–16.00
TARTLE
Užupio st. 40, Vilnius

Exhibition “1918–1945 / Kaunas–Vilnius” open to the public.

Free admission.

12:00
Kairė-dešinė
Latako st. 3, Vilnius

A guided tour of Gediminas Pranckūnas’s exhibition. During the event, the curator and the artist will invite visitors to think about green Vilnius and try to identify places portrayed in the photographs.

12:00
National Gallery of Art
Konstitucijos ave. 22, Vilnius

Guided tour of the permanent collection, rooms 9-11, with a gallery guide.

Visitors must register at edukacija@ndg.lt

13:00 val.
AV17
Totorių st. 5, Vilnius

Guided tour of the show with Rimantas Milkintas.

14:00
SODAS 2123, Dizaino fondas
Vitebsko g. 23, Vilnius

Guided tour with the exhibition “Gvalda’s Room: Made in ‘Taros’ Office” architect Marija Repšytė.

14:00
Exhibition halls “Titanic”
First floor, Maironio st. 3, Vilnius

A meeting with artist Ieva Trinkūnaitė. This year the artist graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts Graphic art department. She will present a project (a collaboration with Olegas Sucharevas) inspired by human behavior in nature, personal experiences, and observations of external events.

14:00
Kazys Varnelis House-Museum
Didžioji st. 26, Vilnius

Guided tour “Kazys Varnelis in the world’s galleries” (in Lithuanian).

Registration is required at k.varnelio.muziejus@lnm.lt, T. 8 5 279 1644

14:00–15:30
MO museum
Pylimo st. 17, Vilnius

VGW discussion “Education and Art: Is it Possible to Work Together?”

Discussion will be held in Lithuanan.

15:00
National Gallery of Art
Konstitucijos ave. 22, Vilnius

A meeting with artist Julijonas Urbonas next to his artwork “Euthanasia Coaster” (2010).

Visitors must register at edukacija@ndg.lt

15:00
Exhibition halls “Titanic”
Ground floor, Maironio st. 3, Vilnius

A meeting with artist Audrius Janušonis. The artist will present his latest works that were created over the past three years and will answer all the questions from the public. Audrius Janušonis: “I am a sculptor – I delve into the surfaces, but also a fitter – I cut and connect.”

15:00 val.
The Rooster Gallery
Vilniaus st. 24
(entrance from the Radvilas Palace courtyard)

Guided tour of the exhibition with artist Eglė Norkutė.

Registration is required. Please register at info@roostergallery.eu

16:00
Kunstkamera Gallery
Ligoninės st. 4, Vilnius

Two chamber music concerts played by Viktoras Paukštelis (length – 45 min).

There is no registration, however, the number of seats is limited to 30.
Free admission. Children under seven years old are not allowed.

16:00
Artifex
Gaono st. 1, Vilnius

Guided tour of the show with artist Gabrielė Gervickaitė.

Visitors entering the gallery are required to wear protective masks and will be asked to use disinfectant liquid and keep a distance with others of at least 1 meter. Visitors will need to complete the contact form for COVID-19.

17:00
Atletika (Cultural centre SODAS 2123)
Vitebsko st. 21, Vilnius

A meeting and workshop with the artists Karolina Janulevičiūte and Kasia Gorniak. The artists will invite visitors to join in the production of the line of clothing and create an additional “and Wardrobe Planning” product from leftover fabrics. The workshop will take action depending on how many textile scraps are left and what skills are required.

The workshop will be in Lithuanian and English.
Registration for the workshop is required at https://forms.gle/9tmnDkCm4TgSWsmb8; available vacancies – 10.

17:00–22:00
Studium P
Pylimo st. 20–24, Vilnius

Performative image and sound installation “Bigger Than You”. Site-specific image and sound installations will run in different rooms of the apartment.
Artists: Jūra Elena Šedytė ir Julija Panova

Visitors must wear protective masks that cover the face and nose.

11.00–16.00
TARTLE
Užupio st. 40, Vilnius, Lietuva

Exhibition “1918–1945 / Kaunas–Vilnius” open to the public.

Free admission.

13:00
National Gallery of Art
Konstitucijos ave. 22

A screening of Lithuanian video art. The program was prepared from NDG’s video archive by a cultural researcher and curator Jurijus Dobriakovas.

Visitors must register at edukacija@ndg.lt

15:00
National Gallery of Art
Konstitucijos ave. 22

A meeting with photographer Arturas Valiauga next to his artwork “A Week has Eight Days” (1999).

Visitors must register at edukacija@ndg.lt

17:00–22:00
Studium P
Pylimo st. 20–24

Electronic music performance “Fryzbye”. Fryzbye – experimental dance music duo. The main focus of the duo is improvisation, live loops, and links between the associative everyday sounds and electronic music.
Artists: Paulius Večeris, Adomas Palekas

Visitors must wear protective masks that cover the face and nose.

MAP

Special VGW project "Observatory"

22–24 Oct
Thu–Sat 12:00–21:00
Vilnius University Library
Address: Universiteto st. 3, Vilnius
White Hall (Professors’ Reading Room)

AV17

22 Oct–21 Nov
Thu, 18:00–20:00
Fri–Sat, 12:00–19:00
Sun, 12:00–17:00
Address: Totorių st. 5, Vilnius

Kunstkamera

19 Oct –7 Nov
22 Oct, 10:00–18:00
23 Oct, 10:00–18:00, 18:00–19:00 (concert)
24 Oct, 12:00–16:00, 16:00–17:00 (concert)
Address: Ligoninės st. 4, Vilnius

Meno niša

25 Sep–24 Oct
23 Oct, 12:00–18:00
24 Oct, 12:00–16:00
Address: J. Basanavičiaus st. 1

Menų tiltas

15 Oct–31 Oct
Thu–Fri, 12:00–19:00
Sat–Sun, 12:00–18:00
Address: Užupio st. 16, Vilnius

The Room

10 Sep–31 Oct
22–24 Oct, 11:00-19:00
Polocko st. 17, Vilnius

The Rooster Gallery

5–29 Oct
Thu–Sat, 16:00–19:00
Sun, 14:00–17:00
Address: Vilniaus st. 24
(entrance from the Radvilas Palace courtyard)
For visits outside these hours please contact us at
info@roostergallery.eu
or via phone on +37062907226

TSEKH Vilnius

8 Oct–5 Nov
Tue–Sat, 14:00–20:00
Address: Vytenio st. 6

Vartai Gallery

22 Oct–20 Nov
22 Oct, 18:00–21:00
23 Oct, 12:00–18:00
24–25 Oct, 12:00–16:00
Address: Vilniaus st. 39, second floor

apiece

22 Oct, from 19:00
Since 23 Oct, 00:00–24:00
Address: T. Ševčenkos g. 12 A, Vilnius

Atletika

17–30 Oct
12:00–19:00
Address: Vitebsko st. 21, Vilnius
(Cultural complex SODAS 2123)

Autarkia

9 Oct–5 Nov
15:00–19:00
Address: Naugarduko st. 41

Dizaino fondas

24 Sep–26 Nov
Thu, 12:00–19:00
Fri, 16:00–19:00
Sat, 13:00–16:00
Address: Vitebsko st. 23-N24, Vilnius

Editorial

22 Oct–28 Nov
22 Oct, 19:00–21:00
23 Oct, 11:00–19:00
24–25 Oct, 11:00–16:00
Address: Latako st. 3

Montos tattoo

From 22 Oct
00:00–24:00
Address: Kauno st. 1 A–408

Nulinis laipsnis

22 Sep–27 Oct
Mon–Fri, 14:00–19:00
Sat, 15:00–19:00
Address: Šv. Stepono st. 14

Studium P

22–25 Oct
17:00–22:00
Address: Pylimo st. 20–24

Trivium

23 Oct–22 Nov
Tue, 16:00–19:00
Thu, 16:00–19:00
Address: Vitebsko st. 23

VITRINA & Bench

10 Sep–10 Nov
10.00–18.00
Address: Kauno st. 36, Vilnius.
Second-floor foyer, “Dailė” training center.

Vilnius photography gallery

13–25 Oct
Tue–Fri, 12.00–18.00
Sat, 12.00–16.00
Address: Stiklių st. 4 (Didžioji st. 19)

Prospekto gallery

7–31 Oct
Tue–Fri, 12.00–18.00
Sat, 12.00–16.00
Gedimino pr. 43 Vilnius

Arka

7–30 Oct
Tue–Fri, 12:00–19:00
Sat, 12:00–16:00
Address: Aušros Vartų st. 7

The Artists’ Union Gallery

2–31 Oct
Thu–Sat, 10:00–21:00
Sun, 12:00–15:00
Address: Vokiečių st. 2, Vilnius

Pamėnkalnio gallery

1–25 Oct
22–24 Oct, 10:00–21:00
25 Oct, 13:00–17:00
Address: Pamėnkalnio st. 1

Kairė-dešinė

20 Oct–14 Nov
22–23 Oct, 11:00–19:00
24–25 Oct, 11:00–16:00
Address: Latako st. 3

Akademija

6–24 Oct
22–24 Oct, 12:00–18:00
Address: Pilies st. 44

Artifex

22–23 Oct, 12:00–18:00
24 Oct, 12:00–20:00
25 Oct, 12:00–16:00
Address: VDA textile gallery Artifex, Gaono st. 1

Titanic

8 Oct–7 Nov
12:00–18:00
Address: Vilnius Academy of Arts exhibition halls “Titanic”,
ground floor, Maironio st. 3

Contemporary Art Centre

11 Sep–8 Nov
12:00–20:00
Exhibitions are open every day except on Mondays
Address: Vokiečių st. 2

Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center

15 Oct–15 Nov
22–23 Oct, 15:00–19:00
24 Oct, 11:00–17:00
Address: Malūnų st. 8

Kazys Varnelis House-Museum

3 Jun–25 Oct
10:00–18:00
Address: Didžioji st. 26

National Gallery of Art

Thu, 12:00–20:00
Fri–Sat, 11:00–19:00
Sun, 11:00–17:00
Address: Konstitucijos pr. 22

The Radvila Palace Museum of Art

9 Oct 2020–2022
Tue–Sat, 11.00–18.00
Sun, 12.00–17.00
Address: Vilniaus st. 24

MO Museum

20 Jun 2020–31 Jan 2021
10:00–20:00
Address: Pylimo st. 17

TARTLE

27 Aug 2020–1 Jun 2021
22–23 Oct, 12.00, 14.00, 16.00
24–25 Oct, 11.00–16.00
Address: Užupio st. 40
(at the door press “TARTLE”)

The project is initiated and organized by the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association in cooperation with Public Institution “Mene”.

Project sponsors and partners: JCDecaux, Kazys Varnelis House-Museum, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius University Library.Information sponsor: artnews.ltThe project is partly funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.

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PROJECT SPACES

GALLERIES OF ORGANIZATIONS

Project sponsors and partners: JCDecaux, Kazys Varnelis House-Museum, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius University Library.
Information sponsor: artnews.lt
The project is partly funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.