Digital Archive of Valdas Ozarinskas

2026-03-04

The digital archive of Valdas Ozarinskas (1961–2014), member of the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association (LIAA), presents the artist’s creative legacy. His projects, texts, images, and video fragments are now accessible online:
https://ozarinskas.online/

Valdas Ozarinskas was an architect, designer, and conceptual artist. Since the early 1980s, he developed installations, objects, video works, and exhibition architecture that merged architectural thinking with performativity and conceptual inquiry. Ozarinskas consistently operated “in-between” – between disciplines, between form and idea, between architecture and its critique. During his years at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, he established a unique language of exhibition architecture in which space became an active narrative agent. As part of the architects’ group “Privati ideologija,” he further challenged prevailing notions of architecture and its social role.

His projects – from the iconic Vilnius interiors “Bulletproof Vest” and “NATO’s Bar” to the Lithuanian pavilions at Expo 2000 and Expo 2005 – became cult landmarks, shaping not only space but also the cultural moment itself. Ozarinskas thought on a grand scale, moving effortlessly from object to city, from the human body to technology or cosmic metaphor. For him, architecture was not a building but a phenomenon – a field of action connecting humans, mechanisms, and the world.