{"id":2917,"date":"2015-05-03T14:51:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T14:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2015-05-03T14:53:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T14:53:57","slug":"ltmks-narys-dainius-liskevicius-atidaro-muzieju-lietuvos-paviljone-venecijos-meno-bienaleje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/en\/naujienos\/ltmks-narys-dainius-liskevicius-atidaro-muzieju-lietuvos-paviljone-venecijos-meno-bienaleje\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale: MUSEUM. Dainius Li\u0161kevi\u010dius"},"content":{"rendered":"

7 May\u201330 September 2015
\nVernissage: <\/strong>6 May, 5pm with the artist\u2019s performance
\nOpen: <\/strong>Daily (except Tuesday), 10-6pm<\/p>\n

Garden of the Palazzo Zenobio, <\/strong>
\nFondamenta Soccorso,
\nDorsoduro 2596,
\nVenice, Italy<\/a><\/p>\n

www.museo.lt<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Biennale-Arte-2015.-All-the-World\u2019s-Futures\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Dainius Li\u0161kevi\u010dius\u2019 project Museum<\/em> <\/strong>is presented in the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition \u2013 la Biennale di Venezia by Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts. The pavilion is organised by curator and commissioner dr. Vytautas Michelkevi\u010dius , 2nd<\/sup> commissioner Rasa Antanavi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, producer Daina Pupkevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 and the pavilion team.
\nMuseum<\/em> will be guided by Lithuanian-English (and sometimes Italian) speaking guides who will help the audience to discover intersecting multi-linear narratives in the exposition. The Museum <\/em>is also complemented by a printed guide, souvenirs and special guided tours<\/a> by curator and guests during the first opening week. The collateral event assembly \u201cRotten Dice<\/a>\u201d will invite the visitors to the garden on the 7th<\/sup> of May from 7 pm onwards.<\/p>\n

Museum<\/em><\/strong>, which originated in 2012 as a black cube intervention in the Lithuanian National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, has arrived in Venice as an artist-created institution which can tell and do what ordinary museums cannot. The artist\u2019s ways of storytelling and rhetoric simulate the phenomenon of a museum itself, with its rules and methods. In this way, a discursive space with overlapping subjective and objective interpretations of time is created. As the Lithuanian national pavilion, Museum<\/em> seemingly alludes to the idea of the curator Okwui Enwezor that a national pavilion is \u201cthe most anachronistic exhibition model\u201d. At the same time, it offers a relevant model of conduct for today\u2019s world, full of national and geopolitical conflicts.<\/p>\n

The multi-layered collection that has been put together by the artist works as an elliptical time loop. It simultaneously takes us back to the recent past, questions the present, and projects our anxieties on to a future that is full of cultural and geopolitical tensions. Museum<\/em> is essentially a one-off piece of artistic research, but it is not only relevant in exploring the depths of the Soviet totalitarian regime. It is also a possible model for dealing with present-day hegemonic powers, and their impact on the public discourse and the freedom of the artist.
\nIn his vision of Lithuanian (art) history, revamped with subtle irony, the artist offers an unexpected version of the archaeology of objects. Here, every object has both a personal and a collective history that conveys the signs of the times, and allows us to travel in time. Within the space of Museum, Li\u0161kevi\u010dius\u2019 own life story intertwines with those of dissident revolutionaries and idealised cultural figures (such as Jean-Paul Sartre), further erasing the thin line between subjective and objective forms of storytelling.<\/p>\n

Dainius Li\u0161kevi\u010dius<\/a><\/strong>(born 1970 in Kaunas, lives and works in Vilnius) is one of the most prominent Lithuanian artists, who started his artistic career with Lithuania\u2019s independence. With the incredible socio-political changes since 1990, his creative work has evolved through very different media and styles. Performativity and the fluctuating identity of the artist, both as a theme and as a form, are among the main keywords describing his work. The artist studied sculpture and later postgraduate studies (a type of PhD) at Vilnius Academy of Arts, and is an active participant in national and international shows.<\/p>\n

Vilnius Academy of Arts<\/a> is the only university-level state institution (with ~2000 students) for higher education in art in Lithuania. The Nida Art Colony<\/a> is a department of Vilnius Academy of Art, and runs residencies (50 artists per year) and educational and art production programmes in the resort town of Nida on the coast of the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n

The main sponsors of the pavilion are the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania<\/a> and the Lithuanian Council for Culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Additional information:<\/strong><\/span> producer Ms. Daina Pupkevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 daina@nidacolony.lt<\/a>.
\nPress inquiries:<\/strong><\/span> curator dr. Vytautas Michelkevi\u010dius vytautas@nidacolony.lt<\/a>, <\/sub>tel. +370 662 45216.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n