9-10th of September<\/p>\n
Contemporary art comes back from vacation!<\/p>\n
First Vilnius Gallery Weekend after the summer opens the doors of galleries and art spaces for Vilnius residents and guests.<\/p>\n
FULL PROGRAM IN ENGLISH (PDF)<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Gallery Weekends in cities around Europe and the world have been happening already for more than few decades, marking the first exhibitions in the galleries after the summer months and opens a new art season in the city. In this format, Lithuania experiences it for the first time. Galleries with new exhibitions open at the same time, inviting city residents to form temporary communities for experiencing not only exhibitions, but also meeting artists and getting to know the city better. Galleries are places which mark the respiration and blood flow of the city, emerging earlier than specific districts, neighbourhoods or quarters gaining the attention of city residents. Or vice versa they mark the historic development of some districts or buildings. They embody metabolism of new ideas and social connections, especially when the exhibition openings gather city residents and guests from different backgrounds, not only to look at art, but also exchange news and impressions.<\/p>\n Initiator of the gallery weekend: Vytautas Michelkevi\u010dius<\/p>\n Program<\/strong><\/p>\n 9th of September<\/p>\n 10:00 \u201320:00 \u2013 Visiting of Kaspars Podnieks exhibition \u201ePaddlock\u201c, (AV17) gallery (Au\u0161ros vart\u0173 17) 10th of September More about events Artists\u2018 Studios \u201eVarious Partners\u201c (Sod\u0173 6)<\/strong> It is an artist studio space where contemporary, future and past participants of \u201e\u012evair\u016bs partneriai\u201c will presents their works: More about “Various partners”<\/a><\/p>\n Shadows In this project shadows are being researched as borderline phenomenon of social and inner feeling. Those situations, when experiences while faintly seen from the outside internally are like a turning point in a journey. Main explorations in the artworks were influenced by social phenomenons, found objects and inner feeling of the world, which artists are fix on, recreate and interpret. The Shadow plays not the least important role.<\/p>\n Artists: Art\u016bras Ro\u017ekovas, skulptorius Juozas Budzinauskas, Art\u016bras Mak\u0161tutis, Marius Skud\u017einskas, Vadimas Korotajevas. More about exhibition<\/a><\/p>\n Anachronikos<\/strong> Curators: \u016ala Tornau and Asta Vai\u010diulyt\u0117 On the opening night artist Koenraad Dedobbeleer will give the lecture-performance “Language Is Not Anywhere Near the Origin of Consciousness”.<\/p>\n More about event<\/a><\/p>\n Show Me My Yesterday<\/strong> Memory transmitted through creative work, material expression shows only empty opportunity, which basically is just a possible medium for the mind\/area of memory. In the boundaries of (indefinite) volume\/context it is possible to fill it individually by endless amount of interpretations. Memory is not unique, memory is just a reference.<\/p>\n More about Studium P<\/a><\/p>\n The Body of the Letter <\/strong> This exhibition is supposed to function as a whispering backstage of correspondence or the body of yet another (meta)letter. We are curious how artists, their topics, curators, the gallery, the audience, and different times and spaces engage in correspondence with each other.<\/p>\n Curators: Jogint\u0117 Bu\u010dinskait\u0117 and Jurij Dobriakov More about exhibition<\/a><\/p>\n Exposition of 24\/7\/9 Monitors of Interdisciplinary project ARCHMEDIAL\u0116<\/strong> It’s a project of connections between architecture and media art, during which entire 24 hours a day arch+media audio and video works will be shown in the windows of the gallery for nine days, starting 09.09.<\/p>\n Program: STRATIC space \u2013 movie by Das Vegas; Disappearing myth \u2013 movie by architect Tomas Grunskis, PARAmetras project movie, G.Kuginis project-book “Architecture without architecture” movie and other works.<\/p>\n More about “Nulinis laipsnis” gallery<\/a><\/p>\n Julijonas Urbonas Cumspin, a model of gravitational design made for the Contemporary Culture Centre of Barcelona for the first time presented in Lithuania. Cumspin (2015) is an orgasm enhancing funfair machine. Based on the principle of a centrifuge, it exposes the love riders to variable gravitational forces. Not only does such an extreme sex environment introduce new love positions but also pushes the peaks of pleasure to new dimensions.<\/p>\n More on exhibition<\/a><\/p>\n Kri\u0161s Salmanis (LV) In exhibition artist will present a selection of newly and recently created objects, installations and videos that comprise of a diverse and playful exposition of irony and paradox. In this show two approaches come together \u2013 the visually romantic, rustic, sentimental, and the visually reduced. However, they do not clash, since both are about trying to cope, about finding scraps of sense in often minute fragments of contemporaneity.<\/p>\n More about exhibition<\/a><\/p>\n Gallery Weekends in Lithuania: Challenges of Forming Traditions and Development Directions The idea to organise Gallery Weekends, which already have deep traditions in Europe, in Lithuanian cities spread in a lightning speed. Is it an attempt to cooperate and survive in art field or strategy to attract general public to art spaces? What is needed for this idea to survive and prosper in Lithuania?<\/p>\n Participants: organisers of Vilnius and Kaunas Gallery Weekends, Klaip\u0117da Gallery Days: Andrius Pukis, Rasa Kavaliauskait\u0117, Skaist\u0117 Mar\u010dien\u0117, Vytautas Michelkevi\u010dius, Lina Pranaityt\u0117, Vaida Stepanovait\u0117<\/p>\n LIAA [and Other] Artists’ Studios<\/strong> During open studios you can see recent works and works in progress by: E. Ridikait\u0117, E. Ul\u010dinskait\u0117, R. Nemeik\u0161is, K. Kurilionok, A. Kirvelyt\u0117, K. Grigali\u016bnas, V. Vasili\u016bnas and L. Liandzbergis and talk to artists.<\/p>\n One can reach the place of event by car or by bus 31, direction Stotis\u2013Pavilnys\u2013Naujoji Vilnia. Get off at the last bus stop Naujoji Vilnia.<\/p>\n Raptor Contemporary This project can be seen as social-antropological research and an educational game, introducing processes which happened in Lithuania during time of revolution; interactive novel, where each can be both a creator and participant as creators of this project see it not only as creation of contemporary art, but also as a literary work oversteping it’s wordiness.<\/p>\n Raptor Contemporary wit poet Giedr\u0117 Kazlauskait\u0117, artist Julijus Bal\u010dikonis, translator Vytautas Dek\u0161nys, Dalia Survilait\u0117 and literary scholar N. Butnori\u016bt\u0117.<\/p>\n More about “Trivium” gallery<\/a><\/p>\n Jonas Mekas Video Diaries Exhibition \u201e365 Days\u201c<\/strong> Twelve obelisks (according to months) with small screens are shown in the exhibition, where in each screen diary of one month is presented. The entire video diary consists of 365 short videos.<\/p>\n Curator: K\u0119stutis \u0160apoka<\/p>\n More about Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center<\/a><\/p>\n POSTIDEA IV. WAR<\/strong> It is a look of contemporary female artists into war as political, social, humanitarian catastrophe, while focusing on the personal, performative dimension. Different manifestations and images of war, gender roles and their deformations during the war are being analyzed. The exhibition searches for alternative ways to solve conflicts, questions categories of heroism, selflessness, defeat.<\/p>\n Artists: Jurga Barilait\u0117, Kristina In\u010di\u016brait\u0117, Aurelija Maknyt\u0117, Egl\u0117 Ridikait\u0117, Laisvyd\u0117 \u0160al\u010di\u016bt\u0117, Laura Zala, Neringa Reka\u0161i\u016bt\u0117, Sigita Maslauskait\u0117 ir kt. More about exhibiton<\/a><\/p>\n Mikko Waltari Plays<\/strong> M. Waltari project consists of four large-format photographs, which he created with the help of professional actors and amateurs. Each of them took several weeks to be created. Yet, the arranged setting is mixed with coincidences, that are consciously accepted and used.The fifth tableaux-size work which doesn\u2019t belong to the diploma-series, but shown in the exhibition, is the opposite – a moment captured on the fly during a holiday trip to Sicily. Nevertheless, the reality of the image doesn’t seem to differ from the four plays.<\/p>\n More about exhibition<\/a><\/p>\n 2 Easy Fashion 2 Easy Fashion is a unit of two persons, who like easiness. It is almost a medical advice: most important is not to stretch yourself. Easy creative work does not solve transcendental questions or complex problems, but by existing can cause these questions. Let\u2019s admit to ourselves, there is nothing harder than relaxation. It needs yoga, medicine and breathing exercises. For many of You relaxation is a huge issue which can be solved only by throwing pencils into a sheet of paper.<\/p>\n More about exhibition<\/a><\/p>\n Monika Dro\u017cy\u0144ska (PL) This exhibition looks into the question of how the national identities are being created. As a point of departure the artist interrogates Polish society from the minority’s and enemy’s point of view, those who threaten the unity of the nation. The exhibition attempts to unravel how multi-layered, rich and fluctuating the phenomenon of the national identity is.<\/p>\n More about exhibition<\/a><\/p>\n Kaspars Podnieks (LV) This exhibition will present an exposition of various media (photography, video and installation), where uninterrupted narrative will make everyone listen into their cultural experience and rethink surrounding commonness structures. Works will talk about overall processes and their cyclicality, about perpetually renewing, moving and changing liaisons, which in nature works as precisely as mechanics of the clock, but in a social environment jam and fail to break human created \u201epaddocks\u201c.<\/p>\n More about exhibition<\/a><\/p>\n Justina Christauskait\u0117 This sensitive project can be understood as a narrative on generational continuity, a panorama of social layers and street fashion. These photographs are an opportunity to contemplate the importance of the clothing items, change of fashion, or just to be surprised by unexpected combination.<\/p>\n
\n12:00 \u201320:00 \u2013 Visiting exhibitions at galleries \u201eArtifex\u201c (Gaono 1), \u201eVartai\u201c (Vilniaus 39), \u201eAkademija\u201c (Pilies 44), Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center (Mal\u016bn\u0173 8), exhibition halls \u201eTitanikas\u201c (Maironio 3), Vilnius Photography Gallery (Stikli\u0173 4\/Did\u017eioji 19)
\n15:00 \u201318:00 \u2013 Open Artists’ \u201e\u012evair\u016bs partneriai\u201c Studios (Sod\u0173 6)
\n17:00 \u2013 Exhibition opening \u201eShadows\u201c, \u0160v. Jono gatv\u0117s gallery (\u0160v. Jono 11)
\n19:00 \u2013 Exhibition opening-performance \u201eShow Me My Yesterday\u201c, Studium P (Pylimo 20-24); Exhibition opening \u201eAnachronikos\u201c , Contemporary Art Center (Vokie\u010di\u0173 2)
\n20:00 \u2013 Exhibition opening \u201eThe Body of the Letter\u201c, Sod\u0173 4 (Sod\u0173 4)
\n21:00 \u2013 Beginning of exposition of 24\/7\/9 Monitors of Interdisciplinary project ARCHMEDIAL\u0116, gallery \u201eNulinis laipsnis\u201c (\u0160v. Stepono 14)<\/p>\n
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\n12:00 \u2013 Free tour around gallery \u201eVartai\u201c exhibitions (Vilniaus 39)
\n12:00 \u2013 16:00 \u2013 Visiting exhibitions at Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center (Mal\u016bn\u0173 8) and \u0160v. Jono gatv\u0117s gallery (\u0160v. Jono 11)
\n12:00 \u2013 17:00 \u2013 Visiting exhibitions at galleries \u201eArtifex\u201c (Gaono 1), (AV17) (Au\u0161ros vart\u0173 17), Vilnius Photography Gallery (Stikli\u0173 4\/Did\u017eioji 19), exhibition halls \u201eTitanikas\u201c (Maironio 3).
\n12:00 \u2013 18:00 \u2013 Visiting exhibitions at gallery \u201eAkademija\u201c (Pilies 44),
\n13:00 \u2013 Discussion \u201eGallery Weekends in Lithuania: Challenges of Forming Traditions and Development Directions\u201c, Coffice (Sod\u0173 3A)
\n14:00 \u2013 16:00 \u2013 Open LIAA (and Other) Artists’ Studios (Pramon\u0117s 141)
\n15:00 \u2013 Free tour around gallery \u201eVartai\u201c exhibitions (Vilniaus 39)
\n15:00 \u2013 18:00 \u2013 Open Artists’ \u201e\u012evair\u016bs partneriai\u201c Studios (Sod\u0173 6)
\n16:00 \u2013 Creative workshop for children \u201eMould Your Own Urlaganas\u201c, gallery \u201eTrivium\u201c (Vilkp\u0117d\u0117s 7-105)
\n18:00 \u2013 Interactive game \u201eThe Life of Urlaganas\u201c, gallery \u201eTrivium\u201c ( Vilkp\u0117d\u0117s 7-105)
\n22:00 \u2013 Closing of Vilnius Gallery Weekend: Vygintas Orlovas, \u201eref\/inter\u201c, Yucatan (Pylimo 2\/ Islandijos 6)<\/p>\n
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\nStudios are open 9-10th of September, 3-6 pm<\/p>\n
\nMilda Dainovskyt\u0117 – \u201eFloating mat\u201c sound installation; Egl\u0117 Ruibyt\u0117 Installation – \u201e4.18 m2\u201c; Algirdas Jakas – \u201eCurator and Artist\u201c; Works by Saulius Leonavi\u010dius, Jurgis Bernatonis, Vida Strasevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117<\/p>\n
\nSculpture, prints, objects, sound installation<\/strong>
\n\u0160v. Jono gatv\u0117s galerija (\u0160v. Jono 11)
\nOpening 09.09 5 pm<\/p>\n
\nCurator of the exhibition – Marius Skud\u017einskas.<\/p>\n
\nContemporary Art Center (Vokie\u010di\u0173 2)
\nOpening 09.09 7pm<\/p>\n
\nArtists: Chiara Camoni, Filip Cenek, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, KIWA, Mercedes M\u00fchleisen<\/p>\n
\nStudium P (Pylimo g. 20-24)
\nOpening 09.09 7 pm<\/p>\n
\nSod\u0173 4 (Sod\u0173 st. 4)
\nOpening 09.09 8pm.<\/p>\n
\nArtists: Andrew Gryf Paterson, Arnas Anskaitis, Aurelija Maknyt\u0117, Francisco Janes, Geist\u0117 Kin\u010dinaityt\u0117, Vitalijus Strigunkovas, \u017dygimantas Augustinas<\/p>\n
\nNulinis laipsnis (\u0160v. Stepono 14)
\nBeginning: 09.09 9 pm<\/p>\n
\nCumspin<\/strong>
\nGallery \u201eVartai\u201d (Vilniaus 39)
\nFree tours on 09.10 at 12 am and 15 pm<\/p>\n
\nPoems and things <\/strong>
\nGallery \u201eVartai\u201d (Vilniaus 39)
\nFree tours on 09.10 at 12 am and 15 pm<\/p>\n
\nDiscussion in Lithuanian language<\/strong>
\nCoffice (Sod\u0173 3A)
\n09.10 1 pm<\/p>\n
\nPramon\u0117s 141
\nStudios are open on 09.10 2-4 pm<\/p>\n
\nThe Life of Urlaganas<\/strong>
\nGallery \u201eTrivium\u201c (Vilkp\u0117d\u0117s g. 7-105)
\n09. 10 16 val. – Creative workshop for children \u201eMould your Own Urlaganas\u201c
\n09.10 18 val. – Interactive game \u201eThe Life of Urlaganas\u201c<\/p>\n
\nJonas Mekas Visual Arts Center (Mal\u016bn\u0173 8)<\/p>\n
\nExhibition hall \u201eTitanikas\u201c (Maironio 3, 2nd floor)<\/p>\n
\nCurator: Laima Kreivyt\u0117<\/p>\n
\nGallery \u201eAkademija\u201c (Pilies 44)<\/p>\n
\nI am a Rose Painter and He Likes Roses. That is Why We Get Along.<\/strong>
\nGallery \u201eAkademija\u201c (Pilies 44)<\/p>\n
\nKwas<\/strong>
\nGallery \u201eArtifex\u201c (Gaono 1)<\/p>\n
\nPaddock<\/strong>
\n(AV17) gallery (Au\u0161ros vart\u0173 17)<\/p>\n
\nGrandchildren, Clothes, Grandparents \u2013 Stories About Generations, Fashion and History<\/strong>
\nVilnius Photography Gallery
\n(Stikli\u0173 4, easier accessible entrance from Did\u017eiosios 19)<\/p>\n