VILNIUS GALLERY WEEKEND

5 malūnai is a participant in the HABITS programme. The exhibition will be held near Maironio St. 6, in the Vilnius Academy of Arts outdoor expo space.


Jonė Dūdaitė, Jokūbas Griška “Eccentricity”


The border between what you expect and what you get. The boundary between the art object and the viewer. The boundary that is crossed in order to experience the artwork.

The exhibition “Eccentricity” questions the gallery’s exhibition space, the content of which is not accessible to the human touch or to the full vision. Inspired by this circumstance, the artists seek to adapt a book to this specific space. A book is not only a visual object as it also contains certain information that can only be assimilated by reading it. The authors of the exhibition consider the phenomenon of boundaries and distance through the book as an installation object that reflects on the environment and the viewer.

The title of the exhibition “Eccentricity” is a reference to the experience of the exhibition, which does not follow a conscious logic and sequence of events.


6 September, 7 pm–8 pm Meeting with the artists Jonė Dūdaitė and Jokūbas Griška



7 September, 7 pm–8 pm Meeting with the artists Jonė Dūdaitė and Jokūbas Griška



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apiece is a participant in the HABITS programme. The exhibition will be held at The Rooster Gallery, Šv. Brunono Bonifaco St. 12, Vilnius.

For one exhibition, the single artwork gallery apiece exchanges spaces with The Rooster Gallery and presents the exhibition “Impermanent nature” by artist Artūras Čertovas as part of the VGW curated programme HABITS.
Čertovas’ solo exhibition focuses on issues of temporality, permanent movement, sustainability and circulation of materials. The gallery space becomes a pulsating body, linking sonic and visual segments.
The installation ” Impermanent nature” is not a moulage or a scenography, although there is a hint of that. It is a situation that deconstructs and somewhat reconstructs itself, and also contains some elements of institutional critique. It intuitively and poetically reflects on the scenarios of observing the everyday, DIY and accidental fast architecture often buried in the dust, all of which have recently been of interest to the artist.
Artūras Čertovas (1995) is a spatial practitioner living and working in Vilnius and Brussels. He is a graduate of Architecture Studies and Rupert’s Alternative Education Programme, and has held residencies at Hangar Artistic Research Center (Lisbon) and Kintai Arts residence (Kintai, Lithuania). He currently works in the field of exhibition architecture.

Exhibition opening on 5 September, 6 pm.

Meeting with the artist Artūras Čertovas on 8 September, 4 pm.

Opening hours:
Thursday–Saturday: 4 pm–7 pm

Sunday: 2 pm–5 pm

“Bathing”

In September 2024, “InTheCloseT⃣” gallery aims to present a solo exhibition “Bathing” by the young artist Lukas Strolia, featuring a sculptural installation of six objects. With this exhibition, the artist aims to look at how notions of leisure, recreation and health were formed in Lithuanian society after the second wave of industrialisation, how they manifested themselves in political discourse during the Soviet era*, highlighted the loosening of cultural restrictions during Perestroika and gradually transformed into contemporary ones during the first decades of independence.

Opening on 5 September. 18:00.



Working hours:

Saturday-Sunday 13-17. On request on other days

Works by Robertas Narkus at the National Museum of Lithuania.


The National Museum of Lithuania (LNM) and the VARTAI gallery are participants in the HABITS programme. The exhibitions are located at the following LNM branches: Gediminas Castle Tower (Arsenalo St. 5), the House of Histories (T. Kosciuškos St. 3), Kazys Varnelis House-Museum (Didžioji St. 26), the House of the Signatories (Pilies St. 26), Vartai gallery (Vilniaus St. 39).

During the Vilnius Gallery Weekend, the National Museum of Lithuania cooperates with the Vartai gallery. Robertas Narkus, an interdisciplinary artist who represented Lithuania at the 59th Venice Biennale, invites you to see contemporary artworks in four departments of the National Museum of Lithuania (LNM). The works of R. Narkus, represented by the Vartai gallery, will be exhibited in the Gediminas Castle Tower, the House of Histories, Kazys Varnelis House-Museum and the House of the Signatories.

At these LNM branches, R. Narkus will present works from the series “The Board” (2020).

The artist has constructed expressive still-life-avatars from objects, wires, ropes, building materials and remnants of artworks collected in the studio during the quarantine. Perhaps they are members of an imaginary organisation, committee or board posing for a corporate portrait.

In his work, Narkus often draws inspiration from the world of business and start-ups. By juxtaposing the spirit of optimism and drive with the bitterness of disappointment, he creates tragicomic performances, video works and collages. There is humour in Narkus’ work, but this irony is ambiguous: the artist admits that he sometimes feels like a rebellious cog in the neoliberal system.

Visitors to the Vilnius Gallery Weekend at the Vartai gallery will be presented with an exhibit from the collection of the National Museum of Lithuania, a table by designer Jonas Prapuolenis that embodies both Art Deco and folk-style and is part of a living room furniture set specially created in Kaunas for interwar intellectuals, the doctor and novelist Agnietė Steponavičienė and the military officer and war historian Vytautas Steponavičius.

During the Vilnius Gallery Weekend (5–8 September), three LNM branches (the House of Histories, Kazys Varnelis House-Museum and the House of the Signatories) will be offering 50% discount on visits. The Gediminas Castle Tower will maintain regular ticket prices. Visiting the Vartai gallery will be free of charge.



Opening hours:

LNM Gediminas Castle Tower: 10 am–8 pm

LNM House of Histories: 10 am–6 pm

LNM Kazys Varnelis House-Museum: 10 am–6 pm

LNM House of the Signatories: 5–6 September: 10 am–6 pm, 7–9 September: midday–5 pm

Vartai gallery: 5–6 September: 2 pm–6 pm, 7–8 September: midday–6 pm

Offshore Eyes are participants in the HABITS programme. The performance will take place at Pelesos St. 10, Vilnius, InTheCloset space.

“Supermale” Race. Happening.

At the height of modernism, the writer Alfred Jarry, in his book “Supermale”, described a race of ten thousand kilometres in which a four-seater bicycle tandem competed against a locomotive. Although more than a century has passed since the novel was published, man’s race against technology has not slowed down in the slightest; on the contrary, in the eternal struggle against time, the human body and mind are becoming more and more intimately connected with the various technologies. In order to improve performance, all means are justified, breakthroughs and ever larger growth are the only answers to any problems that might arise.

Inspired by the leitmotifs of the “Supermale” book, artist Robertas Narkus, in collaboration with Swedish artist Mattias Hellberg, is directing a race full of absurdity, humour and passion in the project space In The Closet on the platform of the Vilnius railway station.
In this race, there are no rules or scripts that we know of, the first to arrive is not the winner, it is not at all clear whether anyone can actually win this race, or whether you will become a machine yourself by trying to defeat a machine.

The happening will take place on Thursday, 5 August at 8 pm, in the Rail Park on the platform of Vilnius railway station, Pelesos St. 10.

Dear friend,

The Rooster Gallery is a participant in the HABITS programme. The exhibition “Let it Shine” will be held at Sofija Kymantaitė-Čiurlionienė square in Vilnius, in the apiece gallery space.


The Rooster Gallery is swapping spaces with the single-artwork gallery apiece for one exhibition and presenting the installation “Let it Shine” by artist Tomas Daukša as part of the VGW-curated programme “Habits”. “The object in the apiece gallery is an amalgamation that has grown from a compost heap of ideas. It is reminiscent of previous works, but not entirely similar to any of them. Like a greenhouse, it warms up in its own light. The light fills the small space of the gallery and spills out through the glass, but it is not entirely clear whether it promises safety and warmth or warns of possible danger”, says Tomas Daukša about the installation “Let it Shine”. In his work, T. Daukša explores the properties of different systems, their principles of operation and the possibilities of transformation.


Opening of the exhibition on 5 September, 6 pm, at Sofija Kymantaitė-Čiurlionienė square, Vilnius.

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Vilnius Academy of Arts Outdoor Expo is a participant in the HABITS programme. “Burnout” will be held at Vilnius Academy of Arts, new building, Malūnų St. 5, space 5 Malūnai.

The installation “Burnout” by Eglė Valentinavičienė (BA, Vilnius Academy of Arts) will be presented in the exhibition space 5 Malūnai.
These sculptures speak of the state of constant stress as an inseparable part of the life of a city dweller. People in the city have adapted their bodies to a high pace, as they relentlessly work out on a treadmill. The pace cannot be reduced, but only increased. Again. And again. Until the emotional bonfires flaming in the background take over. Then we stop and go into the woods. In the simplest imaginable sense: with our feet touching the ground. And then we translate burnout into refiring.
The installation consists of sculptural objects, drawings and photographs.

Meetings with the artist on 5 and 6 September, 5 pm – 6 pm.

Opening hours:
9 am–7.00 pm