Vilnius Gallery Weekend is an annual art festival that unites various art spaces in Vilnius and invites the public to embark on a journey of art experience. This year the event, which is being held for the seventh time, will present to the public a broad panorama of the capital’s contemporary art. This time, the theme of empathy was chosen as the main conceptual axis.

Can artistic creation be considered as an expression of empathy? In order to understand the work of art, is it necessary to empathise with the worldview of the artist? Common contemporary artistic practices reflect on the themes of communion, attachment, and social inclusion. The meeting of different individuals or social groups around a work helps not only to develop artistic competences, to relax, but also to get to know each other, to foster diversity, to untangle knots of thoughts.

On September 8-11, Vilnius gallery weekend will draw a map of empathy, inviting you to hear, see, understand and tell. More than 30 art spaces will be devoted to the theme of empathy, where visitors will not only be able to view new exhibitions, but also participate in discussions, creative workshops, guided tours, meet the artists themselves and cultivate the ability to hear others.

Exhibitions

September 8 – 12 (noon) – 8 p.m.
September 9, 10 – 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
September 11 – 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Konstitucijos Ave. 22, Vilnius

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“Spatialities”

Gintaras Kuginis’ Golden Section and Ša atelier 057 siena installations created especially for this exhibition in the outdoor space of the National Gallery of Art.
By focusing on the individual creative elements of architecture – flatness and scale – the authors propose to rethink the concept of space and to look at it as an artificial labyrinth of meaning.

“Sheets and Splashes. Leisure in 20th-21st Century Lithuanian Art”

What do people do when there is nothing to do? When they are not constrained by the walls of their offices, when working hours are officially over and when they are not burdened with the responsibilities of living. This exhibition-retrospective presents the works of more than 100 artists and archival material, telling the story of how the forms of leisure time in our country have changed over the last century, which motifs and images have remained of interest to artists despite political and ideological changes.

“Sometimes Vėra Looks Like That. Photographs by Veronika Šleivytė (1906-1998)”

Vėra Šleivytė, who was considered an odd painter of flowers in the Soviet era, is of interest to us today as a photographer whose images testify to her different roles: daughter, sister, artist, social activist, educator and lover. They also add to the history of the LGBTQ+ community. With her camera, Veronika Šleivytė explores both the world and herself. For the first time, more than 250 of Šleivytė’s photographs are on display – original and never-before-seen negatives from the artist’s archive.

September 8-11, visiting the exhibitions will be free.

September 8, 9, 10 – 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
September 11 – 12 (noon) – 5 p.m.
Vilniaus st. 24

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“Chambers of Radiance” by Emilija Škarnulytė

Emilija Škarnulytė’s solo exhibition presents t1⁄2 – an audiovisual installation in an impressive format exploring posthumanist mythology. The title of the work refers to the terminology of nuclear physics and draws attention to the challenges of nuclear energy. Combining fiction and documentary, the artist visualises the traces of global human activity and invites a critical rethinking of the relationship between man and the Earth.

“Protest Art: The Rebels of the Soviet Era”

This is an exhibition in the spirit of resistance from the collection of jazz musician Vladimir Tarasov, donated to the museum. The exhibition features works by Lithuanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Latvian and Estonian artists who worked in the Soviet Union between the 1960s and 1990s. They could be all characterised by their defiance of the ideological and aesthetic demands of the time and their quest for creative freedom. The exhibition is curated by Arūnas Gelūnas.

September 8-11, visiting the exhibitions will be free.

September 8, 9, 10 – 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
September 11 – 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Arsenalo 3 A, Vilnius

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“The Invisibles. Historic Furniture from a Contemporary Design Perspective”

The exhibition is an invitation to take a fresh look at the furniture and interior details stored in the museum collections, revealing to the viewer the value of these historical objects in a dialogue with contemporary design. The exceptional architecture of the exhibition, and the reconstruction of parts of the exhibits that have been lost in time, open up a multitude of ways and choices of appreciating historical objects, without losing sight of our current relationship to objects.

“Lutum magnum”

The exhibition introduces the work of artists from different disciplines, the common material that unites their works – clay – and the different forms of its application. The exhibition is about the connection between clay and art in Lithuania and aims to reveal the diversity of the expression of clay’s materiality in contemporary art. From ceramic vessels to paintings, prints, installations and video works, clay has been used in many different ways by different generations of artists.

September 8-11, visiting the exhibitions will be free.

September 9, 10 d. 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
September 11 d. 12 (noon) – 5 p.m.
A. Goštauto st. 1, LT-01104 Vilnius

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“Contemporary African Art: Dreams and Realities of Identity”

At the Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum – the first exhibition of contemporary African art in the Baltic States, which tells about young African artists and their search for identity. In the latter part of the 20th century, the colonial era in Africa ended with independence wars and revolutions. Many countries declared independence in 1960, the so-called Year of Africa. The various multinational states that sprang up after decolonisation were mostly founded on a political rather than cultural basis and from then on, visual art has played an important role in the processes of societal change and the search for national identity.Just a couple of decades ago, many would have considered carved wooden masks and statuettes to be the embodiment of African art, but although such traditional art has contributed a lot to popularising the cultural heritage of the continent and has had a strong influence on the development of European modernism, contemporary forms of art have now finally come out of its shadow. The younger generation of African artists has set out on the path to finding new subjects for their art and new means of expression. The optimistic atmosphere of the liberation era in the final decades of the 20th century has given way to the realities of life: social, economic and ecological issues tied to certain demographic processes. The search for identity that has emerged parallel to the independence movements is also ramping up in the works of contemporary artists.
Today more than ever, there is a growing interest in contemporary African art and artists from the continent are getting recognition both at home and abroad. African art is now also coming to Lithuania. The organisers of the exhibition welcome you at the first exhibition of contemporary African art in the Baltic states and present the latest generation of artists. Fifteen artists representing six countries – Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria and South Africa – are raising issues regarding identity and migration, racism and tolerance, war and peace, that are relevant in the contemporary world. They fight against the widespread stereotypes of Africa being an “uncivilised” continent and are challenging the classical Western view, while creating and telling a new narrative about Africa.
The curators of the exhibition have selected 30 artworks that reveal contemporary African art through three thematic sections: Sharing a Moment calls us to renounce stereotypical thinking and look for common ground, Daily Rituals tells the story of little-known African everyday life, while The True Self speaks about self-discovery, the vision of a hybrid identity and the renaissance of African identity. The exhibition is accompanied by short biographies of the most prominent artists and video footage.
Exhibition curators: Dr. Vilma Gradinskaitė, Dr. Karina Simonson
Organisers: LNMA Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art, Tumo gallery, Institute Museum of Ghana.

“Parallel Time”

The idea was born in the autumn of 2018, when photographer Arūnas Baltėnas visited the USA and met New York–based artists Kęstutis Zapkus (b. 1938), Žilvinas Kempinas (b. 1969), Vytenis Jankūnus (b. 1961), and Julius Ludavičius (b. 1969). Later in Paris he also visited Paris-based artists Rūta Jusionytė (b. 1978) and the duo SetP Stanikas (Svajonė b. 1961 and Paulius b. 1962) and had a chat with them.
Visitors attentive to the contemporary art exhibitions will not find these artists a novelty. Yet this event brings into museum space not only artwork, but the people behind it, the individualities, life stories and careers of the famous artists living outside Lithuania. Among them, only Kęstutis Zapkus experienced an enforced exile, he left Lithuania at the age of six and received his art education abroad. Most of these artists, though, are voluntary experts of migration who chose to live in foreign countries seeking a broader context, attracted by the power of the international art centres, traditions and influences, inspired by the prospects different from their home country. Their art is now produced ‘between’ the two, ancestral and their current, worlds. The artists live in ‘parallel time’, both here and there, as once was put by Žilvinas Kempinas. Or ‘neither here, nor there’, but in their studio, according to Rūta Jusionytė.
This group of exiles, surely, has no common stylistic nucleus, but is a rainbow of different idioms, detached from the dialect of the exiles of the first half of the 20th century who guarded the national style and theme. These artists avidly observe the thriving reality around them, recording the cosmopolitan exotics of New York subway (Jankūnas) or designing completely original forms of intellectual abstractions (Zapkus), indulging in exuberant baroque forms (SetPStanikas) or installations of conceptual minimalism (Kempinas), marrying in unique ways the image and abstraction (Ludavičius). Their conversations with the photography artist Baltėnas, together with his photographic images, take the viewer backstage of these artists’ persona encountered at exhibitions. In contrast to an art critic, reporter or theorist, he approaches his colleagues with the feeling of empathy and the sense of kinship, encouraging them to share their ideas and the nuts and bolts of their artistic practice.

The exhibition includes contemporary work from the collections of the Lithuanian Expatriate Art Foundation, Lewben Art Foundation, MO Museum, the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, the Arts Bridge (Menų tiltas) Gallery and Gallery Vartai. The agglomeration of different media – texts, interviews, documentary photography and visual works functions as a multi-layered narrative about Lithuanian artists in the world and sets the scene for revisiting of the concepts of émigré and exile, of diaspora and new traditions. These traditions are no longer linked to the dramatic historical narratives of the first half of the 20th century, but still perform the function of communicating experience despite of it being only a fragmented, varied and ephemeral whole.

Organiser: Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art.
Partners: Lewben Art Foundation, Lithuanian Expatriate Art Foundation, MO Museum, Art Gallery ‘Arts Bridge’.
Curator: Birutė Pankūnaitė.
Architect: Povilas Vincentas Jankūnas.
Translator: Irena Jomantienė.

September 8-11, visiting the exhibitions will be free.

September 8, 9 – 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
September 10, 11 – 12 (noon) – 6 p.m.
T. Kosciuškos st. 3, Vilnius, Lietuva

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“Antanas Ingelevičius: the Creator and the City”

The exhibition draws from photographs a visual map of Kaunas – as unfamiliar as Antanas himself. This map is alive – it consists not only of streets, buildings, rivers, mountains, but also of people. The exhibition tells the story of the city and its creators: the photographer himself and all those who have come under his lens – street workers, laundresses, newspaper and market vendors, painters, writers, actors. The photographs preserve the everyday life of these “city creators”, their daily moods, the memory of the place.

“Slow Direction”

by Lukas Mykolaitis

From 27 July, the exhibition Slow Direction by the artist and researcher Lukas Mykolaitis is presented at the House of Histories. Using various documentation techniques, L. Mykolaitis explores the city, the relationship between historical and personal space, rethinks the notions of heritage, memory and the accumulation and transmission of information and creates personal collections of archival material. Mykolaitis is also a member of a collective of artists and the founder of the non governmental organisation Paveldo Institutas.

8-11 September, visiting the exhibitions will be free.

Vitebsko st. 23, 11350 Vilnius
(Cultural centre SODAS 2123)

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„Genius loci – post mortem“

Interweaving childhood memories with what is no longer there, the exhibition tells a sensitive story about the bridge – an old, good and nameless that stood at the end of the street in the outskirts of Vilnius – and its treacherous fate. The story is revealed by the text and spatial intervention of the architect, comics and interactive media creator Povilas Vincent Jankūnas, captured in a series of photo documentation by the researcher and photographer Lukas Mykolaitis. “Genius loci – post mortem” presents a series of five micro-exhibitions “Value”, where the authors in their own angles flip seen, experienced, understood and missed kaleidoscopes of the values of the architectural environment that surrounds us. The exhibition in the cultural centre Sodas 2123 will be open from August to December and virtually at www.archfondas.lt/parodu

September 8-11, visiting the exhibition will be free.

September 8 ,9 – 3 p.m. – 7 p.m.
September 10 – 12 (noon) – 5 p.m.
Malūnų st. 8, Vilnius

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Audiovisual installation Jonas Mekas… up close and far away…

In 2022 we commeorate the centenary of Jonas Mekas. We can legally call this period the age of Mekas. He not only captured the most important historical events – life in a displaced persons camp, the origins of avant-garde cinema in post-war New York, the road to freedom in Lithuania and the collapse of the Soviet Union – but also created a distinctive way of seeing. To paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, Mekas is the Message. Not a message, but a subjective reality experienced personally, a distinctive way of telling a story. Mekas’s diaristic way of speaking – in verse and via film camera – became a unique format, which influenced his friends filmmakers and other artists. But what was Mekas like beyond the camera? How did his colleagues and students see him?

September 8-10, visiting the exhibition will be free.

September 8, 9 – 4 p.m. – 7 p.m.
September 10, 11 – 12 (noon) – 6 p.m.
A.Mickevičiaus st. 29, LT-08117, Vilnius

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“waving braids brading waves”

“The title of the exhibition was probably what we discussed the longest and thought about what would be the most appropriate. This combination of words describes those intertwined relationships between household activities, everyday life and art, as well as communion, endless conversations and walks. And ~waving~ is how relationships and connections with people, over time, come closer and then grow apart. We are now meeting in a similar stage of creation and life, which, in time, will be replaced by the next stages. This intersection is what we are recording in our joint show. How do you understand these undulating waves and intertwining links? They remind of the questionable braidings of creative work, everyday life, and the ties of friendship, which, in such a present continuous time, grow and wind like a vine. Reminiscent of the bands we wove as leashes for our dogs, or the friendship bracelets I used to make for my friends as a child. It also resembles chemical compounds that combine as different elements into one, encapsulate, and become symbiosis. Or, embraced by the flames of a waving fire, the braidings are destroyed so that they could later grow anew.”

Auksė Miliukaitė
Indrė Liškauskaitė

Opening of the exhibition − 2 September, 18:00.
Exhibition dates − 2−11 September.
Exhibition working hours: working days 16:00−19:00, weekends 12:00−18:00.
Exhibition tour with the artists – 10 September, 17:00.
Exhibition location: The Composers’ House, second floor.
Exhibition sponsor: Lithuanian Composers’ Union.

September 8, 9, 10
11 (noon) – 8 p.m.
Lukiškių skg. 6

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“Everyday skin”

Exhibition of paintings by Petras Lincevičius and Mantas Daujotas.

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“Survival”

Artists participating in the project:

Lithuanian National Culture and Art Prize laureate, painter Eglė Ridikaitė, painter who returned from New York for the project Ieva Mediodia, composer Gailė Griciūtė, creator of interdisciplinary art and art critic Aistė Kisarauskaitė, photographer Dovilė Dagienė – DoDa, sculptor and creator of interdisciplinary art Marija Šnipaitė, photographer Aušra Griškonytė – Volunge.

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Scultures and installations: Tadao Cern, Domas Mykolas, Jonas Aničas, Tauras Kensminas, Mykolas Sauka, Dovydas Nemunas.

September 8-11, visiting the exhibitions will be free.

September 8, 9, 10, 11 – 10 a.m. – 20 p.m.
Pylimo st. 17, Vilnius

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„Op Art Reflections“

This exhibition presents the impact of Op Art on the Lithuanian artistic scene of the 1960s and 1970s, a period when abstract expression provided artists an escape from Soviet reality, allowing them to distance themselves from officially favored narratives. Op Art most often appeared in these works in experimental forms, and not as a consistently developed creative strategy. Even so, some artists were relegated to the margins of official artistic life because of their interest this style. In their pursuit of artistic freedom, they chose to work in set design, cultural heritage preservation, and graphic design – fields that were undervalued within the overall Soviet hierarchy of art and thus subjected to slightly less regulation by authorities. This exhibition not only reviews the broad spectrum of visual expression, but also explores works by lesser-known artists.

Curator – Deima Žuklytė-Gasperaitienė.
Coordinator – Ugnė Paberžytė.
Architect – Dominykas Šavelis.
Designer – Akvilė Paukštytė.
Consultant – Viola Klimčiauskaitė.
Exhibition assistant – Agnė Kuprytė.

Šarūnas Sauka „Mamai“

From August 24 until October 3, we invite you to see Šarūnas Sauka’s latest work “Mamai” (For Mother) in the MO Museum lobby.

The painting Mamai was created after the death of the artist’s mother. The main figure in the painting, depicted at the center of the work with a raised hand, is Rūta Saukienė (1929–2021), a graduate of Lithuanian studies from Vilnius University, a long-time editor at the Vaga publishing house, and a translator. Lithuanian children still read the books she translated into Lithuanian, including Junior and Karlsson-on-the-Roof, based on the work of Astrid Lindgren and Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince and Other Tales. Saukienė closely followed her son’s artistic career throughout her life and had her own interpretation of each of his works. As Sauka himself has said, his mother participated in every one of his paintings.

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September 8, 9 – 3 p.m. – 7 p.m.
September 10, 11 – 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Vokiečių st. 6, Vilnius

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“On comfort and beauty: changes in the homes of Vilnius residents in 1870-1918”

Vilnius became a modern city in the late 19th and early 20th century. The population grew rapidly, but with this growth came an increase in pollution. It was not long before the quality of life deteriorated to a new low, and the local authorities faced the inevitable need to modernise the urban infrastructure, especially domestic utilities. At the turn of the century, fashions and standards of beauty and convenience were transformed by a better knowledge of sanitation and hygiene. Alongside domestic appliances, new types of finishes and mass-produced furniture emerged. The period presented in this exhibition can be viewed as a turning point in the evolution of the Vilnius home. Of course, the new developments were not to the taste or the means of every resident, and various conveniences failed to reach consumers in a timely manner; in some cases, over 50 years were to pass before some residents gained access to them. But it was around this time that houses in Vilnius changed into something like the homes we live in today.

September 8 – 11, 50% discount on entry.

September 8, 9 – 12 (noon) – 7 p.m.
September 10 d. – 12 (noon) – 4 p.m.
Stiklių st. 4 (Entrance from Didžioji st. 19)

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Milda Drazdauskaitė.

“Ladies and Grannies”

Milda Drazdauskaitė was an under-represented and little researched Lithuanian photographer who worked in changing historical circumstances at the crossroads between classical humanist photography and conceptual photography. This liminality was both strength and an obstacle for the artist. In 1978 the artist started participating in exhibitions and working in Lithuanian Photographers Association, some of her works traveled to a number of European galleries, even Antanas Sutkus entrusted her with the printing of his photos. M. Drazdauskaitė’s choice to take “photos for the memory” testifies to an auto/ironic and conceptual approach to photography – it is a way to overcome the resistance of models and not emphasize the authorship of the photographer. Milda Drazdauskaitė’s work, like the works of her colleagues Algirdas Šeškus, Alfonsas Budvytis, Vytautas Balčytis, Gintaras Zinkevičius, should be reviewed in the context of contemporary art and photography. The author’s works are characterized by obvious posing, models’ performances of a more beautiful life, highlighting the absurdity of everyday life, the dissonance between what they are and what they want to look like. The exhibition presents a small part of M. Drazdauskaitė’s works, more precisely – two of her favorite characters – ladies and grannies. Next to these female archetypes, Milda’s personal “photos for the memory” also come to life – autobiographical shots from the personal archive – witnesses of a complex and expressive social and historical period.

September 8-10, visiting the exhibitions will be free.

September – 12 (noon) – 7 p.m.
September 9 – 12 (noon) – 6 p.m.
September 10 – 12 (noon) – 4 p.m.
Gedimino Ave. 43

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Jessica Backhaus. “Cut outs”

Thursday 8 September at 17.30. Prospekto Gallery (Gedimino Ave 43, Vilnius) will open the exhibition CUT OUTS by Jessica Backhaus. In recent years Jessica Backhaus has been amazing the viewers with her inventive solutions in her artistic photographs, shown both individually and in series. She started developing her series CUT OUTS in 2018. The works in this series are created using the simplest of tools and this simplifies photography to elements such as light and shadow, shape and colour. A distinctive feature of her work to date is the enchanting interplay between the representation of reality and enigmatic abstraction. The photographer ultimately becomes an observer who has little influence on the action taking place in front of him, and who is documenting a visual experiment, a poetic choreography of colour and light. Jessica Backhaus (b. 1970, Kukshafen) grew up in a family of artists. At the age of 16 she moved to Paris, where she later studied photography and visual communication (1989-1992). There she met Gisèle Freund in 1992, who became her mentor. In 1995, Backhaus’s passion for photography led her to New York, where she assisted photographers, carried out her own projects and lived until 2009. Backhaus is today considered one of the most prominent voices of contemporary photography in Germany. Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Martin-Gropius-Bau Gallery in Berlin, the MARTa Herford Museum and the Kunsthalle Erfurt. The photographer has published ten publications and is represented by various galleries in Europe and the USA.

September 8-10, visiting the exhibition will be free.

September 8, 9 – 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
September 10, 11 – 3 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Aušros vartų st. 5

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In June 2022, the reading room of the Contemporary Art Center (ŠMC) opened its doors in a new space in the Pasažo alley. The new sign of the reading room is a snake, red tables in the space represents a tongue, night advertisement is a blind. During the Vilnius gallery weekend, we invite all of those who haven’t visited yet to discover a new space full of books and conversations. For this occasion we have also prepared a special collection of publications dedicated to empathy.

September 8-11, visiting the space will be free.

September 8, 9, 10 – 12 (noon) – 6 p.m.
Latako st. 2

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“Exhibition of the finalists of A. Švėgžda Drawing Competition”

For the eighth year, Vilnius Academy of Arts has been organising and inviting young artists to take part in the annual drawing competition-exhibition in the name of the Honorary Professor Algimantas Švėgžda (1941-1996), which was interrupted by the quarantine in recent years. For the final exhibition in 2022 the jury has selected 16 drawings by Vilnius Academy of Arts students and graduates. The aim of this exhibition is to introduce the ideas of young artists, to present their creative and professional skills, innovations or the continuation of traditions in the field of drawing, to reveal the diversity of drawing possibilities.

September 8-10, visiting the exhibitions will be free.

September 8, 9, 10 – 12 (noon) – 6 p.m.
Gaono st. 1, Vilnius

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“Revision of Relationships”

Participants: Ieva Laskevičiūtė, Liucija Dervinytė, Martyna Plioplytė-Zujienė, Rasa Icen, Rūta Simutytė, Viktorija Kuliavaitė. Exhibition curator Uršulė Baltėnaitė.

The exhibition Revision of Relationships presents the works of six postgraduate students from the Department of Textile Art and Design at Vilnius Academy of Arts. Although the artists have been developing their ideas for a long time, the connection of their work could be defined by the theme of empathy, developed by the Vilnius Gallery Weekend. Thus their works themselves become a symbolic visualisation of this concept. The overlapping timing of the exhibition and the festival has also created a thematic link that is not coincidental but rather complementary. The title of the exhibition reflects the main theme connecting all the artists: seemingly disparate, individual works are intertwined in a multifaceted relationship – first of all, that of the artists who are studying together and who are collaborating in this exhibition, and the empathy they feel for each other, manifested in their interconnected works. Themes are intertwined and conveyed in different forms through the art objects: the stories told, the symbolism of objects, the relationships and experiences created, nature and sustainability – all of which are brought together in different forms of expression. And finally, a relationship with the viewer is created – as the viewer is temporarily welcomed into this small community, he or she is encouraged not only to understand and personally reflect, but also to continue the discussion on the themes chosen by the artists. In addition to the positive emotions that the works intentionally evoke, one can also go into the depths of uncomfortable, painful personal themes and, ultimately, liberate oneself through the suggested purification rituals. The viewer is thus invited to become part of these multifaceted relationships. The exhibition can be viewed in different ways, choosing the suitable angle: individual works, complete works of art in a group show; as a coherent exhibition in which a small community explores topical themes through different artistic ideas and forms; and to discover for yourself the connections between the artists’ ideas and objects – which seem to be relevant, resonate with related themes, provoke questions of concern and encourage empathy.

Guided tours will take place during Vilnius Gallery Weekend.

September 8-10, visiting the exhibitions will be free.

September 8, 9, 10, 11 – 12 (noon) – 6 p.m.
Maironio st. 3, Vilnius

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“Group Exhibition”

On the ground floor – a solo exhibition with a controversial name Group Exhibition will be presented by Rodion Petrov, an artist of the younger generation, residing in Klaipėda. Curator Laima Kreivytė writes: “R. Petrov creates (multi)conceptual paintings, putting question marks on every aspect of the work. Who is the artist? The painting? The paint? An exhibition? The conceptual, linguistic level of the work is as important to him as the plastic one. The key to a painting often lies in the language – the artist breaks up compound words or takes a word out of context and turns it into a homonym. The question of authorship is constantly being revisited in contemporary art – is it the name, the brand, or is it an artwork of a genius, expired but still reigning the auctions? Has the author been resurrected after Michel Foucault had put him to death? Rodion finds his own solution: he proposes a new artist for each painting (or series of paintings). And at the same time, he is the one who has their business cards. He is an almost impresario from fluxus/Maciunas’ times for whom art is a joke. But it is created with deadly seriousness and ferocious excitement.”

“Through the Eyes of a Suvalkian”

On the 1st floor, Valentas Antanavičius, a well-known painter and one of the most famous Lithuanian assemblage artists, reveals The World Through the Eyes of a Suvalkian. This is an overview-retrospective exhibition featuring works of different techniques and genres created at different times.

September 8-11, visiting the exhibitions will be free.

September 8, 9, 10 – 9 a.m. – 10 p.m.
September 11 – 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Malūnų st. 5, Vilnius

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Karolina Ūla Valentaitė “Diaries of the Witches”

Witchcraft is the main interest of this exhibition. “Diaries of the Witches” searches for an authentic bond with witchcraft, while using not only personal experiences and childhood memories, but also exploring other people’s similar practices. Talking with witches, met on the internet, and recording those interviews helps to capture opinions, memories and traditions that are disappearing yet are being revived at the same time. On the sheets made from kombucha, that exude specific smell, settle down diaristic fragments, sketches and photographs. They weave together into a memory blanket, which becomes an extension of the artist’s skin and tells her family history filled with the occult, bewitched traditions and looking back at them with the present eye. From personal experience comes the curiosity for the whole history of witchcraft.

Curators: Marija Martinaitytė, Monika Pakerytė.

Karolina Ūla Valentaitė (b. 1996) – Master’s student of contemporary sculpture in Vilnius Academy of Arts. In her works Karolina Ūla explores childhood memories, family history, from which stems ritualistic performativity.

September 8-11, visiting the exhibition will be free.

September 8, 9 – 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
September 10 – 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
September 11 – 12 (noon) – 4 p.m.
Pamėnkalnio st. 1

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“A FLUID STATE OF MIND: BALTIC PAINTING IN THE EXPANDED FIELD”

Pamėnkalnio Gallery
02/09-15/10/2022

Friday, 2 September at 6 pm. A Fluid State of Mind: Baltic Painting in the Expanded Field, an international exhibition will open at Pamėnkalnio Gallery (Pamėnkalnio str. 1, Vilnius).

Participating artists: Atis Izands, Agnė Juodvalkytė, Madara Kvēpa, Leelo Mai, Kristen Rastas, Kadi Reintamm, Ansis Rozentāls, Jurgis Tarabilda, Karolis Vaivada, Laura Veļa, Linda Vilka.
Curator of the exhibition: Sandra Strēle. Architect: Gediminas G. Akstinas.

Since the advent of photography and the subsequent rapid development of video and digital technologies, it has been considered that painting as a medium would be exhausted. However, the formation and interpretation of images in the individual’s perception of the world is such a prerequisite that these predictions were not and are not destined to come true. If the medium of painting is perceived as a tool for the creation and re-creation of images, then in contemporary times it has become an art form that can combine and incorporate many other mediums, such as installation, performance, video art, etc.
Today, painting addresses its relationship both as an object and as a system of images, creating hybrid artworks somewhere between painting, objects, screens and texts. Painting in an expanded field embodies the tensions that arise from the simultaneous presence and absence of painting: electronic media, performative events and theoretical texts intervene. All these elements constitute a completely new practice of contemporary painting in need of a new name.
Australian painter Mark Titmarsh compares the term ‘painting in the expanded field’ to the idea of family resemblance by philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein’s idea is based on the observation that individuals in a family or tribe may be visually different, but the similarity of certain elements, such as body structure, features is obvious. In the same way, in the extended field of painting, the works always retain at least one of the basic elements of painting, i.e. colour, surface, undertone etc.
The case of the young Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian artists featured in the exhibition is not extreme, but they tend to constantly question painting and its historical perception.

The international exhibition A Fluid State of Mind: Baltic Painting in the Expanded Field will be on show at Pamėnkalnio Gallery until 15 October.

Entry to the exhibition is free of charge.

September 8, 9, 10 – 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
September 11 – 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Latako st. 3

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Kęstutis Grigaliūnas creative exhibition “Opposition of continuous and divided space”

Grigaliūnas is one of the few masters of the screen printing who persistently carried the flag of Lithuanian pop art for a long time, an active promoter of Fluxus, the initiator of exhibitions of the artist’s book, the author of historical memory projects. The artist will present his latest drawings and wooden objects, created in the last two years, at the exhibition held at the Vilnius Graphic Art Center.

September 8-11, visiting the exhibition will be free.

Gallery is always open (24/7)
The corner of M. K. Čiurlionio st and V. Kudirkos st.

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“MORPH”

One-piece exhibition by Mindaugas Reklaitis at MORPH gallery “apiece”. What if a house could be rebuilt every month or every day using existing materials? If each new house “learned” and became more suitable for its occupant with each passing day, or if the two shaped each other in a constant performance of “fitting”? Would it allow to create a better living environment, cities, communities? September 2 the interdisciplinary exhibition MORPH by Mindaugas Reklaitis opens in the showcase-style gallery “apiece”, whose strategy is the autonomous resolution of the work. The main problematic axis and discussion topic of the work is changing, adaptive and performative architecture. It aims to go beyond the limits of conventional architecture and, together with developing technologies, to step into new dimensions of critical architecture, which is little practiced in Lithuania.

The work, or rather the device that creates an architectural form in space (a robotic manipulator), is available to viewers 24 hours a day / 7 days a week and viewed through the showcase windows, invites you to reflect on new possibilities for the practice of architectural realization. With the help of a space-creating installation and a cyclical wax supply system as a material, the aim is to deny the usual features of architecture, such as stability or materiality, and to speculate on the realities of dynamic, performative, variable spatial forms.

The simulation device MORPH will shape a continuously changing architectural object in real time during cyclical processes. In other words, the work, like a living organism, will become a prototype for future architectural scenarios. At the same time, the exhibition will become a stimulus for discussions about the architecture of the future, involving architects and representatives of different countries involved in the architectural process.

Mindaugas Reklaitis is an architect and one of the founders of the architecture office “Sprik”. He is currently working as an exhibition architect at the National Art Gallery in Vilnius, studying for an art doctorate at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and researching performative architecture as a critical spatial practice. In addition to more than ten years of architectural practice in designing award-winning buildings in Lithuania and abroad, M. Reklaitis also participated in projects prepared by various non-governmental organizations. The architect also has extensive experience in working with Lithuanian pavilions at the Venice Art and Architecture Biennale: in 2018 was the project manager of the Lithuanian pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, in 2019 – Co-producer and architect of the “Golden Lion” rated Lithuanian pavilion at the 58th Venice Art Biennale, and in 2021 – Producer of the Lithuanian pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale.

Curators – Milena Černiakaitė ir Aušra Trakšelytė.

Discussions are organized in cooperation with the Architecture Foundation.

Communication of the exhibition – Art communication. The exhibition is financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality.

Exhibition will run 2022 09 02 – 2022 10 14

Visiting the exhibition is free.

September 8 – 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
September 9 – 3 p.m. – 7 p.m.
September 10 – 12 (noon) – 4 p.m.
Latako st. 3, Vilnius

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“- What have they asked?” – About the vocabulary for other tomorrows”

September 8 6 p.m. In the “Editorial” space (Latako st. 3, Vilnius) Agnė Jokšė’s personal exhibition “- What have they asked – About the vocabulary for other tomorrows” will be opened. At the exhibition, which is a part of the Vilnius Gallery Weekend, the artist presents a new video installation – “What have they asked? – About the vocabulary for other tomorrows”. Just four years ago, I was preparing to write a lot, every day, maybe one day even become a writer. And then both reading and writing became murky and difficult. I opened the last fiction book in 2020. I guided pages with my finger, tapped the page on my forehead, saw letters as if for the first time in my life. So of course I had to start dreaming about something else because who would want to stay there? And you know, even at this moment, I came to a point where the road ended. I walked in the neighborhood. I approached a private gate, marking a change in the direction of my journey – no passage; although the two dogs are really looking at each other in a friendly way, blinking. So I think: turning around and going somewhere else is not so unusual. Even everyday. For some, they say, it happens even several times a day.
Just to be clear, this text is dictated. But to think about the future is to imagine, if not in words, then in images. There will be moving images. Everything is normal – I was looking for sugar, spice and everything nice, and what can be prepared now. Should one still joyfully think about the queer futures to come? Yes. It is not comfortable to be in the present, so all you have to do is to think about them – both distant and close. I am here and now. And you are here and now. There is no five-year plan, no century plan, no plan for the future that would be nice. Maybe one day I will become a linguist. And now – the exhibition. So I invite you! – Agne Jokše.

Exhibition architect: Linas Lapinskas. The exhibition will be open until October 8, Wednesdays – Fridays from 3 – 7 p.m. and on Saturdays 12 – 4 p.m. The exhibition and the “Editorial” program are supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius City Municipality and the Danish Arts Foundation.
Agnė Jokšė lives and works between Vilnius and Copenhagen; She has a master’s degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Visual Arts and a bachelor’s degree in monumental painting at the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts. Using the tools characteristic of autoethnography, Jokšė tells stories in which the artist’s experiences and past events related to reflections on love, intimacy and friendship are interwoven with the imagined reflections on the world surrounding these events. Her creative expression includes writing, video, and performance in which she explores themes of parallel stories, empathy, intertwined relationships, queerness, and language.In recent years, the artist’s work has been presented at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2022), Artists’ Film International, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2021); Baltic Triennale 14, Vilnius (2021); Publics, Helsinki (2021); in Nida Art Colony, Nida (2021); Mimosa House, London (2020); Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (2020). The artist’s work Dear Friend was awarded the main JCDecaux Prize in 2019.

September 8-10, visiting the exhibition will be free.

September 8, 9, 10, 11 – 4 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Vitebsko st. 21, Vilnius 11349

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“I know how to do it too”

is an exhibition curated by artist Diana Nakrevič about critique, self-criticism and what is left or abandoned afterwards.The event invites to pull old and perhaps unrecognised artworks out of the dusty drawer, to show another side of the unrecognised works, and finally to present them at an auction.

The artist has positively glanced at his work he has been creating for a long time. The colour, form and substance perfectly matched what he saw as he sped along the highway of his thoughts. Perhaps just this line is a bit crooked… maybe it should have been shaped a bit more… if it were a different material… if only he had more time and could do it a little differently… and is that really what he meant…

“Crooked work.” – the fat old moustachioed man will say.

“It looks unfinished, I can do that too.” – will add the blind man with glasses.

“Where’s the art in that?”

“Seen it a hundred times.”

“Maybe he thinks he is some Da Vinci?”

“It was better with Duchamp!”

Maybe, maybe we don’t need to show this to anyone, the artist thinks. Maybe one day I’ll do it differently. Better. More perfectly. More convincingly.

OPEN CALL for the exhibition I know how to do it too and an auction of the works on display on the last day of the exhibition. Open call deadline – 28 August.
Are you still here? We are looking for artists and non-artists who have unfinished, scrapped or lost works. Sometimes we get lost together ourselves. We invite you to join the game, because this whole journey of works, with the consent of their creators, will lead to finding a new shelter for them and complete this phase of their journey at an auction.
The auction will take place on 11 September at 6 pm.
The venue of the auction will be FAMM space, 21 Vitbesko Str.
The funds raised at the auction will go to the fund for young creators project implementation.

P. S. pseudonyms can always be used 🙂

Entry to the exhibition is free of charge.

September 9 opening – 7 p.m.
September 10, 11 – 12 (noon) – 6 p.m.
Žirmūnų st. 1E

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“The Uncanny”

Rejecting classical psychoanalysis, but not limited by it, in the exhibition we move towards individual, irreducible, uncanny cases in today’s art. Disturbing encounters with strangeness and unknowability in others and in oneself, abjectity, distant (in)organic forms and glitch virtuality – have the power to shake the unity of the normative subject, open it to fluidity and uncertainty. The brutalist, worn-out ghost of the Vilnius palace of culture, entertainment and sports will also act as an additional cultural layer to the uncanny experience.

Curators: Artūras Mitinas Monika, Kornilova Darius Jaruševičius.

Artists: Auksė Miliukaitė, Adomas Danusevičius, Ieva Tarejeva, Laura Gozlan, Julija Pociūtė, Alma Heikkilä, Tauras Kensminas, Ian Damerel, Vytenis Burokas, Aurelija Bulaukaitė, Monika Kornilova, Artūras Mitinas, Polyrabbit.Duplicate, Denisas Kolomnickis, S@P Stanikai.

September 9-11 visiting the exhibition will be free.

September 8, 9 – 12 (noon) – 6 p.m.
September 10 – 12 (noon) – 4 p.m.
J. Basanavičiaus st. 1, LT-01118, Vilnius, Lietuva

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Jurgis Tarabilda “The Sun Entering The Room”

In the exhibition The Sun Entering the Room, artist Jurgis Tarabilda presents atmospheric works which, albeit independent, connect in a wider narrative of the show. At first glance, the works on display capture mundane situations and objects—the century-old observation of celestial bodies and phenomena, door chains used for protecting one’s home, a hand flipping a light switch—but there is also something dreamlike or virtual in the selection; it accepts doubt, combines documentary and digitally generated images, and implies the tension between the past and the present. The light switch (which is not present in the room) is flipped to not only to illuminate the space, but also to make sure that one is not dreaming. The little circular reflection of light scurrying around the gallery is both an element of the past (captured by the cameraman) and a projection of the present moment, playing with sunbeams that visit the gallery space from the streets. Thus, the exhibition becomes a place where images from different times meet, collide and interact, making the works interchangeable—recognisable, yet with a residue of doubt. The exposition is accompanied by an atmospheric soundtrack created by neon light objects: as subtitles of a film, they define the sonic background of the space while remaining mute, making us more attentive to the surrounding sounds; these sonic references can either coincide or contrast with the experience of the viewer. Finally, the exhibition is filled with Tarabilda’s often-used bright blue, reminiscent of observing and interpreting clouds in the sky: the works that emerge in the blue background are left to our imagination—to experience them personally and to recognise “faces” in them, as if in clouds.

Curator – Vytenis Burokas.

September 8-10, visiting the exhibition will be free.

September 8, 9, 10 – 4 p.m. – 7 p.m.
September 11 – 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Šv. Brunono Bonifaco st. 12

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„Sode / In the garden“

The garden in the city not only becomes a pleasant scenery to the citizens’ leisure rituals, but also offers a possibility to observe nature, the change of seasons, the flora and the fauna. Thus, in the exhibition, real and fictitious gardens flourish, familiar and unfamiliar plants open, shoot new leaves, blossom and wither, local and exotic animals appear, and cell membranes break, exposing life pulsating inside them. In the works, nature’s macro and micro processes are explored from different angles, starting from eco systems, inter-species relations, local and global ecology, and ending with inner, mysterious life functions, which are determined and regulated by unique laws. Nature is revealed as a close but alongside fully incognizable and sometimes potentially threatening medium. The works seem to be checking to what extent we are capable to understand its spontaneous energy and to discover the possibilities of coexistence.

The information about tours/meetings with artists will be published on the gallery’s Facebook account.

September 8-11, visiting the exhibition will be free.

September 8, 9 – 4 p.m. – 7 p.m.
September 10 – 13 (noon) – 5 p.m.
September 11 – 12 (noon) – 4 p.m.
Vitebsko st. 23, Vilnius

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Marija Nemčenko “In the Hands of our Eclectic Physicians”

Fireweed has woven, entangled, and taken root in this exhibition – a weed blossoming in midsummer, also nicknamed as invasive or even colonial. Not exactly welcomed by the human in his local ecosystem, the plant has its way of traveling – shedding its seeds where others don’t dare to go. Where the soil – or a roof, or a concrete pavement – has been marked by progress: by construction waste, railway tracks, oil spills, and other objects or weapons. Taking long budded root, fireweed sucks up poison as if a healer bandaging Earth‘s wounds.

Isn‘t it weird for a plant to be humanly invasive, alien, as if stumbled into the wrong private yard? The seed flies with wind, without following directions set by global logistical capitalism. In the face of ecological tensions – no, catastrophe – the exhibition follows the fireweed across calcified grids of consumption, looking for alternative epistemologies and healing movements. Movement from urban gardens and suburban meadows all the way to the makeshift stalls of local markets and neighborhood pavements – where communal insider agreements and unwritten rules are abundant; and the (non)human migration is a survival condition rather than a threat.

Artist Marija Nemčenko lives and works between Glasgow and Vilnius. Member of Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists‘ Association (LIAA) and Scottish Artists Union (SAU). Her research activates cultural interlinks between Eastern and Central Europe and Middle East, which she explores through questions of migration, cultural stereotypes and historic parallels. Attending critically to the construct of a ‚periphery‘, the artist asks what knowledge arises from these ‚peripheral points‘? Marija‘s work is marked by high contrasts and humor driven by these clashes, as well as bright, eclectic aesthetics of everyday.

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September 8-10, visiting the exhibition will be free.

September 8 opening 6 p.m.
September 9, 10 – 12 (noon) – 7 p.m.
September 11 – 12 (noon) – 4 p.m.
Totorių st. 5, Vilnius

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Andrej Polukord “Goat”

2022 09 08 – 10 06

Gallery (AV17) presents a personal exhibition of Andrej Polukord „Goat“. This is an exhibition that talks about the changing relationship between man and nature in the capitalist society. Its focus becomes the goat, a symbol of ritualism, which is used to rethink the concept of sacrifice, and the works created from secondary raw materials explore the tensions between modern, changing life and the more sustainable old one. The author does not provide formulated answers in the exhibition, but leaves the room for an open discussion of the direction in which consumerism is leading humanity.

September 8-11, visiting the exhibitions will be free.

September 9 – 1 p.m. – 7 p.m.
September 10 – 12 (noon) – 6 p.m.
Malūnų st. 6A, Vilnius

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„Format’13“

In order to revive the deep traditions of Užupis miniature exhibitions on September 3-30. Vilnius art space “GODÒ gallery” presents the continuous group exhibition of small paintings Format’13. A group of well-known artists, mostly painters, who have discovered their style and established their approach to the creative process and environment, are invited to “speak” in a small, size-limited format. The invitation states that at least one side of the picture must not exceed thirteen centimeters. According to exhibition curator Aistė Gabrielė Černiūtė, guest authors should realize the essence of their vision and thinking in this format. “I wanted the authors to create on topics that are important to them, not to impose something that does not concern or is inconvenient at all. “Many have lifelong personal creative (spiritual, poetic, mundane) quests,” she says.

Participants in the exhibition: Eimutis Markūnas, Mindaugas Skudutis, Henrikas Natalevičius, Vitalija Petraityte, Kristina Norvilaitė-Geniušienė, Vidas Poškus, Rūta Katiliūtė, Aušra Vaitkūnienė, Jolanta Žalalienė, Onutė Juškienė, Lena Chvičija, Eglė Velaniškytė and others.

September 9-10, visiting the exhibition will be free

September 8, 9 – 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
September 10, 11 – 1 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Algirdo st. 38, Newtown (house with a pink front)

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Akvilė Magicdusté “Looking for Equisetum”

“Is it worth talking to a strawberry from the shop, or are we already too far apart? Will I find a place to put the wreath after I’ve made it? Will I know the Equisetum when I meet it?” Illustrator Akvilė Magicdusté explores the interpersonal questions of the relationship between the city dweller and nature in her new exhibition “Searching for the Equisetum” at the 8 akys ir ausys gallery. With this exhibition, the artist’s work returns to Vilnius and the nature that surrounds it. The main theme: the place of nature in the worldview of modern man and our personal relationship with the creatures in nature. The spirit of plants, animals and other less tangible elements of nature is translated by the artist into multicoloured ceramics, acrylic paintings and flags decorated with natural paints. In order to reveal the multiplicity and symbiotic nature of the organic world, the artist not only uses conventional techniques but also experiments with traditional methods.

An exhibition “Looking for Equisetum” will be shown at experimental space gallery “8 akys ir ausys” (Algirdas st. 38, Vilnius) until september 17.

September 8-11, meetings with the artist Akvile Magicdust. During the entire Vilnius Gallery weekend, she will be waiting for visitors in her new exhibition to present her work.

September 8-11 visiting the exhibition will be free.

Opening of the exhibition 2022 09 09 (doors – 5 p.m., opening – 6 p.m.)
September 9 – 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
September 10, 11 – 1 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Šv. Jono st. 11, 01123, Vilnius

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Augustas Serapinas „Prieangis“

Solo exhibition of Augustas Serapinas. Meduza – the new contemporary art and culture space of the Lithuanian Artists’ Union – opens its doors on 9 September during the Vilnius Gallery Weekend. On this occasion, we are pleased to invite you to the opening of the first solo exhibition of Augustas Serapinas in Lithuania. Augustas Serapinas’ exhibition “Vestibule” could be described first of all as the artist’s attempt to look at the Lithuanian art field as a paradoxical community made up and conditioned by very different personalities. A community that is extremely tightly bound by interdependence and at the same time has no common denominator. The artist enters St. John’s Street Gallery as an intermediary and dialogical space, where its former interior and decoration details take on new lives in the exhibition. The stones removed from the brickwork of the inner wall become the foundations of the bathhouse built in the gallery, and the former pedestals of the shop windows become the furniture that surrounds it. The sauna, this time more for warming artworks than people, acts here as a pretext for encounters between different personalities in the Lithuanian art scene, separated by expression, generation and attitude towards what is and what should be considered art. Although these encounters in the Vestibule take place behind the scenes, they are signalled to the visitors by the works left in the bathhouse’s display case, which are constantly rotating and become perhaps the most important element of this exhibition.

The exhibition will run until 13 November 2022.

September 9-11, visiting the exhibition will be free.

Presentation of the project – Stanevičiaus st. courtyard of the house 53 and 55.
September 8 d. 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
September 10, 11 d. 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. (If there’s no rain)

The project’s creative team – artist Bert Jacobs, curator Justė Kostikovaitė, architect Sigita Simona Paplauskaitė, and sculptor Daumantas Kučas – proposes to experience a new gathering place for the Fabijoniškės community, which has been created through the use of landscape design and artistic expression. “The Fabijonas site” is a friendly stone sculpture garden for the residents of Fabijoniškės to sit down, relax, cook outdoors, and most importantly, to come together and be together.

September 8-11, visiting the garden will be free.

Opening and performance: 2022 m. September 9 – 7 p.m. during the event OPEN SODAS.
September 10 – 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Rugsėjo 11 – 12:00 (noon) – 4 p.m.
Vitebsko 21, Vilnius

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Dovilė Aleksaitė „Weather in me“

On 9 September 2022, the exhibition Weather in Me by the Berlin-based Lithuanian artist Dovilė Aleksaitė will open at gallery Atletika (Vitebsko g. 21, Vilnius).

Dovilė Aleksaitė’s exhibition focuses on emotions and weather, merging with each other through poetic artistic research. It reflects on how external conditions such as changing strength of the wind and elements of water can resonate in a person’s inner world of feelings. Emotions in the exhibition are understood as uncontrollable and can be compared to natural events such as the strength of the wind, the sea or fog.

According to the artist, the works presented in the exhibition were inspired by her research on the scales of emotion and wind, and her desire to create a system in which objectivity and subjectivity would become one another. It is interesting to note that the Latin word emotionactually means that which moves us – similar thing could be said when talking about the weather conditions.

Vilém Flusser’s explorations of natural phenomena and Timothy Morton’s ideas on hyperobjects, climate warming, the atomic bomb and sound are also relevant to the project. Although they may seem quite distant, but they are in fact much closer than we can imagine. In one of the video installations this ominous, frightening proximity seems to interact with the forces of nature and is reflected through emotional states such as fear and anxiety.

Dovilė Aleksaitė is an artist, working with video, sound and performance. Her practice explores the questions of anthropocentric worldview and non-human consciousness, notions of emotions and nature. Her works were presented in group exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, the AdK Berlin, at HKW, Silent Green Berlin and New York German House among others. Aleksaitė is a cofounder of an international artistic research and curation group OKTA Collective. She has been studying Arts and Media at UdK Berlin, and currently lives and works in Berlin.

Exhibition dates & times (after gallery weekend): 10-24 September 2022 Wednesdays to Fridays 16:00–19:00, Saturdays 13:00–17:00.

September 9-11, visiting the exhibition will be free.

Programa starts on September 9 – 5 p.m.
Vitebsko st. 21/23, Vilnius.

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„OPEN SODAS“

OPEN SODAS is an event open for conversations, exchange of ideas, insights and creative energy. As part of the Vilnius Gallery Weekend, on the second Friday of September OPEN SODAS invites visitors to experience the artists’ spaces by talking, touching, listening to stories about the orchards, and wandering around the autumnal neighbourhood of SODAS 2123.

The studios of Arūnas Gudaitis, Laima Kreivytė and Cooltūristės, Gabrielė Gervickaitė, Aistė Laisvė Viršulytė, “SPONGE”, “Ariel Ink” design studio, “Kadrų skyrius” animation studio, “Hubris” publishing house, and “Gvalda’s Room” (the studio of the Design Foundation) will be open to visit.

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Event is free of charge.

The opening night: September 9 – 10 p.m.
Evening involves a late night program and music performances.
Naugarduko st. 41, Vilnius 03227

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“Quality First”

“Autarkia” artists’ day center continues the search for new talents and invites you to familiarize yourself with a collectively created large-format collage created especially for “Autarkia” spaces during the gallery weekend. The pseudonym Faktura is hiding one of us, residents of the streets and night of Vilnius, working in a glass skyscraper during the day, but really dreaming of knocking on the door of the capitalist world. A new site-specific work-collage from a collection of nightclub posters accumulated over many years is, on the one hand, an anthropological study and on the other hand, a sensual chronicle of nightlife.

We are not entirely sure about anything, but it could be a performance. One of the most mysterious and enigmatic duos Gabija Pernavaitė and Žygimantas Bėrontas may appear on Friday evening.
Part of “Quality First”

Visiting the exhibition will be free.

September 8, 9, 10, 11 – 3 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Vilniaus st. 20 Vilnius

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„Take a walk“

“Take a walk” an exhibition of the 5th Vilnius Analogue Photography and Film Festival. It is an annual event that aims to disseminate traditional photographic technologies and apply them in the context of contemporary art.

Walking as a mean of finding a dialogue between the observer and the object, an easily accessible meditation technique, a tool to find one’s own point of view and to adapt the optics available to it. On the way through the experience, fellow travellers inevitably join together in a common play, and the distance lays the foundations for a complex and unpredictable dramaturgy.
The exhibition spans a wide range of generations and technologies: from bold experiments combining drawing with photography and handmade objects, to classical black and white photography.
As always, the festival will not only feature freshly prepared works, but will also present a retrospective part of the exposition. This time, we will be showing an early series “Requiem for old jeans” by Raimundas Urbonas (1963-1999) from the private collection of Gintautas Trimakas.

Festival participants:
Levas Žiriakovas, Raimundas Urbonas, Paulo Paz, Arnas Špaka, Vadim Šamkov, Victor Senkov, Wital Stužka, Xenia Svirid, Mykolas Piekuras, Pavel_Pavel, Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė, Eglė Razumaitė, Mantas Puida, Anna Melnikova, Teodoras Malinauskas, Yauheni Hlushan, Dan Hermouet, Eglė Gudonytė, Valentina Černiauskaitė, Živilė Butvilaitė, Miki Ambrózy.

Curator – Andrei Antonau.
Organiser – Paulius Burakas.
Moderator – Eglė Gudonytė.
Designer – Vadim Šamkov.
Architect – Teodoras Malinauskas.

The accompanying event, “Slide Evening”, will move to SODAS 2123, Vitebsko str.23. 7 pm. Slides by Mykolas Piekuras, Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė and Paulo Paz will be shown.

September 8 – 11, visiting will be free.

September 8, 9 – 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
September 10, 11 – 3 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Bokšto st. 4, Vilnius

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„Take a walk“

A continuation of the programme of the 5th Vilnius Festival of Analogue Photography and Film through two locations – the Ivan Lutskevich Belarusian Museum and the space Bokšto 4.

The accompanying event, “Slide Evening”, will move to SODAS 2123, Vitebsko str.23. 7 pm. Slides by Mykolas Piekuras, Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė and Paulo Paz will be shown.

September 8 – 11, visiting will be free.

September 8, 9, 10, 11 – 11:00 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Užupio g. 19, Vilnius

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Kazė Zimblytė X Martynas Gediminas „VIZIONIERIAI MENE“

Kazė Zimblytė (1933-1999) – an artist of pure modern thinking, one of the most interesting Lithuanian artists of the last 50 years. Zimblytė constructs space, because space seems to be the main thing in her paintings. In her works, she used simple materials to construct space by combining it with light: canvas, cardboard, paper, nitroemallic paint… Martynas Gediminas (b. 1974), 50 years later, has also chosen to construct space in his works – with materials that may seem simple at first sight, but are actually modern.

September 8 – 11, visiting the gallery will be free.

Discussions

On September 10 (Saturday), three discussion sessions will be held at the National Gallery of Art, dedicated to take a deeper look at the theme of empathy in art and everyday practices.
Discussions will also be broadcasted for 15 minutes.

12 (noon) – 1:30 p.m.

“Empathy in artists’ practices. Between compassion for others and a creative method”

Empathy, which can be defined as the ability to empathize with another’s emotional state or situation, is quite diversely interpreted or used in different artistic practices. The term itself is not quite simple or one-dimensional. Paradoxically, the failed (?) conversation about the concept of empathy was the cause of the collapse of the New Left in 1995. In the discussion, we will try to find out what positions artists occupy in this new world. In the background of global and local crises or conflicts, contemporary art also tries to engage in the reconstruction of the world or raise more sensitive themes related to identification and care. Should artists and art remain objective and cold observers and critics of their era, or should they not be alienated with empathy? Can artists, through reasoned or arbitrarily assumed empathy or agency, speak on behalf of human (say, other less empowered groups) or non-human (say, plants, fungi, or inanimate agents) names in their artistic projects? Where are the boundaries that separate what is empathic, what is speculative, and what is already unethical or manipulative?

The discussion is moderated by an art critic, curator and writer Valentinas Klimašauskas. Artist Agnė Jokšė, Robertas Narkus and Artūras Raila will participate.

2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

“How art education allows you to try on someone else’s shoes“.

Modern art education practices, based on the principles of inclusiveness, cooperation and dedication to the other and the different, often use the work of art as an intermediary to create a meaningful dialogue.

But often, measuring someone else’s shoes is full of various stereotypes, fears and complexes. What kind of practice do educators working in Vilnius art spaces, museums and health professionals working with sensitive groups have? Is it possible to develop empathy through art and where are the benefits? What are we still missing to turn mistrust and disability into superpowers? When can empathy be too much?

Moderated by an art educator Rima Povilionytė. Egle Nedzinskaite (National arts gallery educator), Nijolė Goštautaite-Midttun (psychiatrist, art therapist), Simona Košinskaitė (psychologist, MO Museum educator), Barbora Suisse (“Autism Friendly” association manager), Ieva Petkutė (“Social art projects” manager) will participate.

4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

“Time to love and hate. Empathy in war”

War is perhaps the most extreme crisis in human and social life. Interpersonal ties, social structures, and even state formations collapse and are built in times of war especially quickly and intensively. How does this state affect our relationship with others – enemies and friends and ourselves? What does it mean to empathize with another under conditions of war, and what are the limits of this empathy? Can you empathize with the enemy?

The discussion is moderated political anthropologist dr. Arvydas Grišinas. Colonel, lieutenant Eugenijus Lastauskas, military paramedic Tomas, currently fighting in Ukraine will participate.

Empathic encounters

5:30 p.m. Prospekto Gallery (Gedimino Ave 43, Vilnius) will open the exhibition CUT OUTS by Jessica Backhaus. In recent years Jessica Backhaus has been amazing the viewers with her inventive solutions in her artistic photographs, shown both individually and in series.

6 p.m. at Editorial (Latako g. 3) an opening of a solo exhibition by Agnė Jokšė “-What have they asked” – About the vocabulary for other tomorrows will take place.

6 p.m. at Swallow gallery (Vitebsko str. 23) a visit to Maria Nemčenko’s exhibition “In the Hands of Our Eclectic Physicians” with the curator of the exhibition Vaida Stepanovaite (in Lithuanian or English).

6 p.m. At the gallery (AV17), Totorių g. 5 opening of a personal exhibition “Goat”, that talks about the changing relationship between man and nature in the capitalist society.

6 p.m. at National art gallery (Konstitucijos Ave. 22, Vilnius) a lecture by a historian, archivist Dr Audrius Dambrauskas and a film programme about holidays in the Curonian Spit will take place. The Curonian Spit as a place was formed at the end of the 19th century, at the same time as the birth of cinema. A collision was inevitable. Not only was the resort promoted in the cinema, the visual peninsula also attracted film producers. It is known that over half a thousand feature and documentary films, short and long, silent and sound, television and cinema, have been filmed on the Curonian Spit over the course of almost a century.

6:30 p.m. at House of Histories a conversation with a photographer Lukas Mykolaitis and Matas Šiupšinskas about the exhibition “Slow Direction”. The exhibition “Slow Direction” by the artist and researcher Lukas Mykolaitis is a contemporary response to the spatial questions formulated a century ago by the photographer Antanas Ingelevičius, also born in Kaunas. L. Mykolaitis mainly explores the city, the relationship between historical and personal space, and uses various documentation techniques to rethink the notions of memory, historical legacy, the accumulation and transmission of information, and to create personal collections of archival material. He is also a member of the Kaunas-based artist(s) collective “Heritage Institute”.

7 p.m. at TUMO gallery (Užupio st. 19) an opening of an exhibition “Vizionieriai mene” by Kazė Zimblytė and Martynas Gediminas will take place.

5 p.m. – 10 p.m. at cultural centre SODAS 2123 an event open for conversations, exchange of ideas, insights and creative energy – OPEN SODAS will take place.

5 p.m. at Radvila Palace Museum of Art (Vilniaus st. 24) a guided tour of Emilia Škarnulytė’s exhibition Chambers of Radiance will take place. We will once again critically rethink the footprints we have left on the Earth and try to look at the fate of the planet from the perspective of a future archaeologist. We will watch the artist’s work t ½ on a cinema hall-sized screen, immersing ourselves in unexpected industrial landscapes that explore post-humanist mythology. Participation is free. Registration for the tour by phone 852505824 or by email radvilu.rumai@lndm.lt.

5 p.m. at Vytautas Kasiulis art Museum (A. Goštauto st. 1, LT-01104 Vilnius) a tour around the exhibition “Parallel time” with an exhibition author, photographer Arūnas Baltėnas. Registration for the tour by phone: (8 5) 261 6764
or by email: kasiulio.muziejus@lndm.lt.

5 p.m. At National art gallery (Konstitucijos Ave. 22, Vilnius)

A guided tour of the exhibition Sheets and Splashes. Leisure in 20th-21st century Lithuanian art with the curator of the exhibition Austėja Tavoraitė. What do we imagine when we hear the word “leisure”? The works of more than 100 artists and archival material show how the forms of leisure time in Lithuania have changed over the last century, what motifs and images have never ceased to interest artists. Registration:

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5:30 p.m. At National art gallery (Konstitucijos Ave. 22, Vilnius) a meeting with the exhibition Sometimes Vėra Looks Like That. Photographs by Veronika Šleivytė (1906 – 1998) curators Milda Dainovskytė and Agnė Narušytė. More than 250 photographs document the transformation of one of the most interesting Lithuanian female photographers of the 20th century, Vėra Šleivytė, from the daughter of landless peasants to an artist, the chairwoman of the Society of Women Artists of Independent Lithuania, and then to a Soviet artist painting flowers. Registration:

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5:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. Forest Bathing (in Japanese “Shinrin-Yoku”) with Lena Ura will take place in the Ribiškės Landscape Reserve, Vilnius Pavilniai Park. During this meeting, participants will be able to extend the experience of Akvilės Magicdust exhibition “Looking for Equisetum” at the gallery “8 akys ir ausys” and get acquainted with this science-based, experiential practice of wellness and slowing down, and establishing a deeper connection with nature through the senses. During the forest bathing, participants will have the opportunity to relax and improve their emotional and physical state through a series of sensory exercises to connect with their surroundings. The Forest Bathing will be led by Jelena Vereško (Lena Ura), an artist, traveller and Forest Therapy Hub School certified Forest Bathing Guide, who is currently still developing her knowledge of the human-nature connection and its reconnection practices. Pre-registration is required: jelena.ura@gmail.com (limited number of participants).

6 p.m. the new exhibition space “Medūza” ( Šv. Jono st. 11) will host an opening of an exhibition by Augustas Serapinas „Prieangis“.

6 p.m. – 7 p.m., at the art space „GODÒ gallery“ (Malūnų st. 6A, Vilnius) a tour around an exhibition „Format’13“ with a curator Aistė Gabrielė Černiūtė.

7 p.m. at Atletika gallery an opening of a new exhibition by Dovile Aleksaitė “weather in me” and a performance will take place.

7 p.m. the cultural complex SODAS 2123 (Vitebsko g.23) will host a part of the programme of the Fifth Vilnius Festival of Analogue Photography and Film, featuring slides by Mykolas Piekuras, Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė and Paulo Paz.

7 p.m. at Routers art lab (Žirmūnų st. 1E) an opening of an exhibition “The Uncanny” will take place.

8 p.m. Performative online event „Post online Tarot card reading“: https://www.vda.lt/lt/5-malunai.

10 p.m. at Autarkia gallery (Naugarduko st. 41, Vilnius) will host an opening of the exhibition “Quality First” during which a performance by Žygimantas Bėrontas and Gabija Pernavaitė will take place.

10 a.m. at National art gallery (Konstitucijos Ave. 22, Vilnius) a performance of movement practices “Whatever it was. Hands, Shoulders, Face” with Gabriele Bagdonaite, Viktoras Fedorenko and Saule Noreikaite. The performers will try to draw attention to the physical body – how and why does it move in the exhibition space, how can it be harnessed and taken care of while inside and outside the gallery space? We will try to relax our minds and bodies, to forget the tiredness and regrets of the whole week, and to prepare our bodies for a light, relaxing weekend. Pre-registration is required:

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12:00 (noon) a special tour organised by the Vilnius Art Walk initiative. The starting point will be the gallery (AV17), followed by a joint journey to the exhibition at Titanikas exhibition hall. The tour will be led by art critic Gediminas Jasinskas.

12:00 (noon) a guided tour of art spaces (Vilniaus Photography gallery, Artifex, Editorial, 5 malūnai) with VGW team member Neda Rimaitė will take place (in lithuanian). Pre-registration is required. We will inform you of the location upon registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmCwfD73V7yUqHBsUV3215deQEoVJjS1dp7BuOjVfi6qhEFw/viewform?usp=sf_link

1 p.m. at the Museum of Applied Arts and Design (Arsenalo 3 A, Vilnius) a meeting with the curators of the exhibition The Invisible. Historical Furniture from the Perspective of Contemporary Design Marija Puipaitė and Vytautas Gečas.

1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m., at Routers art lab (Žirmūnų st. 1E) meeting with an author of the exhibition “The uncanny” during which she will present her experimental work “Growling tummy” and will learn about life cycles.

2 p.m. at the gallery (AV17), Totorių st. 5 a tour around the exhibition “Goat” with artist Andrej Polukord will take place.

2:30 a guided tour of art spaces (Vilniaus Photography gallery, Artifex, Editorial, 5 malūnai) with VGW team member Neda Rimaitė will take place (in english). Pre-registration is required. We will inform you of the location upon registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmCwfD73V7yUqHBsUV3215deQEoVJjS1dp7BuOjVfi6qhEFw/viewform?usp=sf_link

3:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. at National art gallery (Konstitucijos Ave. 22, Vilnius) Linas Jusionis, a painter and cycling enthusiast, invites you to get acquainted with cycling as a multifaceted leisure phenomenon and to watch the prestigious Vuelta a España cycling race together. He will also share his experience of getting involved in this phenomenon and how it is reflected in his work.

5 p.m. at The Composer’s House (A.Mickevičiaus g. 29, LT-08117, Vilnius) a meeting with artists and a tour around the exhibition “waving braids brading waves” will take place.

1 p.m. at the Museum of Applied Arts and Design (Arsenalo 3 A, Vilnius) a meeting with the curator of the exhibition Lutum magnum Rokas Dovydėnas will take place.

1 p.m. Maršrutizatoriai gallery (Žirmūnų 1E) A meeting with the author of the exhibition A. Miliukaite, where she will present her work “Urgzgiantis pilvukas”.

1 p.m. At National art gallery (Konstitucijos Ave. 22, Vilnius)

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1:30 p.m. a guided tour of art spaces (Av17, Medūza, Vilnius Graphic Art Centre, The Rooster gallery, 5 malūnai) with VGW team member Neda Rimaitė will take place (in lithuanian). Pre-registration is required. We will inform you of the location upon registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmCwfD73V7yUqHBsUV3215deQEoVJjS1dp7BuOjVfi6qhEFw/viewform?usp=sf_link

2 p.m. At National art gallery (Konstitucijos Ave. 22, Vilnius) a meeting with the exhibition Sometimes Vėra Looks Like That. Photographs by Veronika Šleivytė (1906 – 1998) curators Milda Dainovskytė and Agnė Narušytė. More than 250 photographs document the transformation of one of the most interesting Lithuanian female photographers of the 20th century, Vėra Šleivytė, from the daughter of landless peasants to an artist, the chairwoman of the Society of Women Artists of Independent Lithuania, and then to a Soviet artist painting flowers. Registration:

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4 p.m. a special tour organised by the Vilnius Art Walk initiative. The starting point is (AV17), followed by a joint trip to the LDS contemporary art and culture space Medūza and the VAA exhibition hall Titanikas. The tour will be accompanied by art historian Monika Edėjūtė.

2022.09.11 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. the following discussions will take place at Apiece gallery:

3 p.m. – 4 p.m. Architecture and technology with Julijonas Urbonas and Jurij Dubriakov.

5 p.m. – 6 p.m. Discussion about the future of architecture with Tomas Grunskis and Indrė Umbrasaitė.

We invite everyone to listen to the debate broadcasts outside, sitting comfortably on the meadow near the gallery. The videos will later be available for viewing at www.archfondas.lt Organisers: apiece gallery Partner: Architecture Foundation.

Workshops

M. K. Čiurlionis house (Savičiaus st. 11) will host an art therapy workshop “Man”. Art therapist, textile artist Mantas Televičius has been using crochet as a therapy since 2012. In his creative and therapeutic field, textile techniques become a tool for finding new visual forms and therapeutic processes, where creation helps to establish a dialogue with the other, to create a safe space to be present here and now. If you want to get acquainted with crochet and its therapeutic benefits, the author will invite you to join the process of creating the therapeutic project “Man”, which has been developed for eleven years at the Mental Health Centre in Vilnius City, and to become a part of it.

During the VGS, M.K.Čurlionis House will be open:
IV-V 11 am – 8 pm.
VI-VII 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
VII closed

Meetings with the artist and therapeutic sessions will take place:
Thursday and Friday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
On Saturday from 12 (noon) to 1 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The visit and the therapeutic workshops are free of charge and there is no pre-registration. Anyone who is willing and able to crochet on their own can join in.

11.00 a.m. at the Museum of Applied Arts and Design (Arsenalo 3 A, Vilnius) an educational session Magnetic Souvenir Sofa, Chair, Table will take place. During this session a short but comprehensive guided walk through the exhibition The Invisible. Historical Furniture from the Perspective of Contemporary Design will help to guide visitors. After the introductory tour, participants will be invited to an educational workshop, where everyone will create their own souvenir sofa, armchair or Renaissance table. These objects could later be used as decorations for the fridge or other metal surfaces.

During the VGS, M.K.Čurlionis House will be open:
IV-V 11 am – 8 pm.
VI-VII 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
VII closed

Meetings with the artist and therapeutic sessions will take place:
Thursday and Friday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
On Saturday from 12 (noon) to 1 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The visit and the therapeutic workshops are free of charge and there is no pre-registration. Anyone who is willing and able to crochet on their own can join in.

11 a.m. at the Museum of Applied Arts and Design (Arsenalo 3 A, Vilnius) an educational workshop Art and Porcelain will take place. During this workshop participants will have the opportunity to join a guided tour of the exhibition Lutum Magnum and see that porcelain can be used to create not only dishes, but also large sculptures, artistic compositions and even fish glosses. The practical part of the education will invite participants to decorate a fine clay plate.

4 p.m., at Vytautas Kasiulis art Museum (A. Goštauto st. 1, Vilnius) an educational workshop will take place. The title of the educational activity at the exhibition dedicated to African art is “Chemistry in Art. Paint production”. At the exhibition, we will invite you to observe the paintings, to name the characteristic features of the painting, and to expand the vocabulary for describing colors and textures. We will pay attention to what the artists depict – places and spaces, plots, characters, different forms, figures. Later we will go to the practical part of the session. We will examine the tools used by painters: easel, paints, palettes, spatulas, brushes. We will try the production of tempera paint, which combines knowledge of chemistry and art. You will create your own work of art with the prepared paint.
Pre-registration is required by calling 85 266764 or emailing kasiulio.edukacija@lndm.lt

During the VGS, M.K.Čurlionis House will be open:
IV-V 11 am – 8 pm.
VI-VII 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
VII closed

Meetings with the artist and therapeutic sessions will take place:
Thursday and Friday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
On Saturday from 12 (noon) to 1 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The visit and the therapeutic workshops are free of charge and there is no pre-registration. Anyone who is willing and able to crochet on their own can join in.

10:30 a.m., at Vilnius Museum (Vokiečių str. 6) an educational workshop What do the objects in the museum tell us? for younger school-age children will take place. Take a look around you. How many things do we see, how many things do we have in our pocket or backpack? Could they end up in a museum? Why do some things become museum objects? In a museum, objects are our way of getting to know the environment and the world, connecting past, present and future. But how do we know and understand museum objects? What and whose stories do they tell? What are they concealing? In this session, by connecting the objects of the exhibition, the museum collection and the objects we don’t even notice around us, participants will learn to ask questions, discuss the museum’s exhibition and think about heritage, the people who created and used the objects. Registration is closed.

2 p.m., at Radvila Palace Museum of Art (Vilniaus g. 24) a workshop to accompany the exhibition Protest Art: The Rebels of the Soviet Era will take place. During the workshop, the theme of empathy will be discussed by exploring the artistic means of expression used by the non-conformists of the Soviet Union, and also by laying out thoughts and feelings during creative activity led by art therapist Dainora Skrabulienė. Participation is free of charge. Pre-registration is required by calling 8 659 58066 or by emailing radvilos.edukacija@lndm.lt.

12 (noon) at National art gallery (Konstitucijos Ave. 22, Vilnius) educational activity for families “Diorama paintings”. The paintings in the gallery are the most varied. They are mostly flat, although they depict the farthest distances, the highest mountains. How does a flat surface hold so much space and depth? During the workshop, families will choose their favourite painting from the gallery and turn it into a 3D model: constructing spaces, replicating textures and creating sounds for the images. Thinking about every detail of the painting is sure to give you a chance to wander around in it, at least in your mind. Registration: https://forms.office.com/r/CN73R37tFA

2 p.m., at Radvila Palace Museum of Art (Vilniaus g. 24) an educational activity – a creative walk – for families in Emilia Škarnulytė’s exhibition Chambers of Radiance will take place. During this creative walk participants will discuss climate change and nuclear energy, watch the screening of an audiovisual installation in an impressive format, and finally will creatively look ar the intersection points of nature and human by creating colourful landscapes on the light boards. Participation is free of charge. Pre-registration is required by calling 8 659 58066 or emailing radvilos.edukacija@lndm.lt.

Map

SODAS 2123

Vitebsko st. 23, Vilnius

Atletika

Vitebsko st. 21, Vilnius (cultural centre SODAS 2123)

Opening and performance: 2022 m. September 9 - 7 p.m.
September 10 - 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Rugsėjo 11 - 12:00 (noon) - 4 p.m.
Vitebsko 21, Vilnius

M.K.Čiurlionis house

Savičiaus st. 11, Vilnius 01127

Ivano Luckevičiaus Belarusian Museum

Raugyklos st. 25-201, LT-01140 Vilnius

National Gallery of Art

Konstitucijos Ave. 22, Vilnius
September 8 - 12 (noon) - 8 p.m.
September 9, 10 - 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
September 11 - 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Radvila Palace Museum of Art

Vilniaus st. 24
September 8, 9, 10 - 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
September 11 - 12 (noon) – 5 p.m.

Museum of Applied Arts and Design

Arsenalo 3 A, Vilnius September 8, 9, 10 - 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. September 11 - 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Vytautas Kasiulis art Museum

A. Goštauto st. 1, LT-01104 Vilnius
September 9, 10 d. 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
September 11 d. 12 (noon) - 5 p.m.

House of Histories

T. Kosciuškos st. 3, Vilnius, Lietuva
September 8, 9 - 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
September 10, 11 - 12 (noon) - 6 p.m.

Architecture fund

Vitebsko st. 23, 11350 Vilnius (Cultural centre SODAS 2123)

Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre

Malūnų st. 8, Vilnius
September 8 ,9 - 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
September 10 - 12 (noon) - 5 p.m.

The Composers' House

A.Mickevičiaus st. 29, LT-08117, Vilnius
September 8, 9 - 4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
September 10, 11 - 12 (noon) - 6 p.m.

Lukiškės prison 2.0

Lukiškių alley 6
September 8, 9, 10 – 12 (noon) -8 p.m.

MO Museum

Pylimo st. 17, Vilnius
September 8, 9, 10, 11 - 10 a.m. - 20 p.m.

Vilnius Museum

Vokiečių st. 6, Vilnius September 8, 9 - 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. September 10, 11 - 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Vilnius Photography Gallery

Stiklių st. 4 (Entrance from Didžioji st. 19)
September 8, 9 - 12 (noon) - 7 p.m.
September 10 d. - 12 (noon) - 4 p.m.

Prospekto gallery

Gedimino Ave. 43
September - 12 (noon) - 7 p.m.
September 9 - 12 (noon) - 6 p.m.
September 10 - 12 (noon) - 4 p.m.

CAC reading room

Aušros vartų st. 5 September 8, 9 - 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. September 10, 11 - 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.

VAA gallery "Akademija"

Latako st. 2
September 8, 9, 10 - 12 (noon) - 6 p.m.

VAA gallery "Artifex“

Gaono st. 1, Vilnius
September 8, 9, 10 - 12 (noon) - 6 p.m.

VAA exhibition halls "Titanikas“

Maironio st. 3, Vilnius
September 8, 9, 10, 11 - 12 (noon) - 6 p.m.

VAA exhibition space "5 Malūnai“

Malūnų st. 5, Vilnius
September 8, 9, 10 - 9 a.m. - 10 p.m.
September 11 - 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

LAA Pamėnkalnio gallery

Pamėnkalnio st. 1, Vilnius
September 8, 9 - 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
September 10 - 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
September 11 - 12 (noon) – 4 p.m.

LAA Vilnius Graphic Art Centre

Latako st. 3
September 8, 9, 10 – 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
September 11 – 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

apiece

The corner of M. K. Čiurlionio st and V. Kudirkos st.
Gallery is always open (24/7)

Editorial

Latako st. 3, Vilnius
September 8 – 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
September 9 – 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
September 10 – 12 (noon) – 4 p.m.

FAMM

Vitebsko st. 21, Vilnius 11349 September 8, 9, 10, 11 - 4 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Routers art lab

Žirmūnų st. 1E
September 9 opening - 7 p.m.
September 10, 11 - 12 (noon) - 6 p.m.

"Meno niša"

J. Basanavičiaus st. 1, LT-01118, Vilnius, Lithuania
September 8, 9 - 12 (noon) - 6 p.m.
September 10 - 12 (noon) - 4 p.m.

The Rooster Gallery

Šv. Brunono Bonifaco st. 12
September 8, 9, 10 – 4 p.m. – 7 p.m.
September 11 – 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Swallow

Vitebsko st. 23, Vilnius
September 8, 9 - 4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
September 10 - 12 (noon) - 4 p.m.

AV17

Totorių st. 5, Vilnius
September 8 opening 6 p.m.
September 9, 10 - 12 (noon) – 7 p.m.
September 11 - 12 (noon) – 4 p.m.

GODÒ Gallery

Malūnų st. 6A, Vilnius
September 9 – 1 p.m. – 7 p.m.
September 10 – 12 (noon) – 6 p.m.

8 akys ir ausys

Algirdo st. 38, Newtown (house with pink front) September 8, 9 - 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. September 10 - 12 (noon) - 6 p.m. September 11 - 12 (noon) - 3 p.m.

Medūza

Visų Šventųjų st. 9

Autarkia

Naugarduko st. 41, Vilnius

About VGW

Vilnius Gallery Weekend is initiated by Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association with the aim of introducing the public to art spaces operating in the city, introducing new initiatives and developing a long-term habit of visiting galleries. Every year Vilnius Gallery Weekend symbolically marks the beginning of a new exhibition season. Over the past 7 years, the list of participants has expanded significantly, so even regular visitors to the event can be sure to discover something new every year – Would it be a previously viewed gallery, or an artist who has recently started a creative path, or intriguing talks by professionals in their fields.

Vilnius Gallery Weekend is curated by art critics, curators Jolanta Marcišauskytė-Jurašienė and Danutė Gambickaitė.
Organisator – VšĮ Gallery weekend
Organisational partner – Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association
Financed by Lithuanian Council for culture and Vilnius city municipality
Main information partner – 15min.lt
Partners and sponsors: Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Clear Channel Lithuania, VšĮ Ariel Ink, VšĮ Artnews.lt, MB Menų komunikacija.

Team:
Curators: Jolanta Marcišauskytė-Jurašienė, Danutė Gambickaitė
Communication curator – Stefanija Jokštytė
Public relations representative – Goda Aksamitauskaitė
Curator of social networks – Eglė Trimailovaitė
Coordinator – Neda Rimaitė
Designer – Nerijus Keblys
WEB – Vitalis Vitaleus