Nerijus Erminas’ solo exhibition “VOX DEI” at the (AV17) gallery at Totorių St. 5, Vilnius.
Gallery (AV17) presents the solo exhibition “VOX DEI” by Nerijus Erminas. The artist will present his latest works: two different sculptural installations and objects, with which the artist explores the relationship between the earthly and the divine, as well as the contradictory themes of the sacred and the transgression. At all times, the purpose of sacral architecture has been focused on creating an uplifting atmosphere to experience the imagined heavenly in the house of God. Nerijus Erminas creates a sacred space and an imaginary spiritual well-being by using material means found in everyday life. Different, deconstructed attributes are arranged according to a principle close to that used in scenography, i.e. by delving into the relationships of things, objects and elements, and encouraging the viewer to engage in a never-ending spectrum of ritual meanings.
The exhibition opens on 5 September, 6 pm
Guided tour and meeting with the artist on 7 September, 2 pm
Opening hours:
Monday–Saturday: midday–8 pm
Sunday: midday–4 pm
5 malūnai is a participant in the HABITS programme. The exhibition will be held near Maironio St. 6, in the Vilnius Academy of Arts outdoor expo space.
Jonė Dūdaitė, Jokūbas Griška “The Eccentrics”. Curator Marija Marcelionytė-Paliukė
A boundary between what you expect and what you get. A boundary between an art object and a viewer. A boundary that is crossed in order to experience an artwork.
The exhibition “The Eccentrics” questions the gallery’s exhibition space, whose content is not accessible to the human touch or to full viewing. Inspired by this context, the artists aim to adapt a book to this specific space. A book is not just a visual object, it contains certain information that can only be absorbed by reading it. The authors of the exhibition consider the phenomenon of boundary and distance through the book as an installation object that reflects on its surroundings and on the viewer.
The title of the exhibition “The Eccentrics ” is a reference to the experience of the exhibition, which does not correspond to a conscious logic and sequence of events.
6 September, 7 pm–8 pm Meeting with the artists Jonė Dūdaitė and Jokūbas Griška
7 September, 7 pm–8 pm Meeting with the artists Jonė Dūdaitė and Jokūbas Griška
Accessible 24/7
apiece is a participant in the HABITS programme. The exhibition will be held at The Rooster Gallery, Šv. Brunono Bonifaco St. 12, Vilnius.
For one exhibition, the single artwork gallery apiece exchanges spaces with The Rooster Gallery and presents the exhibition “Impermanent nature” by artist Artūras Čertovas as part of the VGW curated programme HABITS.
Čertovas’ solo exhibition focuses on issues of temporality, permanent movement, sustainability and circulation of materials. The gallery space becomes a pulsating body, linking sonic and visual segments.
The installation ” Impermanent nature” is not a moulage or a scenography, although there is a hint of that. It is a situation that deconstructs and somewhat reconstructs itself, and also contains some elements of institutional critique. It intuitively and poetically reflects on the scenarios of observing the everyday, DIY and accidental fast architecture often buried in the dust, all of which have recently been of interest to the artist.
Artūras Čertovas (1995) is a spatial practitioner living and working in Vilnius and Brussels. He is a graduate of Architecture Studies and Rupert’s Alternative Education Programme, and has held residencies at Hangar Artistic Research Center (Lisbon) and Kintai Arts residence (Kintai, Lithuania). He currently works in the field of exhibition architecture.
Exhibition opening on 5 September, 6 pm.
Meeting with the artist Artūras Čertovas on 8 September, 4 pm.
Opening hours:
Thursday–Saturday: 4 pm–7 pm
Sunday: 2 pm–5 pm
Exhibition ‘Disciplines’ by new members of Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association
Tired of the ideologies of vehement contemporaryism and declarative interdisciplinarity, artists unironically indulge in the ‘new old’ disciplines – textile, drawing, moulding, glassmaking, painting, sculpture and even folk art. Instead of longing for the innocence of these disciplines, they have a sense that the immersive, material and psychoaesthetic qualities of the latter perfectly resonate with the present without any clear timestamps. Disciplines are no longer a taboo or a fetish; rather, they are something that evades the vocabularies to which we have become accustomed. The exhibition also asks what the authors’ personal disciplines are, including routines, procedures, rituals, productivity and inspiration-seeking exercises, and seeks to trace the links between disciplinary expression and all-encompassing emotional self-discipline.
Participating artists: Greta Eimulytė, Vaiva Grainytė, Elena Grudzinskaitė, Algirdas Jakas, Elena Kanarskaitė, Liudvikas Kesminas, Indrė Liškauskaitė, Donata Minderytė, Rūta Spelskytė. Curated by Jurij Dobriakov.
Opening of the exhibition 2024/09/05 19.00
Working hours 09/06 16.00-19.00, 09/07 12.00-18.00, 09.08 12.00-18.00
“Diaries”. Contour Art Gallery, Dūmų St. 5, Vilnius.
The exhibition will present the work of two different generations of artists – paintings by Raimondas Gailiūnas, an older generation artist living and working in Rokiškis, and textile installations by Diana Remeikytė, a young generation interdisciplinary artist.
Both artists work as if they were writing a diary every day and documenting their daily lives: Diana writes her own diary, meanwhile Raimondas’ one is about grimaces of a changing world. The dialogue in the “Diaries” will be created from recent works by Diana and Raimondas.
Opening hours:
Thursday–Friday: 5 pm–11 pm
7 September, Saturday: midday–11 pm
8 September, Sunday: midday–5 pm
METALLIZATION. Draugų vardai, Konstitucijos Pr. 12, Vilnius
METALLIZATION is the process of expressing personal everyday life experiences, states, and feelings. The interactions and clashes between the individual and the grimaces of their complex life. Like safe islands where laughter and self-irony might act as tools of self-help. Metallization here does not refer to an industrial process, but to the feeling and the effect on the psyche when confronted with the rather strange life and its existential conditions. When things metalise, the surfaces of life become cold and sharp, and their rust, like sandpaper, scrapes the naked skin of the soul. Emotional pain becomes bodily pain. The name of the process is a pun that came out of an everyday conversation with a friend. It helps to both name and endure difficult states. During the METALLIZATION LAUNCH in the space Draugų vardai, three works will be presented: SANE NOT SANE, MENTAL HEALTH, and ANXIETY LOST.
The event will feature semi-live DJ performances by URBOO and a SECRET GUEST, as a soundtrack for Metallization.
Author of Metallization: Jurga Sako
Graphic designer: Greta Augustinaitė
Translator: Alexandra Bondarev
Draugų vardai – Sound and art performance space
Working time:
5 September at 7pm METALLIZATION LAUNCH opening event 9pm URBOO and a SECRET GUEST semi-live DJ performances. Free entrance.
Visiting hours of Metallization on other VGW days:
6 September, 6-10 pm
7 September, 4-8 pm
8 September, 4-8 pm
Admission is free of charge.
Exhibition “Still Life”, Editorial, Latako St. 3, Vilnius.
New exhibition “Still Life” by Urte Janus and Paweł Olszewski. In the sculptures of the Lithuanian artist Urte Janus and the paintings of the young Polish artist Paweł Olszewski, the seemingly familiar man-made objects are transformed into time-hardening relics of civilisation, creating new dimensions of time and space.
Opening of the exhibition on 5 September, 6 pm – 9 pm. “Editorial (Latako St. 3, Vilnius)
Guided tour/meeting with artists Urte Janus and Paweł Olszewski on 6 September at 4:30 pm at the exhibition “Still Life” at Editorial (Latako St. 3, Vilnius).
Opening hours:
5 September, Thursday: 6 pm–9 pm.
6 September, Friday: 3 pm–7 pm.
7–9 September, Saturday-Sunday: midday–4 pm.
Entity events programme. Entity, Vitebsko St. 21, Vilnius
5 September, 8 pm: Valentinas Klimašauskas and Vilius Dranseika. Discussion “Philosophy and Contemporary Art: crossings and intersections”.
An open conversation to discuss whether the disciplines of philosophy and contemporary art influence each other and share common goals, or are they nevertheless fields of science and art with different goals and different methodologies?
6–8 September: performance series “Trijos”, curated by Monika Dirsytė and Dagnė Petkevičiūtė, featuring performances by three artists:
6 September, 6 pm: Dagnė Petkevičiūtė (assisted by Daumantas Lukošiūnas). Performance “Percussions”. About the artist’s work: Dagnė Petkevičiūtė is the director and curator of Entity cultural space, as well as interdisciplinary art creator. The artist’s work is united by the rewriting of mythologies and their adaptation to the contemporary context, and the themes she explores inevitably revolve around bodies, organic materials, and fluidity. The artist is interested in the inner processes of the human body, the matter and functions of organic objects found in nature. The question of the equivalence of organic and inorganic matter, the consideration of the boundaries between the subject and the object are important for the artist. By instrumentalising the body, she explores its relationship with matter, which is not perceived as a passive object, but as vital and inspiring to create. In her work, she analyses changes, often through the prism of eco-feminism and hydro-feminism, and attempts to reveal different perspectives on ecosystem studies.
7 September, 6 pm: Vaida Tamoševičiūtė. Performance.
About the artist’s work: Vaida Tamoševičiūtė is an artist, lecturer and independent curator working mainly in the field of performance art. The artist is represented by Meno Parkas gallery. Her work explores feelings of shame and guilt, questioning notions of normality, self-harm, gender roles, the place of the individual in society and motherhood. According to Vaida, the work is about connections, finding a relationship with oneself, with people and places, embodied and embodied experiences, the transfer of the inside to the outside through the corporeal. Using simple everyday actions, repetitive gestures, states of emptiness and boredom, the artist turns them into personal rituals. By placing an ordinary action or object into a different context, she tests the rules, raises questions and questions established norms. http://menoparkas.lt/en/vaida-tamoševičiūtė
8 September, 3 pm–8 pm: Akvilė Kleopatra Andruškaitė. Performance “Skin”. About the artist’s work: Akvilė Kleopatra Andruškaitė is an interdisciplinary artist exploring sculpture in the expanded field and its interactive and performative possibilities. Her work is dominated by themes of grief, loneliness, dependence and co-dependence, explored both through the corporeal and through the reduction of human experience to objects.
Opening hours:
5 September, 8 pm-10 pm
6 September, 7 pm-9 pm
7 September, 6 pm-8 pm
8 September, 3 pm-9 pm
Satellite exhibition “Under the Surface” of the 2nd International Art and Science Triennial “UFNA: Unpredictable Futures”. Arka gallery, Aušros Vartų St. 7, Vilnius
The exhibition is dedicated to paying attention to the natural surface, which connects and unites species, faces ecological challenges and generates life. The exhibition speaks about the invisible connections, the environments that not only surround us, but are also responsible for the coexistence of different species. Nature is rethought here not only as a medium or habitat, but also as a kind of custodian of memory and of the different experiences of the people who live alongside it, which, beneath its silent surface, accumulates over time a multitude of different processes and changes that inevitably influence the ecosystem and the future of us all. The exhibition features 21 artists from Lithuania, Estonia and Finland, whose discoveries come from different shallows and depths, and are used through different kinds of art. The exhibition in the Arka gallery space represents a carefully selected collection of each artist’s individual landscapes, creating certain fractured spatial images that are hidden beneath various physical, semantic and virtual surfaces.
Participants of the exhibition: (LT) Marija Marcelionytė-Paliukė, Eglė Pilkauskaitė, Gintarė Urmonaitė, Emilija Grigaliūnaitė, Andrius Erminas, Arturas Valiauga, Kristina Švenčionytė ir Arturas Ustinovas. (FI) Eeva-Liisa Isomaa, Iida Valkonen, Pauliina Jokela, Pekka Parviainen, Satu-Minna Suorajärvi, Susanna Iivanainen, Verna Kovanen. (EE) Erki Kasemets, Kai Kaljo, Jane Remm, Katrin Valgemäe, Veiko Klemmer, Vilen Künnapu.
On 6 September, 6 pm there will be a guided tour with one of the curators of the exhibition, art historian Dr. Evelina Januškaitė
Opening hours:
5–6 September: midday–8 pm
7–8 September: midday–5 pm
SPEKTRAS 2. Gallery VARTAI, Vilniaus St. 39, Vilnius, 2nd floor
SPEKTRAS 2 is a group exhibition of contemporary art and collectable design, dedicated to the presentation of the work of the artists represented or invited by the gallery. The dynamic and evolving group exhibition features the work of more than 50 different artists.
Opening hours:
5–6 September: 2 pm–6 pm
7–8 September: midday–6 pm
Expo. O P I U M X V. Come as you are. gallery 1986, Kauno St. 32, Vilnius
Opium Club, a place of unexpected encounters, a social dance laboratory and electronic music institution celebrating its 15th anniversary, invites you to a session exploring collective memory. Surviving artefacts, unwritten stories, recorded performances, objects of desire and musical journeys, nocturnal characters and real people.
Opening hours:
5 September, Thursday: 6 pm–10 pm
6 September, Friday: 6 pm–10 pm
7 September, Saturday: 3 pm–10 pm
8 September, Sunday: 3 pm–10 pm
“Bathing”
In September 2024, “InTheCloseT⃣” gallery aims to present a solo exhibition “Bathing” by the young artist Lukas Strolia, featuring a sculptural installation of six objects. With this exhibition, the artist aims to look at how notions of leisure, recreation and health were formed in Lithuanian society after the second wave of industrialisation, how they manifested themselves in political discourse during the Soviet era*, highlighted the loosening of cultural restrictions during Perestroika and gradually transformed into contemporary ones during the first decades of independence.
Opening on 5 September. 18:00.
Working hours:
Saturday-Sunday 13-17. On request on other days
ECOLOGICAL HEARING. Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre, Malūnų St. 8, Vilnius.
Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė
AN EAR FOR ECOLOGY
Exhibition curator: Laima Kreivytė
Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė is not only a distinctive painter who analyzed the critical situation of humans and society in her works but is also one of the pioneers of ecological art, creating artistic actions and installations in nature even before the initiative “Darom” was established and before the emergence of Anthropocene issues.
The exhibition “An Ear for Ecology” presented by the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center aims to punctually mark M. T. Rožanskaitė’s journey from the deep depiction of the earth as a source of life in her paintings to the living care for nature wounded by human activity in her artistic actions and installations.
The exhibition is constructed metonymically—through the works that reveal important themes and objects to the artist: a river, a tree, the earth, and the gaping traces of human activity in nature’s body. Rožanskaitė’s sensitive ecological ear captured what few spoke about at the time: the pollution of water, earth, and air, and the destruction of forests.
7 September, 1 pm, guided tour with exhibition curator and art critic Laima Kreivytė.
8 September, 5 pm: guided tour with exhibition curator Laima Kreivytė and closing performance.
Opening hours:
5–6 September: 3 pm–7 pm
7–8 September: midday–5 pm
Monika Radžiūnaitė’s exhibition “And I’m Only Human”. Kazys Varnelis House-Museum of the National Museum of Lithuania, Didžioji St. 26, Vilnius
Monika Radžiūnaitė’s exhibition “And I’m Only Human” analyses the creation of new forms of religions and types of contemplation, the transformation of historical and cultural plots, and the play on recognisable cultural signs of the past. The author asks what kind of religion could be born in the present circumstances and which cultural constants and images remain. The exhibition concept is based on the principle of error as a creative strategy: a misreading is revealed in the iconography and the exhibition design, which are re-created and filled with new meanings. Photo. Laurynas Skeisgiela (2024), National Museum of Lithuania.
7 September: midday. Meeting with Monika Radžiūnaitė at the exhibition.
Can a mistake become a creative strategy? What image, which has always been a faithful servant of religions, could complement sacred texts today? And what new religion would be born from today’s image culture? We invite you to explore with the painter Monika Radžiūnaitė the sanctuary of irony and provocative games with cultural signs and iconography at the exhibition “And I’m Only Human”.
Opening hours:
10 am–6 pm.
5-6 September admission with a ticket.
7-8 September tickets with 50% discount.
Works by Robertas Narkus at the National Museum of Lithuania.
The National Museum of Lithuania (LNM) and the VARTAI gallery are participants in the HABITS programme. The exhibitions are located at the following LNM branches: Gediminas Castle Tower (Arsenalo St. 5), the House of Histories (T. Kosciuškos St. 3), Kazys Varnelis House-Museum (Didžioji St. 26), the House of the Signatories (Pilies St. 26), Vartai gallery (Vilniaus St. 39).
During the Vilnius Gallery Weekend, the National Museum of Lithuania cooperates with the Vartai gallery. Robertas Narkus, an interdisciplinary artist who represented Lithuania at the 59th Venice Biennale, invites you to see contemporary artworks in four departments of the National Museum of Lithuania (LNM). The works of R. Narkus, represented by the Vartai gallery, will be exhibited in the Gediminas Castle Tower, the House of Histories, Kazys Varnelis House-Museum and the House of the Signatories.
At these LNM branches, R. Narkus will present works from the series “The Board” (2020).
The artist has constructed expressive still-life-avatars from objects, wires, ropes, building materials and remnants of artworks collected in the studio during the quarantine. Perhaps they are members of an imaginary organisation, committee or board posing for a corporate portrait.
In his work, Narkus often draws inspiration from the world of business and start-ups. By juxtaposing the spirit of optimism and drive with the bitterness of disappointment, he creates tragicomic performances, video works and collages. There is humour in Narkus’ work, but this irony is ambiguous: the artist admits that he sometimes feels like a rebellious cog in the neoliberal system.
Visitors to the Vilnius Gallery Weekend at the Vartai gallery will be presented with an exhibit from the collection of the National Museum of Lithuania, a table by designer Jonas Prapuolenis that embodies both Art Deco and folk-style and is part of a living room furniture set specially created in Kaunas for interwar intellectuals, the doctor and novelist Agnietė Steponavičienė and the military officer and war historian Vytautas Steponavičius.
During the Vilnius Gallery Weekend (5–8 September), three LNM branches (the House of Histories, Kazys Varnelis House-Museum and the House of the Signatories) will be offering 50% discount on visits. The Gediminas Castle Tower will maintain regular ticket prices. Visiting the Vartai gallery will be free of charge.
Opening hours:
LNM Gediminas Castle Tower: 10 am–8 pm
LNM House of Histories: 10 am–6 pm
LNM Kazys Varnelis House-Museum: 10 am–6 pm
LNM House of the Signatories: 5–6 September: 10 am–6 pm, 7–9 September: midday–5 pm
Vartai gallery: 5–6 September: 2 pm–6 pm, 7–8 September: midday–6 pm
“Chagall. Picasso. Ernst. Ceramics and Tapestries” and “From the Core”. Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Arsenalo St. 3A, Vilnius.
The Museum of Applied Arts and Design invites you to the exhibition “Chagall. Picasso. Ernst. Ceramics and Tapestries”, featuring ceramics and tapestries woven by some of the most famous artists of the 20th century, who shaped the development of art in the last century. “For Lithuanian art lovers, the exhibition offers a unique opportunity to get to know Chagall’s lesser-known, but no less enchanting work in the field of ceramics and textiles – yet another glimpse into his multifaceted oeuvre. Like the artist’s legendary paintings and prints, these works invite us into a dreamlike universe where folklore, mythology and personal experience are intertwined in a fantastic fabric of images and emotions”, says Arūnas Gelūnas, Director General of the National Gallery of Art.
On the occasion of the Lithuanian Song Festival, the Museum of Applied Arts and Design also opened a folk art exhibition “From the Core”. Here, almost 400 of the best Lithuanian contemporary folk artists present more than 1500 of their works.
The unique exhibition “Chagall. Picasso. Ernst. Ceramics and Tapestries” is accompanied by a variety of educational activities, including: “Ceramics, Colours and Life”, “Colourful Postcards based on Marc Chagall’s Tapestries”, and integrated lessons in art, literature, cultural history, biology, religion and moral education for different age groups. The folk art exhibition “From the Core”, dedicated to the centenary of the Lithuanian Song Festival, invites you to the educational activity “Bags with traditional and contemporary folk art motifs”.
The Museum also invites its visitors to join its regular educational activities that have attracted a lot of attention: “Šventaragis Tour”, “Medieval City of Vilnius”, “Lower Castle and …kūlgrinda”. Cultural Pass activities include: “Beauty of Porcelain”, “Archaeological Game” and “Scent, Colour and Form”. Also on offer: “Social Recipe” activities for seniors and the “My Own Museum” educational activities for visitors with special needs. Learn more about the educational programme on our website: https://www.lndm.lt/tdm/tdmedu/
Young Designer Prize 2024
“The Young Designer’s Prize” is an annual competition organised by the Vilnius Academy of Arts to discover and celebrate the most promising graduation works of design students.
For this year’s exhibition, the international jury of the competition has selected fifteen projects, which will be exhibited at the Museum of Applied Arts and Design of Lithuanian National Museum of Arts from 5–29 September. The projects presented in the exhibition boldly explore history, various social and ecological problems and seek solutions to them by applying various design methodologies. This year, the fourteenth edition of the competition received 80 applications from seven Lithuanian and foreign higher education institutions.
The exhibition opening and award ceremony will be held at 6 pm on 5 September at 6pm
Opening hours:
5 September, Thursday: 10 am–8 pm
6 September, Friday: 10 am–6 pm
7 September, Saturday: 10 am–6 pm
8 September, Sunday: 11 am–6 pm
5-6 September admission with a ticket.
7-8 September tickets with 50% discount.
“Žygimantas Augustinas. Guarantee”, “(Non)academic. Bolesław Rusiecki (1824–1913)”, “Old Masters from Ukrainian museums. Lviv Borys Voznytsky National Art Gallery”, and “The Risen Christ”. LNMA Vilnius Picture Gallery, Didžioji St. 4, Vilnius.
Exhibition “Guarantee” by Žygimantas Augustinas invites to revisit one’s relationship with reality by taking at it a fresh look. At the exhibition, the painter confronts his viewers with the question “Who am I?”. The artist lends his skin, muscles, his expressions first, to contemporary everyday characters, later – to historical figures. His real self seems to dissolve, by incarnating into others, the self-images multiply until finally that unique certain image disappears.
Exhibition “(Non)academic. Boleslovas Ruseckas”, commemorating the artist’s 200th birth anniversary. It is the first such as inclusive presentation of the life and art of the Lithuanian artist of Roman birth, Boleslovas Ruseckas. The viewers will follow his life and art story through eight exhibition rooms, learning of his personality from the start of his creative career, his studies in St Petersburg, his Italy period, his search for artistic solutions and results, and his public, private and creative milieu. The talented, multifaceted and unduly forgotten artist – this is how Vilnius Picture Gallery of the LNMA presents Boleslovas Ruseckas.
The exhibition features treasures from the Borys Voznytsky National Art Gallery in Lviv, Ukraine. Many of the paintings are by artists such as Jean-Pierre Norblin (1745-1830) and Johann Baptist Lampi (1751-1830), who worked at the court of the ruler of the Two Nations Republic, Jonas Rustem (1762-1835) and Joseph Oleškevičius (1777-1830) of the Vilnius School of Art, as well as the Polish artists Jan Matejko (1838-1893) and Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902), are well known to art lovers in Lithuania and Poland.
The 16th century wooden sculpture “The Risen Christ”, illegally exported from our country, was handed over to the Lithuanian National Museum of Art in summer 2020. The artwork is of high historical and artistic value, one of a few extant sculptures of the Late Gothic style in Lithuania. Visitors of the Vilnius Picture Gallery can view “The Risen Christ” alongside other sculptures of the same period kept in the Lithuanian National Museum of Art: “Our Lady of Sorrows”, “St John the Evangelist” and 17–18th century religious paintings that used to decorate various Lithuanian churches.
September 7 1:00 p.m. tout at the exhibition “Žygimantas Augustinas. Guarantee”. Registration: t.: +370 5 261 1685, e-mail: gidai.vpg@lndm.lt
September 8 1:00 p.m. tout at the exhibition “Žygimantas Augustinas. Guarantee”. Registration: t.: +370 5 261 1685, e-mail: gidai.vpg@lndm.lt
Opening hours:
Thursdays–Saturdays: 10 am–6 pm
Sundays: 11 am–5 pm
5-6 September admission with a ticket.
7-8 September tickets with 50% discount.
“Unframed: Leis, Tabaka, Rožanskaitė”. Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum, A. Goštauto St. 1, Vilnius.
The last events accompanying the exhibition on three three Baltic women “Unframed: Leis, Tabaka, Rožanskaitė” are guided tours with either one of exhibition curators Dr. Laima Kreivytė (7 and 8 September at midday) or the museum’s guide Justė Janulevičiūtė (5 September at 6 pm and 6 September at 5 pm). The exhibition dedicated to the works of Malle Leis (1940-2017), Maija Tabaka (1939) and Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė (1933-2007) bears witness to the painters’ stance, which both opposed the official canon and at the same time reflected that period. All of them were exceptional artists in the Soviet-occupied countries. The artists are better known to the older generation of viewers from the painting triennials and other joint exhibitions organised during the Soviet era. Younger visitors can observe an increased interest in the work of prominent women who had little resonance at the time.
September 5 6:00 p.m. The closing event of the exhibition of three Baltic women “Unframed: Leis, Tabaka, Rožanskaitė” – tour by museum guide Justė Janulevičiūtė
September 6 5:00 p.m. The closing event of the exhibition of three Baltic women “Unframed: Leis, Tabaka, Rožanskaitė” – tour by museum guide Justė Janulevičiūtė
September 7 12:00 p.m. The closing event of the exhibition of three Baltic women “Unframed: Leis, Tabaka, Rožanskaitė” – tour by one of the curators, Dr. Laima Kreivytė
September 8 12:00 p.m. The closing event of the exhibition of three Baltic women “Unframed: Leis, Tabaka, Rožanskaitė” – tour by one of the curators, Dr. Laima Kreivytė
Opening hours:
Thursdays: 11 am–8 pm
Fridays: 10 am–6 pm
Saturdays and Sundays: 10 am–5 pm
5-6 September admission with a ticket.
7-8 September tickets with 50% discount.
“We Don’t Do This. Intimacy, Norms and Fantasies in Baltic Art” and “Down the Rabbit Hole”. MO Museum, Pylimo St. 17, Vilnius
Major exhibition
“We Don’t Do This. Intimacy, Norms and Fantasies in Baltic Art”
The exhibition presents new works by both well-known and still under-appreciated Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian modern and contemporary artists, reflecting on the culture of sexuality, family relations, gender roles and the transformation of these phenomena in the visual arts of the Baltic States from the 1960s to the present day.
Small exhibition
“Down the Rabbit Hole”
The exhibition “Down the Rabbit Hole” delves into the phenomena of paganism, spirituality and conspiracy through diverse artworks by Baltic artists. The show suggests to look at paganism and spirituality as a romanticized historical refuge, pointing to its transformation during the recent years, as it increasingly takes on conspiratorial and commercial elements.
Opening hours: 10 am–8 pm
Admission with the purchase of a museum ticket
“Beauties, Ghosts, and Samurai” and “Promises”. National Gallery of Art, Konstitucijos Ave. 22, Vilnius.
Group exhibition “Beauties, Ghosts and Samurai”. This historical-panoramic exhibition presents the Japanese pop art tradition from the Edo period to the present day. The works of more than 70 artists are grouped into three categories: images of beauties (bijin), frightening or humorous tales of spirits and ghosts (yōkai) and heroic feats of samurai (bushi, samurai). The exhibition is curated by Dr. Arūnas Gelūnas.
Personal exhibition “Promises” by painter Rūtė Merk. Employing the classical genres of portrait and still life, in her paintings Rūtė Merk captures the archetypes of modernity, today’s pop culture, fashion and the specific habits of the millennials, as well as consumer products, engineered interventions into the most intimate spheres of nature, and the new viewing habits.
5 September, 6 pm. Lecture “Yokai and Japanese Contemporary Art” by Prof. Tetsuya Ozaki, Chief Consultant of the exhibition “Beauties, Ghosts and Samurai” (in Japanese with translation into Lithuanian)
6 September 5 pm. Gintaras Šeputis, “Anniversary of the Video Studio. Performative table”. A performative event dedicated to the 30th anniversary of founding of “Vaizdo studija”, an interdisciplinary photography and video art course at the Vilnius Academy of Arts that ran between 1994 and 1997.
7 September 2 pm. Natalija Arlauskaitė, “Animation for Family Album and History”. The main thread of the lecture will be the narrative models of animation using sound, photographic, drawn or written documents, the deviations from them and the searching specific to the period.
7 September 4 pm. Dialogues on art with Karen Vanhercke and Eglė Nedzinskaitė.
5, 6 September admission with the purchase of a gallery ticket
7, 8 September tickets are 50 percent off
Opening hours:
Thursday: midday–8 pm
Friday, Saturday: 11 am–7 pm
Sunday: 11 am-5 pm
Monika Jagusinskytė. “Eating Rite” 5 September–27 October, Exhibition Hall of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library, Gedimino Ave. 51, Vilnius.
Monika Jagusinskytė’s “Eating Rite” seeks to explore and present the relationship of the human body and spirit to food through the history and culture of gastronomy in her native Lithuania. She creates a narrative through six female characters, each of whom is assigned specific qualities (Sun, Bee, Owl, Samogitian, Witch and Wife), and depicts their gathering, during which they feast and converse. The characters’ pseudonyms suggest the spirit, aesthetics and social relations of the times in which they lived. This gathering is a little different, as they share concerns about the fate, fertility and vitality of the Earth, and perform rites to enhance these qualities.
Curator Milda Dainovskytė
Architect Vladas Suncovas
Graphic designer Jonė Miškinytė
Architectural implementation coordinator Algirdas Jakas.
Opening of the exhibition on 5 September, 6 pm, National Martynas Mažvydas Library, Exhibition Hall, Gedimino Ave. 51, Vilnius
Opening hours:
Monday–Friday: 8 am-9 pm
Saturday, Sunday: 10 am–6 pm
National Martynas Mažvydas Library, Gedimino pr. 51, Vilnius
Offshore Eyes are participants in the HABITS programme. The performance will take place at Pelesos St. 10, Vilnius, In The Closet space.
“Supermale” Race. Happening.
At the height of modernism, the writer Alfred Jarry, in his book “Supermale”, described a race of ten thousand kilometres in which a four-seater bicycle tandem competed against a locomotive. Although more than a century has passed since the novel was published, man’s race against technology has not slowed down in the slightest; on the contrary, in the eternal struggle against time, the human body and mind are becoming more and more intimately connected with the various technologies. In order to improve performance, all means are justified, breakthroughs and ever larger growth are the only answers to any problems that might arise.
Inspired by the leitmotifs of the “Supermale” book, artist Robertas Narkus, in collaboration with Swedish artist Mattias Hellberg, is directing a race full of absurdity, humour and passion in the project space In The Closet on the platform of the Vilnius railway station.
In this race, there are no rules or scripts that we know of, the first to arrive is not the winner, it is not at all clear whether anyone can actually win this race, or whether you will become a machine yourself by trying to defeat a machine.
The happening will take place on Thursday, 5 August at 8 pm, in the Rail Park on the platform of Vilnius railway station, Pelesos St. 10.
Dear friend,
That’s it – finally you achieved everything you ever wanted, hands are in the air, the confetti rain falls on your sweaty hair, now there is nothing left to prove, just fall on the floor, laugh and dance with others alike behind the finish line.
You are cordially invited to “Finish” – an eclectic party event Saturday, September 7th, 23:00, at Robertas Narkus studio, on the premises of the upcoming “Vilnius Tech Zity”, Panerių 43, third floor https://maps.app.goo.gl/Jpp1YfsLmKkR7qtTA
Party committee:
Robertas Narkus, Mattias Hellberg, Maya Tounta, Thomas Engels, Mantė Valiūnaitė, Adomas Narkevičius, Aušra Trakšelytė, Milena Černiakaitė, Danutė Gambickaitė, Linas Ramanauskas
Line up: ang3l_sp1der, Chico naral, Eureka, milda, and open decks, bring your USB
Cashless Bar
Graphics : Vytautas Volbekas
Thanks to: ŠMC, MO, VGS, SODAS2123, Vilnius Tech Zity
Aistė Kirvelytė. “Tensions”. Pamėnkalnio gallery, Pamėnkalnio St. 1, Vilnius
The exhibition’s title is inspired by the writer Rachel Cusk’s quote that creation “comes out of tension, the tension between what is inside and what’s outside. Surface tension, isn’t that the phrase – actually that’s not a bad title”.
The images in Aistė Kirvelytė’s exhibition are impressions caused by the flow of information. However, these are not just random quick flashes, but rather imprints formed by the force of pressure. The artist uses images, single frames, or fragments from various information sources. They are combined, overlapped, and manipulated. The paintings emphasise the paradoxes of rewriting stories, verbal manipulations, rank titles and naming, and the ideas of creating a universal memory.
Opening hours:
Thursday–Friday: 11 am–7 pm
Saturday: 11 am–6 pm
Sunday: 1 pm–4 pm
Exhibition of the finalists of the international competition “reStart”. Prospekto gallery, 43 Gedimino Ave., Vilnius
The biennial project “reStart”, organised by the Lithuanian Photographers Association, is a collective look at the situation in today’s visual culture field. For the past few years, the exhibition has been organised as an international forum for contemporary photography, where artists from all over the world present their work. The participating artists symbolically diagnose both the tendencies of photography as a tool and a mode of expression, as well as contemporary socio-cultural processes. The topics of the individual works range from the rethinking of personal experience to the analysis of collective traumas, the conceptual constructions of personal biography or the rethinking of the medium of photography in today’s context.
The authors of the exhibition: Ilona Baniuševič (Lithuania), Amin Yousefi (Iran/UK), Alice Jankovic (Italy), Gediminas Kuncaitis (Lithuania), Ieva Maslinskaitė (Lithuania/Netherlands), Emma Godfrey Pigott (UK/Switzerland), Paula Punkstina (Latvia/Netherlands), Viktoria Sorochuk (Ukraine/Poland), Gökhan Tanrıöver (Turkey), Anya Tsaruk (Ukraine/Germany), Julia Wimmerlin (Ukraine/Switzerland).
Opening hours:
5–6 September: midday–6 pm
7 September: midday–4 pm
The exhibition will run until 21 September.
“Vibrant Old World Profiles”, “Protest Art: The Rebels of the Soviet Era” and “Chambers of Radiance”. Radvila Palace Museum of Art, Vilniaus St. 24, Vilnius
The Radvila Palace Museum of Art will host these long-term exhibitions “Vibrant Old World Profiles”, “Protest Art: The Rebels of the Soviet Era” and Emilia Škarnulytė’s exhibition “Chambers of Radiance”. Short-term exhibitions include “Where Summer Never Ends” by Andy Sweet, an American photographer who captured the everyday life of Miami Beach, Florida in the 1970s, “Poles Keep Painting: Works from the MOCAK collection” presenting Polish contemporary painting, and “Virtual Care” by the artist duo Pakui Hardware who are representing Lithuania at the Venice Biennale.
Events:
– 5 September, 5 pm. “Habits of Sight: Cooltourist Women against Patriarchy” at the permanent exhibition of the Radvila Palace Museum of Art
– 5 September, 5 pm. Audio session by Techniseptic at Emilia Škarnulytė’s exhibition “Chambers of Radiance”
– 7 September, 4 pm. “Camera-less Photography Workshop with Aurelija Maknytė. Portrait Studio”
Guided tours:
– 6 September, 3 pm. “Viewing habits. Images of women in the tradition of Western painting”. Duration 45 min.
– 7 September, 3 pm. “Protest Art: The Rebels of the Soviet Era”. Duration 45 minutes.
Education: – Educational exhibition for families “These Are not Museum Shoes 2” will take place during the Vilnius Gallery Weekend. Here, museum educators together with artist Greta Alice will invite families to create comic book stories.
Opening hours:
Thursday: midday–8 pm,
Friday–Saturday: 11 am–7 pm
Sunday: 11 am–5 pm
5-6 September admission with a ticket.
7-8 September tickets with 50% discount.
“Artists’ Film International 2024” (AFI’24) and “Refuge”. Sapieha Palace, L. Sapiegos str. 13, Vilnius. During Vilnius Gallery Weekend, the Sapieha Palace will continue to exhibit “Artists’ Film International 2024” (AFI’24). It is an alternative, lateral programme that exemplifies non-hierarchical, borderless and collaborative curatorial models. Responding to urgent global topics, the programme cultivates collective practice and cross-cultural dialogue, fosters the exchange of ideas and perspectives, and provides wide reaching visibility for artists. This year, fifteen arts organisations have selected recent films by artists on the theme of solidarity. Considering solidarity as a collective form of resistance, togetherness and interdependence, the fifteen films in AFI’24 address the ways in which solidarity is needed, sought and enacted on micro and macro scales.
“Refuge” is an inaugural exhibition of the Sapieha Palace that seeks to unfold the spirit and history of the palace itself, as well as the diverse narratives surrounding its past. The works on displays and their arrangement act as a soft, transparent layer placed over the palace spaces, having been painted and repainted multiple times. Tales of tranquillity, handfuls of suns, martial arts, and the art of concealment are interwoven with time travel, disputes with craftsmen, and incantations performed in a secret language.