The exhibition Sculptures by Mindaugas Šnipas presents both earlier and newly created wooden works, offering visitors an opportunity to engage more closely with the themes and means of expression that interest the artist. The works explore aspects of human existence, such as the passage and significance of time and the perception of reality. Associations, paradoxes of formal language, and the process of constructing meaning play a central role. The display brings together sculptural elements and everyday objects in paradoxical relationships—balancing on the threshold between art and non-art. In this way, viewers are encouraged to embark on a search for meaning, discovering connections between form, material, and personal experience.
The solo exhibition Sculptures by Mindaugas Šnipas opens at the (AV17) Gallery on 4 September at 6 p.m. and runs until 9 October.
A guided tour of the exhibition and a meeting with the artist will take place on 13 September at 1 p.m.
Admission is free.
Visiting hours:
11 September 12 p.m.–7 p.m.
12 September 12 p.m.–7 p.m.
13 September 12 p.m.–7 p.m.
14 September 12 p.m.–4 p.m.
Nearest public transport stops: Vinco Kudirkos aikštė (trolleybuses 2, 3, 6, 12, 15, 20; buses 1G, 2G, 11, 53, 88, 88N, N1, N4, N5, N6, N8) and Operos ir baleto teatras (trolleybuses 4, 10, 17; buses 43, 46, 52, 56). Nearest car parks: Gedimino Ave 9 and the Operos ir baleto teatras car park. The gallery is located on the ground floor, accessed by stairs at the main entrance. It is dog- and guide-dog-friendly. On the first floor there are sanitary facilities; the toilet is not adapted for people with disabilities, and there is no mother-and-baby room.
Elisabeth Sonneck exhibition membrane at apiece gallery
On September 11, 6pm, Elisabeth Sonneck exhibition opens at “apiece”, a gallery strategically focused on autonomous artistic expression. The exhibition marks the beginning of an exchange programme between the galleries Super Bien! (Berlin) and apiece (Vilnius).
For the exhibition Elisabeth Sonneck created a temporary site-specific installation membrane, which takes the characteristics of the exhibition space, the showcase gallery in public space, as the starting point for the intervention and questions the permanence and dissolution of visual and physical boundaries.
E. Sonneck’s artistic practice is based on painting: on long, rolled sheets of paper, she creates differentiated, multi-layered colour spectra in a repetitive improvisation that emphasises the immediate physical moment: the staggered stops of the multiple overlapping brushstrokes reveal complex spectrums of colour and rhythm.
Elisabeth Sonneck (b. 1962, lives and works in Berlin) combines painting, sculpture, and installation in site-specific interventions.
More about the artis:
Gallery opening hours: 24/7
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Exhibition Until Hope Do Us Part
On September 11th at 7 p.m., the group exhibition, Until Hope Do Us Part, by members of the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association (LIAA), opens at the Atletika gallery.
Each epoch belongs to the most resolute – the ones who make the rules, draft legal systems and treaties, and ensure that every detail leaves no room for dispute. Paradoxically, it is within these arguments that aesthetic pleasure resides. In the twists and turns of history, the end of an era is inevitably marked by change. Yet what truly sets people apart is not conflict, but indifference.
The exhibition Until Hope Do Us Part, an intergenerational showcase by members of LIAA, reflects on hope and its quiet yet persistent presence – often mistaken for a passive form of inaction.
Here, hope is not a sign of weakness but a signal of action – a force resilient enough to endure both individual and collective crises. It becomes the illusion of an eternal engine, where the tension between knowledge and faith fuels momentum.
Within the exhibition’s narratives, hope emerges not as passive waiting, but as stoic resistance to indifference – not a final state, but a recurring rhythm of separation and reunion. A cyclical phenomenon between bloomings, whose transience we tend to romanticize—even at the edge of collapse.
Artists: Austėja Masliukaitė, Barbora Matonytė, Darius Žiūra, Jurga Juodytė, Laura Stasiulytė, Jonas Meškauskas, Agata Orlovska
Curator Ieva Gražytė
Exhibition architect Greta Eimulytė
Architect’s assistant Matas Šatūnas
Technical implementation manager Jonas Balsevičius
Exhibition designer Monika Janulevičiūtė
Exhibition opening hours and events (during VGW)
Opening 11 September 7 p.m.
Visiting hours:
12 September 4 p.m.–7 p.m.
13 September 1 p.m.–5 p.m.
14 September 1 p.m.–5 p.m.
Event
Tour with curator September 13 1 pm.
The nearest stop is Gervyčių st. (2, 3, 4, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 26, 38, 42, 58, 65, 78, 82, 89, 114, and 31 buses), Balstogės st. (9, 33, 119 buses). The nearest parking lots are at 19 Vitebsko Street and 21 Vitebsko Street. The Atletika Gallery is located on the first floor, with an entrance from the outside, which has stairs without a ramp. The gallery is friendly to visitors with dogs and guide dogs. The SODAS 2123 cultural complex has sanitary facilities with toilets adapted for people with disabilities, but there is no mother and child room. The gallery is accessible by bicycle, and there are bicycle parking spaces (under a roof).
Vitebsko g. 21 (SODAS 2123 cultural complex), Vilnius
The modern world allows us to travel more widely and more often than ever before. We start to reflect on the ecological footprint of our journeys, seeking ways to travel more sustainably, more slowly. In the process, we may sometimes forget to savour the smooth, mesmerising, and enveloping in-between state that travel offers us.
means of travel is an interdisciplinary art exhibition emerging in the Railway Park warehouse beside the busy railway station. It gathers artists’ perspectives on modes of travel and transport, embracing the gaze of the explorer, empirical experiences, the materiality of the journey, and the materials of vehicles as tools.
Curator: Emilija Zakarauskaitė
Participating artists: Austėja Skrupskaitė, Anastasija Fokša, Anna Chostegian, Artur Shirin – Ettoja, Emilija Zakarauskaitė, Justina Gražytė, Marija Šnipaitė, Milda Trimakaitė, Rūta Spelskytė, titas antanas vilkaitis, Tomas Kavarskas, Viktorija Balkutė, Vitalij Červiakov, Vygintas Orlovas
Partners: Departments of Photography, Animation and Media Art; Graphic Art; and Site-specific Art at the Vilnius Academy of Arts.
11 September: guided tour with curator Emilija Zakarauskaitė, 6 p.m.
12 September: Vygintas Orlovas, sound installation and performance Inter pt.1 (2025 version), 8:30 p.m.
14 September: Marija Šnipaitė, slideshow-drawing presentation from the series As is usually the case, cities-ports, 8:30 p.m.
Admission is free.
Opening hours:
11 Septembe 5 p.m.–8 p.m.
12 September 5 p.m.–8 p.m.
13 September 5 p.m.–8 p.m.
14 September 5 p.m.–8 p.m
Nearest public transport stops: Stotis (Railway station), Panevėžio stop. Stotis A: trolleybuses 1, 2, 7, 20, Stotis B: buses 12, 16, 61, Stotis C: buses 19, 82, Stotis D: buses 13, 54, Stotis E: buses 13, 31, 34, 74, 89, Stotis F: bus 2G, trolleybuses 15, 16, Stotis G: bus 58, Stotis H: buses 41, 42, 78, Stotis I: buses 1, 2, 3, 4, Stotis J: buses 1G, 53, Panevėžio stop.: bus 58
Access to the park is via stairs from the pedestrian bridge at Vilnius railway station or from Pelesos St; the warehouse is on the opposite side from the station.
Pelesos St 10, Vilnius
Tolina is an exhibition by Amílcar Rivera M. (b. 1975), a Mexican-born artist currently living in Vilnius. The show presents paintings and drawings inspired by the imagination of the artist’s five-year-old son – a child who created a constantly changing city that has become a refuge of hope in troubled times. In Rivera’s works, we see silent figures – inhabitants of this utopian space – men and women standing in quiet concentration, with their eyes closed. In this frozen, boundless expanse of color, they appear to be waiting for something, while the artist has carefully chosen a place for each figure on the surface of the canvas. Yet, they resemble fragile toy-like characters, moving from one painting to another – without beginning or end.
The exhibition title also has a scientific meaning: tolins are complex organic molecules found in the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan. This ambiguous name symbolizes the connection between play and reality, between intimacy and universal experience.
Opening hours:
11 September 2 p.m.–8 p.m.
12 September 2 p.m.–8 p.m.
13 September 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
14 September 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
Gallery is reachable on foot in the Old Town. Cars can be parked on A. Strazdelio Street near the Tamsta music club or on Bokšto Street. The gallery is located in an inner courtyard. Access is through a gate with a buzzer. The exhibition is on the ground floor (three steps before the door).The building’s façade is under reconstruction. If the scaffolding is removed before the event, a ramp will be placed in front of the entrance, allowing access for wheelchair users.
The gallery is dog-friendly, including guide dogs.
Sanitary facilities are available, but the toilet is not adapted for visitors with disabilities.
Šv. Kazimiero st. 7-9, Vilnius
United by Creation
Emilija Liobytė-Vilutienė, Nijolė Ingelevičiūtė-Vilutienė, Emilija Balas-Vilutytė (and Mikalojus Povilas Vilutis)
Scientifically, it could perhaps be called heredity; in literary terms, a creative disposition. Yet in the lives of artists, certain coincidences can be observed, at times turning into distinctive tendencies. The essence lies in the fact that one artistic personality often gives rise to, or nurtures (both figuratively and literally), other creative natures. Such is the case with the Vilutis family. One should recall Jonas Vilutis (1907–1978)—a graduate of the Kaunas School of Art and the Vilnius Academy of Arts, painter, stage designer for the Vaidila and Academic Drama Theatres, and for the Radio and Television Committee—and his wife, Emilija Liobytė-Vilutienė (1916–1955), a sculptor, draughtswoman, and illustrator, who also worked for the Vaidila and Academic Drama Theatres, as well as for puppet theatres. Emilija’s elder sister, Aldona (1915–1985), was a true Vilnius legend. Born and raised in the city, and having studied at Stephen Báthory University (today Vilnius University), she worked as a writer (mostly for children), playwright, translator, and actress (again at the Vaidila and Drama Theatres). Representing the second generation of this dynasty are the well-known Nijolė Ingelevičiūtė-Vilutienė and Mikalojus Povilas Vilutis—both graduates of the then State Art Institute, masters of printmaking, draughtsmen, and illustrators. Mikalojus is also a painter, sculptor, and, of course, a writer. The family’s movement between the visual arts and theatre (acting) has continued with the couple’s daughters—Emilija Balas (who studied printmaking and, more recently, has turned to painting) and Aldona—and even with Aldona’s son, Šarūnas Rapolas Meliešius. Indeed, there exists in Lithuania’s artistic and cultural field a phenomenon that could well be described as the “Vilutis clan.”
Thus, the exhibition United by Creation is a kind of artistic inquiry—more precisely, into who and what shapes artists who are also family members, relatives, kin. What visible or invisible threads weave them into one inseparable knot, one that could be called a planet of artists or a universe of creators? The grounds for such a reflection were already laid by two exhibitions held in recent years in Kaunas and Šiauliai, featuring three women artists (two Emilijas and Nijolė). The present project is in some ways a continuation of those exhibitions, yet at the same time an entirely different transformation. On the one hand, the focus here is also on the women’s side of the “Vilutis clan.” Sadly, it must be acknowledged that even today women artists encounter barriers shaped by entrenched habits, prejudices, and stereotypical patterns of behaviour. This exhibition can therefore also be described as a story about obstacles in all their variety. All the more so since the male side of the “Vilutis clan” is represented by Mikalojus Povilas, who, exactly fifty-five years ago, defended his diploma work Žalgirio mūša (a drypoint, whose title plays on The Battle of Grunwald) at the Institute (now the Vilnius Academy of Arts), along with a book based on it—a work that, in both literary and visual terms, declared openly and unequivocally an engagement with Lithuanian history. In both the context of those times and of today, it is striking that the Soviet censors could have overlooked such a powerful work. On the other hand, to speak in jubilee terms, 2025 marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of Aldona Liobytė and the 70th anniversary of the death of Emilija Liobytė. This exhibition is therefore also about the legends of Vilnius and the creative atmosphere they engendered—about the varied and richly diverse creativity of one family, one lineage. Formally speaking, it could be summed up as: Impressionism (Emilija Liobytė) + Expressionism (Nijolė Vilutienė) + Pop Art (Emilija Balas) + a touch of Surrealism (Mikalojus Povilas Vilutis) = “Vilutisms.”
Exhibition curator – dr. Vidas Poškus.
Opening hours:
11 September 12 p.m.–7 p.m.
12 September 12 p.m.–7 p.m.
13 September 12 p.m.–5 p.m.
Nearest public transport stop: MO muziejus. Nearest car parks: Vokiečių St, Didžioji St. The gallery is located on the ground floor, with stairs at the entrance and no ramp. It is dog- and guide-dog-friendly. There is a toilet on site, not adapted for people with disabilities, and no mother-and-baby room.
Vokiečių St 2, Vilnius
Group exhibition Perforation
The digital age has offered art new surfaces, while also bringing old questions back into focus: questions of materiality, durability, and painting’s capacity to serve as a portal to experience. In this exhibition, the artists explore the plane of painting as a territory both historically charged and reimagined for the present, where the digital does not so much replace the material as transform it. Here, painting is no longer merely pigment on canvas—it becomes a reflection on corporeality, materiality, and the relationship between image and gaze in a digitised world. The works, pulsing with textures, pigment density, or even traces of their own disappearance, provoke the viewer to think about the longevity and ephemerality of art, as well as the archiving of emotions through form.
Participating artists: Agata Orlovska, Mantas Valentukonis, Šarūnas Baltrukonis, Gasparas Zondovas, Rosana Lukauskaitė.
The exhibition opens on 11 September 6 p.m. at DRIFTS gallery.
Opening hours:
11 September 6 p.m.–8 p.m.
12 September 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
13 September 12 p.m.–4 p.m.
14 September closed
Nearest public transport stops: Arkikatedra (buses 10, 33, 89), Karaliaus Mindaugo tiltas (buses 10, 11; trolleybuses 2, 3, 4, 17, 20). Nearest car park: T. Kosciuškos St 1a, Vilnius, near the Museum of Applied Arts and Design. The gallery is on the ground floor with street-level entrance and a ramp for wheelchair access. It is dog- and guide-dog-friendly.
T. Vrublevskio St 6-2, Vilnius
The Gearwheel, Hardworking Hands, and the Tired Exhibition Visitor
The exhibition is about how the history of art and labour is written. It is about what peeks anxiously through surfaces that are worn out or overpolished by the passing of time. It is also about the body at work, itching in its uncomfortable office chair, following the blinking cursor of the laptop with dry eyes. The body sore from the loom, hammering a wedge and a nail, languishing in an unheated studio in a now-defunct Soviet factory. Finally, the exhibition is about workers: the archivists, the readers and writers of letters, the budget calculators, the artists, their childminders and family members, the visitors who drop in on the exhibition after a long day at work, looking for a place to sit, and the exhibition attendants who are quietly observing them.
Artists: Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė ir Petras Kalpokas, Irena Haiduk, Morta Jonynaitė, Tomasz Kobialka, Ieva Rižė, Serban Savu
Curator: Vaida Stepanovaitė
Researcher of the fresco Labour (1938) by Petras Kalpokas: Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė
Exhibition architect: Gabrielė Černiavskaja
Design: Nerijus Rimkus
Text translation and correction: Rosana Lukauskaitė and Joseph Everatt
Exhibition invigilator: Anna Chostegian
Exhibition opening: 11 September, 6 p.m.
Guided tour: 11 September, 6:30 p.m.
Opening hours:
11 September 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
12 September 3 p.m. – 7 p.m.
13 September 12 p.m. – 4 p.m.
14 September Closed
Nearest public transport stop: Dailės akademija (buses 10, 33, 89). Nearest car park: Latako St 2. The gallery is located on the ground floor; the main entrance has a threshold and one step. It is dog- and guide-dog-friendly. Sanitary facilities are available on the ground floor, but there is no toilet adapted for people with disabilities and no mother-and-baby room.
Latako St 3, Vilnius
Dagnė Petkevičiūtė and Matas Sergijus Šatūnas present their duo exhibition Sampyna at the cultural space Entity. The exhibition introduces a poetic–philosophical figure that emerges not as a fixed being but as a process of becoming through relationships. Sampyna is an anthropomorphic entity growing out of connection—an ontological practice woven from ‘in-betweens’: the memory of skin, voices, movement, and response. It has no single body—only a sensitive fabric in which identity is continually reflected through the other, yet never lost. The exhibition explores themes of closeness, intimacy, and the growth of shared territory.
The opening of Sampyna takes place on 13 September at 7 p.m. at Entity, Vitebsko St 21 (entrance next to Krosnies paviljonas).
Opening hours:
13 September exhibition opening at 7 p.m.
14 September 2 p.m.–8 p.m.
Entity is part of SODAS 2123 cultural complex (entrance next to Krosnies Paviljonas). Nearest public transport stop: Gervyčių (buses 2, 3, 4, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 26, 38, 42, 58, 65, 78, 82, 89, 114, and 31) or Balstogės (buses 9, 33, 119). Nearest car parks: Vitebsko St 19 and Vitebsko St 21. The cultural space is on the ground floor, with entrance from outside next to Krosnies paviljonas; there are stairs inside without a ramp. The gallery is dog- and guide-dog-friendly. SODAS 2123 cultural complex has sanitary facilities with toilets adapted for people with disabilities, but no baby changing room.
Vitebsko St 21 (SODAS 2123 cultural complex), Vilnius
This is the first exhibition in Lithuania by renowned Icelandic contemporary artist Rúrí, whose work explores pressing social, political, ecological, and economic issues. The exhibition features both earlier works and their documentation, as well as new site-specific installations inviting visitors to reconsider their relationship with nature and humanity’s responsibility towards future generations.
The title Future Cartography refers to charting both real and imagined futures through creative, speculative, and analytical scenarios. Unlike traditional cartography, which marks physical spaces, ‘future cartography’ seeks to map potential futures topographically, highlighting emerging trends, opportunities, and challenges in technological, social, environmental, and political spheres.
Opening hours:
11 September 12 p.m.–8 p.m.
12 September 12 p.m.–8 p.m.
13 September 12 p.m.–5 p.m.
14 September 12 p.m.–5 p.m.
Nearest public transport stop: MO muziejus. Nearest car parks: Vokiečių St, Didžioji St. The gallery is located on the ground floor, with stairs at the entrance and no ramp. It is dog- and guide-dog-friendly. There is a toilet on site, not adapted for people with disabilities, and no mother-and-baby room.
Vokiečių St 2, Vilnius
Solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by Gintaras Makarevičius
Gintaras Makarevičius is a painter, scenographer, video artist, and documentary filmmaker. In recent years, he has been creating abstract works, mindful of the fact that abstract expressionist painting emerged in the 20th century. When painting abstract images, Makarevičius employs several methods, including compositional zoning–mapping, repetition and the deconstruction of recurring rhythms, gestural action painting, and meditative ‘drawing’ over an existing composition.
Opening hours:
11 September 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
12 September 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
13 September 12 p.m.–4 p.m.
14 September 12 p.m.–4 p.m.
Nearest public transport stops: MO muziejus (trolleybuses: 2, 17, 20, 1, 7; buses: 53, 1G, 88), Reformatų (trolleybuses: 6, 12). Nearest parking areas: Trakų St, Teatro St. The gallery is located on the ground floor, with a step at the main entrance. The second exhibition room is accessed by stairs. The gallery is dog-friendly and guide-dog-friendly.
Basanavičiaus St 1, Vilnius
Jonas Mekas, Journey to Lithuania
Jonas Mekas (1922–2019) continues to travel to Lithuania, despite the dates in the brackets. His friends and family bring his stories and memories, fragments of text, and other memorabilia. The Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center draws egodocuments and artefacts related to the avant-garde filmmaker like a magnet. In this new exhibition, Mekas returns through moving images, his voice, and personal objects. It is an attempt to unite the film and sound equipment used by the artist with the footage he recorded on them. At the same time, it is a portrait of Mekas at work, as seen through the eyes of other artists. One might link it together in a visual chain: Camera—Mekas—Film, or Mekas as both the subject and object of film.
Exhibition curator: Laima Kreivytė
Tours and Screenings of Jonas Mekas Films
VGS 2025 events at JMVAC:
September 11, 6 pm – Guided tour of the exhibition Jonas Mekas “Journey to Lithuania” with curator Laima Kreivytė.
More about the exhibition:
https://mekas.lt/event/2025-07-03-09-14-jonas-mekas-kelione-i-lietuva/?v=d91af6958918
Duration: approx. 30 min.
September 12, 6 pm – Screening of Jonas Mekas’s film “Letters from Nowhere”.
Jonas Mekas’s film-monologue “Letters from Nowhere”(1997) was specially created for Lithuanian Television and reflects the author’s personal reflections and life experiences. In the film, Mekas shares his thoughts on culture, art, and everyday life, offering an intimate and authentic perspective on the world. “Letters from Nowhere” is not only a visual work, but also a deep personal confession, inviting viewers to reflect on the meaning of life and the beauty in simple things.
In LT with EN subtitles
Duration: 1 h 14 min
September 13, 4 pm – Guided tour of the exhibition Jonas Mekas “Journey to Lithuania” with curator Laima Kreivytė.
More about the exhibition:
https://mekas.lt/event/2025-07-03-09-14-jonas-mekas-kelione-i-lietuva/?v=d91af6958918
Duration: approx. 30 min
September 14, 1 pm – Screening of Jonas Mekas’s film “Outtakes from the Life of a Happy Man”
“Outtakes from the Life of a Happy Man” (2012) is the last and one of Jonas Mekas’s most luminous films, composed of personal footage shot mainly in New York, within the artists’ community on Broome Street. In this setting, Mekas captured friends, daily life, celebrations, and surroundings. The film also incorporates previously unused material – fragments that had not appeared in his earlier works. It unfolds as a cinematic diary filled with simple yet joyful moments, revealing Mekas’s gift for discovering beauty in everyday life.
Duration 1 h 8 min
All events and gallery admission are free of charge.
Events may be filmed or photographed. By attending, you agree that images may be used for JMVAC communication purposes.
Opening hours:
11 September 3 p.m.–7 p.m.
12 September 3 p.m.–7 p.m.
13 September 12 p.m.–5 p.m.
14 September 1 p.m.–5 p.m.
Nearest public transport stops: Vilnios (bus 11), Dailės akademija (buses 10, 33, 89). Nearest parking for disabled visitors: Maironio St 11b and Užupio St 14. Paid parking is available on Užupio St and Maironio St. The gallery is located on the ground floor, with a small step at the entrance and no ramp. The second floor is only accessible via stairs. The gallery is dog-friendly and guide-dog-friendly. Sanitary facilities are available on the ground floor, but the toilet is not adapted for people with disabilities and there is no baby changing room.
Malūnų St 8, Vilnius
https://mekas.lt/event/vgs-2025-ekskursijos-ir-jono-meko-filmu-perziuros/?v=d91af6958918
At Liepkalnis Water Reservoir, artists Elena Laurinavičiūtė and Roma Salė present the exhibition Low Frequency Memory.
Drawing on collective memory, the artists explore the interplay of sound, light, and space, and their impact on human perception. The site’s unique acoustic architecture becomes an integral part of the installations, with echoes forming a living sonic body. Elena’s sound objects create an acoustic environment in which the normally invisible becomes audible—air currents, vibrations, rhythmic movements. Meanwhile, Roma’s light fields act as carriers of the space’s memory, pointing to the building’s changed function and its history. The artists invite visitors to experience often-overlooked states of transition and to listen anew to a world where matter, time, and memory merge in invisible frequencies.
On Sunday 14 September at 2 p.m., Elena Laurinavičiūtė will present the sound performance Ancestors’ Drones.
The exhibition Low Frequency Memory by Elena Laurinavičiūtė and Roma Salė runs from 28 August at Liepkalnis Water Reservoir, Liepkalnio St 20, Vilnius.
Opening hours:
11 September 12 p.m.–7 p.m.
12 September 12 p.m.–7 p.m.
13 September 12 p.m.–4 p.m.
14 September 12 p.m.–4 p.m.
Nearest stop: Stadionas (buses 2, 12, 16, 19, 61, 82). Entry to the building is via a spiral staircase only. The venue is dog- and guide-dog-friendly. There are no sanitary facilities, toilets, or mother-and-baby room on site.
Liepkalnis Water Reservoir, Liepkalnio St 20, Vilnius
Exhibition RAVE NATION. Dancing to the Sounds of Freedom. 1992–2004
In the West, rave culture originated as an illicit infrastructure of collective ecstasy and post-industrial mourning or dissatisfaction with life. But in Lithuania, between 1992 and 2004, it mutated into something else entirely: a form of rave carrying the imprint of local history and political tensions, along with the entirely novel taste of hard-won freedom.
Rave Nation invites visitors to immerse themselves in Lithuania’s rave history—from Vilnius to Marijampolė, from more pop-orientated discos to parties in bomb shelters. The exhibition presents stories reflecting different aspects of rave, authentic artefacts, and works by notable artists. Hosted in the once-closed spaces of Lukiškių Prison, the Lithuanian National Museum’s exhibition gains an unforgettable atmosphere, closely aligned with its narrative.
Visiting hours:
11 September 12 p.m.–8 p.m.
12 September 12 p.m.–8 p.m.
13 September 12 p.m.–8 p.m.
14 September 12 p.m.–8 p.m.
Admission is paid
Nearest public transport stops: Lukiškės (buses 22, 43, 52, 123), Vašingtono aikštė (buses 40, 73), Kražių (trolleybuses 4, 10, 17; buses 22, 40, 43, 52, 73, N1, N3, N4, N6, N7), Juozo Tumo-Vaižganto (trolleybuses 4, 10, 17; buses 3G, 22, 73, 123, N3, N7), Alberto Goštauto (buses 40, 46, 56, 73, 123, N6), Antano Tumėno (bus 89), Gedimino prospektas (buses 24, 110, 117, 118, 122, 127, 4500, 7100), Pamėnkalnio (trolleybuses 1, 3, 7; buses 11, 21, 123, N1, N2, N4, N6, N7, N8, N9). Nearest car park: Lukiškių Lane 6. The exhibition is spread over two floors, with access by stairs only. No dogs are permitted, except for guide dogs. Toilets are available within the Lukiškių kalėjimas complex; staff will assist visitors in locating them. There are no toilet facilities inside the exhibition space.
Lukiškių Lane 6, Vilnius
https://lnm.lt/renginiai/paroda-rave-nation-nakties-ritmais-i-laisve-1992-2004/
Between Dawns. Acquisitions of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, 2015–2025. The exhibition is organised around four visual art collections: painting, graphics, photography and sculpture. These reflect not only the internal logic of the ‘grand archive’ but also the proportions of the fields that have enriched the Lithuanian National Museum of Art’s collection over the past decade. Different epochs meet here: alongside contemporary Lithuanian artists are outstanding figures of modernism, émigré artists and foreign creators. Some of the acquired works are shown in the exhibition space for the first time—an exceptional opportunity to see the museum’s latest acquisitions up close.
Rimtautas Vincentas Gibavičius (1935–1993): The Count of Countless Talents. Known among friends as the Count, Gibavičius’ work is marked by intellectual irony, refined aesthetics and deep cultural contexts. Prepared in collaboration with the Vilnius Academy of Arts, the exhibition presents several of Gibavičius’ ‘counties’, that is, fields in which the artist was most active: graphics, scenography and sgraffito. With his extraordinarily broad creative range, visitors can discover works representing all these areas of activity.
11 September 6 p.m. Curators-led tour of the exhibition Between Dawns. Duration 1 hour. Admission with a visitor ticket.
Registration: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/VsPNMggZDm
12 September 5 p.m. Guided tour for adults of the renewed early 20th-century display and creative graphics workshop for school-age children. Adults can join the tour of the renewed early 20th-century Lithuanian art display while, at the same time, children participate in a creative workshop dedicated to the exhibition Rimtautas Vincentas Gibavičius (1935–1993): The Count of Countless Talents. Duration 1 hour. Tour with a visitor ticket; workshop with an educational ticket.
Registration: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/X18jV77Ww0
13 September 2 p.m. Sensory tour Pictures of the Senses with Karolina Žernytė, visiting various halls of the National Gallery of Art. Participants will experience works using sound, smell, touch and movement instead of sight. Following instructions, some participants will become guides, conveying artworks to others before swapping roles. Admission with a visitor ticket.
Registration: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/NdrsKGBqdM
During VGW, admission to the National Gallery of Art, is half price.
11 September 12 p.m.–8 p.m.,
12 September 11 a.m.–7 p.m.
13 September 11 a.m.–7 p.m.
14 september 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
Nearest public transport stop: Nacionalinė dailės galerija (buses 30, 43, 52, 56, 89; trolleybuses 9, 19). From the Old Town, the gallery is easily reached via the White and Green Bridges. National Gallery of Art car park (entrance from Vytauto Nasvyčio St) is free for visitors for up to 3 hours. A step and a ramp are located at the entrance. A wheelchair is available inside. Access to other floors is by lift. Entrance to the gallery is on the ground floor, on the side of Juozas Mikėnas’ sculpture The First Swallows. Animals are not permitted. On the ground floor there are sanitary facilities, an accessible toilet and a baby changing table.
Konstitucijos Ave 22, Vilnius
The Donatas Jankauskas-Duonis’ show titled “Seasons” sounds like a pun, linking contradictory experiences of time. The elemental sense of nature is juxtaposed with the seasonality of fashion and popular culture, which is dictated not by the archaic cycle of life, death and resurrection, but by the increasingly fast rhythms of production and consumption. This dissonance can be recognised in the massive bas-reliefs in the underground spaces, which humorously convey the artist’s perceptive insights into the desires that govern us today.
The 60s by Anna-Sophie Berger is the artist’s first solo exhibition in this region. It will present a newly commissioned body of work by the artist to audiences in Lithuania and the Baltics. It builds on Berger’s recent work exploring conceptual, social and aesthetic aspects of fashion design. The exhibition will poetically emphasize both the proximity and distance of two seemingly disconnected chronotopes -capitalist Vienna and socialist Lithuania –linking them via narrative of changing aesthetic codes triggered by large-scale geopolitical shifts and their individual and collective effects on lived material conditions.
Working hours:
11 September 1 p.m.–7 p.m.,
12 September 1 a.m.–7 p.m.
13 September 2 a.m.–6 p.m.
Closest bus stops: Dailės akademija, Vokiečių st. Closest parking spot is near Šv. Jono st. 13. The gallery is located on the first floor, with stairs leading up to the main entrance. There is also an exhibition in the basement, which can only be accessed by stairs. The gallery welcomes visitors with dogs. There are restrooms with toilets on the first floor.
Šv. Jono st. 11, Vilnius
GamePlay. Playing For Impact
This is the first exhibition on video games in Lithuania, presenting them not only as a form of relaxation or leisure but also as a powerful storytelling medium that combines literature, cinema, sound and role-play. The exhibition is the result of a collaboration with the ZKM Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany—an adaptation of the centre’s widely acclaimed exhibition zkm_gameplay. the next level. The MO Museum exhibition focuses on three main areas: games that push creative and aesthetic boundaries; games that address pressing social and political issues; and games that, through personal narratives, aim to foster empathy.
Admission to MO Museum is charged.
Opening hours:
11 September 10 a.m.–8 p.m.
12 September 10 a.m.–8 p.m.
13 September 10 a.m.–8 p.m.
14 september 10 a.m.–8 p.m.
Nearest public transport stop MO muziejus. Trolleybuses: 1, 2, 7, 20. Buses: 53, 88, 1G. Also suitable: bus 11 if travelling towards Žvėrynas, and bus 89 if travelling from Vilnius bus station to Europos aikštė. The nearest car park is on Ligoninės St. There are also two parking spaces for people with disabilities directly by the museum, accessible via Vingrių St. MO Museum is adapted for visitors with disabilities. Specially trained guide dogs assisting people with disabilities are welcome; other animals are not admitted. The museum has lifts, toilets adapted for people with disabilities, and baby changing facilities. All MO Museum spaces are accessible for people with reduced mobility. Seating is available on every floor. The MO reading room is always a quiet space.
Pylimo St 17, Vilnius
DEAR ELIZA
Artists: Julija Goyd, Ivona Tau
Curator: Justė Kostikovaitė
Architect: Sigita Simona Paplauskaitė
Designer: Julija Lečaitė
Organiser: Pamėnkalnio gallery
Financed by: Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius City, Polish Institute in Vilnius, HoPro, Lithuanian Artists‘ Association
The exhibition title refers to ELIZA, the first artificial intelligence programme (1966) capable of simulating a therapeutic conversation. ELIZA was neither a subject nor a bod, just an algorithm, named with the word for ‘care’.
Today, it is more than mere nostalgia for tech romantics; it signals that even an algorithm can inherit the entirety of our history: sexism, colonialism, shame and filters.
Artists Julija Goyd and Ivona Tau use AI not as an effect but as an autonomous working tool. In their photographs, they employ AI scissors to frame a body that is neither classical nor modernist—it is fragmented and folded, at times disturbingly human.
Both artists grapple with the questions: can our gaze upon the body be reprogrammed? Is AI simply a tool, or is it an ideology stronger than us? Does the ageing, vulnerable body have a place in a system still reliant on a sterilised, optimised and youthful image, where the very process of remaking and restoring the body is idealised?
And finally, why do we still feel the need to be polite when addressing AI by name? Perhaps because we still want to believe that someone, somehwew on the other side, is listening.
Exhibition curator Justė Kostikovaitė
Opening hours:
11 September 11 a.m.–7 p.m.
12 September 11 a.m.–7 p.m.
13 September 11 a.m.–4 p.m.
14 September 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
Nearest public transport stops: Islandijos (C), Islandijos (D) and Jogailos. Nearest car park: Stulginskio St 8 (next to Pramogų Bankas). There is no designated parking for visitors with disabilities at the building. The gallery is located on the ground floor, but the entrance and space are not accessible for visitors with mobility impairments (step at entrance). The gallery is dog- and guide-dog-friendly. Restroom facilities are available on the ground floor, but there is no toilet adapted for visitors with disabilities, nor a baby changing room.
Pamėnkalnio St 1, Vilnius
Il.: Julija Goyd, Ivona Tau. “Dear Eliza”. 2025
Andrius Repšys | oh god, oh god…
Andrius Repšys is one of the first artists in Lithuania to consistently pursue mastery of drone photography. Its possibilities are only beginning to be discovered, while the boundaries of depiction and subject matter are being expanded. An artist with prior experience in aerial photography, Repšys brings new impulses to drone photography – refining technique, optics, and the meaning of the image, seeking meaningful combinations of forms beyond aesthetic beauty, unexpected sequences, and thematic cycles.
Andrius methodically explores various “maps” of nature, architecture, urban spaces, and human mobility. His enthusiasm and constant refinement of vision and thought are directed toward a different kind of earth’s optics. Most importantly, he does not stop, hypnotized by the beauty of the land from above.
Paulina Blažytė
If one tried to rationalize controversial practices once carried out by the Church and asked artificial intelligence how indulgences, the Inquisition, crusades, and other similar activities aligned with the institution’s moral truths, the answer would be very short: they did not. Later, of course, the answer would expand (moral principles remained in texts and rhetoric, while faith was used as a cover for power, economic gain, and control, and so on), but the laconic, ironic tone of the initial reply would still linger.
Irony also abounds in Andrius Repšys’ photographic series oh god, oh god…. Using a drone to capture from above sacred, or seemingly sacred, fragments of the Lithuanian landscape, the artist questions what and how we wish to show to God. Perhaps we want to display Latin-cross-plan churches, their red-tiled roofs standing out against greenery and drab houses? Yet if the perspective is shifted and the church is inverted, its symbolism changes drastically. Perhaps the cemetery plots – adorned with hearts, lilies, or accidental smiles – bring us closer to God (provided we have not gravely sinned)? Seen from above, they all merge into a single patterned fabric. Perhaps the Hill of Crosses, so chaotic from above and so unlike the ordered neatness of cemeteries? Indeed, more order is found in the aesthetically pleasing, symmetrical shadows they cast.
Shadows frequently appear in Repšys’ photographs and help build a deliberate narrative. In a playground next to a cemetery, shadows stand in for children, telling a story of the inevitable cycles of life – cycles that unfold regardless of whether one acknowledges God’s existence. Elsewhere, a shadow becomes a menorah, with the artist himself at its center, momentarily transformed into part of church architecture, and thus the institution itself. Suggesting that the world seen from a bird’s-eye view is, in a way, humanity’s message to God, the photographer simultaneously sends that message himself. Now he, too, is part of the church, of belief, of religion; and while he gazes at his own image, God gazes back at him.
Beyond shadows, there are clouds framing a church, a road turning into a cross, and… colorful beach umbrellas! It is uncanny to see them as a boundary between the cemetery and the sea. More broadly, Repšys does not shy away from playful moments – he notices not only religious objects or fragments of them but also frames landscapes so they acquire new meanings. A cemetery resembles a dress; a building complex turns into a grotesque face. As in his other series, Repšys combines historical narrative with a curious, witty, ironic, and at times biting gaze.
The world God sees through Repšys’ lens is grayish and often bleak, with patches of dry grass and occasional flashes of sunlight. It is closely tied to death, yet life is always nearby – where holidaymakers relax and children play in playgrounds. Where some see beauty and transcendence, others find pathos and futility. For some, a church becomes a place of hope and community; for others, one of repression and hypocrisy. It all depends on one’s experiences, associations, worldview, and personal ideology. Repšys, too, leaves the choice open – he asserts nothing, but rather asks. Here, no artificial intelligence is needed: the answer is created by each viewer.
Photo:
Andrius Repšys
oh god, oh god…
Opening hours:
11 September 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
12 September 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
13 september 12 p.m.–4 p.m.
Nearest public transport stops: Juozo Tumo-Vaižganto stop on V. Kudirkos St (buses 3G, 9, 22, 43, 55, 57, 73, 123; trolleybuses 4, 10, 17) and Juozo Tumo-Vaižganto stop on J. Tumo-Vaižganto St (buses 3G, 9, 22, 43, 55, 57, 73, N3, N7; trolleybuses 4, 10, 17). Nearest car parks: Gedimino Ave 42 and A. Domaševičiaus St 5. The gallery is located on the ground floor, with no ramp at the main entrance. The gallery is dog- and guide dog-friendly.
Gedimino Ave 43, Vilnius
Evaldas Jansas’ exhibition Extrapolation
This retrospective exhibition sums up more than three decades of the artist’s rebellious and provocative practice, presenting a diversity of creative formats and revealing his controversial artistic position.
Akvile Anglickaitė’s exhibition Changing, It Rests
The exhibition presents works created especially for the show—analogue photographs, video pieces and drawings—exploring the themes of the human–nature relationship, and the interplay of constant change and stability in the world.
Janina Sabaliauskaitė’s exhibition Pleasure
A series of analogue photographic prints that, through the personal stories of the project’s participants, invites viewers to explore the subject of sexuality and disability.
Everything You Are Not Supposed to Do. 21st-century Lithuanian female artists within the historical painting exhibit at the Radvila Palace Museum of Art
The exhibition revitalises the 16th–19th century Western European painting collection with works by 21st-century Lithuanian women artists from the collections of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art.
Protest Art: The Rebels of the Soviet Era. From the collection of Vladimir Tarasov donated to the Lithuanian National Museum of Art
Events:
11–14 September: Screenings of Evaldas Jansas’ video works (during exhibition opening hours)
11 September, 6 p.m.: Meeting with artist Janina Sabaliauskaitė in the exhibition Pleasure
12 September, 5 p.m.: Meeting with artist Akvile Anglickaitė in the exhibition Changing, It Rest
14 September, 4 p.m.: Dance performance Traces (choreographer Ugnė Kavaliauskaitė, performed by Paulius Prievelis)
Participation in events is free, no registration required.
Guided tours:
13 September 3 p.m. Everything You Are Not Supposed to Do with a museum guide
14 September 3 p.m. Tour of Extrapolation with a museum guide
Participation in guided tours is free, no registration required.
Educational activities:
11 September 6 p.m. Creative meeting for adults Who Will Forbid? (Kas uždraus?)
Pre-registration: tel. +370 659 58066 or email radvilos.edukacija@lndm.lt
14 September 2 p.m. Family workshop Move Like Water (Judėk kaip vanduo)(recommended for families with children aged 5–10)
Pre-registration: tel. +370 659 58066 or email radvilos.edukacija@lndm.lt
During VGW, admission to the Radvila Palace Museum is half price.
Opening hours:
11 September 12 p.m.–8 p.m.
12 September 11 a.m.–7 p.m.
13 September 11 a.m.–7 p.m.
14 September 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
Last admission is 30 minutes before closing time.
Nearest public transport stop: Islandijos. Nearest car park: next to the museum building, Vilniaus St 24. The museum consists of two buildings with exhibitions spread over several floors. These can be accessed by platform lift (north building) or elevator (south building), please ask staff for directions. No dogs allowed, except guide dogs. Toilets adapted for people with disabilities and a family room are available, please ask staff for locations.
Vilniaus St 24, Vilnius
Contemporary art exhibitions at Sapiega Palace During Vilnius Gallery Weekend, visitors will be able to visit the major exhibition at the palace, Atbuli griaučiai (Backwards Bones), at a discounted price.
The international group exhibition and related events focus on the representation of the body in animation and its reinterpretation in the practices of contemporary artists.
Until September 15, the Sapiega Palace will also host an exhibition by Edith Karlson, one of Estonia’s most prominent contemporary sculptors, entitled “March!”. This is the first presentation of Karlson’s work on such a scale in Lithuania – an installation created especially for the palace depicts an army of hybrid creatures marching through the Baroque halls. The exhibition was inspired by the current global context – the chaos of wars and crises, where people find themselves in situations they did not choose but must learn to adapt to. Admission to this exhibition, as well as the entire first floor, is free. Edith Karlson’s exhibition is unique in that it provides instructions on how to visit and experience the exhibition together with dogs – the animals that have accompanied humans the longest on their journey of adaptation.
You can learn more about the palace itself, its history, exhibitions, and restoration processes by participating in regular tours of the Sapiega Palace. Presentation of the vinyl record “The Music of the Return of the Sapiega Palace”.
On Friday, September 12, at 6 p.m., the Sapiega Palace will host a concert presenting the vinyl record “Sapiega Palace Return Music.” The record captures the sounds of the palace’s rebirth, transformed into original ambient compositions. They will be performed live by Laurynas Kamarauskas, Matas Samulionis, and Vytautas Oškinis. The flute and saxophone improvisations will be enriched by subtle acoustic layers and authentic sounds from the palace space. The event is free of charge.
Today, it is difficult to imagine that in 2023, the Sapiega Palace was an intense and noisy construction site, filled with the sounds of cutting, drilling, hammering, and other ear-piercing noises. Clouds of dust rose everywhere, and among them, as if in an open operating room, a multitude of hands worked: some with jeweler’s precision, others almost in sync, all guided by caring hearts. The days of the palace’s “awakening from a dream” have now become just one of the stages in its long history – history itself. “This album is important to us because it allows us to share the ephemeral but special sound experience of the palace spaces more widely; it is like a meditative tour of the palace returning to life. At the same time, this music is very universal, helping us to hear non-musical sounds differently and feel their beauty,” says Gintautė Žemaitytė, director of the Sapiega Palace.
Throughout the VGS, there will also be a sound installation in the southern gallery on the first floor of the Sapiega Palace (set design by Augustė Kunevičiūtė). Visitors will be invited to put on headphones and experience the vinyl record “Sapiega Palace Return Music” and the sounds recorded on it.
Creative workshops for people and dogs On Sunday, September 14, at 1 p.m., Edith Karlson’s exhibition “March!” will host “The Led and the Leaders. Creative workshops for people and dogs.”
The workshop invites participants to rethink adaptation and states of adaptation—one of the key themes of the exhibition, which is an integral part of the relationship between humans and dogs—and to notice the subtle details of everyday life between species: listen to every twitch of the ear, every wag of the tail, allow ourselves to be led and learn from and with each other – while thinking about possible scenarios for future survival.
Guided tours of the Sapiega Palace On September 13 and 14 at 3 p.m., we invite you to participate in guided tours of the Sapiega Palace. The stories told during these tours will combine contemporary art and historical heritage.
During the tour, you will learn about the most important stages in the history of the Sapiega Palace and its current activities as a space for art and culture. We will present an exhibition in the North Gallery on the themes of the other, the unusual body, and animals. In the main exhibition, we will explore works of contemporary art and discuss the representation of the body in animation, the history of this phenomenon, and its evolution.
Opening hours:
11 September 12 p.m.–8 p.m.
12 September 12 p.m.–8 p.m.
13 September 11 a.m.–7 p.m.
14 September 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
Nearest public transport stop: L. Sapiegos (trolleybuses 2, 4, 19). Nearest car park: L. Sapiegos St 13.
L. Sapiegos St 13, Vilnius 10312
Borders are Nocturnal Animals
Curated by Neringa Bumblienė and Emilie Villez, this exhibition is the second iteration of a project first presented simultaneously at KADIST Paris and the Palais de Tokyo in autumn 2024, as part of the Season of Lithuania in France. Rooted in the geopolitical turmoil caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine, the exhibition explores the colonial histories of Lithuania and the region beyond, weaving connections into a broader international narrative.
Gerda Paliušytė. Expectations
‘Expectations’ is the latest chapter in Gerda Paliušytė’s ongoing project Guys
and Blue Flowers, which has evolved over several years. The project comprises two photographic series – Guys and Blue Flowers – always exhibited together and exploring standardised systems and various forms of intimacy. Curated by Asta Vaičiulytė, the exhibition also includes a sculptural object by Gediminas G. Akstinas.
Piotr Bury Łakomy. Garden Exit
‘Garden Exit’ presents works produced by the artist specifically for the spaces of the CAC. The title subtly references the Garden of Eden, but rather than reinforcing its typical Western interpretation, it proposes a conscious exit instead of an exile, suggesting a separation from the idea of pristine nature. Curated by Edvardas Šumila.
The closing event of the exhibition ‘Borders are Nocturnal Animals’ will take place on Thursday, 11 September, at the CAC in Vilnius.
Programme:
12-8 pm – Letter to a Turtledove, a film by Dana Kavelina
A cinematic poem combining animation, amateur war footage, and archival footage of 1930s industrialisation in the Donbas region of Ukraine.
6 pm – Guided tour with curators Neringa Bumblienė and Emilie Villez
7 pm – Talk by Nikolay Karabinovych. The Ukrainian artist will discuss his recent video trilogy and curatorial practice, addressing questions of identity, belonging, and exclusion.
Opening hours:
11 September 12 p.m.–8 p.m.
12 September 12 p.m.–8 p.m.
13 September 11 a.m.–7 p.m.
14 September 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
Vokiečių St 2, Vilnius
In GLARES, Norkutė presents paintings on ceramic mosaics. Their shimmering surfaces embody words, allegories, and gestures. The figures that emerge exist in a tension between the desire to be seen and the impulse to disappear, between the wish to appear and the necessity to conceal. Some confront the viewer with a direct gaze yet resist being fully understood. The exhibition’s title, GLARES, carries a double meaning: a dazzling reflection of light and an intense, almost aggressive stare. Together, the works open a field of gazes in which visibility and invisibility intertwine. Being looked at is not always a choice, and returning the gaze can itself become an act of resistance. These paintings hover between fragility and weight, between ritual and everyday life, between the seductive sheen of the surface and the inner tension beneath it.
In this exhibition, the direction of looking is constantly shifting: it is never clear who observes and who is observed. To be visible and invisible at once is not a contradiction but a state of being. Here, seeing is not passive – it acts, evaluates, records. Each work becomes a threshold between revelation and silence, between the pleasure of viewing and its unease. At times, the truth appears in fragments, and what remains hidden speaks no less powerfully than what is revealed.
Eglė Norkutė (b. 1993, Kaunas) is a visual artist based in Porto, Portugal. Her practice combines painting and ceramics, drawing inspiration from everyday life, art history, mythology, and pop culture. After completing her master’s degree at the Department of Painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, she has been actively involved in the international art scene. Her works have been exhibited in Lithuania, Latvia, Spain, Portugal, Slovakia, South Korea, Switzerland, Denmark, and Argentina. Norkutė is a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Union and is represented by The Rooster Gallery.
14 September, 3 p.m.tour of the exhibition with the artist Eglė Norkutė.
Opening hours:
Exhibition opening 10 September 6 p.m.–9 p.m.
11 September 4 p.m.–7 p.m.
12 September 4 p.m.–7 p.m.
13 September 4 p.m.–7 p.m.
14 September 2 p.m.–5 p.m.
Nearest public transport stop: Dailės akademija (buses 10, 11, 33, 88). Parking available on Maironio St and Malūnų St. The gallery is located on the ground floor; there are two steps at the entrance. The gallery is dog- and guide-dog-friendly. Toilet facilities available.
Šv. Brunono Bonifaco St 12
Ilius. Eglė Kirlytė „GLARES”
Linas Kaziulionis solo painting exhibition Labyrinths of Life: The Dark Realities explores how conspiracy theories and false information influence our perception of the world. Using symbolic language, the artist conveys the emotional and visual tension that arises when navigating the complex labyrinth of contemporary information, where fact and fiction often intertwine. The exhibition encourages a critical assessment of the narratives that surround us and poses the question—how often have false stories become part of our perception? It is a visual reflection on the contemporary human’s relationship with information and its power to shape thinking, beliefs and everyday engagement with reality.
On Saturday, 13 September, 4 p.m., TUMO gallery (Užupio St. 28, Vilnius) will host a tour of the exhibition Labyrinths of Life: The Dark Realities with the artist who will speak in more detail about the concept of the exhibition, the creative process and selected works on display. Participation in guided tour is free. The tour will be conducted in Lithuanian. Registration: https://forms.gle/zgqtzNHuSrDR2twi7
Opening hours:
11 September 1 p.m.–7 p.m.
12 September 1 p.m.–7 p.m.
13 September 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
14 September 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
Nearest public transport stops: Užupis (bus 11), Užupio stop (buses 10, 33, 89) and Filaretų stop (buses 6G, 27, 34, 37, N5). The nearest car park is at Užupio St 30. The gallery is on the ground floor, next to the main entrance. Entry is directly from the street, with the floor level almost flush with the pavement and a minimal door threshold. Well-behaved pets are welcome, provided they do not pose a risk to other visitors, the exhibition’s architectural elements or the exhibits. The gallery’s ground floor has toilet facilities equipped for people with mobility or other specific needs. There is no mother-and-baby room.
Užupio St. 28, Vilnius
https://tumogalerija.lt/
22° G: Milieu
This is part of the three-exhibition series 22° G dedicated to the 220th anniversary of Vilnius Academy of Arts’ Department of Graphic Art, presenting the work of young authors currently studying graphic art at the Academy. The architectural installation marking the territory urges the visitors to get lost, tangled in the torrent of time, technologies, images, ideas, and media in a good sense, and when they find a way out, to be surprised by the immense diversity of the graphic art study stages! Conceptually, four or six years of study at the Academy is an incredibly safe space that presents certain tasks, but is absolutely open to all possible scenarios. In this environment, both one’s own and other people’s expectations persist, personalities take form, a community emerges, and the first prominent ideas are born in the context of contemporary art. It is highly likely that very soon some of the authors presented in this exhibition will boldly and uniquely shape the graphic art of the future with their work.
Exhibition curator Marija Marcelionytė-Paliukė
The project is financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius Academy of Arts
September 13, 12:30 p.m. guided tour of the 22° G exhibitions with the curators Elena Grudzinskaitė, Jurgita Ludavičienė and Marija Marcelionytė-Paliukė. The tour will begin at the 5 malūnai gallery, continuing at the Vilnius Academy of Arts Exhibition Halls Titanikas and Akademija gallery. Duration of tour – 2 hours.
Opening hours:
11 September 9 a.m.–7 p.m.
12 September 9 a.m.–7 p.m.
13 September 9 a.m.–7 p.m.
14 September 9 a.m.–7 p.m.
Nearest public transport stops: Dailės akademija (buses 10, 33, 89), Vilnios (bus 11). Nearest car park: by Tibeto square, Maironio St. The gallery is on the ground floor, with a ramp both at the entrance and inside. A smaller part of the exhibition on the second floor is accessible only by stairs. The gallery is dog- and guide-dog-friendly. The building has toilet facilities, some adapted for people with disabilities, but no mother-and-baby room (a safe space can be provided on request).
Malūnų St 5, Vilnius Academy of Arts, New Building
https://www.vda.lt/lt/5-malunai
22° G: Incision
The exhibition 22° G: Incision at gallery Akademija presents works by the 17 tutors of the VAA Department of Graphic Art.
We habitually associate graphic art with printmaking. Yes, everything that can be printed, that prints or is printed constitutes graphic art in the broadest sense, no matter what contemporary and unexpected forms it takes. Objects can be printed directly – from a chair or a tombstone to a train carriage; different materials leave their imprints on the different flat surfaces they come into contact with, even sunlight leaves its almost invisible mark over time as it travels through our rooms every day. We imprint our feet in the soft earth – if we printed them, it would be graphic art. Yet before the printing there is another action – carving. Engraving. Incision. In order to print something, you need to carve or incise it, and this action can also be interpreted in the broadest sense.
The exhibition is dedicated to the 220th anniversary of the Department of Graphic Art at the Vilnius Academy of Arts.
Exhibition curator Jurgita Ludavičienė
Participants: Ieva Babilaitė-Ibelgauptienė, Augustas Bidlauskas, Jonas Čepas, Agnė Dautartaitė-Krutulė, Matas Jonas Dūda, Elena Grudzinskaitė, Austė Jurgelionytė-Varnė, Paulius Juška, Rimvydas Kepežinskas, Simonas Kuliešis, Dainius Liškevičius, Marija Marcelionytė-Paliukė, Jolanta Mikulskytė, Benas Narbutas, Paulina Eglė Pukytė, Kęstutis Vasiliūnas, Titas Antanas Vilkaitis.
The project is financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius Academy of Arts.
Project organised by the Vilnius Academy of Arts and the Department of Graphics at the Vilnius Academy of Arts.
Graphic design: Jonė Dūdaitė, Jokūbas Griška
Architecture by Dainius Liškevičius
Partners: Media Traffic, www.echogonewrong.com, Vilnius Graphic Art Centre, National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art, Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
September 13, 12:30 p.m. guided tour of the 22° G exhibitions with the curators Elena Grudzinskaitė, Jurgita Ludavičienė and Marija Marcelionytė-Paliukė. The tour will begin at the 5 malūnai gallery, continuing at the Vilnius Academy of Arts Exhibition Halls Titanikas and Akademija gallery. Duration of tour – 2 hours.
Working hours:
11 September 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
12 September 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
13 September 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
Nearest public transport stop: Vilniaus dailės akademija (buses 10, 11, 33, 88). Nearest parking: Latako St, alongside the Vilnius Academy of Arts dormitory building. The gallery is located on the ground floor, next to the street, with a double-door entrance. Access to the second floor is via wooden stairs. The gallery is dog- and guide-dog-friendly.
Latako St 2/Pilies St 44, Vilnius
https://www.vda.lt/galerija-akademija
Marijonas Verbel, Kotryna Navickaitė | Repetition
The exhibition Repetition is like constant preparation for an event; what is already taking place is rehearsed—the draft is the final copy. Here, the artists seek to slip free of the definition of rehearsal, knowing there is no final result; instead of a finishing line, there is an endless one. The mere thought of the possibility of something’s existence is enough. It can be any way, somehow, or not at all.
For the duo, sketches are equal to finished works—perhaps even truer and more alive—remaining at the very climax.
Curated by Viltė Vilūnaitė.
Tour on 13 September, 2 p.m.
Opening hours:
11 September 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
12 September 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
13 September 12 p.m.–4 p.m.
14 September 12 p.m.–4 p.m.
Nearest public transport stops: MO muziejus, Dailės akademija. Nearest parking: Gaono St 1/Dominikonų St 15. The gallery is on the ground floor, but the narrow pavement and stepped entrance are not adapted for wheelchair users. There are also steps inside and no lift. The gallery is dog- and guide-dog-friendly. There are no visitor-accessible toilets.
Gaono St 1, Vilnius
https://www.vda.lt/galerija-artifex
Pranas Griušys
Semantic transparency
Painting
Vilnius Academy of Arts Exhibition Halls Titanikas, first floor
Long-time Vilnius Academy of Arts lecturer and professor Pranas Griušys presents his anniversary exhibition Semantic transparency at the Vilnius Academy of Arts Exhibition Halls Titanikas. ‘Many people do not know or cannot imagine what this means,’ says the artist himself. Semantic transparency is a term most often used in linguistics (especially in morphology and semantics) to describe how easily we can understand the meaning of a compound or derived word from the meanings of its parts (morphemes). In this exhibition, viewers are given the chance to visualise and understand the concept of semantic transparency for themselves. Griušys has been known for decades as a consistent, programmatic representative of a photorealist style and hyper-photographic precision.
Exhibition curator Vidas Poškus
22° G: State
220 Years of the VAA Department of Graphic Art
Graduates’ Exhibition
VAA Titanikas exhibition halls, second floor
The 22° G exhibitions are dedicated to the 220th anniversary of Vilnius Academy of Arts’ Department of Graphic Art and present three generations of artists active in the contemporary art and graphic art scene. The authors featured in the exhibitions include prolific artists of the younger generation who are alumni of the Department of Graphic Art, artists who educate the new generations of graphic artists as tutors at the department, and young artists studying at Vilnius Academy of Arts who associate their professional future with graphic art.
The exhibition on the 2nd floor of the Titanikas exhibition halls, 22° G: State, presents works by the alumni of the VAA Department of Graphic Art. The exhibition title 22° G: State conceptually encodes the years of activity of the Department of Graphic Arts and simultaneously the influence of the specific air temperature of 22° C on a human being, as it is most comfortable for both mental and physical work. In the context of the exhibition, the numerical and symbolic cipher of 22° G signifies the comfortable condition of being a graphic artist, feeling good about having chosen one’s authentic expression, which is shaped equally by the traditions and values of graphic art, the movement, change and trends of contemporary art, and the personal experiences, achievements, discoveries and artistic decisions of each author.
Artists: Roma Auškalnytė, Linas Blažiūnas, Pijus Burakas, Simona Buzė, Miglė Ceinorytė, Liepa Gaidauskaitė, Lina Itagaki, Kamilė Jadevičiūtė, Algirdas Jakas, Joana Kairienė, Saša Kochan, Justė Kuliešaitė, Indrė Lubytė, Akvilė Magicdustė, Laima Matuzonytė, Roma Salė, Živilė Minkutė, Nastassia Pazniak, Diana Remeikytė, Eglė Ruibytė, Anastasia Sosunova, Linas Spurga Jaun., Karolis Strautniekas, Marija Sučilaitė, Eglė Šaka, Toma Šlimaitė, Ūla Šveikauskaitė, Ieva Trinkūnaitė, Monika Vaicenavičienė, Augustė Verikaitė, Gasparas Zondovas, Kornelija Žalpytė, Viltė Žumbakytė, Vilmantas Žumbys
Exhibition Curator Elena Grudzinskaitė
Exhibition architect Algirdas Jakas
Exhibition design Jonė Dūdaitė, Jokūbas Griška
The project is financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius Academy of Arts
September 13, 12:30 p.m. guided tour of the 22° G exhibitions with the curators Elena Grudzinskaitė, Jurgita Ludavičienė and Marija Marcelionytė-Paliukė. The tour will begin at the 5 malūnai gallery, continuing at the Vilnius Academy of Arts Exhibition Halls Titanikas and Akademija gallery. Duration of tour – 2 hours.
Opening hours:
11 September 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
12 September 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
13 September 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
14 September closed
Vilnius Academy of Arts Exhibition Halls Titanikas, Maironio St 3, Vilnius. Nearest public transport stop: Vilniaus dailės akademija (bus 10). Nearest parking: Maironio St. The exhibition halls are accessible to visitors with disabilities. There is a lift to the second floor. The gallery is dog- and guide-dog-friendly. Toilets on the first and second floors are adapted for visitors with disabilities. There is no dedicated mother-and-baby room, but a separate office can be provided if required.
Maironio St 3, Vilnius.
www.vda.lt/lt/parodu-sales-titanikas
Ingrida Mockutė-Pocienė | The Rose Effect
The opening event for this exhibition will take place on September 11 at 5:30 p.m.
The exhibition presents Ingrida Mockutė-Pocienė’s artistic research project The Rose Effect. The artist examines how the same place exerts its effect through personal documentary relations, archival documents, objects, memories, sleep notes, photography and video works, poetry, and performances (the déjà vu effect). The exhibition features video works, photographs, objects, and documentary material. The project is her MFA thesis in Applied Arts at the Telšiai Faculty of the Vilnius Academy of Arts.
According to exhibition curator Neringa Poškutė-Jukumienė:
“The title The Rose Effectpoints to both content and means. The name Rose has a direct connection with the artist – it is part of her identity. Personal experience is presented as an artistic object, inviting the viewer to look at it through a symbolic lens, while at the same time exposing the piercing facts of the artist’s life. The result of the research – the exhibition – is a kind of confession, a performative act that enabled a view from the outside. It resonates not only with the artist herself but also with others, including vulnerable groups, with everyone.”
“As for me, I accept all my illnesses – both physical and mental – as opportunities for continuous growth. I consciously choose to step out of my comfort zone, to face painful memories: mental illness, bullying, psychological, physical and sexual abuse, depression, and moral downfall. Yet through personal experience I can testify to the ability to cope with these issues, and more than that – to use them as material for my art and to encourage society to speak more openly about them, to seek solutions, not to remain closed within,” says artist Ingrida Mockutė-Pocienė.
The aim of the exhibition is to reduce the divide between people with fragile mental health and the “healthy,” and to bring stigmatized social issues into the language of art: mental illness, psychological and physical violence, suicide.
Ingrida Mockutė-Pocienė is an interdisciplinary artist from Tauragė, who spent more than ten years in Klaipėda and now lives in Stavanger, Norway. Her practice spans photography, video, performance, installation, and more. She has been participating in exhibitions since 2009. In 2021 she was granted the status of Art Creator, and in 2023 became a member of the Lithuanian Photographers’ Association. In 2021, she received a Klaipėda City Municipality grant for the project Je suis Žardė, a social-artistic research resulting in a documentary film about the people and environment of the “Žardė” district in Klaipėda, presented to the public.
In 2024, within the project Electrification. Klaipėda Cultural Networks funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and organized by the Association Klaipėda Cultural Community, she created a platform and the documentary video Varau į miestą (Heading to the City). The film was presented at the event Thermal Culture at Hofas, Klaipėda, and at the Ieva Simonaitytė Public Library of Klaipėda County. The artist received a special commendation prize for actively involving Klaipėda’s communities in the creative process. She also completed an Erasmus internship at Rogaland Kunstsenter, a contemporary art center in Stavanger, Norway. In November 2024 she organized the event Beyond the Scars: Transforming Pain into Art in the Terran community, Stavanger, presenting the video works The Rose Effectand Refuge. In July 2025 her exhibition The Rose Effect was shown at Studio 17 Gallery in Stavanger.
Curated by Neringa Poškutė-Jukumienė
Photo: Ingrida Mockutė-Pocienė
Object from a Family Archive, c. 1950. Linen, embroidery, 110 × 75 cm
Opening hours:
11 September 12 p.m.–7 p.m.
12 September 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
13 september 12 p.m.–4 p.m.
Nearest public transport stop: Rotušė (bus 89). The third floor of the gallery is accessible only by stairs. The gallery is dog-friendly and guide-dog-friendly.
Stiklių St 4 (entrance from Didžioji St 19), Vilnius
Perpetuum Creatrix: Female Lines
The exhibition explores the role of female kinship in shaping an artist’s identity through the perspective of one family. Participating artists: Birutė Zokaitytė, Agnė Gintalaitė, Alfreda Venslovaitė-Gintalienė, Miglė Vilčiauskaitė, Andrėja Vilčiauskaitė.
The works in the exhibition emerge as the artists turn the pages of a family photo album. Girls and women become the main protagonists and narrators. While in theory the female gaze is presented as a more democratic alternative to the male gaze, here it is used with humour and (self-)irony to construct an opposition. Individuality is born from a complex relationship with the other. This ‘other’ is not necessarily a concrete subject—difference is also represented by patriarchal social norms, power mechanisms and repressive structures rooted in everyday life, symbolised by the wolf, a shadow bringing into the narrative the entire spectrum of mythological semantics. The iconography of everyday life eliminates the notion of a battle between good and evil, while the accents in the Little Red Riding Hood story may shift, the recurrence of the archetype remains inevitable.
Agnė Gintalaitė, an image from a family archive, reconstructed through digital and generative means, 2025
Opening hours:
11 September 12 p.m.–8 p.m.
12 September 12 p.m.–8 p.m.
13 September 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
14 September 12 p.m.–4 p.m.
Nearest public transport stop: Akademija (buses 10, 33, 89). Nearest car park: Latako St 1. The gallery is located on the third and fourth floors, accessible only by stairs. The gallery is dog-friendly and guide-dog-friendly. There are sanitary facilities on the third floor. There is no mother-and-baby room, and the toilets are not adapted for people with disabilities.
Latako St 3, Vilnius
Tania Mouraud’s exhibition In Honour of a Reborn Pain
Born in Paris in 1942 during the Second World War, Tania Mouraud is one of the most prominent contemporary French artists. In a career spanning over six decades, she has explored the relationship between the individual and society, the position of the woman as creator, the power of language, the consequences of war, ecological crises and collective memory. Her work, which includes painting, photography, video art and text-based installations, invites viewers to pause and reflect on complex historical subjects. In this exhibition, Mouraud brings Vilnius history to life, drawing on the works of poets who created in the Vilnius Ghetto. Her text installations, in which words become images, pose a challenge: graphic signs conceal deep meanings, inviting viewers to actively engage in decoding and rethinking history.
Open Waters: The Émigré Art Collection by Leonardas Andriekus and the Franciscan Brothers
The exhibition presents a unique collection of the Lithuanian émigré art, which was started to amass in the mid-20th century by the Franciscan priest Leonardas Kazimieras Andriekus. Nearly all of a hundred artworks on display have not yet been showcased publicly. The exhibition embraces the development of sacred and secular art of the diaspora. The title is taken from Andriekus’ debut poetry collection, published in the USA in 1955. Open waters become a metaphor for freedom and the unrestrained spread of creativity, as well as for the unplanned and painful separation from one’s homeland, and the uncertainty and anxiety about what tomorrow may bring.
The exhibition Open Waters: The Émigré Art Collection by Leonardas Andriekus and the Franciscan Brothers opened on 8 May 2025 at 6 p.m. and runs until 28 September.
Thursday 11 September 6 p.m. Mindaugas Kvietkauskas. Guided tour in the exhibition In Honour of a Reborn Pain.
Friday 12 September 5 p.m. guided tour of the exhibition Open Waters: The Émigré Art Collection by Leonardas Andriekus and the Franciscan Brothers with a museum guide.
Event attendance requires a museum ticket.
During VGW, museum admission is half price.
Opening hours:
11 September 11 p.m.–8 p.m.
12 September 10 a.m.–6 p.m
13 September 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
14 September 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Nearest public transport stop: Operos ir baleto teatras (buses 123, 1G, 3G, 52, 6G, 43, 46, 56; trolleybuses 4, 10, 17). Nearest car park: A. Goštauto St 1, next to the museum. The museum entrance has stairs with a ramp; inside there are stairs with a descent mechanism and a lift. The museum only admits guide dogs. There is a toilet adapted for people with disabilities and a mother-and-baby room.
A. Goštauto St 1, Vilnius
THE LAST LIGHT OF THE SUN
Vilnius University Observatory of Ideas (Čiurlionio St. 29, Vilnius)
Artists: Ieva Marija Andrulytė, Augustynas Sinkevič, Vytautas Straižys, Naglis Kristijonas Zakaras
Curator: Milda Dainovskytė
Architect: Vytautas Gečas
Organizer: Pamėnkalnio Gallery
Partner: Vilnius University Observatory of Ideas / Vilnius University Museum
Supported by: Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius City
In 1933, a twin-towered astronomical pavilion rose on Čiurlionio Street in Vilnius. At the city’s then-suburban edge, the night sky was still clear enough for stellar photometry, pursued by scientists Władysław Dziewulski and Wilhelmina Iwanowska. Yet as Vilnius expanded and its lights thickened, the stars dimmed, forcing astronomers to retreat in search of darker horizons. The observatory lost its function, and silence settled where measurements once were made.
This exhibition grows from the layered memory of that site: a district once peripheral, an observatory both real and spectral. Its works unfold through shifting veils of time – from mystified imagination, dreamscapes, and the paradigms of science and nature, to social transformations and the traces of vanished use. Emerging artists respond through sound, object, sculpture, ready-mades, and installation, their works interlaced with archival documents, photographs, and recordings from the Observatory of Ideas.
The Last Light of the Sun marks the instant when vision falters into shadow, when the human striving to chart the universe intertwines with myth and mystery. It invites reflection on the fragile threshold between knowledge and memory: what remains of the final light, once it no longer illuminates research, but lingers only as a vessel of remembrance?
5.30 p.m. VU Idea Observatory (Čiurlionio st. 29), tour with curator Milda Dainovskaite through the exhibition The Last Light of the Sun.
Opening hours:
11 September 9 a.m.–6 p.m.
12 September 9 a.m.–6 p.m.
13 September 9 a.m.–6 p.m.
14 September 9 a.m.–6 p.m.
Nearest stops: S. Konarskio St., Mikalojaus Konstantino Čiurlionio St., Verslo Trikampis. The nearest parking lot is at Čiurlionio g. 82. The VU Idea Observatory is located in several two- to three-story buildings, with the upper floors accessible only by stairs. The space is dog-friendly.
Čiurlionio g. 29, Vilnius
https://www.muziejus.vu.lt/padaliniai/ideju-observatorija
Il.: Vytautas Straižys. “Observatory”. Courtesy of Vilnius University Observatory of Ideas
