Curators: Inesa Brašiškė, Edgaras Gerasimovičius, Povilas Gumbis
Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center
Exhibition ‘Everyone is asleep. I am not sleeping. Poets never sleep.’
Artists: Jonas Mekas, Ugnius Gelguda, Audra Vau. Curator: Audra Vau. Consultant: Sebastian Mekas.
The cornerstone of the exhibition is the work of Jonas Mekas and the film diary concept he pioneered. Walden, In Between, and Outtakes from the Life of a Happy Man reveal a unique, poetic gaze at the world and daily life. Alongside these classics, the display features Ugnius Gelguda’s Tree of Paradise, inspired by In Between, and Audra Vau’s video portrait of Jonas Mekas, Poets Never Sleep, filmed in London in 2017. The filming session, which lasted a mere half hour, became, in the words of the artist, ‘an intimate encounter with a man who filmed the world all his life as a continuous miracle.’ The title of the piece—which doubles as the title of the entire exhibition—stems from an episode in Mekas’ 365 Day Project: ‘Everyone is asleep. I am not sleeping. Poets never sleep.’ The exhibition invites viewers to notice the fragile moments of daily life and to experience poetry as a way of being in the world.
Opening hours during VGW:
II 12:00–18:00, III 12:00–18:00, IV 12:00–18:00, V 12:00–18:00, VI 12:00–17:00
Admission is free.
Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Malūnų St. 8, Vilnius. The nearest public transport stops are Vilnios St. (bus 11), Užupis St. (bus 11), and Misionierių St. (buses 10, 13, 31, 33, 34, 74). The nearest public paid parking lot is at Maironio St. 13D (approximately a 3–4 minute walk from the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center).
The very narrow sidewalk in front of the gallery may cause difficulties for visitors with mobility impairments. There is a curb at the entrance. The gallery is located on the ground floor.
Pets are not allowed.
Malūnų St. 8-5
National Gallery of Art
Aurelija Maknytė’s exhibition ‘Channels’
In the work of artist Aurelija Maknytė, everyday history, nature and technology continually merge. Although born from years of daily observation, accumulation, documentation and research, her pieces rarely become static, finished exhibits. Instead, incompleteness, process and the opportunity to constantly rethink accumulated material form the core principles of Maknytė’s creative practice. This exhibition reveals the pivotal directions of the artist’s research spanning over three decades: light; television; archives and collections; and nature.
Vsevolodas Seva Kovalevskis ‘Margins & Miracles’
Vsevolod Seva Kovalevskij’ exhibition ‘Margins & Miracles’.
Utilising his personal archive, fragmentary memories and media imagery, Vsevolod Seva Kovalevskij exposes the gap between the lived experience of queer individuals, institutional memory and mediated truth. Queer existence is inseparable from urban public spaces—where visibility can signify both community and danger. A monumental comic strip leads the viewer through the streets of Vilnius, London and Oslo. The first Lithuanian Baltic Pride march in 2010, clashes within the LGBTQIA+ community at London Pride in 2018 and the mass shooting in Oslo in 2022—these events, all personally experienced by the artist, are woven into a graphic narrative about living under conditions of constantly shifting insecurity.
Radvila Palace Museum of Art
Exhibition ‘Ukrainian Dreamers: The Kharkiv School of Photography’
Curators: Olena Chervonik, Serhiy Lebedynskyy, Boris and Vita Mikhailov, Oleksandra Osadcha, Darius Vaičekauskas.
The exhibition presents one of Ukraine’s most significant artistic phenomena—a photography community formed in the 1960s that spans four generations, defined by experimental practices and a critical engagement with political and social reality. The display reviews the school’s evolution, revealing work forged amidst ideological control, the turning point of independence, and the trauma of war.
Exhibition ‘Boundaries of (In)Security’
Artists: Mindaugas Gapševičius, Kristina Inčiūraitė, Matas Janušonis, Skaidra Trilupaitytė and Tomas Andrijauskas, Margarita Valionytė.
Curator – Skaidra Trilupaitytė.
The exhibition explores the contemporary human relationship with a changing world where the boundaries between physical and digital reality are dissolving, alongside the impact of geopolitical conflicts, such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on an individual’s sense of security. The pieces analyse the influence of disinformation, propaganda, technology, and warfare on daily life, as well as the militarisation of airspace control.
Museum of Applied Arts and Design
Exhibition ‘Young Designer Prize’
Opening – September 10 th, 18:00
Organised annually since 2011, the national ‘Young Designer Prize’ competition evaluates the most exceptional BA and MA graduation projects by young Lithuanian designers, capturing the vanguard of contemporary design. The accompanying exhibition functions as a vital platform where creators can pitch their work to industry leaders and the general public, inviting visitors to engage with fresh perspectives, pioneering design methodologies, and interdisciplinary practices. This year, the competition received 91 applications, with a curated selection of the fifteen best projects—chosen by an independent international jury—on display. Three finalists are showcased in each of the five categories: product, communication, fashion, interior design, and design research. This year’s panel consists of recognized design professionals: Willem van Hooff (Netherlands), Antonio Lo Presti (Italy), Francesca Pedroni (Italy), Linda Lissola (Sweden), and Pärtel Vurma (Estonia). The exhibition invites the public to encounter distinct design practices, deep research, and bold creative explorations. In this edition, the featured designers investigate themes of emotional intelligence and social well-being, seeking ways to strengthen inclusivity, community, and interspecies relationships. Aiming to envision an alternative future, their work critiques established ideologies and corporate systems. Through rigorous experimentation with materials and forms of expression, these creators prompt us to fundamentally re-evaluate our everyday surroundings.
Organiser – Vilnius Academy of Arts; Curator – Daina Eičatė; Architects: Vytautas Gečas and Emilija Kazakevičiūtė. Graphic designer – Ugnė Balčiūnaitė.
Vilnius Picture Gallery
Exhibition ‘In the Beginning Was the Line’. 18th–21st century drawings from the collections of the
Lithuanian National Museum of Art
The line was humanity’s first gesture in attempting to perceive and create the world. It is the
drawing that became the link between sight, thought, and the movement of the hand. This
exhibition presents the journey of drawing—from an academic discipline to free, conceptual
thinking, from meticulous observation to the expression of an inner impulse—and invites
viewers to look at drawing as a universal form of artistic expression, the result of a living
creative process.
Curators: Rasa Adomaitienė, Regina Urbonienė
Coordinators: Aistė Bimbirytė, Gabija Kasparavičiūtė-Kaminskienė, Joana Vitkutė
Architects: RESH
Graphic designer – Edita Namajūnienė
Designer – Vadim Šamkov
Editor – Ilona Čiužauskaitė
Translator – Raminta Bumbulytė
Conservators: Pranas Gudynas Conservation Centre, Works of Art on Paper Conservation
Department
Partners – Algirdas and Remigijus Gataveckas
Media partners: JCDecaux Lietuva, Delfi
Opening hours during VGW:
Tue 10 am–8 pm, Wed–Sat 10 am–6 pm, Sun 11 am–5 pm.
A 50% discount applies to admission tickets.
Vilnius Picture Gallery. Didžioji St. 4, Vilnius. Nearest public transport stops: Užupio stop (bus 11), Rotušė (bus 89), MO Museum (trolleybuses 1, 2, 7, 20; buses 1G, 10, 11, 53, 88). Nearest parking: Didžioji St. 5, Dominikonų St. 4.
The gallery is located across three floors; however, a lift is available, and visitors can also use a wheelchair.
Pets are not allowed inside the museum.
Restrooms are located on the 1st floor. There is no mother-and-child room.
Didžioji St. 4, Vilnius.
Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum
Exhibition ‘Nijolė Šivickas de Mockus: A Universe from a Spiral’
For the first time in Lithuania, a comprehensive retrospective presents the work of ceramicist and sculptor Nijolė Šivickas de Mockus, brought from Colombia, where she achieved widespread acclaim. Visitors can engage with a significant portion of her creative legacy, generously donated to Lithuania by the artist’s family. Leaving behind a rich expanse of drawings, paintings, sculptures, and installations, Šivickas seamlessly blended Lithuanian, European, and Latin American cultural traditions. Today, she is recognized as one of the most prominent artists of Lithuanian descent in Latin America and an essential figure in the cultural history of the Lithuanian diaspora.
Working hours during VGW:
IV 11-20:00, V 10-18:00, VI 10-17:00, VII 10-17 val.
LNDM Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art at A. Goštauto St. 1. The nearest stop is the Opera and Ballet Theatre stop (buses 43, 46, 56; trolleybuses 4, 10, 17).
Service parking lot at A. Goštauto St. 1.
There are 5 steps at the service entrance; there is a lift inside the building.
The museum is dog-friendly and welcomes guide dogs.
On the 1st floor of the museum, there are sanitary facilities, including an accessible toilet for people with disabilities, as well as a mother-and-child room.
A. Goštauto St. 1
Kazys Varnelis House-Museum.
Exhibition ‘Book Dragon: A Fantastic Story about the Beauty of Books’
The Kazys Varnelis House-Museum invites you to the exhibition ‘Book Dragon: A Fantastic Story about the Beauty of Books’. This exhibition offers a journey into the hidden world of literature, where every volume reveals its own unique history. Visitors can trace the entire lifecycle of a book: from its raw materials and printing methods to its illustration, binding, and final journey into the reader’s hands. Here, the book transcends its role as simple text to become an autonomous art object. The display pulls back the curtain on the subtle arts of book design, typography, binding, and the intricate craftsmanship of the ex-libris. This immersive presentation prompts a fundamental rethinking of the book—reimagining it as a space where text, image, meticulous craft, and vivid imagination merge. Conceived to spark curiosity, discovery, and wonder, ‘The Book Dragon’ provides an engaging experience for both children and adults, making it an excellent adventure for families looking to cultivate a shared knowledge and love of book art.
Exhibition concept and curation – Indrė Urbelytė
Co-curator – Dr Jolita Liškevičienė
Architect and graphic designer – Justinas Dadonas.
Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
Augustyno Sinkevič paroda „bala makalynė / išnyk, kad galėčiau išeiti tavęs ieškoti 0“
Augustynas Sinkevič is an emerging interdisciplinary artist whose work explores contradictory materialities. Through a combination of constructed objects and photographs, Sinkevič creates evocative, abstract spaces that momentarily draw the viewer into an uncanny, nostalgia-inducing world. Playfulness, sensitivity, and formal experimentation serve as the defining characteristics of his environments. Phrases or images carved into wooden furniture, photographs printed on plywood panels, and everyday items stripped of their intended purpose feel simultaneously disruptive and whimsical. This fragmented creative process allows the artist to move beyond a singular subject, granting him the freedom to react to and record transience. Found objects and long-accumulated materials shed their original functions to articulate an entirely new language.
The artworks displayed in the ‘Rešotai’ exhibition offer a shared gaze into exile, standing as a rebellion against Soviet propaganda and chronicling a tragic twentieth-century history through a balance of poetic and documentary modes. The narrative of the display positions itself halfway between the 1941 deportations and the present day. In 1989, painter Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė and photographers the Černiauskas brothers participated in one of the earliest expeditions of ‘Mission: Siberia’. From this journey, they brought back an invaluable archive capturing the bleak reality of exile and gulag camps. This masterfully orchestrated collection of documentary material and artwork vividly conveys both the emotional undercurrents of the mission and the vast, haunting panoramas of exile.
Pirmoji – Augustyno Sinkevič „bala makalynė / išnyk, kad galėčiau išeiti tavęs ieškoti 0“, eksponuojama Pažinimo erdvėje-Laimės Lukošiūnienės salėje (535), V a.
Antroji – „M. T. Rožanskaitė / Broliai Černiauskai „Rešotai“ – 3 a., Parodų salėje.
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MO Museum
melanie bonajo. ‘Progress vs Regress’ (A Small Exhibition at MO Museum)
melanie bonajo’s installation Progress vs Regress (2016) examines how technological innovation reshapes human relationships. The digital revolution has demanded immense adaptation from older generations; through intimate and moving personal testimonies, the installation exposes the friction experienced by the elderly trying to keep pace with a society driven by relentless speed and optimization. The artwork dissects shifting attitudes toward work, time, commerce, and emotion alongside technological advancements, revealing how these changes compromise the visibility of older people. Frequently dismissed as economically non-productive, the elderly are often pushed to the margins of society, rendered largely invisible in both public life and visual culture. This playfully humorous experimental piece invites us to re-evaluate our perception of aging, confront our own information anxiety, and rethink our relationship with accelerated technological growth.
melanie bonajo* (they/them/theirs) is an artist, filmmaker, and activist whose practice investigates the contemporary human condition, the erosion of intimacy, and increasing isolation within a heavily technologised world. They offer alternative, non-consumerist methodologies for exploring connection, intimacy, and shared emotion. Frequently focusing on marginalized social groups, their work emphasizes the importance of community, equality, and body politics. melanie bonajo represented the Netherlands at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, and their work has been exhibited at major institutions including the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Haus der Kunst in Munich, and Tate Modern in London.
*Writing the artist’s name entirely in lowercase is a deliberate choice by the artist to challenge linguistic norms and emphasise personal identity and collectivism over institutional frameworks, rejecting capitalization as a symbol of power and individualism.
Exhibition team. Curators: Agnė Kuprytė, Miglė Survilaitė. Architect – Théo Demans. Producing architect – Dominykas Šavelis. Graphic designer – Monika Janulevičiūtė. Translator – Emilija Ferdmanaitė. Editors: Audra Kairienė, Gemma Lloyd. Institutional partners: Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius City Municipality.
Opening hours during VGW:
I, III–VII – 10:00–20:00
II – closed
Admission is paid. Visitors with disabilities and their accompanying persons (one accompanying person per person with a disability) can visit the museum free of charge.
Public transport to the MO Museum:
Trolleybuses: 1, 2, 7, 20
Buses: 53, 88, 1G
Bus 11 is also suitable when travelling towards Žvėrynas, and bus 89 when travelling from Vilnius Bus Station towards Europos aikštė.
Parking: there are two parking spaces for people with disabilities next to the MO Museum, at Pylimo g. 17. They can be accessed from Vingrių Street.
The museum entrance is on Pylimo Street. You can enter through the revolving doors or through the regular doors next to them. The exhibition is located in the small gallery on the second floor of the museum, which can be reached by lift or stairs.
The museum welcomes specially trained assistance dogs and guide dogs supporting people with disabilities. Other animals are not permitted inside the museum.
The museum has lifts, accessible toilets, and baby changing facilities. All areas of the MO Museum are accessible to people with mobility disabilities. There is seating available on every floor. The MO Reading Room is always a quiet space.
The museum has a wheelchair available for visitors on a first-come, first-served basis (wheelchair reservations are not available). If you intend to use the museum’s wheelchair and require assistance, please come with an accompanying person.
Pylimo g. 17, Vilnius
Sapieha Palace
Exhibition “HOUSEKEEPING IN A DANGEROUS TIME”
Exhibition view with artworks by Marc Kokopeli, photo Andrej Vasilenko
Participating artists: Ethan Assouline, Anna Clegg, Jeremy Deller, Ryan Gander, Saulė Gerikaitė, Camille Henrot, Nojus Juška, Marc Kokopeli, Robertas Narkus, Phung-Tien Phan, Josiane M.H. Pozi, Piotr Skiba, Niklas Taleb
Housekeeping in a Dangerous Time looks into artistic practices that engage with the contemporary forces shaping intergenerational ties and the distinctions between life stages.
The artists featured in the exhibition turn their attention to the role of everyday technologies in the self-formation of contemporary individuals – in the processes of identity formation and expression, and in relation to others. Along the way, they also explore notions of maturity as well as the societal expectations and infrastructures that define and sustain it.
The exhibition is complemented and expanded by the Sound Room – a media library and meeting space curated by Vladas Dieninis and Benas Trakimas (‘Method, Sound & Silence’, SODAS 2123). It presents historical material from Lithuania’s underground, alternative music, and sound art scenes, including personal collections of records and publications, alongside works by contemporary musicians and sound artists.
Exhibition “Artists’ Film International 2026: A Kind of Power”
Artists’s Film International was established in 2008 by Whitechapel Gallery in London and since its inception has seen 32 international venues collaborate. 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.
The 19th edition of Artists’ Film International, titled A Kind of Power, will bring together moving-image works that consider what it means to look, to witness, and to be seen in an age when images move instantly across borders and where surveillance looms. The programme traces the ways acts of looking produce power – how they can shelter or expose, affirm or diminish – and how responsibility inflects every encounter between the camera, its subject, and its viewer.
About the films screening during VGW:
Sapiegos Palace, participating in AFI for the third consecutive year, presents the ongoing project “Video News”, initiated by artist Ieva Kotryna Ski together with Akvilė Kabašinskaitė. The project connects people in different locations through an ongoing video conversation — without comments or words. From time to time, the videos are combined with almost no editing, preserving the original sequence in which they were sent via WhatsApp. A total of 17 videos were created and later published on the YouTube channel @videonews.ongoingproject1933. However, the 17th video has not yet been made public. The conversation took place between 2018 and 2020, although “Video News” still occasionally resurfaces on special occasions.
Participants of “Video News”: Ieva Kotryna Ski, Akvilė Kabašinskaitė, Ignė Narbutaitė, Deniz Inceoglu, Lukas Brašiškis, Viltė Bražiūnaitė, Mark Prendergast, Cihangir Cakar, Ignė Smilingytė, Noriko Satoi, Milda Januševičiūtė, Yasemin Szawlowski.
Opening hours during VGW:
IV, V – 12:00–20:00
VI – 11:00–19:00
VII – 11:00–18:00
The “Artists’ Film International 2026: Forms of Power” exhibition and the palace history capsule on the first floor can be visited free of charge.
During Vilnius Gallery Weekend, admission to the main exhibition “Housework in Dangerous Times” is available at a discount.
Sapiegos Palace is located at L. Sapiegos g. 13. The nearest public transport stop is Leono Sapiegos (trolleybuses 2, 4 and 19).
The nearest parking area is at L. Sapiegos g. 13.
The gallery is located on the first floor. The main entrance has steep stairs equipped with a stairlift. An accessible entrance for people with disabilities is available at the back of the palace. The second and third floors can be reached by lift.
Dogs are allowed only on the first floor.
Accessible toilets are available on the first and third floors. A mother-and-child room is located on the third floor.
L. Sapiegos g. 13, Vilnius
Art Gallery "Kunstkamera"
XCIII Vilniaus aukcionas
The preview exhibition for the 93rd Vilnius Auction, scheduled for 25 September, will be open to the public at the Kunstkamera gallery in Vilnius from 10 to 13 September. The 93rd edition of the auction promises to be both traditional and unexpected, shifting its focus toward applied art, design, sculpture, and photography—mediums that frequently slip beneath the traditional collecting radar. Visitors can engage with a curated selection of both historical and contemporary applied art—spanning metal, ceramics, leather, wood, and glass—alongside pioneering design objects. Defined by materiality, tactility, and meticulous manual craftsmanship, these pieces reflect a direct artistic involvement that infuses them with a rare human warmth—a stark contrast to today’s semi-virtual landscape increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. We invite you to experience these tangible objects firsthand and seize the opportunity to collect them.
Vilnius City Museum
Exhibition ‘Rasos: A Living Cemetery’
Established in 1801, Rasos is the oldest surviving cemetery in Vilnius and the first ‘modern’ burial ground in Lithuania, originally founded outside the city limits by the Russian imperial authorities. It quickly evolved into a shared pantheon for the Lithuanians, Poles, and Belarusians who shaped the region, transforming into an architectural monument, a focal point for national-political manifestations, and a unique urban green space. The exhibition spans the period from the cemetery’s founding to the end of the World War II, chronicling its development, tombstone symbolism, and the notable individuals laid to rest here, while also introducing the cemetery’s current wildlife and inhabitants. Featured within the display is French & Mottershead’s audio work Woodland. This immersive piece guides the listener through the slow decomposition of the human body into the forest floor, evoking a quiet merging with nature that prompts a profound reflection on bodily transience and the deep-seated taboos surrounding death.
Opening hours during VGW:
V 15:00–19:00; VI 11:00–19:00; VII 11:00–19:00
Vilnius City Museum Vokiečių 6, located at Vokiečių St. 6. It is conveniently accessible on foot, by bicycle, car, or public transport. Bicycle racks are located near the museum. The nearest public transport stop is Rotušė, accessible by bus 89. Approximately 550–600 metres away is the MO Museum stop, served by buses 1G, 11 and 53 and trolleybuses 1, 2, 7 and 20. The nearest parking spaces are in Rotušė Square. Roadworks are currently underway on Vokiečių Street, which may make access to the museum more difficult. We apologise for this temporary inconvenience.
Roadworks are currently underway on Vokiečių Street, which may make access to the museum more difficult. We apologise for this temporary inconvenience.
There is a raised section (incline) leading towards the entrance. The museum is located on the 1st floor. The museum entrance arch is shared with the “Backstage” café. There are metal gates on both sides of the arch, which are open during the museum and café’s opening hours. Further inside, there are glass doors, which are also kept open during the café and museum’s opening hours (clear opening width: 94 cm).
After entering through the arch, the entrance to the “Backstage” café is on the left. Continuing along the corridor, you will reach the entrance to the Vokiečių 6 museum. On the right side of the museum entrance, there is a large poster for the exhibition currently on display. The corridor leading to the museum entrance has a change in level, sloping downwards from the arch towards the museum doors.
The museum is accessed through glass doors (clear opening width: 95 cm), which open using a handle both inward and outward. If you require assistance, the ticket desk staff can open the doors for you.
The ticket desk and museum shop are located behind the glass doors, inside the museum. If you require assistance when arriving at or visiting the museum (for example, if the ramp is too steep for you, or if you need assistance getting from the nearest parking area, etc.), please contact us in advance to arrange your visit – we will do our best to assist you.
Guide and assistance animals are welcome in the museum.
There are sanitary facilities at the end of the exhibition, including an accessible toilet for people with reduced mobility (marked with the appropriate sign). There is no separate mother-and-child room, but one of the sanitary facilities has a changing table.
Vokiečių St. 6, Vilnius
Vilnius City Museum Beatričė house
Exhibition ‘It went on, that path of my life…‘
‘It went on, that path of my life, through quagmires and fallow lands, mountains and valleys, it went through deserts and blooming fields, it went through the skies and gloomy caves, it went in terrifying loneliness and in the friendship of the noblest souls,’ – A. Žmuidzinavičius (Trimitas magazine, 1936).
The exhibition presents small-scale paintings by Antanas Žmuidzinavičius, offering a sensitive gaze at nature where a deep love for the landscape intertwines with patriotism and the search for national identity. Beatričė Grincevičiūtė and Žmuidzinavičius shared a close friendship; it is known that Beatričė visited his wooden villa in Palanga (located at J. Basanavičiaus St 42) multiple times. It is therefore entirely natural that the artist’s intimate landscapes are now showcased at Beatričė’s House—a venue where their intersecting stories resonate on a deeply personal level. The featured works are on loan to the museum from the permanent collections of the Antanas Žmuidzinavičius Creations and Collections Museum.
Opening hours during VGW:
IV-V: 15:00-19:00; VI-VII: 11:00-19:00
A. Vienuolio g. 12-1
https://vilniausmuziejus.lt/muziejaus-padalinys/beatrices-namai/
Vidmantas Martikonis gallery - museum
Kristina Čivilė – “Social Adaptations”
The exhibition Social Adaptations was born out of an interest in the relationship between people and their environment, and the constant need to belong. From an early age, we learn to adapt: to conform to norms, meet expectations, and pursue universally recognised values and models of success. Adaptation provides a sense of security, but at the same time, it gradually shapes boundaries that eventually become barely perceptible internal walls.
Opening hours during VGS:
Wednesday–Sunday, 11:00–19:00
Address: Pilies St. 12
Nearest public transport stops: Bernardine Garden and Vilnius Academy of Arts (10, 11, 33, 88)
Nearest parking: Maironio St. 1 and Maironio St. 3
The gallery is located on the first floor. There are stairs at the main entrance.
The first floor has sanitary facilities, including an accessible toilet. There is no mother-and-child room.
Pilies St. 12