Vytautas Gečas Lithuanian, b. 1987
Overview
Vytautas Gečas is an object designer. He graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts with a bachelor’s degree in product design and the Design Academy Eindhoven with a master’s degree in contextual design. The designer has been participating in exhibitions since 2012. Mentor at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and the Vilnius College of Design. Member of the Lithuanian Design Council. Works in the field of conceptual design. Playing with the context and object perception, he employs complexity, fragmentation, layering, and mixed references. Gečas is currently studying for a PhD in design at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. His design objects are presented in international exhibitions, and he also curates various contemporary design exhibitions in Lithuania.
Works
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Vytautas GečasNo one's average, Stalas / tableL – 242 x 118 x 80 cm
M – 180 x 115 x 75 cm
S – 105 x 160 x 70 cm
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Vytautas GečasNo one's average, Stalas / tableL – 242 x 118 x 80 cm
M – 180 x 115 x 75 cm
S – 105 x 160 x 70 cm
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Vytautas GečasCollaboration with Marija Puipaitė: Envisioned Comfort , Konsolės stalas / Console table90 x 90 x 38 cmMore details
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Vytautas GečasCollaboration with Marija Puipaitė: Envisioned Comfort , Fotelis / armchair115 x 85 x 80 cmMore details
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Vytautas GečasCollaboration with Marija Puipaitė: Envisioned Comfort , Balno formos kėdė / saddle chair75 x 65 x 74 cmMore details
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Vytautas GečasCollaboration with Marija Puipaitė: Romance & Gravity (Dresser), 2019184 x 85 x 54 cmMore details
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Vytautas GečasCollaboration with Marija Puipaitė: Romance & Gravity (Mirror) , 201976 x 105 x 9 cmMore details
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Vytautas GečasCollaboration with Marija Puipaitė: Envisioned Comfort, Osmanų taburetė / Ottoman stool60 x 45 cmMore details
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Biography
VYTAUTAS GEČAS
Born 1987 in Vilnius, Lithuania
Lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania
EDUCATION/RESIDENCIES
2018 – Cite Internationale Des Arts, Paris (France)
2013 – Contextual Design (MA) at the Design Academy Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
2006-2010 – product design (BA) at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius (Lithuania)
EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Collectible Design fair, with Galerija Vartai, Brussels (Belgium)
2022 - The Invisibles. Historic Furniture from a Contemporary Design Perspective, the Lithuanina National Museum of Art, Vilnius (Lithuania). Curator together with Marija Puipaitė and Monika Lipšic
2021 - Personal Scale, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius (Lithuania). Curator together with Marija Puipaitė
2020 – Collectible Design fair, with Galerija Vartai, Brussels (Belgium)
2020 – Spectrum, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2020 – Head With Many Thoughts, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2019 – Alert objects, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius (Lithuania). Participant and curator together with Marija Puipaitė
2019 – Envisioned Comfort, A-piece gallery, Do the Right Thing, VAA exhibition space ‘Titanikas’, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2018 – Design Lithuania 2018, Palais Ducal, Caen (France)
2018 – now! le off, Paris design week, Paris (France)
2018 – Stories of Things Lithuanian Design 1918 - 2018, National Art Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2018 – 4 a change, Vilnius design week 2018, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2018 – Ventura Future, Milan design week, Milan (Italy)
2018 – LITHUANIA 100 ESTONIA, Museum of New Art, Parnu (Estonia)
2017 – Whats next 2017, Art factory LOFTAS, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2017 – Maison & Objet, Paris design week, Paris (France)
2017 – La terrasse vol.4, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
2016 – Maison & Objet, Paris design week, Paris (France)
2015 – Maison & Objet, Paris design week, Paris (France)
2015 – Žilvinas Landzbergas. Crown Off, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2014 – Nida Action, Design Innovation Center, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2014 – Maison & Objet, Paris design week, Paris (France)
2014 – Personal exhibition together with Tauras Stalnionis, Design Week, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2013 – TAC (Temporary Art Centre), Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
2013 – Eindhoven Design Academy Graduation show, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
2012 – Our enviroment - our nature - Eindhoven Design Academy, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
Exhibitions
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Domestic Visions
Group design exhibition 25 Apr - 7 Jun 2025We are excited to present Domestic Visions — a new group design exhibition at VARTAI Showroom that explores how everyday objects of today can reflect and shape our visions of...Read more -
Spectrum 2
Summer Group Show 2 Jun - 30 Oct 2024Artists and designers featured in the group show SPECTRUM 2: Gytis Arošius / Kotryna Butautytė / Daydreaming Objects / Vilius Dringelis / Kiki van Eijk / Faktura / Govert Flint...Read more -
STAND WITH UKRAINE
Auction exhibition 26 Apr - 31 May 2022Photos by Audrius SolominasRead more -
L’ÉTREINTE - EMBRACEMENT – GLAMONĖ
Group exhibition dedicated to the centenary of the birth of the famous Lithuanian modernist Antanas Mončys. 9 Sep - 5 Nov 2021Opening on 9 Septembe, 2021 at 6 PM 9 September – 5 November, 2021 Curators: Linas Bliškevičius and Yates Norton. Artists: Antanas Mončys and Arturas Bumšteinas, Viltė Bražiūnaitė & Tomas...Read more -
Personal Scale
Contemporary design exhibition 17 Jun - 5 Aug 2021Curators: Marija Puipaitė & Vytautas Gečas Participants: Agnė Kučerenkaitė (LT), Charlotte Jonckheer (BE), Corradino Garofalo (IT), Destroyers and Builders (BE), Joan Vellvé Rafecas (SP), Kiki & Joost (NL), Kotryna Butautytė...Read more -
Alert Objects
Group exhibition 13 Dec 2019 - 24 Jan 2020Curators: Vytautas Gečas and Marija Puipaitė Vartai gallery launches a new series of annual exhibitions dedicated to contemporary design. The aim of the project, realized in collaboration with Lithuanian and...Read more
Bibliography
ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS
2017 – „Kuriu žmogui, kuris ieško“, in: Created in Lithuania, no.1, 2017
Art Fairs
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Galerija VARTAI at COLLECTIBLE 2024
Brussels, Belgium 6 - 10 Mar 2024Galerija VARTAI and VARTAI SHOWROOM, the platform for contemporary design, will participate in COLLECTIBLE - the only fair dedicated exclusively to presenting contemporary collectible design....Read more -
VARTAI at COLLECTIBLE
Brussels, Belgium 9 - 12 Mar 2023From 9 to 12 March, we will be attending COLLECTIBLE, the prestigious fair dedicated exclusively to 21st century contemporary design, which will take place for...Read more -
Galerija VARTAI at COLLECTIBLE SALON
28 - 30 May 2021Galerija VARTAI at the virtual contemporary design fair COLLECTIBLE! From May 28 -30, 2021, we will represent design projects by 9 individual and collaborative designers...Read more -
GRASSIMESSE 2020 International forum and a fair for applied arts and design
Leipzig, Germany 23 - 25 Oct 2020Gallery VARTAI on 23rd - 25th of October will be participating at Grassimesse 2020 design fair in Leipzig, Germany! Between 23 Lithuanian designers represented together...Read more -
Collectible, The Fair for 21st Century Design 2020
Brussels, Belgium 5 - 9 Mar 2020Presented designers Marija Puipaitė and Vytautas Gečas. Vartai gallery is pleased to have participated in the third edition contemporary design fair Collectible in Brussels. This...Read more
Video
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IGTV: Vartai UNLOCKED with Marija Puipaitė and Vytautas Gečas
Gallery VARTAI presents new IGTV series of artists and collectors' interviews, studio visits and special edition videos November 13, 2020This time gallery VARTAI visited two young emerging contemporary designers, Marija Puipaitė and Vytautas Gečas! Marija and Vytautas talked about their favourite design objects, their...Read more -
Koen Kleijn, art historian and writer shares his thoughts on contemporary design exhibition "Alert Objects" at Galerija VARTAI.
December 18, 2019Read more -
Talk 5: What contemporary design can do?
Conversation with Koen Kleijn, Vytautas Gečas and Marija Puipaitė, moderated by Mantas Lesauskas December 12, 2019Galerija VARTAI presents: TALK Nr. 5 with designers Vytautas Gečas and Marija Puipaitė, art historian and writer Koen Kleijn, moderated by assoc. Prof. in Vilnius...Read more
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Experience No. 1
with Vytautas Gečas & Deivydas Praspaliauskas 13 Nov 2023Experience No. 1 serves as the opening of Collective Experiences , graced by the presence of designer Vytautas Gečas and chef Deivydas Praspaliauskas . These...Read more -
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IGTV: Vartai UNLOCKED with Marija Puipaitė and Vytautas Gečas
Gallery VARTAI presents new IGTV series of artists and collectors' interviews, studio visits and special edition videos Nov 13, 2020This time gallery VARTAI visited two young emerging contemporary designers, Marija Puipaitė and Vytautas Gečas! Marija and Vytautas talked about their favourite design objects, their...Read more -
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Leipzig, Germany 23 - 25 Oct 2020Gallery VARTAI on 23rd - 25th of October will be participating at Grassimesse 2020 design fair in Leipzig, Germany! Between 23 Lithuanian designers represented together...Read more -
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Leipzig, Germany Oct 20, 202023 - 25 OCTOBER 2020 GRASSI MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS Gallery VARTAI on 23rd - 25th of October will be participating at Grassimesse 2020 design...Read more -
Marija Puipaitė and Vytautas Gečas at London Design Festival
Virtual Design Destination by Adorno Sep 15, 2020London Design Festival, 12-20 September 2020 Lithuanian designers Marija Puipaitė and Vytautas Gečas represented at Virtual Design Destination by Adorno. This is the place to...Read more -
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Marija Puipaitė and Vytautas Gečas at Paris Design week
with COLLECTIBLE Curates Aug 26, 2020We are very happy to announce that Vartai gallery will participate at this year's Paris Design Week representing designers Marija Puipaitė and Vytautas Gečas. Furniture...Read more -
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Dezeen: Envisioned Comfort furniture collection pairs velvet seats with wooden frameworks Jul 5, 2020Article by Natashah Hitti 'Plush, tufted velvet seats are drooped over complex frameworks of interlocking wooden poles in this furniture collection by Marija Puipaitė and...Read more -
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Collectible, The Fair for 21st Century Design 2020
Brussels, Belgium 5 - 9 Mar 2020Presented designers Marija Puipaitė and Vytautas Gečas. Vartai gallery is pleased to have participated in the third edition contemporary design fair Collectible in Brussels. This...Read more -
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Conversation with Koen Kleijn, Vytautas Gečas and Marija Puipaitė, moderated by Mantas Lesauskas Dec 12, 2019Galerija VARTAI presents: TALK Nr. 5 with designers Vytautas Gečas and Marija Puipaitė, art historian and writer Koen Kleijn, moderated by assoc. Prof. in Vilnius...Read more