Ignas Krunglevičius Lithuanian, b. 1979
Ignas Krunglevičius (b. 1979) is a composer and visual artist with a BA and an MA in Composition Studies obtained from the Norwegian Music Academy. While most of his work consists of installations, video art and sculptures, the artist also works as composer, creates musical performances and actively participates in electronic/contemporary music festivals as well as film festivals.
Krunglevičius’s creative work is based on researching the interactions of existential realities generated by power, economy, nature, and global technological development, emphasising new technologies and their relation to the mechanisms of the human psyche. Through the use of sound, the artist alters the human perception of space and its semantics. Krunglevičius’s work is often based on group therapy sessions, documentary material from police interrogations and psychiatric interview manuals which he uses as a springboard. He then continues by combining sound, colour and texts to create certain situations meant to elicit empathy with the desired psychological state. The artist is also interested in the methods and systems used in society to control individuals and situations.
Ignas Krunglevičius’s works have been exhibited in both solo and group shows at the Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre (Lithuania), Ursula Blickle Stiftung (Germany), Oslo Kunstforening (Norway), and the Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art (Poland), among other art institutions. Krunglevičius was awarded the Sparebankstiftelsen DnB NOR stipendutstilling Art Prize in 2009, and nominated for the Nam June Paik Award in 2010, which gave him the opportunity to organise an exhibition at the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf. In 2009, his work was presented at the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Art Festival, where he received an honorary mention.
Born in 1979, Kaunas, Lithuania
Lives and works in Oslo, Norway
EDUCATION/RESIDENCIES
2020 – ARTICA residency, Svalbard (Norway)
2008-2010 – MA in Composition at Norwegian Music Academy
2003-2007 – BA in Composition at Norwegian Music Academy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 – Acid Rain Echo, Vartai gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2022 - POSSESOR, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (Norway)
2021 – Iridescent, Henie Onstad Art Center (Norway)
2018 – Thermo Bay, Lydgallerie, Bergen (Norway)
2017 – Soft Screen Alien, Kunsthall Oslo (Norway)
2015 – Private Syntax Virus, VARTAI Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2015 – Interrogation, Te Tuhi art gallery, Auckland (New Zealand)
2015 – Transparent, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo (Norway)
2013 – Derivatives, Møllebyen Litteraturfestival, Moss (Norway)
2011 – Attribution, Oslo Kunstforening (Norway)
2010 – Dissonance, Aando Fine Art, Berlin (Germany)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Just about in the Round, KAJE, Brooklyn, New York City (US)
2021 – Echopraxia (working title), Kunsthall Oslo (Norway), Autarkia, Vilnius (Lithuania) – forthcoming
2020 – Splitting the Atom, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2020 – I can’t breathe, video webseries, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo (Norway)
2020 – 24 from 84, Hartware Medien Kunst Verein, Dortmund (Germany)
2020 – Indivizijos, film screening, Lithuanian National Television (Lithuania)
2019 – Struer Tracks, Urban sound festival, Struer (Denmark)
2019 – I Hear Your Dream, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai (China)
2019 – Suddenly Gave The Effect of Sunlight, MELK gallery, Oslo (Norway)
2018 – Thailand Biennale, Krabi (Thailand)
2018 – XVII Century, Autarkia, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2018 – Common Front, Affectively, Nam June Paik Art Center, Giheung-gu (South Korea)
2018 – Le Murate, Progetti Arte Contemporanea, Florence (Italy)
2017 – The World Without Us: Narratives on the age of non-human actors, ICA Ljubliana (Slovenia)
2017 – Alien Matter, Transmediale, HKW, Berlin (Germany)
2017 – Innland, CCCOD, Tours (France)
2017 – Myths of The Marble, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Norway) and Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (USA)
2016 – The World Without Us: Narratives on the age of non-human actors, Dortmunder U, Dortmund (Germany)
2016 – Aichi Triennale, Nagoya (Japan)
2016 – Rauma Biennale, Rauma (Finland)
2016 – Let's be open about it... Conceptualism, Dazibao, Montréal (Canada)
2015 – Between The Idea and Experience, 12th Havana Biennale, Havana (Cuba)
2015 – Soft City Malmö, Inter Arts Center, Malmö (Sweden)
2015 – His master's voice, La Panacée, Montpellier (France)
2015 – New acquisitions, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (Australia)
2014 – Soft city performance festival, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (Norway)
2014 – Forms of Freedom, Architecture Biennale - La Biennale di Venezia, Nordic pavilion, Venice (Italy)
2014 – Crime in Art, Contemporary Art Museum, Krakow (Poland)
2014 – You imagine what you desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (Australia)
2013 – Nwuo, Høstutstillingen, Kunstnerneshus, Oslo (Norway)
2013 – Authority Killing, Norwegian Skulpture Biennale, Vigeland-museet, Oslo (Norway)
2013 – Young, Exquisite Corpse, Turku Biennale, Turku (Finland)
2013 – His master's voice, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmunder U, Dortmund (Germany)
2011 – The Savage Transparency, YoungProjects at Art Platform LA, Los Angeles (USA)
2011 – Wilno w gdansku, Contemporary Art Centre, Gdansk (Poland)
2011 – More or Less, a few pockets universe, Gallery Augusta, Helsinki (Finland)
2010 – Nam June Paik Award, Museum Kunst Palats, Düsseldorf (Germany)
2010 – Lietuvos Dailė 2000 – 2010: Dešimt metų, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2009 – DnB NOR Stipend Exhibition, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo (Norway)
2009 – 26th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel (Germany)
2009 – Saison Vidéo, Lille Cedex (France)
2008 – TV-Love, Høstutstillingen, Kunstnerneshus, Oslo (Norway)
2008 – Listen, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2007 – CAC TV, TV1 Vilnius, television show, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2007 – Videoanale 11, Kunstmuseum, Bonn (Germany)
2006 – 101.3 KM: Kaunas and Vilnius artists exhibition, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2006 – Botschaften + Bring a friend, ATOPIA gallery, Oslo (Norway)
2003 – 2SHOW: Young Art from Latvia and Lithuania, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2002 – ArtGENDA, Hamburg (Germany)
2001 – Mind Loop, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
AWARDS/GRANTS
2019 – Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond – 2-year artist grant
2018 – Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond – 1-year artist grant
2017 – TONO Scholarship
2015 – TONO Scholarship
2015 – Statens Kunstnerstipend – 3-year working grant
2014 – Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond - 1-year artist grant
2012 – TONO scholarship
2012 – Komponistenes Vederlagsfond Scholarship
2011 – Statens Kunstnerstipend – 3-year artist grant
2010 – Statens Kunstnerstipend – Scholarship
2010 – Sparebankstiftelsen DnB NOR Scholarship
2010 – Nomination at Nam June Paik Award 2010 (Germany)
2009 – Main prize at DnB NOR Stipend Exhibition (Norway)
2009 – 26th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival Special Mention (Germany)
2005 – Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond – 1-year artist grant
COLLECTIONS
Hamburger Bahnhof collection
Berlin State Museums, National Gallery (Germany)
Art Gallery of South Australia (Australia)
Private collections
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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 -
Ignas Krunglevičius
13 Oct - 24 Nov 2022Opening on 13 October 2022 at 6 PM 13 October– 25 November 2022 Like a stream, noise flows from known and unknown sources, echoing through volumes and cold planes, and...Read more -
Group show Žilvitis (Willow)
25th Vartai gallery anniversary marking exhibition 19 Feb - 9 Apr 2016From its very establishment in 1991, Galerija Vartai has been a prominent cultural centre, attracting a wide and diverse following both within and outside Lithuania. In addition to exhibitions of...Read more -
Ignas Krunglevičius
PRIVAT SYNTAX VIRUS 14 Apr - 23 May 2015IGNAS KRUNGLEVIČIUS 14 April – 23 May 2015 Opening on Tuesday, 14 April at 6 pm Galerija VARTAI is delighted to announce the first major solo show by Ignas Krunglevičius...Read more
PUBLICATIONS
2020 – Ignas Krunglevičius, “Išorė, laikas ir gauja, in: artnews.lt”, 2020-05-19,
BOOKS/CATALOGUES
2018 – Myths of The Marble, catalogue, ed.: Alex Klein, Milena Hoegsberg, Philadelphia: ICA Philadelphia, 2018
2016 – Aichi Triennale 2016, Homo Faber: Rainbow Caravan, catalogue, Nagoya: Aichi Arts Center, 2016
2015 – Between the Idea and the Experience, catalogue, Havana, 2015
2015 – His Master’s Voice, catalogue, Montpellier: Centre de culture contemporaine de la Ville de Montpellier, 2015
2014 – Crime in Art, catalogue, Krakow: Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, 2014
2014 – You Imagine what you desire, catalogue, Sydney, 2014
2013 – Norwegian sculpture biennale 2013, catalogue, Oslo, 2013
2011 – Am Ende war das Wort, catalogue, Frankfurt: Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, 2011
2010 – Contemporary Art from Lithuania, catalogue, Frankfurt am Main: European Central Bank, 2010
2009 –26th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, catalogue, Kassel: Grafische Werkstatt, 2009
2009 – Saison Video 2009 #33, catalogue, Liège: SNEL Grafics, 2009
2007 – Tempo Skien, catalogue, Skien: Telemark Kunstnersenter, 2007
2007 – Videonale 11, catalogue, Bonn: Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2007
2006 – Self-Objects, catalogue, Vilnius: The Lithuanian National Museum of Art, 2006
2006 – 101,3 KM, catalogue, Vilnius: Contemporary Art Centre, 2006
2003 – 2 Show. Young Art From Latvia And Lithuania, catalogue, Vilnius: Contemporary Art Centre, 2006
ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS
2015 – Jolanta Marcišauskytė-Jurašienė, “Vaizduote infekuotos smegenys”, in: 7 meno dienos, 2015-05-01
2014 – Ayatgali Tuleubek, “Dark Pool: pokalbis su Ignu Krunglevičium”, in: artnews.lt, 2014-10-20
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Ignas Krunglevičius at Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art
Solo project POSSESSOR September 20, 2022Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (in Oslo, Norway) presents Ignas Krunglevicius’ sound installation POSSESSOR 02 September 2022 – 09 October 2022 With the...Read more -
An interview with the artist Ignas Krunglevičius
on echo gone wrong July 10, 2022An interview by Aistė Marija Stankevičiūtė about Ignas Krunglevičius's artistic practice. Ignas Krunglevičius (b. 1979, Lithuania) currently lives and works in Oslo. He received an...Read more -
Opera ECHOPRAXIA
By an international artist collective INФOPSIN November 26, 2021On 26th November gallery 1986 will host the premiere of ECHOPRAXIA – an opera produced by an international artist collective INФOPSIN and performed in Lithuania...Read more