Aidas Bareikis Lithuanian, b. 1967
Aidas Bareikis (b. 1967, Lithuania) graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts with a BA in Painting Studies in 1992. A year later, he became a Fulbright Scholar and moved to the US, obtaining an MA at the Hunter College in New York in 1997. The artist creates installations characterised by junk aesthetics, chaos and a specific use of colour.
Aidas Bareikis’s installations create an entropic, post-apocalyptic atmosphere which symbolically prophesies complete collapse and decay, at the same time showing an immense potential for new ideas and a new beginning. Creating affective, emotionally impactful scenarios in his installations Bareikis manages to combine surreal humour, social commentary and the craft of alchemy. The artist stacks and wraps cultural objects in fabric and string, building altar-like assemblages showered by paint and semi-recognisable trash. Some of the sculptures are propped up by found furniture, woodwork or aluminium structures and exposed to forces such as time, gravity or natural elements. Permeated with deep, rich colours, each work operates like a junkyard relic - a curious portal into another era slowly merging with the local flora.
Aidas Bareikis has held solo exhibitions at the Leo Koenig Inc. Gallery (NY), Marta Gallery (NY), Queens Museum (NY), Asbaek Gallery (Copenhagen), Berlin’s Contemporary Art Centre, and the Kunsthalle Wien. His work has also been presented at the Athens Biennale 2007: Destroy Athens and the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art in Zürich. Bareikis has participated in numerous group exhibitions held at various contemporary art centres, museums and galleries.
Born 1967 in Vilnius, Lithuania
Lives and works in New York, USA
EDUCATION/RESIDENCIES
1997 – Scowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine (USA)
1993-1997 – (MA) Hunter College, New York (USA)
1987-1992 – Painting (BA), Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius (Lithuania)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 – Spectropia, SLA Art Space, New York (USA)
2020 – OMENY, VARTAI Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2016 – Barrel of Fortune, Canada, New York (USA)
2015 – Accidious (Atkakliai įsiėdęs), Post Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2015 – Accidious (Atkakliai įsiėdęs), Šiaulių art galery, Šiauliai (Lithuania)
2014 – Echo conditioner, VARTAI Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2012 – ABWS, Martos Gallery, New York (USA)
2008 – Fancy Meetings, Leo Koenig Inc., New York (USA)
2008 – Easy Times, Leo Koenig Inc, New York (USA)
2008 – Easy Times, Diethardt collection, Graz (Austria)
2007 – Fancy Meetings, Locust Projects, Miami (USA)
2006 – The Guard of Sorry Spirit, Grand Arts, Kansas City (USA)
2005 – Straight to the Top, I'll Take..., Kunsthalle, Wien Vienna (Austria)
2004 – The World Belongs to Nobody But Me, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles (USA)
2004 – Aidas Bareikis, IBID Projects, London (United Kingdom)
2003 – Aidas Bareikis, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (Poland)
2003 – Le Charme de la Vie, Leo Koenig Inc., New York (USA)
2003 – Rise Up, Solitude, Leo Koenig Inc., New York (USA)
2002 – Glad to Hear From You, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2001 – Silence Before the Curve, Leo Koenig Inc., New York (USA)
2000 – Aidas Bareikis, Contemporary Art Centre, Berlin (Germany)
1999 – Embarkation for Cythere, Leo Koenig Inc., New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 – In the Abstract, MASS MoCA, North Adams (USA)
2014 – Inversion. Evil Goods, Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2014 – The Shine, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2013 – Part of a Larger Whole, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2011 – Dirt Don't Hurt, Jolie Laide Gallery, Philadelphia (USA)
2011 – Free Soil, Canada Gallery, New York (USA)
2011 – Bill Saylor — Aidas Bareikis, Shoot The Lobster, New York (USA)
2010 – In There, Out Here, Loe Koenig Inc., New York (USA)
2010 – Lithuanian Art: 2000 - 2010, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2008 – Faxination, Galleri Loyal, Stokholm (Sweden)
2008 – The Apocalypse, Bonelli Arte Contemporanea, Canneto sull’Oglio (Italy)
2007 – The Harder You Look, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens (Greece)
2007 – Pie in the Face, The Jail Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)
2007 – Destroy Athens (Easy Times), 1-st Athens biannial, Athens (Greece)
2005 – When Humor Becomes Painful, Migros Museum, Zurich (Switzerland)
2005 – Self-Preservation Society, Leo Koenig Inc., New York (USA)
2004 – Artspace, Auckland (New Zealand)
2002 – Leo Koenig Las Vegas, Neonopolis, Las Vegas (USA)
2001 – Escape Velocity, Miller Durazo Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)
2001 – Come on Feel the Noise, Asbaek Gallerie, Copenhagen (Denmark)
2001 – Crossing the Line, Queens Museum, New York (USA)
2001 – Galerie Eleni Koroneou, Athens (Greece)
2000 – Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York (USA)
1999 – US Exchange, Nova Scotia School of Art & Design, Halifax (Canada)
1999 – Machine Gun Etiquette, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York (USA)
1999 – The Leo Koenig Project, John Weber Gallery, New York (USA)
1999 – Generation Z, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (USA)
1998 – After Painting, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
1996 – Update, Turbinehallerne, Copenhagen (Denmark)
1996 – SoHo Annual, New York, USA
1995 – 3-rd Soros, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
1995 – Spring Gallery, New York (USA)
AWARDS/GRANTS
1993-1997 – Fulbright Scholarship
1993-1994 – Lithuanian National Scholarship
1993 – Chicago Lithuanians Scholarship
1993 – New York Lithuanians‘ foundation Scholarship
1993 – Soros Foundation Grant
COLLECTIONS
Lewben Art Foundation (Lithuania)
Lietuvos išeivijos dailės fondas
Hort Family Collection (USA)
Volkman Collection (Germany)
Collection Hoffman (Germany)
diethARdT Collection (Austria)
The National Museum of Contemporary Art (Greece)
Private collection of Les Rodgers
Private collection of Bill Saylor
Private collection of Anke Weyer
Private collection of Steve Shane
Private collection of Auste Nakiene
Private collection of Radvile Buivydienė
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STAND WITH UKRAINE
Auction exhibition 26 Apr - 31 May 2022Photos by Audrius SolominasRead more -
Aidas Bareikis
"OMENY" 24 Oct - 29 Nov 2019Vartai gallery is pleased to present OMENY, a solo show by Aidas Bareikis, one of today’s most prominent Lithuanian emigrant artists. The show will open on Thursday at 6 pm...Read more -
Aidas Bareikis
ECHO CONDITIONER 11 Nov - 18 Dec 2014The exhibition is titled after the artist’s newest installation Echo Conditioner, which occupies the gallery’s largest hall. The name alludes to the process of repetition and constant reconsideration, through which...Read more
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NADA New York 2023
VARTAI with VITA ZAMAN & AIDAS BAREIKIS 18 - 21 May 2023We are happy to announce that we are participating in the Contemporary Art Fair NADA New York 2023, presenting the latest works of Vita Zaman...Read more -
viennacontemporary 2018
Vienna, Austria 27 - 30 Sep 2018Presented artists: AIDAS BAREIKIS KEREN CYTTER DOMINYKAS SIDOROVASRead more
PUBLICATIONS
Aidas Bareikis, Rachel Kushner, Aidas Bareikis, Köln: Walther König, 2008
Aidas Bareikis, Straight to the Top. I`ll Take... , Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2005
BOOKS/CATALOGUES
“Inversion. Evil Goods”, catalogue, ed. Laima Kreivytė, Vilnius: Lewben Foundation, 2014
ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS
2020 – Marta Silvi, “Lituania: Le promesse mantenute nel paese baltico“, in: Artribune, Nr. 56, 2020
2020 – “What artists are doing now. Aidas Bareikis in New York”, in: Arterritory.com, 2020
2018 – Jolanta Marcišauskytė-Jurašienė, “Impresija apie Aido Bareikio parodą ‘Records’ galerijoje namuose ‘Trivium”, in: artnews.lt, 2018-07-21
2017 – Paulina Blažytė, “Tapatybės kaita: Paroda ‘Nuo realizmo iki objekto. Pasaulio lietuvių menas Lietuvos išeivijos dailės fondo kolekcijoje’ Vytauto Kasiulio dailės muziejuje”, in: 7 meno dienos, no. 23 (1217), 2017
2015 – Ainė Jacytė, “Akistata su šiukšlių baime”, in: Šiaurės Atėnai, 2015-04-11
2014 – Kęstutis Šapoka, “Trys parodos sostinėje: (Ne)malonu girdėti”, in: Kultūros Barai, no. 12,
2014 – Danutė Gambickaitė, “Pokalbis su Aidu Bareikiu ir Billu Sayloru”, in: artnews.lt, 2014-11-07
2014 – Kęstutis Šapoka, “Archeologija su antropologinio tyrimo užmačia”, in: Kultūros barai, no. 5, 2014
2014 – Lukasz Drewniak, “Neišvengiamybė”, in: Kultūros barai, no. 2, 2014
2012 – Inch, Rachael, “A Natural Curiosity | A Studio Visit with Bill Saylor”, in: Muse Magazine, 2012-10-01
2010 – “Kiti (teatro?) balsai, kiti kambariai”, in: Menų faktūra, 2010-12-03
2008 – Barbara Bierach, “King Leo”, in: Capital, 2008-07, p. 138-139, 162-164
2007 – Kathrin Heimburger, :Pure Garbage”, in: Sleek, no. 16, 2007, p. 87
2006 – Ray T. Barker, “Junkyard Love”, in: Metro Kansas City, Vol. 25, no. 33, 2006, p. 31
2006 – Alice Thorson, “Going For Baroque”, in: The Kansas City Star, 2006-01-29, p. G1 & G8
2005 – Vaidas Jauniškis, “Between Romanticism and Reality”, in: Menų faktūra, 2005-11-12
2005 – Nick Paumgarten, „Salesman“ in: The New Yorker, 2005-10-17, p. 144-151,153-155
2005 – “Aidas Barekis”, in: Falter, no. 06/05, 2005-02-09, p. 32
2005 – “Aidas Barekis”, in: Heute, 2005-01-31, p. 4
2005 – “Aidas Barekis”, in: City, no. 4, 2005, p. 10
2005 – “Aidas Barekis” in: tv.ORF.at, 2005-01-24
2004 – Johanna Hofleitner, “Traumer und Schocker”, in: Schoufenster, 2004-12-17, p. 19
2004 – Jurgen Raap, “Meese & Markte”, in: Kunstforum, 2004-11, p. 390-391
2004 – Sandra Ebert, Michael Wand, “Art Cologne: der Chef Zigt Ihnen, Was Sie Sehen Mussen”, in: Express, 2004-10-28, p. 42
2004 – Deimantas Narkevicius, “Kestutus Kuizinas”, in: Flash Art, 2004-07/10, p. 57-59
2004 – Jutta Koether, “Ich Will Eine Stadtkunstlerin Sein”, in: Texte Zur Kunst, Vol. 54, 2004, p. 70
2004 – Stephen Maine, “Dateline Brooklyn”, in: Artnet, 2004-04-15
2004 – Christian Schaernack, “Den Talk of the Town provoziert eine Neuentdeckung”, in: Handelsblatt, Nr. 46, 2004
2004 – Holland Cotter, “ART IN REVIEW; Aidas Bareikis”, in: The New York Times, 2004-02-27
2003 – Kim Levin, “Voice Choices, shortlist, galleries”, in: The Village Voice, 2003-04-21/27, p.72
2003 – Alexi Worth, “Galleries-Soho”, in: The New Yorker, 2003-05-26, p. 20
2003 – “Litwini w Zachecie“, in: Gazeta Finansowa, no. 14, 2003
2003 – Thomas Mediodia, “Aidas Bareikis”, in: Grand Street, no. 71, 2003, p. 56-61
2003 – “Litwini w Zachecie“, in: Rzeczpospolita – W2, no. 75, 2003
2003 – Agnieszka Kowalsa, “Co po nas zostanie”, in: Gazeta Wyborcza, no. 75, 2003-03-29/30
2003 – “Kobiety I litewskie duchy“, in: Trybuna, no. 75, 2003-03-29/30
2003 – “Odpadki wspólczesnej, cywilizacji“, in: Gazeta Wyborcza – Stolecnza, no. 74, 2003-03-28
2003 – “Litewskie impresje“, in: Zycie Warszawy, no. 73, 2003-03-27
2002 – Laima Kreivyte, „Ar gali Lietuvoje nupirkti Bareiki?“ in: Verslo žinios, 2002-07-17
2002 – Rūta Mikšionienė, „Instaliacija koridoriuje – raktas į elito pasaulį“, in: Mūzų Malūnas, no. 25, 2002
2002 – Austė Nakienė, „Įsibėgėjau, atsiplėšiau nuo žemės ir pakilau. Su dailininku Aidu Bareikiu kalbasi muzikologė Austė Nakienė“, in: Kultūros barai, no. 6, 2002, p. 47-48
2002 – Virginija Januškeviciute, „Sugydytos atliekos“, in: 7 Meno Dienos, no. 26, 2002, p. 8
2002 – Austė Nakienė, „Aidas Bareikis apie šiuolaikinio meno rinką Amerikoje ir Lietuvoje“, in: www.omni.lt, 2002-06-25
2002 – Austė Nakienė, „Aidas Bareikis: Kaip iš putų sukurti objektą?“, in: Šiaurės Atėnai, 2002-06-08, p. 2.
2002 – Rasa Pakalkienė, Rasa, “Lietuvis Niujorko Katile,“, in: Lietuvos žinios, no. 113, 2002-05-18, p. 20
2002 – “Chaos i nostalgia z Litwy“, in: Fluid, 2002-04
2001/02 – “Aidas Bareikis“, in: Artext, no. 75, 2001/02, p. 81
2001 – Robert Mahoney, “Aidas Bareikis – Silence Before the Fall’ Art Reviews”, in: Time Out NY, no. 303, 2001, p. 80
2001 – Sylvia Plachy, “Aidas Bareikis”, in: The New Yorker, 2001-07-09, p. 15
2001 – Ken Johnson, “Aidas Bareikis”, in: The New York Times, 2001-07-06
2001 – Kathleen Louis, “Queens Museum Of Art Crosses Line To Reach Communities”, in: Queens Spotlight, 2001-07, p. 33/36
2001 – Kim Levin, “Aidas Bareikis”, in: The Village Voice, no. 25, 2001-06-26, p. 85
2001 – Herkus Kunčius, “Nelinksmos Babilono Sodo Dienos”, in: Kultūros Barai, no. 4, 2001, p. 64-65
2001 – Gerhard Waldherr, “Prinz” Konig”, in: German Vogue, 2001-04, p. 117-118
2001 – Robert Rigney, “Confessions of an Art Freak”, in: ArtNews, 2001-03, p.100-102
2000 – Corinna Daniels, “Fantasche Sammler am Rande des Tabubruchs”, in: Die Welt, 2000-04-26
2000 – Petra Reichensperger, “Im Warenkorb der Wüste”, in: Der Tagesspiegel, 2000-04-18
2000 – Christina Wendenburg, “Auf der Durchreise Heimisch warden”, in: Berliner Allgemeine, 2000-04-06
2000 – “Come in and find out Vol. 3“, in: Berlin Ticket, no. 11, 2000
2000 – “Todes-Geschichten”, in: Suddeutsche Zeitung, 2000-03-28
2000 – “Ausstellung”, in: Berlin Magazin, 2000-03-28
1999 – Charles Labelle, “Generation Z”, in: Frieze, no. 48, 1999-10/11, p. 98.
1999 – “Grenzen Übertreten”, in: Berlin Magazin, no. 7, 1999
1999 – Nancy Princenthal, “Generation Z: Slacker than Thou”, in: Art in America, 1999-10
1999 – Paul Aster, “Brooklyn Spice”, in: Artnet.com, 1999-05-26
1999 – Christian Rattemeyer, “504-New York Passage”, in: Blitz Review, 1999-04-14
1999 – Alanna Heiss, “Gesprache Mit Ausstellungsmachern, ‘Eine Art Guerrilla”, in: Kunstforum International, 1999
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Charity auction Stand With Ukraine
May 2, 2022On May 5, Galerija Vartai and National volunteer support coordination center 'Strong Together' will hold a charity auction of contemporary art and design - STAND...Read more -
What artists are doing now. Aidas Bareikis in New York
From his studio in New York, Lithuanian artist Aidas Bareikis writes to Arterritory.com the following: April 24, 2020'Every morning I throw a few cards up into the air and slowly watch them fall. Scattering is an essential part of any art making...Read more