Vytautas Viržbickas Lithuanian, b. 1987

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Vytautas Viržbickas
Vytautas Viržbickas’s works function as a conceptual reflection upon mechanisms that make up our contemporary social world-model which intertwines all of the following: power of information, modern culture, military geopolitics, consumer society, as well as individual loneliness. Vytautas attempts to grasp the structures of these mechanisms, to synthesise and abstract them up to specific symbols or meanings. In V. Viržbickas’s artistic practice, ‘myth’ is an ambivalent concept. The great majority of the artist’s works require the viewer’s perception of artistic, historic, and social contexts. However, the aesthetic force of V. Viržbickas’s artworks more often than not is generated by his purposeful rejection of tradition and canon and is inherent to the artist’s zealous urge to introduce and experiment with contemporary sculpture in a broad social discourse of the XXI century. 
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Biography
Vytautas Viržbickas

Born in 1987, Lithuania

Lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania

 

EDUCATION/RESIDENCIES

2000-2002 – Master of Arts in Sculpture at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2006-2000 – Bachelor of Arts in Sculpture at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius (Lithuania)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 – In Lethal Understanding, VARTAI Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2017 – Artissima 2017, Turin (Italy)

2016 – Creators Are the Best Manipulators, Viennacontemporary 2016, Vienna (Austria)

2015 – Meaning on the Verge of Banality, [si:said] gallery, Klaipėda (Lithuania)

2013 – How Do I Tell You a Story You Already Know? You Don't, Le Magasin Museum of Contemporary Art, Grenoble (France)

2012 – Open the Windows, Let the Flies Out, Project space Malonioji 6, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2010 – Apples, sculpture project, Panevėžys Art Gallery, Panevėžys (Lithuania)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 – Spectrum, VARTAI Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2020 – The Sweet Sweat of the Future, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2019 – Starting Point, Mo Museum, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2019 – XVII a., Autarkia, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2017 – Art Brussels, OFF Programme: Private Collections ‘The Loft. Works from the Family Servais Collection’, Brussels (Belgium)

2016 – Body and Darkness, VARTAI Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2016 – Žilvitis, VARTAI Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2015 – Viennacontemporary, Vienna (Austria)

2015 – Artissima, Turin (Italy)

2014 – Art Vilnius, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2012 – Chess City Blocks, Nida Art Colony, Nida (Lithuania)

2010 – Exhibition of BA graduates, ex-factory of ‘Tauras’ beer, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2010 – 9 Combinations, Panevėžys (Lithuania)

AWARDS/GRANTS

2014 – The Culture Support Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania 

COLLECTIONS

Servais Family Collection (Belgium)

MO Museum (Lithuania) 

Private collectors from Austria, Lithuania and other countries

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Vytautas Viržbickas
BOOKS/CATALOGUES
2014 – Art Vilnius’14: 5th edition, catalogue, Vilnius: Lithuanian Art Gallerists‘ Association, 2014
2013 – Vytautas Viržbickas: mitai yra tautų sapnai/Myths are the dreams of peoples, catalogue, ed.: Virginija Vitkienė, Kaunas: Kauno bienalė, 2013
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