Past
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Repetitions & Rituals: Neringa Vasiliauskaitė Solo Exhibition
30 Oct - 27 Nov 2024 The exhibition will showcase the artist’s latest series of works, created for the Kunstraum München exhibition, curated by Lena von Geyso and Patricia Drück. Neringa Vasiliauskaitė‘s cycle of new site-specific works ties in with moments of memory from her childhood. The multilayered and ambiguous works, installed both on the wall... Read more -
Kristijonas Gurčinas
Sundew 4 - 14 Jun 2024 Kristijonas Gurčinas Sundew The sundew has many hair-like leaves on its stem, with droplets full of nectar at the tips. Reminiscent of morning dew, the droplets glisten in the sun and lure insects to land for a drink. However, the droplets also act as a strong glue, the... Read more -
Benas Matijošaitis
Lorem Ipsum 4 - 14 Jun 2024 Benas Matijošaitis Lorem Ipsum Lorem Ipsum is a fictional, illogical text made up of a random mix of words. It aims to show the font and the layout of the page without focusing on its content. It is a text that is intended not to be read and,... Read more -
Spectrum 2
Summer Group Show 2 Jun - 30 Oct 2024 Artists and designers featured in the group show SPECTRUM 2: Gytis Arošius / Kotryna Butautytė / Daydreaming Objects / Vilius Dringelis / Kiki van Eijk / Faktura / Govert Flint / Marija Puipaitė & Vytautas Gečas / Vytautas Gečas / Liepa Gradauskaitė / Kristijonas Gurčinas / Kodai Iwamoto / Vytenis... Read more -
Visual Translation / Jump Cut
Donata Minderytė 20 Mar - 17 May 2024 When we were newborns, we instinctively knew how to read smiles and kisses, we could recognise worry wrinkles, bright colours, and different shapes. And that was enough for us. Later, the faces we had seen were replaced by names, and objects by lengthy terms. Language bestowed upon us, say, like... Read more -
Ovalas
Ramutis Petniūnas 15 Mar - 2 Apr 2024 Ramūnas Petniūnas' installation OVALAS (THE OVAL), which will be part of the Lithuanian season in France this September, will be presented to the public on Friday, March 15, at 6 p.m. The work employs the language of contemporary art to introduce the tradition of Lithuanian cross-crafting, honored by UNESCO as... Read more -
Soft Solids
Ieva Baranauskaitė & Rūta Palionytė 15 Feb - 8 Mar 2024 On Thursday, February 15 at 6 pm, the exhibition Soft Solids by Ieva Baranauskaitė and Rūta Palionytė will open at VARTAI SHOWROOM (Vilniaus g. 39, Vilnius). In the Soft Solids exhibition, Rūta Palionytė and Ieva Baranauskaitė present their latest research on the intentional use and repurposing of natural materials and... Read more -
Vagabonds
Kotryna Butautytė & Vilius Dringelis 31 Jan - 24 Feb 2024 We are delighted to announce the opening of the contemporary design exhibition 'Vagabonds' by Kotryna Butautytė and Vilius Dringelis. 'Vagabonds' refers to the creative process of the two young generation designers, where experimentation, imagination and unforeseen circumstances are deliberately unleashed as part of the creative process and as a design... Read more -
Monumental Mass
Onno Ardiaanse, Paul Coenen, Tijs Gilde, Tim Teven at SHOWROOM 14 Dec 2023 - 13 Jan 2024 “Monumental Mass” Showcases the works of 4 designers from Eindhoven, each uniquely exploring diverse materials and methodologies through the creation of collectible design pieces. Read more -
Goda Palekaitė & Marija Puipaitė
Anatomy of the Fetish 9 Nov 2023 - 13 Jan 2024 The mysterious Sphinx, half-woman, half-lion, arouses desire. Fetish is where the secret joins the strange, and their encounter becomes ambivalent - the sphinx we nourish secretly at our core. Karl Marx had a theory of fetish as a socioeconomic hieroglyphic; Michel Leiris diagnosed the West with an ethnopsychiatric condition of Eurocentric... Read more -
AFFECTED DISTANCES
Group exhibition 18 Oct - 18 Nov 2023 Organiser: Pamėnkalnio Gallery Co-producer: Vartai Gallery Curated by Milda Dainovskytė Authors: Augustina Banytė, Monika Janulevičiūtė & Antanas Lučiūnas, Laimė Kiškūnė & Thorben Gröbel, Liudvika Sonia Koort, Niklaus Mettler, Robertas Narkus, Emilija Povilanskaitė, Liz Wendelbo. Affected Distances presents Lithuanian and foreign artists who explore the medium and theory of scents in... Read more -
Robertas Narkus
Full Moon 14 Sep - 28 Oct 2023 We are thrilled to announce that on September 14th, the VARTAI Gallery will present the solo exhibition 'Full Moon' by Roberts Narkus. “This exhibition was supposed to be called Torso and talk about the Beijing bikini*, the changing beauty standards, six packs, the midlife crisis, and ikebana practices (well, and... Read more -
WAITING WAITING WAITING
A design group show at the SHOWROOM 7 - 21 Sep 2023 Opening on 7 September, 2023 at 6 PM A part of Vilnius Gallery Weekend programme Designers: Linas Čeponas, Emilija Daraškevičiūtė, Ani Gandžumian, Liepa Gradauskaitė, Ieva Gudelaitytė, Mykolas Kavaliauskas, Beatriz Pardo, Justina Stipinaitė, Paulina Vasiliauskaitė, Kvintas Zepp VARTAI Gallery kicks off the new autumn season with the opening of... Read more -
Agata Orlovska
Per speculum et in aenigmate 15 Jun - 15 Jul 2023 We are delighted to present a solo show 'Per speculum et in aenigmate' by a young artist Agata Orlovska. “The forms and meanings of the artworks ripple through the vast ocean of human perception, flowing like melting glaciers in a thawing tundra, delicately caressing once immovable pebbles. The feverish objects... Read more -
Adomas Rybakovas „Thirst“ 〰 Neda Naujokaitė „Inside/ Outside“
Part of VDA Graduation Show 2 - 10 Jun 2023 We are always excited to find new talents in a broad and ever-changing art world. This time we present two young painters: Neda Naujokaitė and Adomas Rybakovas, defending their bachelor's degree in the Vilnius Academy of Arts painting departement, with their solo exhibitions: Neda Naujokaitė INSIDE / OUTSIDE “Inside /... Read more -
Gytis Arošius
The Past of Future 27 Apr - 26 May 2023 We are delighted to present a solo exhibition 'The Past of Future' by the emerging artist Gytis Arošius. The enthusiastic optimism of the last century, which began with loud manifestos of speed and progress, techno-futuristic visions, atomic and cosmic imagination, has become a sense of a bygone era, an irretrievable... Read more -
Mantas Lesauskas
Slipcover 27 Apr - 26 May 2023 We are happy to present our second solo pop-up exhibition in the Showroom! This time you will discover the series of design objects 'Slipcover' by designer Mantas Lesauskas. This is a series of furniture pieces created over two years, inviting reflection on the challenges of the last years of the... Read more -
Etienne Marc & Dorian Renard
RECEPTION ROOM 23 Feb - 24 Mar 2023 Dorian Renard and Etienne Marc with identical backgrounds as designers present within Galerija Vartai a collection of domestic objects whose functional and prosaic nature is sublimated by a sculptural approach. Fascinated by traditional techniques, the two creators are perverting the inherent codes of object design by an uninhibited manipulation of... Read more -
Linas Jusionis
Horizon Loop 9 Feb - 14 Apr 2023 Galerija VARTAI is delighted to present the exhibition Horizon Loop featuring the latest paintings by artist Linas Jusionis. Most of those interested in contemporary Lithuanian painting will recognise the ambient, freeze-frame-like scenes characteristic of the artist’s work, and the recurring elements or situations that echo the prevailing cinematic logic in... Read more -
Zlatko Kopljar and Luc Tuymans
Exhibition Mercy curated by Ory Dessau 8 Dec 2022 - 27 Jan 2023 Galerija Vartai presents Mercy , a joint exhibition by Zlatko Kopljar and Luc Tuymans , arranged as a sequence of shared and separate displays highlighting the iconoclasm and analytical complexity of these two artists. The exhibition juxtaposes Tuymans ’ recent work in animation, where the influential painter has continuously e... Read more -
Ignas Krunglevičius
13 Oct - 24 Nov 2022 Opening 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 permeating various spatial modalities—land, sea, air, human and non-human bodies, media, data, news, infrastructures and information platforms. The daily overload... Read more -
Exposition of MA theses of students of Vilnius Academy of Arts
Anton Pedos and Daria Antyp 17 - 23 Jun 2022 Opening June 17 (Friday), from 11 a.m. Anton Pedos' project 'The Cost' reflects the ongoing Russian occupation of his country Ukraine and the thousands of lives lost, which in the current context have become just numbers. Anton seeks to draw attention to each and every story. Nobody should be forgotten:... Read more -
STAND WITH UKRAINE
Auction exhibition 26 Apr - 31 May 2022 Photos by Audrius Solominas Read more -
DOPPELGÄNGER
Kristina Ališauskaitė 16 Mar - 2 Apr 2022 DOPPELGÄNGER 16 March – 2 April, 2022 Pop-up solo exhibition by Kristina Ališauskaitė Opening on 16 March, 2022 at 6 p.m.-8 p.m. at Galerija VARTAI (enter the building from Klaipėdos g. 6). How deep can a reflection sink into you? If it can possess you, why couldn’t it leave? Is... Read more -
Odd Attractor
Viltė Bražiūnaitė ≈ Tomas Sinkevičius and Vika Prokopaviciute 9 Dec 2021 - 12 Feb 2022 Main sponsor of the exhibition: TEXT BY: Olivia Berkowicz The Odd Attractor enters the gallery space. It’s empty, but it doesn’t seem to realise that the exhibition doesn’t open until tomorrow. Its many long swivelling tendrils touch the gallery walls tentatively, little suction cups and swirling fractals touch the... Read 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 2021 Opening 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 Sinkevičius, Robertas Narkus, Deimantas Narkevičius, Marija Puipaitė, Vytautas Gečas, Neringa Vasiliauskaitė, Laurynas Skeisgiela, Martynas Kazimierėnas, Indrė Šerpytytė. Sometimes critics write... Read more -
Personal Scale
Contemporary design exhibition 17 Jun - 5 Aug 2021 Curators: 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 (LT), Kodai Iwamoto (JP), Lennart Lauren (NL), Martynas Kazimierėnas (LT), Messgewand (NL/FR), Olivier van Herpt & Sander Wassink (NL), Oskar... Read more -
Linas Jusionis
SIESTA 29 Apr - 28 May 2021 On 29 April 29, at 2pm, Vartai Gallery welcomes visitors to the opening of the painter Linas Jusionis’s solo show Siesta. The name of the exhibition alludes to the time of day when all formal and meaningful activity is halted, giving way to something passive and of no import, when... Read more -
An Unfinished Project
Willem Boel, Konstantinas Bogdanas, Andreas Golinski, Yeal Hersonski, Ariel Schlesinger, Peter Wächtler, curator Ory Dessau 17 Dec 2020 - 31 Mar 2021 Curator: Ory Dessau Participating artists: Willem Boel, Konstantinas Bogdanas, Andreas Golinski, Yeal Hersonski, Ariel Schlesinger, Peter Wächtler The group exhibition An Unfinished Project seeks to whirl our conventional divisions of time, articulating the role of the past as that which does not pass – as an ongoing event crossing through... Read more -
Mykola Ridnyi "Lost Baggage"
Location: Courtyard of Lithuanian Theater, Music and Cinema Museum 17 Dec 2020 - 31 Mar 2021 MYKOLA RIDNYI LOST BAGGAGE, 2019 Commissioned for the 12-th Kaunas biennial in 2019. The installation is inspired by the figure of Esther Lurie, an artist who was one of the Kaunas ghetto prisoners to survive to the Holocaust. Lurie made a series of drawings that show the characters, life conditions... Read more -
Henrik B. Andersen
"The Morphogenesis of Mass" 22 Oct - 20 Nov 2020 Henrik B. Andersen in his exhibition 'The Morphogenesis of Mass' is presenting most recent practices which consist of the artworks, specifically created for the gallery VARTAI. Andersen represents a series of new sculptures, drawings and photographs that are inspired by the research in nonlinear dynamics of biological systems and the... Read more -
Dag Erik Elgin
"La Collection Moderne (Čiurlionis)" 22 Oct - 20 Nov 2020 The exhibition “La Collection Moderne (Čiurlionis)” is a presentation of works by the Norwegian artist Dag Erik Elgin consisting of text paintings developed especially for this occasion in dialogue with the Lithuanian painter and composer Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). “La Collection Moderne” is a longstanding painterly investigation of iconic modernist... Read more -
Robertas Narkus
The Board 10 Sep - 9 Oct 2020 Robertas Narkus‘s solo exhibition “The Board” Curator Neringa Bumblienė 2020 09 10 – 2020 10 09 Robertas Narkus’s exhibition The Board presents the outcome of the artist’s creative processes throughout the quarantine period: an installation of human-sized photographs and objects occupying the entirety of the Vartai Gallery spaces. The artist... Read more -
Spectrum
Group exhibition 14 Jul - 26 Aug 2020 Curator Linas Bliškevičius Artists and designers: Gabrielė Adomaitytė, Jānis Avotiņš, Ray Bartkus, Kazimieras Brazdžiūnas, Jokūbas Čižikas, Adomas Danusevičius, Marija Puipaitė & Vytautas Gečas, Vytenis Jankūnas, Linas Jusionis, Žilvinas Kempinas, Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Lukas Marciulevičius, Donata Minderytė, Ričardas Nemeikšis, Eglė Pilkauskaitė, Monika Radžiūnaitė, Mykola Ridnyi, Dominykas Sidorovas, Viltė Bražiūnaitė ir Tomas Sinkevičius,... Read more -
DARIA MELNIKOVA
"DATE NIGHT" 6 Feb - 13 Mar 2020 DARIA MELNIKOVA "DATE NIGHT" Read more -
Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė
“smooth space, pleated” 6 Feb - 13 Mar 2020 Curator of the exhibition Elaine Tam “smooth space, pleated”is a solo-presentation of new work by Geistė Kinčinaitytė which revolves around the artist's debut film — a video essay entitled “The Pool”(2020), loosely based on the short story of the same title. This work is the result of a collaboration with... Read more -
Alert Objects
Group exhibition 13 Dec 2019 - 24 Jan 2020 Curators: 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 foreign designers, curators, and institutions, is to create a platform for continuous presentation of unique design works in the context... Read more -
Aidas Bareikis
"OMENY" 24 Oct - 29 Nov 2019 Vartai 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 on 24 October. It will feature Bareikis’s newest work not previously displayed anywhere else. Author of the text Karolina Rimkutė... Read more -
Donata Minderytė
"Translation Error" 24 Oct - 29 Nov 2019 Vartai gallery is pleased to present the exhibition “Translation Error” / “Vaizdinis vertimas” by a painter of the young generation Donata Minderytė. The error in translation evident in the bilingual title of the show points to the artist‘s exploration of visual translation. Minderytė’s show features a series of recent works... Read more -
Gabrielė Adomaitytė
"Documentary Exactness" 5 Sep - 11 Oct 2019 ‘As a painter you have to consider first of all what is really important about images. In times of Instagram and informational overload, I feel the need to clarify the complexity and diversity of imagery today. The visual world is so full of everything, so unstable and unpredictable. My paintings... Read more -
Dominykas Sidorovas
"Metonymy" 5 Sep - 11 Oct 2019 Morse code is the metaphor that Dominykas Sidorovas usually invokes to describe his work or, more precisely, creative method. It consists of individual sounds which signify letters. These sounds form words, sentences, paragraphs, and somewhere in a distant (time-wise) corner of a shelf, eventually even an entire novel. Using the... Read more -
INDRĖ ŠERPYTYTĖ
"FROM.BETWEEN.TO" 6 Jun - 26 Jul 2019 Vartai Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Lithuanian artist Indrė Šerpytytė, her first at the gallery. This exhibition coincides with ‘When the Golden Sun Sinks’, a solo display of newly commissioned works at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum. At Vartai Gallery, Šerpytytė will show a... Read more -
ADOMAS DANUSEVIČIUS
"Mud and Flowers" 4 Apr - 10 May 2019 Vartai Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by the young generation painter Adomas Danusevičius. For over a decade, the artist’s name has occupied a special place on the Lithuanian art scene because of the sexual identity issues he addresses and the queer aesthetic central to his work. Lately,... Read more -
LINAS JUSIONIS
"Stacks, plants and plains" 7 Feb - 15 Mar 2019 On February 7th, Vartai Gallery opens a new solo exhibition by the well-known young-generation artist Linas Jusionis. Jusionis has been making his mark on the contemporary Lithuanian art scene for almost a decade now, focusing his attention more and more on the law of the ‘the eye’s desire’ often devalued... Read more -
JULIJONAS URBONAS
"A PLANET OF PEOPLE" 13 Dec 2018 - 25 Jan 2019 The apocalypse is already here. Pandemics, climate change, deadly asteroids, atomic war, aliens – that is only some of the possible scenarios. But the scenarios for saving humankind are considerably fewer: mostly revolving around the idea of colonizing other planets. Are we so shortsighted that we cannot come up with... Read more -
Four Rooms With a View
Johannes Wald, Aron Mehzion, Anastasia Sosunova, Neringa Vasiliauskaitė 29 Oct - 30 Nov 2018 Curator Daniel Marzona The exhibition Four Rooms with a View is a group exhibition composed of 4 solo exhibitions. The participating artists, Aron Mehzion, Anastasia Sosunova and Andrea Zucchini, Neringa Vasiliauskaitė, and Johannes Wald, have been invited to exhibit their works each in one of the four existing gallery rooms.... Read more -
Arturas Bumšteinas and Gitis Bertulis
"Sraigės kambarys (Cochlea Lounge)" 13 Sep - 18 Oct 2018 Sling There is something persistently parasitic about a sling, the very idea of it or even a sheer image of a sling – an object hanging down close to a horizontal plane, suspended. Like a sleeping mountaineer hanging down from a cliff, or a swallow’s nest sucking itself up to... Read more -
Gintautas Trimakas
"Atsakymas (Answer)" 13 Sep - 18 Oct 2018 The title of the show itself suggests a certain dialogue or at least a fragment of it, yet what is important this time is not what is communicated, but how. What is most important in Trimakas’s camera-less photographs is the aesthetic aspect, which holds the artistic, temporal and spatial answers,... Read more -
Moi, Non-Moi
Louise Bourgeois, Vieira da Silva and Maria Lassnig 5 Jun - 27 Jul 2018 Exhibition curator Amer Abbas Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010, France) Maria Lassnig (1919–2014, Austria) Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908–1992, Portugal) Vartai gallery is proud to present Moi, non-moi featuring the world-class artists Louise Bourgeois, Maria Lassnig and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva who have never previously been exhibited in the Baltics.... Read more -
Keren Cytter
"Killing Time Machine" 12 Apr - 18 May 2018 Vartai gallery launches a solo show Killing Time Machine by Israeli artist Keren Cytter who currently lives and works in New York. The artist is showing a selection of drawings and video installations in which she employs experimental filmmaking techniques and a range of contexts from theatre, literature, soap... Read more -
Vytautas Virzbickas
"In Lethal Understanding" 12 Apr - 18 May 2018 On 12 April 2018 the opening of the solo exhibition In Lethal Understanding by the sculptor Vytautas Viržbickas will take place at Vartai gallery, where the artist will present his latest sculptures and installations. Vytautas Viržbickas (b.1987) has BA and MA degrees in Sculpture from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Among... Read more -
Jānis Avotiņš
ŠVENTĖ 13 Feb - 23 Mar 2018 Vartai gallery is proud to present a solo show by the Latvian artist Jānis Avotiņš to coincide with the celebration of the centenary of the declaration of independence by the Baltic States. The timing and title of the exhibition refer to this event. Not long ago, celebrations were a powerful... Read more -
Jurga Barilaitė
BBB (Bamba Big Band) 16 Jan - 3 Feb 2018 „BBB“ : A Revolution Re-sung The ' Bellybutton Big Band ' ('BBB') project by Jurga Barilaitė is a performative space whe re the body-orchestra resings the history in a punk manner . For t he beginning of Barilaitė‘s studies at Vilnius A cademy of Arts coincided with the singing revolution... Read more -
Indriķis Ģelzis
Rest and Vest 5 Dec 2017 - 5 Jan 2018 Ģelzis’s wall sculptures seemingly flirt with the future visions and sculptural compositions of the early 20th century futurists and constructivists. However, since the future of the past is now the present, which is a time of great acceleration, the creative principles and semantic field of this artist seem even more... Read more -
Egle Jauncems
Malnutrition 5 Dec 2017 - 5 Jan 2018 Malnutrition. Too Much or Too Little. The results from an excessive or inadequate intake of nutrients. Walking into the pastry shop I can see him rolling a piece of dough on the floury table. A glass wall is separating us but I can still feel the... Read more -
VAJIKO CHACHKHIANI
ENDLESS ENDS 24 Oct - 24 Nov 2017 Vajiko Chachkhiani is an artist of material, one who believes that each medium and material has its own nature and potential. The artist doesn’t force things but simply allows his works to happen, to evolve and form their own way of expression. For example, concrete is sort of basic, both... Read more -
Tomas van Houtryve
Blue Sky Days 8 Sep - 17 Oct 2017 In October 2012, a drone strike in northeast Pakistan killed a 67-year-old woman picking okra outside her home. At a U.S. Congressional hearing held in Washington in October 2013, the woman’s 13-year-old grandson, Zubair Rehman, spoke to a group of lawmakers. “I no longer love blue skies,” said Rehman, who... Read more -
Mindaugas Lukošaitis
Imagination. Composition. Dream 8 Sep - 13 Oct 2017 The artist’s drawing sensibility was shaped and clearly influenced by the ink wash painting tradition, which was strong and distinctive in the East. That is why his larger-format free line drawings are as if an homage to this tradition; there one can find darkness and line, chance, and visual uncertainty.... Read more -
Summer Exposition
Group exhibition 18 Jul - 31 Aug 2017 Our gallery’s spaces have once again been filled with new works. We invite you to be our guest and join us on Tuesday at 6:00 pm to look around our Summer Show and also to go out onto the balcony and take in the views of Vilnius. The show is... Read more -
S&P Stanikas
spring | le printemps 2 May - 10 Jun 2017 Danse de singe Aux sons d’une petite musique narquoise, sautillante, Essoufflée, — tandis qu’il pleut, tandis qu’il pleut de la pluie pourrie, Saute, saute, mon âme, vieux singe d’orgue de Barbarie, Petit vieillard pelé, sournois, animal romantique et tendre.(...) Encore un air, hélas ! le dernier ! — Et que... Read more -
Body and Darkness
Group Exhibition 7 Mar - 14 Apr 2017 The exhibition balances on the fringes of consciousness and talks about dark inclinations and the ( non) human body through which they take shape. Shrouded in chiaroscuro the overtly visual and aggressive artworks analyse different dimensions of the human body inviting viewers to experience their own bodies afresh. From the... Read more -
Žilvinas Kempinas
Solo Exhibition 20 Dec 2016 - 3 Feb 2017 The installations, created by Kempinas, operate as if they were natural phenomena such as lig ht and the flow of air. However, the most significant element that binds them is motion. The artist avoids ’predictable’ moves and aims for the impression of coincidence. Therefore, most of his work balances on... Read more -
Linas Jusionis
Decadence 3 Nov 2016 - 2 Dec 2017 In Decadence Jusionis places emphasis on the decadent aspect of painting, which he considers to be a relative theme in his own work, as well as the essence of his creative endeavours. Even though it’s not clearly defined, the phenomenon of decadence captures the interest of the artist because of... Read more -
Julijonas Urbonas
Cumspin 6 Sep - 15 Oct 2016 Julijonas Urbonas is an artist, designer, scientist, and engineer. Building on scientific research, the artist examines the ways the manipulation of bodily reactions to gravitation can evoke extraordinary physical and mental experiences. The artist, who grew up at an amusement park and later became the head of one, has developed... Read more -
Krišs Salmanis
Poems and Things 6 Sep - 15 Oct 2016 Krišs Salmanis is a conceptual artist whose works question identity, materiality, and the role of the artist and art in contemporary culture. He uses materials and techniques ranging from sculpture to animation, from trees to his own body. However, it is neither the media used, nor the unifying themes, but... Read more -
Heimo Zobernig ir Julia Haller
Die Gemälde / Paintings 22 Jun - 30 Jul 2016 Curator Amer Abbas ......Reinhold: This so-called mind is always not the thing itself. From The painting (1798) by August Wilhelm Schlegel ......Not 'seeing is believing' you ninny, but 'believing is seeing,' for Modern Art has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text. From... Read more -
Margarita Božkaitė ir Donata Minderytė
Duo exhibition 7 - 11 Jun 2016 The exhibitions of paintings by Donata Minderytė and Margarita Božkaitė, both Master’s students at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, open at Galerija VARTAI on 7 June. Their creative work will provide the viewer with the opportunity to evaluate trends in contemporary art and to reflect on the phenomena of memory,... Read more -
Andrius Zakarauskas
Ligaments. Ten years with Vartai gallery 19 Apr - 28 May 2016 Artistic beginnings. The title of the exhibition in 2006 was Exposition; I stood in front of the canvas, still a youngster and with a girl in the clouds or somebody with a lion’s head. Small and fragile figures in big formats. I was talking about the fragility of the character... Read more -
Group show Žilvitis (Willow)
25th Vartai gallery anniversary marking exhibition 19 Feb - 9 Apr 2016 From 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 modern art, it has hosted book presentations, poetry readings, and chamber music concerts. Vartai has always been open to different... Read more -
Beginnings
Angela Bulloch, Liam Gillick, Ugnius Gelguda, Tim Kliukoit, Lina Lapelytė, Justin Morin, Quim Packard, Augustas Serapinas, the SOSka group (Mykola Ridnyi and Serhiy Popov) Curator Neringa Bumblienė 27 Oct - 27 Nov 2015 In one way or another, the artworks in the exhibition Beginnings employ a song or a melody in the context of contemporary art, as a convenient tool to speak about what is happening here and now, even if it is sometimes from a wider spatial or temporal perspective. The authors... Read more -
Abraham Brody
THE VIOLINIST IS PRESENT 2 - 3 Oct 2015 Performance on Friday, 2 October at 6 pm Galerija VARTAI is pleased to invite you to the performance The Violinist is present by Abraham Brody. This performance is an exploration of the powerful energy between performer and public. The main goal being to give the public an active role in... Read more -
DER CHAMPAGNERKÄFIG
Group exhibition 8 Sep - 10 Oct 2015 Artists: Adrian Buschmann Anne Cathrin Ulikowski Dörte Oppermann Lilli Thießen Dear Artists, These works are on fire. They are like blocks that make up sentences that are used to tell this story of ours: Der Champagnerkäfig . It isn’t just a cage but also an incoherent sequence... Read more -
Erwin Wurm
INTERPRETATION 11 Jun - 8 Aug 2015 A radical change marked the artist’s work in the early 1990s. Even before that, his '' dust display cases '' – time - based sculptures which echo Duchamp’s ' dustbins ' and ' water buckets ' – had ceased to pose as sculptures. The fingers went up, making the 'V... Read more -
Ignas Krunglevičius
PRIVAT SYNTAX VIRUS 14 Apr - 23 May 2015 IGNAS 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 (b. 1979) in Lithuania. For this exhibition, Krunglevičius will be showing his newest works — a constellation of sculptures, sound... Read more -
Jurga Barilaitė
ABRACADABRA 8 Jan - 7 Feb 2015 The installation comprises four video stories which interconnect to weave a multilayered narrative. In the video work Abracadabra Counting Rhyme, which marks the beginning, the protagonist (the artist herself) insistently recites the words of a children’s counting rhyme while pointing her finger alternately at herself and at the viewer. The... Read more -
INDRIĶIS ĢELZIS
Solo exhibition 8 Jan - 7 Feb 2015 The artist reveals the theme of perception important to him by creating a certain surreal situation: one of the gallery’s halls contains a video work in which three viewers are looking at three identical paintings. Exhibited in the adjacent hall are two identical wooden shelves, although different in scale, and... Read more -
Aidas Bareikis
ECHO CONDITIONER 11 Nov - 18 Dec 2014 The 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 an idea or an object is refined, clarified, and purified like air. With this work Bareikis continues his series of... Read more -
DEIMANTAS NARKEVIČIUS
SOUNDS LIKE THE XX CENTURY 9 Sep - 24 Oct 2014 The installations and films of Deimantas Narkevičius are often described as artistic research into the relationship between historical documents of political repressions and our memory. The artist is particularly concerned with the way representation is used to construct the perception of truth and reality, and the influence personal and collective... Read more -
Niccolo
SOMETHING OF MAINSTREAM 22 May - 13 Jun 2014 Niccolo De Napolli‘s artistic research is based on those daily discoveries that help to vanish the vague veil between reality and appearance. Attached to his roots that tie him in a context where human and divine have an heated connection. De Napoli works by transposing signs and symbols from an... Read more -
FRANZ WEST & BARBARA KAPUSTA
SLEEPWALKING III 20 May - 20 Jun 2014 Curator of the exhibition Amer Abbas On May 20, 2014 VARTAI gallery hosted the third instalment in the Sleepwalking exhibition series curated by the Vienna-based curator Amer Abbas. The first one was on show at the Temporary gallery in Cologne in 2009, and the second one at the Freies Museum... Read more