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Alert Objects: Group exhibition

Past exhibition
13 December 2019 - 24 January 2020
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Overview
Bram Vanderbeke Collaboration with Wendy Andreu: Double Pyramid shelf, 2017 Aliuminis / Aluminum Made to order creations can be done: please contact us for any request. 150 (H) x 160 (W) x 70 (D) cm Edition of 8 plus 2 AP
Bram Vanderbeke
Collaboration with Wendy Andreu: Double Pyramid shelf, 2017
Aliuminis / Aluminum
Made to order creations can be done: please contact us for any request.
150 (H) x 160 (W) x 70 (D) cm

Edition of 8 plus 2 AP

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 of thematic exhibitions.

 

Alert Objects, the first exhibition in the series, features design projects by nine authors. Many of the participants are alumni of the Design Academy Eindhoven, and their practice shares an approach to making objects as a way to address and influence the broader cultural and social field. The title of the exhibition refers to the logical contradiction evident in our daily life: the things surrounding us are not just inanimate and passive signs of their time and culture, but rather have subjective qualities, impose their order, and shape our self-perception.

 

Exhibition curators

Vytautas Gečas and Marija Puipaitė

 

Exhibition artists:

Bram Vanderbeke (BE)

Wendy Andreu (FR)

Lucas Muñoz Muñoz (ESP)

Paulius Vitkauskas (LT)

Martynas Kazimierėnas (LT)

Marija Puipaitė (LT)

Vytautas Gečas (LT)

Satomi Minoshima (JP)

Hansol Kim  (KR)

Etienne Marc (FR)

 

Maecenas

Živilė and Jonas Garbaravičius

 

Patron

Renata and Rolandas Valiūnas

 

Exhibition supported by

Pacai Hotel, ACM

 

Gallery supported by

“Plieno Spektras”, PI “Meno Fondas”, Vilma Dagilienė, Romas Kinka, “Clear Channel”, “Lietuvos Rytas”, “Ekskomisarų Biuras”

 

We are grateful to

“Rokiškio Sūris”

 

Graphic design

Gailė Pranckūnaitė

Works
  • Bram Vanderbeke Collaboration with Wendy Andreu: Double Pyramid shelf, 2017 150 (H) x 160 (W) x 70 (D) cm
    Bram Vanderbeke
    Collaboration with Wendy Andreu: Double Pyramid shelf, 2017
    150 (H) x 160 (W) x 70 (D) cm

    € 8,420.00
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  • Bram Vanderbeke Lietas objektas 2 / Casted Object 2, 2019 75 x 50 x 30 cm
    Bram Vanderbeke
    Lietas objektas 2 / Casted Object 2, 2019
    75 x 50 x 30 cm
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  • Bram Vanderbeke Naujasis pirmykštis / New Primitive, 2019 135 x 45 x 20 cm
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    Naujasis pirmykštis / New Primitive, 2019
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  • Bram Vanderbeke Sukraunamos kėdės / Stackable Stools, 2017 6pc. 37 x 25 x 48 cm
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    Sukraunamos kėdės / Stackable Stools, 2017
    6pc. 37 x 25 x 48 cm
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  • Lucas Muñoz Muñoz Table lamp, 2014 60 (H) x 20 (W) x 50 (D) cm
    Lucas Muñoz Muñoz
    Table lamp, 2014
    60 (H) x 20 (W) x 50 (D) cm
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  • Lucas Muñoz Muñoz Vamzdinė kėdė / Tubular Chair, 2018 80 x 50 x 65 cm
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    Vamzdinė kėdė / Tubular Chair, 2018
    80 x 50 x 65 cm
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  • Lucas Muñoz Muñoz Vamzdinė taburetė / Tubular Stool, 2018 60 x 80 x 90 cm
    Lucas Muñoz Muñoz
    Vamzdinė taburetė / Tubular Stool, 2018
    60 x 80 x 90 cm
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  • Lucas Muñoz Muñoz Vamzdinis fotelis / Tubular Armchair, 2017 90 x 90 x 110 cm
    Lucas Muñoz Muñoz
    Vamzdinis fotelis / Tubular Armchair, 2017
    90 x 90 x 110 cm
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  • Paulius Vitkauskas Non-Closing Shelf, 2018-2019 180 x 70 x 34 cm
    Paulius Vitkauskas
    Non-Closing Shelf, 2018-2019
    180 x 70 x 34 cm
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    Paulius Vitkauskas, Non-Closing Shelf, 2018-2019
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  • Martynas Kazimierėnas Asmeninis saulėlydis / Private Sunset, 2019 Ø140 cm
    Martynas Kazimierėnas
    Asmeninis saulėlydis / Private Sunset, 2019
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  • Marija Puipaitė & Vytautas Gečas, Romance & Gravity (Dresser), 2019
    Marija Puipaitė & Vytautas Gečas, Romance & Gravity (Dresser), 2019
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  • Marija Puipaitė Collaboration with Vytautas Gečas: Romance & Gravity (Mirror) , 2019 76 (H) x 105 (W) x 9 (D) cm
    Marija Puipaitė
    Collaboration with Vytautas Gečas: Romance & Gravity (Mirror) , 2019
    76 (H) x 105 (W) x 9 (D) cm
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  • Satomi Minoshima Pripučiami odiniai baldai (Otomanė) / Inflatable Leather Furniture (Ottoman), 2017 90 x 90 x 42 cm
    Satomi Minoshima
    Pripučiami odiniai baldai (Otomanė) / Inflatable Leather Furniture (Ottoman), 2017
    90 x 90 x 42 cm
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  • Satomi Minoshima Pripučiami odiniai baldai (Sofa) / Inflatable Leather Furniture (Sofa), 2017 168 x 90 x 42 cm
    Satomi Minoshima
    Pripučiami odiniai baldai (Sofa) / Inflatable Leather Furniture (Sofa), 2017
    168 x 90 x 42 cm
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  • Satomi Minoshima Moliniai stiprintuvai A / Clay Amplifiers A, 2017 Įvairūs dydžiai / Dimensions variable
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    Moliniai stiprintuvai A / Clay Amplifiers A, 2017
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  • Satomi Minoshima Moliniai stiprintuvai B / Clay Amplifiers B, 2017 Įvairūs dydžiai / Dimensions variable
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    Moliniai stiprintuvai B / Clay Amplifiers B, 2017
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  • Satomi Minoshima Moliniai stiprintuvai C / Clay Amplifiers C, 2017 Įvairūs dydžiai / Dimensions variable
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    Moliniai stiprintuvai C / Clay Amplifiers C, 2017
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  • Satomi Minoshima Moliniai stiprintuvai D / Clay Amplifiers D, 2017 Įvairūs dydžiai / Dimensions variable
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  • Satomi Minoshima Moliniai stiprintuvai E / Clay Amplifiers E, 2017 Įvairūs dydžiai / Dimensions variable
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    Moliniai stiprintuvai E / Clay Amplifiers E, 2017
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  • Hansol Kim Dėvėti kėdes sėdint ant kelnių Nº1 / Wearing Chairs While Sitting On Pants Nº1, 2019 84 x 78 x 132 cm
    Hansol Kim
    Dėvėti kėdes sėdint ant kelnių Nº1 / Wearing Chairs While Sitting On Pants Nº1, 2019
    84 x 78 x 132 cm
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  • Hansol Kim Dėvėti kėdes sėdint ant kelnių Nº2 / Wearing Chairs While Sitting On Pants Nº2, 2019 47 x 57 x 127 cm
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    Dėvėti kėdes sėdint ant kelnių Nº2 / Wearing Chairs While Sitting On Pants Nº2, 2019
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  • Hansol Kim Dėvėti kėdes sėdint ant kelnių Nº3 / Wearing Chairs While Sitting On Pants Nº3, 2019 98 x 160 x 81 cm
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    Dėvėti kėdes sėdint ant kelnių Nº3 / Wearing Chairs While Sitting On Pants Nº3, 2019
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Press release

Curators: Vytautas Gečas ir Marija Puipaitė

 

Participants:

Wendy Andreu (FR)

Vytautas Gečas (LT)

Martynas Kazimierėnas (LT)

Hansol Kim (KR)

Etienne Marc (FR)

Satomi Minoshima (JP)

Lucas Muñoz Muñoz (ESP)

Marija Puipaitė (LT)

Bram Vanderbeke (BE)

Paulius Vitkauskas (LT)

 

Gallery Vartai 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 of thematic exhibitions.

 

The first exhibition in the series Alert Objects presents design projects by ten authors, of which four objects by Lithuanian designers were created specifically for this show. Many of the participants are alumni of the Design Academy Eindhoven: their practice shares a contextual approach to making objects. If design is a creative field directly related to improvement of our daily life, in the face of today’s ecological and political crisis it can no longer be focused solely on the search for formal and functional solutions to reach an aesthetic result. Hence, contextual design perceives objects as actants in the network of social, cultural, and technological meanings, which transcend the conventional borders of creativity and science, and whose aesthetic and practical value is inseparable from their innovative contribution to positive social processes.

 

The title of the exhibition Alert Objects refers to a logical contradiction evident in our daily life. On the one hand, the things surrounding us are part of passive inanimate nature, resources or inventions  supposed to serve us and make our daily routine easier. On the other hand, we often unconsciously treat things as living beings, succumbing to their imposed order that shapes our habits and self-perception. The exhibition is like a middle point in this dual relationship with things. It proposes to envision them as tirelessly conscious – sensing and having an opinion about events around them, but simultaneously physically yielding to be used (whether willingly or not). The alertness of objects is presented in the show as a critical imagination exercise intended to retune our personal relationship with the surrounding material environment which we are an integral part of. The exhibition seeks to redirect the delusional ideas of exerting control over nature, rooted in superfluous mass production, inert consumption and bleak everyday experience, towards an intimate and responsible being together in a shared world.

 

The exhibition is structured as a set of different situations taking place between the exhibits, while the visitors are invited to take part in them as if they were the things’ guests. All of the design objects in the exhibition are furniture items or interior elements with a clear function which they seem to have abandoned for a moment in favour of an activity known only to them. Acting as the protagonists of the exhibition and simultaneously the backdrop for their own actions, they spoof the familiar world much like cartoon characters and remind us that this world is largely human-made. Thus, the order of things in which we participate is our responsibility and it can be rearranged according to the need, like the laws of physics in animation.

 

Edgaras Gerasimovičius

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  • Koen Kleijn, art historian and writer shares his thoughts on contemporary design exhibition "Alert Objects" at Galerija VARTAI.

    Koen Kleijn, art historian and writer shares his thoughts on contemporary design exhibition "Alert Objects" at Galerija VARTAI.

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  • Talk 5: What contemporary design can do?

    Talk 5: What contemporary design can do?

    Conversation with Koen Kleijn, Vytautas Gečas and Marija Puipaitė, moderated by Mantas Lesauskas Read more

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