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

VADIM FISHKIN / Julijonas Urbonas

ARTSCAPE: SLOVENIA 25 Mar - 10 May 2014 In his post-conceptual work, Vadim Fishkin reflects on the avant-garde tradition, in which what are important to him are the aspects of utopianism, (self-)deception, and the human endeavour to subjugate nature and the cosmos. The artist understands art as a laboratory where utopias rejected by scientists can be brought to... Read more

Andrius Zakarauskas

In The Name Of 4 Feb - 15 Mar 2014 Galerija Vartai presents Andrius Zakarauskas's third solo show. One of the most promising and highly regarded painters of the younger generation, Zakarauskas's work occupies all the gallery exhibition spaces and will include paintings and collages created during the past year. In his work the artist explores the themes of painting... Read more

MINDWALK

Group exhibition 29 Nov 2013 - 18 Jan 2014 Artists Ştefan Constantinescu Gintaras Didžiapetris Žilvinas Kempinas Jonathan Monk S&P Stanikas Erwin Wurm Collectors Lewben Art Foundation Vilma Dagilienė Boris Symulevič Rolandas Valiūnas Audronė and Marius Vaupšas Irina and Maris Vitols Visitors to Galerija Vartai will have the opportunity to see contemporary works of art from various private collections at... Read more

Ingo Nussbaumer

29 Oct - 22 Nov 2013 Ingo Nussbaumer is prominent in the Austrian contemporary art scene as a representative of conceptual, or inabstract painting. The artist has also garnered international attention with his highly developed experimental phenomenology and colour research. Ingo Nussbaumer's solo exhibition at Vartai gallery presents selected works by the artist – an installation... Read more

Stano Masár / Mindaugas Lukošaitis

Artscape: Slovakia 18 Jun - 19 Jul 2013 Mindaugas Lukošaitis 'Talvisota' (Winter War) Stano Masár 'Interval' On June 18, Galerija VARTAI opens two solo shows of the continuing interdisciplinary project Artscape with the oeuvre of Contemporary Slovak artist Stano Masár, curated by Juraj Čarný and new series of drawings Talvisota (Winter War) by Mindaugas Lukošaitis. Stano Masár is... Read more

KONSTANTINAS BOGDANAS

9/4 21 May - 15 Jun 2013 Read more

Warsaw: The Day After...

Curators: BWA Warszawa Gallery (Justyna Kowalska, Tomasz Plata, Michał Suchora) 11 Apr - 11 May 2013 Read more

Linas Jusionis

Only in the snow remained the marks 22 Jan 2013 - 28 Feb 2014 Read more

Nerijus Erminas

22 Jan - 23 Feb 2013 Read more

Alyson Shotz / Ieva Mediodia

Artscape: JAV 6 Nov - 8 Dec 2012 Alyson Shotz 'Interval' Ieva Mediodia 'Simulacra from the Void' Read more

Knut Åsdam / Laura Garbštienė

Artscape: Norway 11 Sep - 26 Oct 2012 Artscape is a continuing interdisciplinary project launched in 2009 when Vilnius was the European Capital of Culture. It began as a joint event organised by three organisations – Menų vartai, Kino Pavasaris and the Vilnius Jazz Festival – promoting the 21st century art scene from different European countries. The Artscape... Read more

Ran Slavin / Andrius Zakarauskas

Artscape: Israel 12 Jun - 21 Jul 2012 Artscape is a continuing interdisciplinary project launched in 2009 when Vilnius was the European Capital of Culture. It began as a joint event organised by three organisations – Menų vartai, Kino Pavasaris and the Vilnius Jazz Festival – promoting the 21st century art scene from different European countries. The Artscape... Read more

Jurga Barilaitė

Show It 18 Apr - 26 May 2012 Read more

Žilvinas Landzbergas / Jaime Pitarch

VARTAI 20 Years 15 Nov 2011 - 7 Jan 2012 Read more

PIERRE LABAT / TOMAS MARTIŠAUSKIS

ARTSCAPE: France 15 Jul - 30 Sep 2011 Read more

Ugnius Gelguda

VARTAI 20 Years 7 Jun - 2 Jul 2011 Read more

Miks Mitrēvics / Linas Jusionis.

ARTscape: LATVIA 29 Apr - 28 May 2011 Read more

Žilvinas Kempinas

VARTAI 20 Years 22 Feb - 2 Apr 2011 Read more

JESPER JUST / S&P STANIKAS

ARTscape: DENMARK 14 Dec 2010 - 4 Feb 2011 Read more

RAFAŁ BUJNOWSKI / RAY BARTKUS

ARTSCAPE: POLAND 7 Sep - 22 Oct 2010 Large-scale interdisciplinary project ARTscape continues its programme throughout the year 2010. It involves contemporary art, cinema and jazz, co- organized by some of the most qualified cultural institutions: Gallery Vartai, Kino Pavasaris and Vilnius Jazz. These three experienced institutions are presenting the contemporary culture scenes of European countries, the cities... Read more

MARK GARRY / VLADIMIR TARASOV

ARTscape: Ireland 15 Jun - 31 Jul 2010 Large-scale interdisciplinary project ARTscape continues its program throughout the year 2010. It involves contemporary art, cinema and jazz, co-organized by some of the most qualified cultural institutions: Gallery Vartai, Kino Pavasaris and Vilnius Jazz. These three experienced institutions are presenting the contemporary culture scenes of European countries, the cities of... Read more

Illusion of Inclusion

Exhibition by artists from Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia 21 Apr - 28 May 2010 Užbaigusi Europos kultūros sostinių šiuolaikinius menininkus pristačiusį projektą „ARTscape“ , galerija „Vartai“ imasi pristatyti trijų Baltijos šalių menininkus – trečiadienį, balandžio 21 d., 18 val. joje atidaroma paroda „ILLUSION OF INCLUSION“ (įtraukimo iliuzija). Penkiolika Estijos, Latvijos ir Lietuvos menininkų apimsianti paroda kvies atrasti jų kūrybos jungtis bei skirtumus bendrame Baltijos... Read more

RÄ DI MARTINO / GIANLUCA & MASSIMILIANO DE SERIO / UGNIUS GELGUDA

Artscape: Italy 18 Dec 2009 - 20 Feb 2010 Part of the Vilnius – European capital of culture 2009 program ARTscape is a large-scale project that involves contemporary art, cinema and jazz, co-organized by some of the most qualified cultural institutions: “Kino pavasaris”, “Vilnius jazz” and Gallery “Vartai”. Throughout the year 2009 and in the beginning of 2010 these... Read more

Hans Op de Beeck / Monika Bielskytė

ARTscape: BELGIUM 16 Nov - 19 Dec 2009 Vartai gallery presents the cycle of video works by the contemporary Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck titled “Circumstances” and consisting of six individual videos. Hans Op de Beeck has been recording the flow of life with a video camera since 1996. In 2008, this cycle of works was displayed... Read more

Csaba Nemes / Evaldas Jansas

ARTscape: HUNGARY 9 Oct - 6 Dec 2009 CSABA NEMES 'THE LAST HOUSE' EVALDAS JANSAS OCTOBER 9 - NOVEMBER 6 Openining: October 9th, 18:00 “Vartai” gallery introduces the works of two modern artists known for their public provocations – Csaba Nemes from Hungary and Evaldas Jansas from Lithuania. Csaba Nemes integrates painting, drawings, film and animation to reflect... Read more

Ignasi Aballí / Gintaras Makarevičius

ARTscape: SPAIN 8 Sep - 2 Oct 2009 Ignasi Aballí Gintaras Makarevičius SEPTEMBER 8 - OCTOBER 2 Openining: September 8th, 18:00 The 8th instalment of the ARTSCAPE project is dedicated to Spain. Vartai gallery, “Kino pavasaris” film festival and “Vilnius Jazz” festival invite the visitors to embrace the modern art, film and jazz of this country.... Read more

JOÃO PAULO FELICIANO / LAURA GARBŠTIENĖ

ARTscape: PORTUGAL 8 Aug - 4 Sep 2009 João Paulo Feliciano MUSIC LESSONS (RECAPITULATION) Laura Garbštienė AUGUST 8th - SEPEMBER 4 Openining: August 8th, 18:00 In August, João Paulo Feliciano’s “Music Lessons (recapitulation)” will be given in Vartai gallery. From the very beginning of his artistic career, João Paulo Feliciano has been integrating visual arts and music in... Read more

Roger Palmer / Paulina Eglė Pukytė

ARTScape: United Kingdom 22 Jul - 7 Aug 2009 ROGER PALMER PAULINA EGLĖ PUKYTĖ DISLOCATED 22 July – 7 August, 2009 Gallery Vartai presents a British artist Roger Palmer and a London based Lithuanian artist Paulina Eglė Pukytė. Using photography, wall drawing and video, Roger Palmer proposes links between different places in the world. His works might be considered... Read more

TATJANA DOLL / ANDRIUS ZAKARAUSKAS

Artscape: Germany 24 Jun - 18 Jul 2009 Read more

Atelier Van Lieshout / Dainius Liškevičius

Artscape: the Netherlands 29 Apr - 28 May 2009 ATELIER VAN LIESHOUT DAINIUS LIŠKEVIČIUS April 29, the Kingdom of the Netherlands will celebrate its Independence Day. On the eve of this festival – April 28th – ARTSCAPE programme will be launched inviting everyone to find out about the country’s fine arts, jazz and film. Vartai gallery introduces the interdisciplinary... Read more

ERWIN WURM / ŽILVINAS LANDZBERGAS

Artscape: AUSTRIA 24 Mar - 22 Apr 2009 Gallery “Vartai”, “Kino pavasaris” and “Vilnius Jazz festival” invite the audience to dive into the European cultural rhythms of the 21st century. „ARTscape“ is a large-scale project that involves contemporary art, cinema and jazz, co-organized by some of the most qualified cultural institutions: “Kino pavasaris”, “Vilnius jazz” and Gallery “Vartai”.... Read more

Kaido Ole / Marko Mӓetamm / Eglė Ridikaitė

Artscape: ESTONIA 24 Feb - 18 Mar 2009 Part of the Vilnius – European capital of culture 2009 program ARTscape is a large-scale project that involves contemporary art, cinema and jazz, co-organized by some of the most qualified cultural institutions: “Kino pavasaris”, “Vilnius jazz” and Gallery “Vartai”. Throughout the year 2009 and in the beginning of 2010 these... Read more