The Vilnius Painting Triennial is an international event with deep traditions, held every three years since 1969. This year's triennial places special emphasis on the Nordic countries (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark), the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), and Poland. These are the countries whose artists are perhaps the quickest to respond to events happening around us and across the world.
The overall tone of the triennial is focused on the latest and most innovative trends in painting, aiming to understand and conceptualize the "contemporaneity" of modern painting, and to showcase the diversity and evolution of artistic reflections within the medium of painting. This triennial raises the question: Can painting, as a medium, fulfill the purpose of art—to encourage critical thinking, to enlighten, and to educate?
The collections of artists from the Nordic countries, Poland, and Lithuania are exhibited at the M.K. Čiurlionis Museum's Kaunas Picture Gallery.
Curators / kuratoriai: assoc. prof. Meda Norbutaitė (LT), prof. Henrik Bjørn Andersen (DK), Krzysztof Stanislawski (PL), Arvydas Žalpys (LT)
