Vilnius Gallery Weekend

9–12 September

Returning for the sixth time, Vilnius Gallery Weekend will be inviting art lovers to more than 30 art spaces throughout  9-12 September. Join us and explore exhibitions at two museums of LNMA – the National Gallery of Art and the Radvila Palace Museum of Art.

 

 

National Gallery of Art

 

Indigenous Narratives

Sigita Simona Paplauskaitė, Marius Juknevičius, Živilė Lukšytė and Julija Mazūrienė

 

Curator: Margarita Matulytė

 

The object of the exhibition which activates the indigenous narratives is the Lithuanian ethnos or more precisely the country dwellers of the 19-20th century who experienced the least influence of modernisation and preserved the most authentic and archaic culture. That is those others, the bearers of the ethnic identity, without whom the nation would not have come into existence, and the nationhood would not have been established. However, the social status and role of those others in the historical perspective always remained insignificant, as they stayed in the background. Kinfolks, but still, others.

 

Photobloc. Central Europe in Photobooks

 

Curators:  Łukasz Gorczyca, Adam Mazur and Natalia Żak

 

By the end of the 19th century a new genre of printed book emerged. Narrative function was transferred from the text to the photograph. Throughout the 20th century, albums, brochures, and photobooks kept track of the tumultuous history of our region. For the last two decades photobooks have attracted academic attention and have by now been often discussed by numerous publications and exhibitions. They have been featured at several shows, represented primarily by German or Russian publications; however, there have been no attempts as yet to look at this issue in the context of our region. In order to be able to think in terms of such a broad panorama it was necessary to collect and analyse Central European photobooks within the frameworks of one international research project, which culminated in this exhibition.

 

Potentiality for Love

Eija-Liisa Ahtila

 

Eija-Liisa Ahtila is one of the most famous contemporary Finnish artists. She became known in the global art scene in 1990s for her thoughtful, immersive video installations which merged fiction and reality. In her earlier works Ahtila has dealt with the unsettling human dramas at the centre of personal relationships, dealing with e.g. teenage sexuality, family relations, mental disintegration and death. Her later works deal with profound and basic artistic questions where she investigates the processes of perception and attribution of meaning, at times in the light of a larger cultural and existential thematic like colonialism, faith and posthumanism. During the last decade she has sought to disengage moving image art from anthropocentrism and searched for ways to use the language of moving image to convey a relevant image of environmental change in this era of climate warming, overconsumption and mass extinction.

 

 

9, 10 Sep exhibitions can be viewed free of charge.
Other days, the standard entrance fee is applied.

 

Opening hours:

 

Sep 9,  12.00-20.00
Sep 10, 11, 11.00-19.00
Sep 12,  11.00-17.00
22 Konstitucijos Avenue, Vilnius

 

 

 

Radvila Palace Museum of Art

 

Inside and Outdoors

Mindaugas Navakas

 

Coordinator: Elona Lubytė

 

The new collection of the author’s latest works created throughout the period of 2016–2020 conceptually link the interior and exterior spaces of the Radvila Palace. Navakas’s interest lies in the dialogue between the chosen site and specific work, the visual dimension of a sculptural object and its cultural meanings that emerge in the process. This dialogue in its core holds a combination of metaphysical threat along with existential anxiety, frivolity or irony.

 

Protest Art: The Rebels of the Soviet Era

 

Curator: Arūnas Gelūnas

 

Vladimir Tarasov donated his five-decades’ worth of collection. The exhibition presents the works of forty artists who worked under the conditions of ideological dictate, censorship and restricted freedom of movement during the 1960s and 1980s in the Soviet Union. The creative works of the Moscow Conceptualists and the Lithuanian Silent Modernists are central to this collection. As different as they are in terms of artistic expression, they all share a common quality: defiance towards the prevalent ideological and aesthetic attitudes of their time and an effort for creative freedom. At the same time, this serves as one of the few attempts to present well-known Lithuanian Silent Modernists alongside their ‘brothers-in-arms’ who are lesser-known in Lithuania – creators of Soviet-era unofficial art from Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, and Estonia.

 

 

On 9th, 10th Sep exhibitions can be viewed free of charge.
Other days, the standard entrance fee is applied.

 

 

Opening hours:

 

9-11 Sep, 11:00-18:00
12 Sep, 12:00-17:00
24 Vilniaus str., Vilnius

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Radvila Palace Museum of Art,
24 Vilniaus st, LT-01402, Vilnius, Lithuania
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