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CAC, Vilnius: 15th Vilnius Painting Triennial – Painting and Its Contexts

15th Vilnius Painting Triennial: “Painting and Its Contexts” 2013.VI.14 – 2013.VIII.18 The Lithuanian Artists Association is organizing the 15th Vilnius Painting Triennial Painting and Its Contexts. The triennial will be held from June 13 through August 18 2013 at the Contemporary Art Centre. The focus of the event is on the contexts of the tradition [...]

Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius: Gediminas G. Akstinas

Exhibition by Gediminas G. Akstinas in the CAC Reading Room 2013.V.31 – 2013.VI.30 Opening of the exhibition by Gediminas G. Akstinas in the CAC Reading Room on 31st May, Friday, 6 pm Words overheard on a sunny day lead me to another memory-image – a hammock among trees. The memory evoked by these words, though [...]

CAC, Vilnius: WE ARE MUSEUMS

Next 6-7 June 2013, Vilnius will be at the heart of innovation and creation in the cultural sector. We Are Museums is a free 2-day conference with a unique format, that has chosen the Baltic area to play host to its very first edition. The event will be held at the Contemporary Art Centre, the [...]

Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius: Ritual Room

Ritual Room 2013.IV.12 – 2013.V.19 Distruktur In the traveler's heart 2013, 16 mm film still Curators: Ūla Tornau and Asta Vaičiulytė This exhibition proposes a walk – the moment where spatial and visual experience

CAC, Vilnius: two books published by NAUJOJI ROMUVA

Ilustration: Remigijus Tregys "Iškrovimo vieta" 2010. The presentation of two books published by "NAUJOJI ROMUVA" 2013.IV.09 The presentation of two books: "Mūsų Poetas"/"Nasz Poeta" (2012) and "Dviese apie meilę"/"Dwoje o miłości" (2012) published by NAUJOJI ROMUVA featuring Barbara Gruszka-Zych, Birutė Jonuškaitė, Julius Keleras, Andrius Konickis, Algis Kalėda. The presentation will take place at CAC Reading [...]

Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius: Color and Device

Gintaras Didžiapetris Color and Device 2013 04 05 – 05 19 Opening: April 5th, Friday, 6 p.m. Afterparty CD: from 10 p.m. CAC Café (music: Matas Synthsoulsizer, Požemis, Gintaras Didžiapetris) In linguistics, every metaphor is said to consist of two parts – tenor and vehicle. Tenor is that which is being described, even if it [...]

CAC Reading room: meeting with curator Martin Schibli

Open lecture Swedish Contemporary Art since the 90’s until today with Martin Schibli What is the modern Swedish art and how is it different from the other Nordic art trends? What an exceptional young generation of Swedish artists gave the world in exchange for international recognition? We welcome you to find it out in an [...]

CAC, Vilnius: Footnotes. Every Artwork as a Different Entry to the Same Show

Footnotes. Every Artwork as a Different Entry to the Same Show 2013.II.14 – III.17 Curator: Valentinas Klimašauskas Opening: Thursday, 14 February, 18:00 An exhibition and a series of meetings with Kristian Øverland Dahl (NO), Morten Norbye Halvorsen (NO), Karl Holmqvist (SE), Steinar Haga Kristensen (NO), Mikko Kuorinki (FI), Jacopo Miliani (IT), Ieva Misevičiūtė (LT), Olof [...]

CAC, Vilnius: Footnotes

Footnotes 2013.II.14 – III.17 Curator: Valentinas Klimašauskas Every Artwork as a Different Entry to the Same Show Opening: Thursday, 14 February, 18:00 An exhibition and a series of meetings with Kristian Øverland Dahl (NO), Morten Norbye Halvorsen (NO), Karl Holmqvist (SE), Steinar Haga Kristensen (NO), Mikko Kuorinki (FI), Jacopo Miliani (IT), Ieva Misevičiūtė (LT), Olof [...]

CAC, Vilnius: A Sort of Homecoming.

A Sort of Homecoming. Anna Jermolaewa and Audronė Vaupšienė 2013.II.14 – 2013.III.17 Curator: Simon Rees The title of the exhibition expresses the ambivalences and antagonisms that beset every return, home, from a journey. Equivalent ambivalences and antagonisms are attached to the concept of home, homeliness, and homeland (as much as they are supposed to express [...]

CAC, Vilnius: Donatas Jankauskas. Sunday

Donatas Jankauskas. Sunday Date: 2012.II.08 – 2012.III.13 Opening: Friday 8 February, at 6pm

CAC, Vilnius: PANORAMA 14: selected works from Le Fresnoy Art Centre annual exhibition

PANORAMA 14: selected works from Le Fresnoy Art Centre annual exhibition 2012.XI.30 – 2013.I.20 Opening: Friday 30 November at 6pm Artists in the exhibition: Théodora Barat, Véronique Béland, Anaïs Boudot, Maya Da-Rin, Renaud Duval, David Rokeby, Joachim Olender, Zahra Poonawala Artists in the film program: Mohamed Bourouissa, Slavica Ceperkovic, Jean Christophe, Alice Colomer, Maya Da-rin, [...]

CAC, Vilnius: Krišs Salmanis. Light

Krišs Salmanis. Light 2012.IX.27 – X.28 Some passengers of the first trains are said to have fainted due to information overload. The scenes outside the carriage window were changing too quickly. To describe the age of rapid progress, Goethe even devised the term "veloziferisch", an amalgam of "velocitas" ("speed" in Latin) and "Lucifer". Most probably [...]

The CAC presents Black Pillow in Liverpool Biennial

2012.IX.15 – XI.25 The CAC Vilnius presents Black Pillow A project by Valdas Ozarinskas & Audrius Bučas at Liverpool Biennial City States program Artists: Audrius Bučas & Valdas Ozarinskas Curator: Kęstutis Kuizinas Special preview: Thursday September 13, 16:30 Black Pillow is a collaborative project by two Lithuanian architects and artists Audrius Bučas & Valdas Ozarinskas. The project [...]

CAC: Geography

Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet (les gens d'Uterpan) Geography 14–23 September 2012 Opening: Friday, 14 September, 18:00 Geography poses the problem of setting a choreographic work in an exhibition space and is a score for four performers designed to take place within the spatial limitations of the place where it occurs. The performers are chosen [...]

Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius: Lithuanian Art 2012: 18 Exhibitions

Robertas Narkus & Milda Zabarauskaitė. I Spent 7 Years in My Uncle’s Home as a Servant. 2011 Lithuanian Art 2012: 18 Exhibitions 2012.VI.22 – VIII.12 Chance Number Six: Red Herring Collector Evening with Doctor Sheppard Generation of the Place Level B Mediations Messengers Now More Than Ever Phonography for the Exhibition

Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre: Now More Than Ever

Now More Than Ever, performance documentation, 16 mm film, 2011. Now More Than Ever – solo show by Ugnius Gelguda and Neringa Cerniauskaite We are happy to invite You to our solo show Now More Than Ever at the Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre (Vokieciu 2, Vilnius), where we shall introduce three new projects:/Reflection Wood Chronicles/, [...]

Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius: Possible Modernism

Possible Modernism 2012.IV.06 – V.20 Possible Modernism explores the limits of modern Lithuanian architecture of the Soviet period. The word ‘possible’ in the project’s title denotes questioning, as a principle for open and critical research, authorisation, since state commissioned, approved and run design practice is analysed, and power, since what is in focus is architecture, [...]

Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius: Composition for Two Wings

Akram Zaatari, Letter to Samir, 2008, C-print, 156 x 126 cm. Courtesy of Sfeir-Semler Gallery Akram Zaatari. Composition for Two Wings 20.04 – 20.05.2012 Curated by Marianne Hultman and Mats Stjernstedt Opening: Friday 30 March at 18.00 The exhibition is organised on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Lithuania and [...]

CAC, Vilnius: Comrades of Fear and Wonder (performance/public filming). Part 2

Alex Cecchetti. Comrades of Fear and Wonder (performance/public filming). Part 2 2012.III.15 at 5:30 PM Exercises for 6 dancers At A.Mickevičius Library (Reading Room), Trakų Str. 10 And so the seven arrows began to argue about how and why they arrived right there where they had fallen. They tried to remember, but memory talks too [...]