ARTVILNIUS’13 – fourth contemporary art fair

Date: 26 – 30 June, 2013
Place: Litexpo, Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre (Laisvės av. 5, Vilnius)

The Fourth Contemporary Art Fair ArtVilnius’13 was a great success with 50 art galleries from 11 countries of the world having sold more than 100 prices of art for nearly half a million litas. Negotiations are in progress for another 40 artworks.

The greatest collectors’ attention was caught by the Ukrainian gallery Tsekh, which enjoyed superb results last year, too. The watercolours and sculptures by Ukrainian artist Jevgen Petrov, whom this gallery was presenting, were willingly bought by collectors from Latvia and Lithuania. Likewise, many works were sold by Danish gallery NB, Italian gallery Ufofabric, and Byelorussian gallery Ў. Lithuanian galleries also enjoyed much success and noted that paintings appeared to be the most marketable ones, in addition to photographs and sculptures which sales were quite palpable, too. The biggest numbers of artworks were sold by Menų Tiltas Gallery, Klaipėda Gallery, and Kristina Norvilaitė Gallery.

The list of authors whose artworks were bought during the art fair includes Augustinas Savickas, Virginijus Viningas, Saulius Vaitiekūnas, Marius Jonutis, Egidijus Radvenskas, Vilmantas Marcinkevičius, Marius Martisunnen, Rūta Katiliūtė, Dalia Kasčiūnaitė, photographers Arturas Valiauga, Arūnas Baltėnas, young artists Mykolas Sauka, Kristina Norvilaitė, Kristina Ališauskaitė, Eglė Ulčickaitė, classics in emigration Pranas Gailius, Vytautas Kasiulis, Viktoras Petravičius, and others.

Panel of judges:

• Chairman – prof.dr. Raminta Jurėnaitė / Art Critic
• prof. Arvydas Šaltenis / Painter
• dr. Zanutė Zovienė / Art Critic
• Ernestas Parulskis / Art Critic
• prof. Laima Oržekauskienė / Artist

Vilnius Graphic Art Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania / Hall 5.30)

TIFĀNA (Riga, Latvia / Hall 5.38)

Raimondas Gailiūnas, presented by A Gallery (Panevėžys, Lithuania / Hal 5.37)

Mikola Bilous, presented by Tsekh Gallery (Kiev, Ukraine / Hall 5.21)

Zaida Gonzalez, presented by Serpente Gallery (Porto, Portugal / Hall 5.32)

Jonas Aničas, presented Vilnius Academy of Arts Exhibition Hall Titanikas (Vilnius, Lithuania / Hall 5.31)

Laima Drazdauskaitė paintings, Aukso Pjūvis Gallery (Kaunas, Lithuania / Hall 3.16)

Kęstutis Svirnelis Snowman, Presented by Vilniaus grafikos meno centras (Vilnius, Lithuania / Hall 3.5)

Rimas Sakalauskas video installation Electric Light Evolution, presented by gallery Meno Niša (Vilnius, Lithuania / Hall 3.3)

GALLERIES

101 VDU MENŲ GALERIJA (Kaunas, Lithuania)
21 GALERIJA (Riga, Latvia)
A GALERIJA (Panevezys, Lithuania)
AKADEMIJA, Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ARGENTUM, Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ARKA, The Lithuanian Artists’ Association Gallery (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ARTIFEX, Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ARTKOMAS (Kaunas, Lithuania)
AUKSO PJŪVIS (Kaunas, Lithuania)
(AV17) (Vilnius, Lithuania)
BAROTI GALERIJA. Klaipėdos apskrities dailininkų sąjunga (Klaipeda, Lithuania)
CART GALLERIA (Monza, Italy)
COLLECTIVA (Berlin, Germany)
DREVINĖ PUŠIS. PROJEKTAS (Utena, Lietuva)
DUSETŲ DAILĖS GALERIJA (Dusetos, Lithuania)
GAIDYS, Mobili galerija (Vilnius, Lithuania)
GALERA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
IRENOS MIKULIČIŪTĖS DAILĖS STUDIJA-GALERIJA (Kaunas, Lithuania)
JUOZAS ART (Vilnius, Lithuania)
JUŠKUS GALLERY (Vilnius, Lithuania)
KARAVAN GALLERY (Paris, France)
KAUNO FOTOGRAFIJOS GALERIJA (Kaunas, Lithuania)
KAUNO LANGAS (Kaunas, Lithuania)
KLAIPĖDOS GALERIJA, The Lithuanian Artists’ Association Gallery (Klaipeda, Lithuania)
KRISTINA NORVILAITĖ (Vilnius, Lithuania)
KUNSTKAMERA (Vilnius, Lietuva)
LATVIJOS DAILĖS AKADEMIJOS EKSPOZICIJŲ SALĖS (Riga, Latvia)
MENO NIŠA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
MENO PARKAS, The Lithuanian Artists’ Association Gallery (Kaunas, Lithuania)
MENŲ TILTAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
NB GALLERY (Viborg, Denmark)
PANEVĖŽIO DAILĖS GALERIJA (Panevezys, Lithuania)
PITT PROJECTS (Worcester, UK)
PYLIMO GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
PROSPEKTO GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
SAVICKO PAVEIKSLŲ GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
SERPENTE GALLERY (Porto, Portugal)
SOFA (Druskininkai, Lithuania)
STALOWA GALERIA (Warsaw, Poland)
TELŠIŲ GALERIJA, Vilnius Academy of Arts Faculty of Telsiai (Telsiai, Lithuania)
TERRA RECOGNITA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
TIFĀNA (Riga, Latvia)
TITANIKAS, Vilnius Academy of Arts Exhibition Halls (Vilnius, Lithuania)
TSEKH (Kiev, Ukraine)
UFOFABRIK (Trento, Italy)
VILNIAUS GRAFIKOS MENO CENTRAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
VILNIAUS VAIKŲ IR JAUNIMO MENO GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lietuva)
ZNAD WILII (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Ў (Minsk, Belarus)

TAKAS
Large scale sculptures, installations and performances exhibition

ANDRIUS ERMINAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
NERIJUS ERMINAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ALGIS KASPARAVIČIUS (Lazdijai, Lithuania)
MARTYNAS MARTIŠIUS (Kaunas, Lithuania)
ANDRIUS PETKUS (Darbėnai, Lithuania)
RAFAL PIESLIAK (Vilnius, Lithuania)
MARIUS SKUDŽINSKAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
KĘSTUTIS SVIRNELIS (Stuttgart, Germany)
MINDAUGAS TENDZIAGOLSKIS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
VLADAS URBANAVIČIUS (Vilnius, Lithuania)

VIDEO ART COLLECTION
Vilnius Academy of Arts. Department of Photography and Media Arts

Šarūnas Akelaitis
Arnas Anskaitis
Ieva Bernotaitė
Viltė Bražiūnaitė
Paulius Gvildys
Marta Ivanova
Saulius Leonavičius
Paulius Mazūras
Lauryna Narkevičiūtė
Anastasija Piroženko
Gintarė Rakickaitė
Tomas Sinkevičius
Rūta Songailaitė
Giedrė Širmenytė
Gedvilė Tamošiūnaitė
Lina Zaveckytė

PORTRAITS OF ARTISTS
Juozas Matonis and Vytautas Damaševičius documentary film-making:

Valentinas Antanavičius, Rimas Zigmas Bičiūnas, Jonas Daniliauskas, Dalia Kasčiūnaitė, Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė, Augustas Savickas, Algis Skačkauskas, Aloyzas Stasiulevičius, Jūratė Stauskaitė, Vladas Karatajus, Leonardas Tuleikis, Mikalojus Povilas Vilutis.

You can download ArtVilnius’13 catalogue PDF here.