ARTVILNIUS’09 – the first international contemporary art fair in the Baltic States

Date: 8-12 July, 2009
Place: Litexpo Lithuanian Exhibition and Conference Center (Laisvės av. 5, Vilnius)

Vilnius is the European capital of culture in 2009. One of the most important and largest events of this program was the first international art fair ever to be held in the Baltic States – ArtVilnius’09.

A wide and representative panorama of contemporary art was opened at Litexpo Lithuanian Exhibition and Conference Center. On 8-12 July more than 100 well-known and new galleries from Lithuania, its neighboring countries and foreign countries occupied Litexpo.

Galleries from 31 countries participated in ARTVILNIUS’09:
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece,  Hungary, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Argentina, Canada and India.

Auxiliary pavilion spaces and approaches of Litexpo were shelter exhibitions of sculptures, objects and installations, expositions of art publications, cultural institutions etc. Podium discussions, educational events and plenty of other different events were also in the program of ArtVilnius’09.

ARTVILNIUS’09 become an art bridge between the East and the West

We attained attention from art experts, gallerists, collectors, museologists, art critics and certainly for all local and foreign lovers of art.

Gallery Marino Cettina (Umag, Croatia)

Carlo Zanni, Lévy Project Gallery (Brussels, Belgium)

Agnė Jonkutė, Meno Parkas Gallery (Kaunas, Lithuania)

Martynas Martišius (Kaunas, Lithuania)

GALLERIES

ACADEMY (Sofia, Bulgaria)
AKADEMIJA, Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ALMA (Riga, Latvia)
AMA (Helsinki, Finland)
ANTONIJA (Riga, Latvia)
APPETITE (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
ARTDEPOO (Tallinn, Estonia)
ARTHOBLER.COM (Lisbon, Portugal)
ARKA, The Lithuanian Artists’ Association Gallery (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ARTPARK GALLERY (Linz, Austria)
ART PROMOTION02 (Liebshausen, Germany)
ARTSTRELKA PROJECTS (Moscow, Russia)
AUKSO PJŪVIS (Kaunas, Lithuania)
BALTA (Kaunas, Lithuania)
BAROTI GALERIJA (Klaipeda, Lithuania)
GIEDRE BARTELT GALERIE (Berlin, Germany)
BASTEJS (Riga, Latvia)
HUBERT BÄCHLER GALLERY (Zurich, Switzerland)
BIRKENFELDS (Riga, Latvia)
WALTER BISCHOFF GALLERY (Berlin, Germany)
BRUNNHOFER GALERIE KG (Linz, Austria)
BULART (Varna, Bulgaria)
C5 COLLECIÓN (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
CANDYLAND (Stockholm, Sweden)
CANVAS ARTISTS‘ CIRCLE (Kolkata, India)
MARINO CETTINA (Umag, Croatia)
COLLECTIVA (Berlin, Germany)
ELIZABETH COUTURIER (Bourgoin-Jallieu, France)
D137 (Sankt Petersburg, Russia)
D‘ARIJAUS GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
DUA2 GALERÍA (Pontevedra, Spain)
DUSETŲ DAILĖS GALERIJA (Dusetos, Lithuania)
FOFA (Montreal, Canada)
GABONE ART GALLERY (Yerevan, Armenia)
GALERIJA XX (Panevezys, Lithuania)
GALERIJA XX2 (Vilnius, Lithuania)
GALLERY 21 (Riga, Latvia)
GODOT ART GALLERY (Budapest, Hungary)
IDEIAS EMERGENTES (Porto, Portugal)
YA GALLERY (Kiev, Ukraine)
JARSBO GALLERI (Aarhus, Denmark)
STASIO JUŠKAUS GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
KAIRĖ – DEŠINĖ, The Lithuanian Artists’ Association Gallery (Vilnius, Lithuania)
KARAS GALLERY (Kiev, Ukraine)
KAUNO LANGAS (Kaunas, Lithuania)
KIBELA GALLERY (Maribor, Slovenia)
KLAIPĖDOS GALERIJA, The Lithuanian Artists’ Association Gallery (Klaipeda, Lithuania)
LASANDR-ART (Minsk, Belarus)
LETO (Warsaw, Poland)
ELAINE LÉVY PROJECT (Brussel, Belgium)
LIETUVOS AIDO GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
MAERZGALERIE (Leipzig, Germany)
MĀKSLA XO (Riga, Latvia)
MENO NIŠA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
MENO PARKAS, The Lithuanian Artists’ Association Gallery (Kaunas, Lithuania)
IRENOS MIKULIČIŪTĖS DAILĖS STUDIJA-GALERIJA (Kaunas, Lithuania)
MUNICIPAL GALLERY BWA (Gdansk, Poland)
NB GALLERY (Viborg, Denmark)
NEFRET (Turku, Finnland)
GALERIE NERO (Wiesbaden, Germany)
NEXTART GALLERY (Budapest, Hungary)
NIVET-CARZON GALLERY (Paris, France)
PAMĖNKALNIO GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
PANEVĖŽIO DAILĖS GALERIJA (Panevezys, Lithuania)
PIEKARY GALLERY (Poznan, Poland)
PODZEMKA (Minsk, Belarus)
EMMANUEL POST (Leipzig, Germany )
PROSPEKTO GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
RA GALLERY (Kiev, Ukraine)
RIGA GALLERY (Riga, Latvia)
ROTHAMEL GALLERY (Erfurt, Germany)
SAVICKO PAVEIKSLŲ GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
SCHUSTER BERLIN GBR (Berlin, Germany)
SERPENTE GALLERY (Porto, Portugal)
SOFA (Druskininkai, Lithuania)
START ART (Reykjavik, Iceland)
STUDIO‘DI GIOVANNA SIMONETTA (Milan, Italy)
SUPERMARKET 2010 (Stockholm, Sweden)
ŠIAULIŲ DAILĖS GALERIJA (Siauliai, Lithuania)
ŠV. JONO GATVĖS GALERIJA, The Lithuanian Artists’ Association Gallery (Vilnius, Lithuania)
TIFĀNA (Riga, Latvia)
TRIPTYCH GALLERY (Kiev, Ukraine)
ULAR (Almata, Kazachstan)
UMTRIEB GALLERY (Kiel, Germany)
VÁRFOK GALLERY (Budapest, Hungary)
IVONNA VEIHERTE ART GALLERY (Riga, Latvia)
VLADO VIDŽIŪNO GALERIJA, VILNIAUS JĖRUZALĖS SKULPTŪROS SODAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
VILNIAUS DAILĖS AKADEMIJOS MUZIEJUS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
TELŠIŲ DAILĖS GALERIJA, Vilnius Academy of Arts (Telsiai, Lithuania)
VILNIAUS VAIKŲ IR JAUNIMO MENO GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
VKN GALLERY (Riga, Latvia)
XL GALLERY (Moscow, Russia)
ZAUM PROJECTS CONTEMPORARY ART (Lisbon, Portugal)
ZEH (Kiev, Ukraine)

STRANGE OBJECTS
New large sculptures and installations of Lithuanian artists

MARTYNAS MARTIŠIUS (Kaunas, Lithuania)
PETRAS MAZŪRAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
RIMANTAS MILKINTAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
RAY BARTKUS (New York, USA)
SVAJONĖ & PAULIUS STANIKAI (Paris, France – Vilnius, Lithuania)
KĘSTUTIS SVIRNELIS (Stuttgart, Germany – Vilnius, Lithuania)
MINDAUGAS TENDZIAGOLSKIS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
SAULIUS VAITIEKŪNAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
MARIUS ZAVADSKIS (Vilnius, Lithuania)

ART INSTITUTIONS

ARTANTIDE.COM (Verona, Italy)
AURA (Kiev, Ukraine)
DAILININKŲ SĄJUNGOS LEIDYKLA ARTSERIA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
FLASH ART INTERNATIONAL (Milan, Italy)
FOTO KVARTĀLS (Riga, Latvia)
KARPAVIČIAUS LEIDYKLA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
KLAIPĖDOS KULTŪRŲ KOMUNIKACIJŲ CENTRAS KULTŪRPOLIS (Klaipeda, Lithuania)
PLATINUM (Riga, Latvia)
VILNIAUS AUKCIONAS/MENO RINKOS AGENTŪRA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
VILNIAUS DAILĖS AKADEMIJOS LEIDYKLA (Vilnius, Lithuania)