ARTVILNIUS’11 – The Second International Contemporary Art Fair

Date: 13-17 July, 2011
Place: Litexpo, Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre (Laisvės av. 5, Vilnius)

Art Fair ArtVilnius’11 presented a broad and representative panorama of contemporary art galleries.

In addition, the Litexpo Centre provided space for board discussions, lectures, and video art sessions, educational programmes for children and adults as well as exhibition of sculptures and installations Takas.

The Art Fair hosted 65 art galleries from 17 countries of the world, ranging from Almata to New York

Galleries from Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Croatia, Denmark, Portugal, Great Britain, the United States, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Japan presented more than 1,000 works of art by over 300 artists.

The Art Fair was visited by more than 17,000 visitors or invited guests, including President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius, Minister for Culture Arūnas Gelūnas, Vilnius City Mayor Artūras Zuokas, etc. The event also enjoyed attention from international art experts, gallerists, collectors, museologists, and art critics, large flows of local visitors and foreign guests interested in art as well as special attention from the media.

Panel of judges:

• Chairman – prof. Arvydas Šaltenis / VVA Vice-Rector for Arts, Painter (Lithuania)
• Astrida Rogule / Art Critic, Senior Curator for Contemporary Art Collection, Latvian National Museum of Art (Latvia)
• prof.dr. Raminta Jurėnaitė /ArtVilnius’11 Artistic Director (Lithuania)
• Eglė Komkaitė – Baltušnikienė / Art Critic, Deputy Director of M. K. Čiurlionis Museum of Art (Lithuania)
• Virginijus Kinčinaitis / Art Critic (Lithuania)
• Darius Joneika / Artist (Lithuania)
• Diana Stomienė / ArtVilnius’11 Director, President of the Lithuanian Art Gallerists’ Association (Lithuania)

Gallery SOFA (Druskininkai, Lithuania)

Gallery Ў (Minsk, Belarus)

Painter Barbara Gaile, Gallery Alma (Riga, Latvia)

Graphic artist Linas Blažiūnas, Art Gallery of Utena Cultural Centre, (Utena, Lithuania)

Tim van Tuil, Gallery De Compagnie (Dordrecht, the Netherlands)

Sculptor Rimantas Milkintas (Vilnius, Lithuania)

GALLERIES

A GALERIJA (Panevezys, Lithuania)
ACTUS MAGNUS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
AKADEMIJA, VDA GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ALMA (Rīga, Latvia)
ARKA, The Lithuanian Artists’ Association Gallery (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ARTIFEX, Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania)
AUKSO PJŪVIS (Kaunas, Lithuania)
BAROTI GALERIJA (Klaipeda, Lithuania)
BIRKENFELDS GALLERY (Rīga, Latvia)
DARIJAUS GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
DE COMPAGNIE (Dordrecht, The Netherlands)
DUSETŲ DAILĖS GALERIJA (Dusetos, Lithuania)
EGLĖS GALERIJA (Kaunas, Lithuania)
FRANTS GALLERY SPACE (St. Petersburg, Russia) 
GAIDYS, MOBILI GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
GALERIE STP (Greifswald, Germany)
GALERIJA XX, The Lithuanian Artists’ Association Gallery (Panevezys, Lithuania)
GALERIJA 21 (Rīga, Latvia)
IRENOS MIKULIČIŪTĖS DAILĖS STUDIJA-GALERIJA (Kaunas, Lithuania)
JAUNOJO TAPYTOJO PRIZAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
JUŠKUS GALLERY (Vilnius, Lithuania)
KAIRĖ – DEŠINĖ, The Lithuanian Artists’ Association Gallery (Vilnius, Lithuania)
KAUNO FOTOGRAFIJOS GALERIJA (Kaunas, Lithuania)
KAUNO LANGAS (Kaunas, Lithuania)
KLAIPĖDOS GALERIJA, The Lithuanian Artists’ Association Gallery (Klaipeda, Lithuania)
KLAIPĖDOS KULTŪRŲ KOMUNIKACIJŲ CENTRO PARODŲ RŪMAI (Klaipeda, Lithuania)
KUNSTKAMERA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
LASANDR-ART (Minsk, Belarus)
LIETUVOS AIDO GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
MĀKSLA XO (Rīga, Latvia)
MARINO CETTINA (Umag, Croatia)
MENO NIŠA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
MENO PARKAS, The Lithuanian Artists’ Association Gallery (Kaunas, Lithuania)
NANDE GALLERI (Herning, Denmark)
NB GALLERY (Viborg, Denmark)
NIVET-CARZON GALLERIE (Paris, France)
NROOM ARTSPACE (Nerima-Ku, Tokyo)
PAMĖNKALNIO GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
PANEVĖŽIO DAILĖS GALERIJA (Panevezys, Lithuania)
PIEKARY GALLERY (Poznan, Poland)
PITT PROJECT SPACE (Worcester, UK)
PROSPEKTO GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
RA GALLERY (Kiev, Ukraine)
SAVICKO PAVEIKSLŲ GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
SENAMIESČIO MENININKŲ GALERIJA/DIRBTUVĖ (Vilnius, Lithuania)
SERPENTE GALLERY (Porto, Portugal)
SOFA (Druskininkai, Lithuania)
ŠV. JONO GATVĖS GALERIJA, The Lithuanian Artists’ Association Gallery (Vilnius, Lithuania)
TAIGART GALLERY (Tomsk, Russia)
TELŠIŲ PARODŲ SALĖ. Vilnius Academy of Arts (Telsiai, Lithuania)
TEMNIKOVA & KASELA GALLERY (Tallinn, Estonia)
TERRA RECOGNITA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
TIFĀNA (Rīga, Latvija)
TITANIKAS, Vilnius Academy of ArtsExhibition Halls (Vilnius, Lithuania)
TSEKH (Kiev, Ukraine)
ULAR (Almaty, Kazachstan)
UTENOS KULTŪROS CENTRO DAILĖS GALERIJA (Utena, Lithuania)
VILNIAUS VAIKŲ IR JAUNIMO MENO GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
WALTER BISCHOFF GALLERY (Berlin, Germany)
WERKSTATTGALERIE (Berlin, Germany)
Ў (Minsk, Belarus)
YA GALLERY ART CENTRE (Kiev, Ukraine)
ŽALIAS VĖJAS (Vilnius, Lithuania) 

TAKAS
Large scale sculptures and installations

ANDRIUS ERMINAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ALGIS KASPARAVIČIUS (Lazdijai, Lithuania)
MARTYNAS MARTIŠIUS (Kaunas, Lithuania)
PETRAS MAZŪRAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
RIMANTAS MILKINTAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ANDRIUS PETKUS (Darbėnai, Lithuania)
MARIUS SKUDŽINSKAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
KĘSTUTIS SVIRNELIS (Stuttgart, Germany-Vilnius, Lithuania)
MINDAUGAS TENDZIAGOLSKIS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
JULIAUS ŽĖKO PROJEKTAS: Julius Žėkas (Vilnius, Lithuania),  Žydrė Ridulytė (Vilnius, Lietuva), Algis Sakalauskas (Vilnius, Lithuania)


VIDEO ART COLLECTION

EVALDAS JANSAS (Lithuania)
EGLĖ RAKAUSKAITĖ (Lithuania)
DARIUS ŽIŪRA (Lithuania)

You can download ArtVilnius’11 catalogue PDF here.