ARTVILNIUS’16  Focus – Poland
Seventh Contemporary Art Fair
Focus – Poland curator Professor Dr. Raminta Jurėnaitė

Date: 9-12 June, 2016
Place: Litexpo, Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre (Laisvės av. 5, Vilnius)

Poland – Special Guest

International contemporary art fair ArtVilnius’16 attracted the participation of 60 galleries from 12 countries (Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, the Netherlands, Russia, Italy, and France). The guest country was Poland. During the four days of ArtVilnius’16, Exhibition and Congress Centre Litexpo was proud to meet 21 thousand visitors; about 200 works of art were sold for more than 260 thousand euro.  Attention to ArtVilnius’16 was paid by foreign ambassadors who visited the events of the art fair. Presentation of the latest collection of the Lewben Art Foundation organised by the exclusive partner of ArtVilnius’16, Lewben Group, was proud to meet many representatives of business and art elite.

Panel of judges:

• Virginijus Kinčinaitis / Art Critic (Lithuania)
• Ernestas Parulskis / Art Critic (Lithuania)
• Julijonas Urbonas / Artist, researcher, Vice-Rector for Art at the Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania)

Severija Inčirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė Kill(ed) for Peace, presented by Artifex, Gallery of the Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Zuzanna Janin, presented by  “local_30” gallery (Warsaw, Poland)

Nulinis Laipsnis (0º) (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Gallery Ў (Minsk, Belarus)

Beatričė Mockevičiūtė, presented by 5 Malūnai Gallery of the Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Ulf Larsson’s gallery (Cologne, Germany)

Linas Blažiūnas, presented by Akademija Gallery of the Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania)

GALLERIES

5 MALŪNAI, Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania)
A GALERIJA (Panevėžys, Lithuania)
AGIJAS SŪNAS ART GALLERY (Riga, Latvia)
AIDAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
AKADEMIJA, Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania)
APTEKA SZTUKI (Warsaw, Poland)
ART AGENDA NOVA (Krakow, Poland)
ART-CART (Kaunas, Lithuania)
ARTIFEX, Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ASSEMBLY GALLERY (Poznan, Poland)
AUKSO PJŪVIS (Kaunas, Lithuania)
BALTA GALERIJA (Kaunas, Lithuania)
BAROTI GALERIJA. Artist’ Union of Klaipėda County (Klaipeda, Lithuania)
BOTTEGA GALLERY (Kiev, Ukraine)
CZUŁOŚĆ (Warsaw, Poland)
DAILININKŲ SĄJUNGOS GALERIJA, The Lithuanian Artists’ Association Gallery (Vilnius, Lithuania)
DK GALLERY (Minsk, Belarus)
DUSETŲ DAILĖS GALERIJA. Kultūros centras (Dusetos, Lithuania)
E.K.ART (Vilnius, Lithuania)
F.A.I.T   (Krakow, Poland)
GALERIJA KRISTINA NORVILAITĖ (Vilnius, Lithuania)
GALERIJA XX, The Lithuanian Artists’ Association Gallery (Panevezys, Lithuania)
GRAFO (Vilnius, Lithuania)
GROSART (Moscow, Russia)
HAPPY ART MUSEUM Riga, Latvia
IFAA CONTEMPORARY (Arnhem, The Netherlands)
IMMAGINARIA ARTI VISIVE GALLERY (Florence, Italy)
IRENOS MIKULIČIŪTĖS DAILĖS STUDIJA-GALERIJA (Kaunas, Lithuania)
KARAVAN GALLERY (Paris, France)
KAUNO FOTOGRAFIJOS GALERIJA (Kaunas, Lithuania)
KAUNO LANGAS (Kaunas, Lithuania)
KOVCHEG GALLERY (Moscow, Russia)
KULDĪGA ARTISTS’ RESIDENCE (Kuldiga, Latvia)
KUNSTKAMERA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
LE GUERN GALLERY (Warsaw, Poland)
LE POINT FORT GALLERY (Mittelhausbergen, France)
LOKAL_30 (Warsaw, Poland)
M² GALLERY (Warsaw, Poland)
MĀKSLA XO (Riga, Latvia)
MENO NIŠA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
MENŲ TILTAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
NIVET-CARZON (Paris, France)
NULINIS LAIPSNIS. Architecture gallery (Vilnius, Lithuania)
OKAPI GALLERY (Tallinn, Estonia)
POST GALERIJA (Kaunas, Lithuania)
PROSPEKTO GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
THE ROOSTER GALLERY (Vilnius, Lithuania)
STALOWA GALERIA (Warsaw, Poland)
TERRA RECOGNITA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
TIFĀNA ART GALLERY (Riga, Latvia)
TITANIKAS, Vilnius Academy of Arts Exhibition Halls (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ULF LARSSON GALERIE (Cologne, Germany)
VILNIAUS FOTOGRAFIJOS GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Ў GALLERY (Minsk, Belarus)
ZDERZAK GALERIA (Krakow, Poland)
GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART (Minsk, Belarus)

TAKAS
Large scale sculptures, installations and performances exhibition

3AM GRUPĖ (Kaunas, Lithuania)
DANAS ALEKSA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
JONAS ANIČAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
MONIKA DIRSYTĖ (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ANDRIUS ERMINAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
NERIJUS ERMINAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
EGLĖ GRĖBLIAUSKAITĖ (Vilnius, Lithuania)
MATAS JANUŠONIS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
C.T. JASPER (New York, US)
ALGIS KASPERAVIČIUS (Lazdijai, Lithuania)
ČESLOVAS LUKENSKAS (Kultuvėnai, Lithuania)
RIMANTAS MILKINTAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ĢLEBS PANTEĻEJEVS (Jurmala, Latvia)
PAULS PUDŽS (Riga, Latvia)
PAULIUS RAINYS (Kaunas, Lithuania)
NIKOLAJ KYNDE (Copenhagen, Denmark)
RAIMONDA SEREIKAITĖ (Vilnius, Lithuania)
PAULIUS ŠLIAUPA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
MIGLĖ GRIGUTYTĖ (Vilnius, Lithuania)
MARIJA ŠNIPAITĖ (Vilnius, Lithuania)
MINDAUGAS TENDZIAGOLSKIS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
RONALD A. WESTERHUIS (Zwolle, The Netherlands)

PROJECTS

LEWBEN ART FOUNDATION
Presented artists:
Hans Op de Beeck (Belgium)
Jake & Dinos Chapman (UK)
Michael Dean (UK)
Michael Dzama (Canada-USA)
Kendell Geers (PAR-Belgium)
Petrit Halilaj (Kosovo-Germany)
Thomas Hauseago (UK-US)
Bertrand Lavier (France)
Mandla Reuter (PAR-Germany)

JONO MEKO VIZUALIŲJŲ MENŲ CENTRAS 

ŁAŹNIA. Center for Contemporary Art (Gdansk, Poland)

MOCAK. Museum of Contemporary Art (Krakow, Poland)
Presented artists:
Małgorzata Blamowska
Piotr Blamowski
Lukáš Houdek
Karolina Kowalska
Kwie Kulik
Zbigniew Libera
Csaba Nemes
Krzysztof Wodiczka
Kateřina Šeda

STASYS EIDRIGEVIČIUS

ZUZANNA JANIN

VYTENIS JANKŪNAS

KĘSTUTIS SVIRNELIS

VLADIMIR TARASOV

You can download ArtVilnius’16 catalogue PDF here.