ARTVILNIUS'22
INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR ARTVILNIUS’22
The 13 edition of ArtVilnius’22 was held in the Exhibition and Congress Centre Litexpo on 7-9 October 2022. The theme of the Fair was ecology, with a special focus on the genres of installation and sculpture. The guest of the fair was Ukraine, whose artists’ works will be presented in various segments of the programme.
ArtVilnius’22 featured 70 art galleries and institutions and 320 artists from 18 countries. Besides the main gallery programme, ArtVilnius set up an annual Project Zone, where art institutions and renowned individual artists from Lithuania and other countries presented projects and exhibitions created exclusively for the Fair (curator Valentinas Klimašauskas). The Fair also hosted the international sculpture, installation and performance exhibition The Path (curated by Vytenis Burokas) with 28 individual artists projects. An international jury of art professionals and visitors selected the best galleries, artists, and individual works presented at the Fair.
E-CATALOGUE
PARTICIPANTS
GALLERIES
AGIJAS SŪNAS (Rīga, Latvia)
AKADEMIJA. Vilnius Academy of Arts gallery (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ANTAKALNIO DAILĖS GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
AP GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ARKA. Lithuanian Artists’ Association (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ARS ET MUNDUS (Kaunas, Lithuania)
ART14 (Kyiv, Ukraine)
ARTIFEX. Vilnius Academy of Arts textile gallery (Vilnius, Lithuania)
AUKSO PJŪVIS (Kaunas, Lithuania)
BAROTI GALERIJA. KADS (Klaipėda, Lithuania)
BASTEJS (Jūrmala , Latvia)
CONTOUR ART GALLERY (Vilnius, Lithuania)
DAILININKŲ SĄJUNGOS GALERIJA. Lithuanian Artists’ Association (Vilnius, Lithuania)
DK GALLERY (Minsk, Belarus)
DUSETŲ DAILĖS GALERIJA (Dusetos, Lithuania)
GALERIE INTERSHOP (Leipzig, Germany)
GALERIE NIVET-CARZON (Paris, France)
GALERIJA XX. Lithuanian Artists’ Association (Panevėžys, Lithuania)
GODÒ GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
IRENOS MIKULIČIŪTĖS DAILĖS GALERIJA (Kaunas, Lithuania)
GALERIJA KRISTINA NORVILAITĖ (Vilnius, Lithuania)
KAUNO LANGAS (Kaunas, Lithuania)
KLAIPĖDOS GALERIJA. Lithuanian Artists’ Association (Klaipėda, Lithuania)
KREATORIUMAS. Vilnius Academy Of Arts gallery (Vilnius, Lithuania)
KUNSTKAMERA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
LOOK! (Rīga, Latvia)
MĀKSLA XO (Rīga, Latvia)
MENO MINISTERIJA (Kaunas, Lithuania)
MENO NIŠA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
MENO PARKAS. Lithuanian Artists’ Association (Kaunas, Lithuania)
MENŲ TILTAS (Vilnius, Lietuva)
MOLĖTŲ DAILĖS GALERIJA (Molėtai, Lithuania)
NB GALLERII (Viborg, Denmark)
OKAPI (Tallinn, Estonia)
PANEVĖŽIO MIESTO DAILĖS GALERIJA (Panevėžys, Lithuania)
PILOT. Experimental Art Space of Art Academy of Latvia (Rīga, Latvia)
RA GALLERY (Kyiv, Ukraine)
RAMYBĖS GALERIJA (Palanga, Lithuania)
S_IN. Lithuanian Artists’ Association (Šiauliai, Lithuania)
SHCHERBENKO ART CENTER (Kyiv, Ukraine)
TELŠIŲ DAILĖS GALERIJA. Vilnius Academy Of Arts gallery (Telšiai, Lithuania)
TERRA RECOGNITA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
TITANIKAS. Vilnius Academy of Arts exhibition halls (Vilnius, Lithuania)
THE ROOM (Vilnius, Lithuania)
THE ROOSTER GALLERY (Vilnius, Lithuania)
THE NAKED ROOM GALLERY (Kyiv, Ukraine)
TSEKH (Kyiv, Ukraine | (Vilnius, Lithuania)
TUMO GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
TRIVIUM (Vilnius, Lithuania)
UŽUPIO MENO INKUBATORIUS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
VIDMANTO MARTIKONIO GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
VILKAMIRGĖS GALERIJA (Ukmergė, Lithuania)
VILNIAUS FOTOGRAFIJOS MENO CENTRAS 7:14 (Vilnius, Lithuania)
VILNIAUS IR VAIKŲ JAUNIMO MENO GALERIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania)
YA GALLERY (Lviv, Ukraine)
5 MALŪNAI, Vilnius Academy of Arts gallery (Vilnius, Lithuania)
PROJECT ZONE
PROJECT ZONE: DELIRIOUS BODIES
Curator Valentinas Klimašauskas
MOCAK. Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (Poland)
Artists: Natalia LL (1937 – 2022), Valentina Miorandi
LEWBEN ART FOUNDATION (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Do octopus dream people?
Curator: Valentinas Klimašauskas
CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Injured wind
Artist: Robertas Narkus
Curator: Neringa Bumblienė
JONAS MEKAS VISUAL ARTS CENTER (Vilnius, Lithuania)
365 days
Artist: Jonas Mekas
VILNIUS ACADEMY OF ARTS, art doctoral students
Studies
afterschool_________ collective (Rasa Janciauskaite, Egle Pociuipaite, Simona Rukuizaite, Miki
INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS
Danas Aleksa (Lithuania), Madeleine Andersson (Sweden), Anna K.E. (Georgia) and Florian Meisenberg (Germany), Oleksiy Radinski (Ukraine), Marija Žiemytė (Lithuania)
VIDEO PROGRAM
Andro Eradze (Georgia), Dana Kavelina (Ukraine), Goda Palekaitė (Lithuania) and Adrijana Gvozdenović (Montenegro), Sashko Protyah (Ukraine), Anastasia Sosunova (Lithuania), Miglė Vyčinaitė (Lithuania)
TAKAS | THE PATH
Exhibition of sculptures, installations and performances
The curator of the exhibition TAKAS is an art critic Vytenis Burokas
75B ROTTERDAM (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
AUKSĖ MILIUKAITĖ (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ANDRIUS ERMINAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
BIONICS (Kaunas, Lithuania)
DAINIUS TRUMPIS (Šiauliai, Lithuania)
DALIA TRUSKAITĖ (Vilnius, Lithuania)
DOMAS IGNATAVIČIUS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
EGLĖ PILKAUSKAITĖ (Vilnius, Lithuania)
EVELINA DAPKUTĖ (Vilnius, Lithuania)
INDRĖ LIŠKAUSKAITĖ (Vilnius, Lithuania)
JONAS ANIČAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
KĘSTUTIS SVIRNELIS (Lithuania | Stuttgart Germany)
LAIMA KULBYTĖ (Vilnius, Lithuania)
LINAS BLAŽIŪNAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
MAARIT MURKA (Tallinn, Estonia)
MATAS JANUŠONIS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
MONIKA DIRSYTĖ AND AGNĖ SABULYTĖ (Vilnius, Lithuania)
MONIKA GRAŠIENĖ-ŽALTĖ (Kaunas, Lithuania)
PAULIUS ANIČAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
PAULIUS ŠLIAUPA AND LAIMA MATUZONYTĖ (Vilnius, Lithuania)
PETRAS MAZŪRAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
RAFAL PIESLIAK (Vilnius, Lithuania)
RAIMUNDAS KRUKONIS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
RITA STANKEVIČIŪTĖ (Marijampolė, Lithuania)
RYTIS URBANSKAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
SERGEI BELOAKI (Wrocław, Poland)
SEVERIJA INČIRAUSKAITĖ-KRIAUNEVIČIENĖ (Vilnius, Lithuania)
TAURAS KENSMINAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
ZANA ZEIVATE (Riga, Latvia)
ŽYGIMANTAS AUGUSTINAS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
3D TOUR
If you couldn’t visit the contemporary art fair ArtVilnius’22 at LITEXPO, you can do it virtually. Together with Meno genas, we invite you to walk around the galleries of the fair and view or even purchase the works exhibited in them in a virtual 3D tour.
Main 5th hall (galleries and exhibition Takas). I part
Main 3th hall (galleries and exhibition Takas)
The balcony of the 3rd Hall (exhibition Takas)
Project zone, hall 4
4 Hall (Project zone) - Lewben Art Foundation
AWARDS
During ArtVilnius’22, an international jury of art professionals and visitors selected the best galleries, artists, and works of art.
PANEL OF JUDGES:
- Virginijus Kinčinaitis (Lithuania) – an art researcher, critic, photographer, organizer and participant of international and national art projects, exhibitions, and campaigns.
- Monika Kozioł (Poland) – curator of exhibitions and projects in the field of contemporary art, author of texts on post-1945 art, museologist. Since 2010, she has been working at MOCAK the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow.
- Valentinas Klimašauskas (Lithuania) – curator of contemporary art and a writer. In 2021, together with João Laia, he curated the 14th Edition of the Baltic Triennial of Contemporary Art. In 2019, together with Inga Lāce, curated the Latvian National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
- Danutė Gambickaitė (Lithuania) – curator and art historian. Headwoman at Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artist Association, director of the culture venue “Sodas 2123”;
- Lesia Kulchynska (Ukraine) – PhD, a Kyiv-based art curator and visual studies researcher currently affiliated with Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History.
AWARDS:
- Best 7 galleries (in alphabetical order):
5 malūnai, VDA galerija (Lithuania)
Art14 (Ukraine)
Artifex, VDA tekstilės galerija (Lithuania)
Galerie Nivet-Carzon (France)
Dailininkų sąjungos galerija (Lithuania)
The Rooster gallery (Lithuania)
Titanikas, VDA parodų salė (Lithuania) - Best sculpture/Installation: Žygimantas Augustinas – installation Nepakankama ramybė
- Best Artist: Eglė Paulina Pukytė. Presented by VDA gallery „5 malūnai“
- Best Young Artist, under 35 (prize by Law Firm COBALT, Maecenas of the Fair): Jonas Aničas
- Best Audience Select Ukrainian Artist (prize by Volfas Engelman): Alexandra Kadzevich (Presented by The Naked Room gallery).
- Best Audience Select Gallery (prize by Volfas Engelman): Terra recognita (Lithuania)
PROGRAMME
7 October, Friday
13:00-14:00
Rita Stankevičiūtė. Performance “Organisms dipping”.
„Litexpo“, balcony of hall 3, T.19.
14.00–20.00
Monika Dirsytė and Agnė Sabulytė. Performance “Axis code”, 2022.
Litexpo outside space (T.07)
16.00–17.00
Discussion Kaunas 2022 – Co-Creation for Lithuania and the World.
Participants: Simonas Kairys, Minister of Culture; Virginija Vitkienė, director of “Kaunas 2022”; Arvydas Žalpys, director of gallery Meno Parkas. Moderated by Rytis Zemkauskas, curator of “Kaunas 2022”, journalist.
Initiated by: Office of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
More details about the event can be found on the Facebook event.
Language: Lithuanian
The discussion will be broadcasted on the ArtVilnius’22 YouTube channel.
16.00-16.30
Performance by artist Gleb Divov. Duration – 30 min.
Presented by OKAPI gallery (Tallinn, Estonia)
Location: hall 5, OKAPI gallery stand 5.22
16.00 and 19.00
Performance by Paulina Pukytė, I Have Been Locked Up for Three days (Confession of an Influencer). Duration – 10 min.
Presented by VAA gallery 5 malūnai
Location: hall 3, stand 3.39
18.00–19.00
ArtVilnius’22 official opening evening, the award ceremony for the best fair participants.
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
8 October, Saturday
11.30-20.00
Monika Dirsytė and Agnė Sabulytė. Performance “Axis code”, 2022.
Litexpo outside space (T.07)
12.30–13.30
Discussion Invisible Archives. Is it necessary to digitize physical archives, seemingly to make information more accessible, and which digital technologies can really ensure this?
Participants: Juozapas Blažiūnas, Doctor of Arts, director of the Lithuanian Archives of Literature and Art, and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Communication, Vilnius University; Andrius Bartminas, head of SUPER HOW?, a research center for blockchain technology; Viktorija Kolbešnikova, initiator of the queer archive “išgirsti”. Moderated by Ieva Gražytė, researcher of Digital Culture and ArtTech Ecosystem.
Presented by innovation laboratory SUPER HOW? and project superhow.ART.
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
More details about the event can be found on the Facebook event.
Language: Lithuanian
The discussion will be broadcasted on the ArtVilnius’22 YouTube channel.
13:00-14:00
Rita Stankevičiūtė. Performance “Organisms dipping”.
„Litexpo“, balcony of hall 3, T.19.
13.00 and 17.00
Performance by artists Erik Alalooga and Temuri Khvingia. Duration – 1 hour.
Presented by OKAPI gallery (Tallinn, Estonia)
Location: hall 5, OKAPI gallery stand 5.22
13.00, 16.00, and 19.00
Performance by Paulina Pukytė, I Have Been Locked Up for Three days (Confession of an Influencer).
Duration – 10 min.
Presented by VAA gallery 5 malūnai
Location: hall 3, stand 3.39
14.00–15.00
Podium discussion Art in the Face of War and Conditions of War. Participants: director of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art dr. Arūnas Gelūnas; art critic, prof. dr. Giedrė Jankevičiūtė; head of the Internal Control and Prevention Division of the Department of Cultural Heritage, Povilas Mečkovskis.
The event will be moderated by the head of Vilnius Auction dr. Simona Skaisgirė.
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
Language: Lithuanian
The discussion will be broadcasted on the ArtVilnius’22 YouTube channel.
15.30–16.30
Discussion Art at War: Protests and Survival Strategies. A discussion between Ukrainian and Lithuanian curators and artists led by Virginijus Kinčinaitis on creative activities and survival strategies of the art market in the face of war.
Participants: Pavlo Gudimov, head of art center Ya Gallery (Ukraine); Oleksandr Shchelushchenko, head of gallery TSEKH (Ukraine); Eglė Ganda, chairwoman of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association; Dovilė Dagienė, photographer, co-curator of the exhibition #Ukraine. Moderated by Virginijus Kinčinaitis, art theorist and critic, who will comment on fragile contexts.
The event will be held in Lithuanian and Ukrainian languages (with translation by Vladislav Zurba).
Presented by Lithuanian Culture Institute
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
More details about the event can be found on the Facebook event.
The discussion will be broadcasted on the ArtVilnius’22 YouTube channel.
17.00–18.00
Conversation Why Collect Contemporary Art?. Participants: Justė Jonutytė, contemporary art market expert, founder of @TEMAprojects; Vita Zaman, artist, art consultant, gallerist; JL Murtaugh, artist, curator, and art consultant.
Language: English
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
The discussion will be broadcasted on the ArtVilnius’22 YouTube channel.
18.30–19.30
Vytautas Kašėta. Presentation The Meaning of Art and Exhibiting Alternatives in the Metaverse. The perception of the term ‘metaverse’ has changed since its coining in 1992. Alternative realities, in which shared consumer experiences and social interactions are central, dictate new forms of art, but are direct interactions at a distance possible?
Presented by innovation laboratory SUPER HOW? and project superhow.ART.
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
More details about the event can be found on the Facebook event.
Language: Lithuanian
The discussion will be broadcasted on the ArtVilnius’22 YouTube channel.
9 October, Sunday
2.00–13.00
What (Else) Can Be Done? A Conversation on Art, Ecology, Disinformation and More in the Context of the Russian War in Ukraine.
Among many other things, the Russian aggression into Ukraine also revealed how culture, ecology, economy, disinformation, and other sociopolitical realities are intertwined. In this context, the questions that are more or less loudly raised are what can art institutions (from artists and curators to museums and audiences) do to help Ukraine succeed in this war? Are the muses silent during the war? How should we behave regarding the contemporary Russian art world – should we cancel it, postpone it, help, or? Should – and if yes, how – the art world immerse and participate in the ongoing wars of (dis)information?
Participants: curator of the ArtVilnius’22 project area Valentinas Klimašauskas; Ukrainian art curator and researcher in visual studies Lesia Kulchinska; Ukrainian art critic living in Lithuania, lecturer at Vilnius Academy of Arts and the European Humanities University, Valentyn Odnoviun; artist and writer Olia Sosnovskaya, living between Minsk and Vienna.
Language: English
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
The discussion will be broadcasted on the ArtVilnius’22 YouTube channel.
13.30–14.30
Discussion Culture and Ecology. Which One Will Save the World?
Participants:
Presented by the weekly journal Literatūra ir menas.
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
Language: Lithuanian
The discussion will be broadcasted on the ArtVilnius’22 YouTube channel.
13.00-13.30
Performance by artist Gleb Divov. Duration – 30 min.
Presented by OKAPI gallery (Tallinn, Estonia)
Location: hall 5, OKAPI gallery stand 5.22
13.00 and 16.00
Performance by Paulina Pukytė, I Have Been Locked Up for Three days (Confession of an Influencer). Duration – 10 min.
Presented by VAA gallery 5 malūnai
Location: hall 3, stand 3.39
15.00–16.00
Discussion Extraordinary Architecture and Art at Home: How Has It Changed Over a Decade?
Participants:
architect Gilma Teodora Gylytė; architecture critic and architect dr. Matas Šiupšinskas; co-owners of Baltic Sotheby’s International Realty Marius Bružas and Paulius Gebrauskas.
Moderated by Ūla Ambrasaitė, founder of the publishing house Lapas.
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
Language: Lithuanian
The discussion will be broadcasted on the ArtVilnius’22 YouTube channel.
17.00–18.00
Award ceremony for Audience Select Gallery and Audience Select Ukrainian Artist (award by Volfas Engelman)
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08