Individual artists can participate in the annual exhibition of sculpture performances and installations TAKAS (The Path) with their project. Takas is a curated competition exhibition in which works are selected from the submitted applications by the curator of TAKAS. Only works of art in the category of sculptures, installations and performances can participate in the exhibition TAKAS.

For the third year, it is curated by the artist, curator, and head of the Sculpture Department of Vilnius Academy of Arts, doc. Vytenis Burokas. The exhibition will present 16 individual projects by artists.

From the curator Vytenis Burokas:

Like every year, we will visit ArtVilnius fair again and, most likely, we will follow one path or another. This year’s Path will also include well-known national artists – Severija Inčirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė, the author of the best installation at last year’s ArtVilnius’22 Žygimantas Augustinas, and Eglė Rakauskaitė. The audience will have the opportunity to get to know the variety of genres and materials of the younger generation of artists.

We will encounter our own and others’ bodies in their changing states in an installation based on the endurance of the body by dancer and choreographer Aira Naginevičiūtė. We will have the opportunity to observe the changes in the encephalogram (EEG) that occur when performance artist Maria Griniuk experiences the works of other artists at the fair. This may be clear evidence that artworks have a tangible effect on us as observers.

– Aira Naginevičiūtė (Lithuania)
– Andrius Erminas (Lithuania)
– Audrius Janušonis (Lithuania)
– Barbora Matonytė (Lithuania)
– Dainius Trumpis (Lithuania)
– Eglė Rakauskaitė (Lithuania)
– Gediminas Pašvenskas (Lithuania)
– Julija Pociūtė (Lithuania)
– Maciej Gąbka (Poland)
– Mari Manna (Estonia)
– Marija Griniuk (Lithuania/Norway)
– Monika Žaltkauskaitė-Grašienė (Lithuania)
– Rokas Janušonis (Lithuania)
– Rokas Pralgauskas (Lithuania)
– Severija Inčirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė (Lithuania)
– Žygimantas Augustinas (Lithuania)

Vytenis Burokas is an artist, curator, lecturer, graduate of bachelor’s, master’s, and art pedagogy studies in Contemporary Sculpture at Vilnius Academy of Arts, participant of Rupert’s Alternative Education Programme in 2013-2014, and has been curating the ArtVilnius exhibition Takas for three years now. V. Burokas has worked as a curator of education and exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art and is currently the head of the Department of Sculpture at the Vilnius Academy of Arts.

Photo by Vika Paškelytė