UKRAINE – WINNING TWO AWARDS IN ARTVILNIUS’15

The ArtVilnius’15 Contemporary Art Fair opened its 6th edition today with an announcement of five award winners, including two representatives of this year’s guest country Ukraine. “Siberia” by Nikita Shalennyi (Ukraine) was awarded in the nomination of the Best Installation of ArtVilnius’15 and Ukrainian Art Gallery TSEKH was awarded as the Best Foreign Gallery. The other three award winners were from Lithuania. The panel of judges announced Vilnius-based Prospektas Gallery representing artist Remigijus Treigys to be the Best ArtVilnius’15 Lithuanian […]

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INTRIGUING AS ALWAYS

This is how ArtVilnius’15, the only art fair in the Baltic region, was characterised by a member of the art fair panel of judges, art critic Ernestas Parulskis, who further added that the art fair is not only intriguing but also promoting entrepreneurship and educating the general public. According to the art critic, it’s no longer worthwhile counting how many times ArtVilnius was held, because over six years the art fair has become an important and regular art phenomenon not […]

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CENTRAL ART PIECE OF THE FAIR

Ukrainian artist Nikita Shalennyi in ARTVILNIUS’15 will present one of the most impressive works dedicated to the consumption topic that will become the central art piece of the fair.  A special project will be realized with ARTSVIT gallery’s support. Installation “Siberia” is 20 metres in length and 4 metres in width will be installed in LITEXPO Exposition Hall 5. The installation requires 1,000 green fabric towels made in China, which has become a symbol of cheap and fast modern production.  “Siberia” is […]

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ARTSVIT DEBUTS IN THE FAIR WITH MYSTERIOUS KINDER ALBUM

55 contemporary and modern art galleries from Belarus, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, will fill the 15000 m2 of the Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre Litexpo.   A novelty of ArtVilnius’15 is a guest country which is Ukraine at this year’s event. ArtVilnius’15 will present works of contemporary artists of the strongest art galleries. ARTSVIT gallery is the only one which is not based in Kyiv but in Dnipropetrovsk. ARTSVIT […]

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THE LEWBEN ART FOUNDATION AT ARTVILNIUS’15

On 25 to 28 June, at the international contemporary art fair ArtVilnius’15, taking place in the Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre LITEXPO (Laisvės ave. 5, Vilnius), the Lewben Art Foundation will present to the public for the first time part of its collection of contemporary international artists. All nine artists on show in this exposition are recognised worldwide. Their works are held in major museum collections, such as MoMA and Tate, and exhibited at the most important biennials and events […]

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GALLERY “EIGHTFOLD” WILL PRESENT “LUCID WAYS”

Lucid Ways is as alliteration in which two Dutch artists seek the boundaries of known territory and work in pairs to form a contextualized artistic project. Central to the collaboration is pushing the borders to their own work and finding conceptual level in cooperation with each other, thereby ratifying the possibilities of this crossover. The end result of the experiment could be labelled as a snapshot or stage in their own research and work. During the art fair, both artist […]

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THE ROOSTER GALLERY IN THE FAIR WILL PRESENT “THE GREAT BEAUTY”

While painting has been experiencing a kind of renaissance in the recent years, the mobile The Rooster Gallery representing young Lithuanian painters invites us to assess the relations between painting and beauty from the viewpoint of contemporary painting. In their works presented for the exhibition, five young painters reflect on the history of painting in different aspects and reveal the problematics of beauty and aesthetics in contemporary art and culture in general. On 25-28 June 2015 The Rooster Gallery will […]

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VIDEONALE. ABOUT VIDEO ART AND PALM-SIZED COLLECTIONS (INTERVIEW)

Although video art emerged already at the end of the sixties, in many countries people are still suspicious about this type of art. Moving images are not favoured by art collectors, either, as they cannot flaunt their DVDs as artworks. However, thanks to the efforts of art lovers, creators and curators, this type of art is obstinately ploughing its way to official art institutions, art fairs and festivals. Today we can say that there is hardly any contemporary art exhibition […]

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O. SHCHELUSHCHENKO: “REDUNANT AND QUICK PR SUCCESS CAN BE HARMFUL FOR ARTISTS”

Mr. Oleksandr Shchelushchenko, the owner of Kyiv-based Contemporary Art Gallery TSEKH, is the interlocutor who deserves special attention. Not only because his gallery, established 10 years ago, has up until now been the most innovative in Ukraine. Shchelushchenko has been maintaining very goods relationships with Lithuania for a number of years. This year, it is the sixth time when he participates in the Contemporary Art Fair ArtVilnius’15 which is taking place on 25–28 June and is one of the members […]

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ARTVILNIUS MEETS POLAND

The organisers of International Contemporary Art Fair ArtVilnius have recently paid a visit to Poland with the primary mission to present ArtVilnius to representatives of Warsaw and Krakow contemporary art museums and galleries, as well as to invite them to take part in the 2016 event which will be focused namely on Poland. The ArtVilnius delegation to Poland included Mrs. Diana Stomienė, directress of ArtVilnius, Prof. Dr. Raminta Jurėnaitė, art critic, member of ArtVilnius selection board, artistic directress of the […]

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