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In 2022 Kaunas, the second biggest city in Vilnius will be the European Capital of Culture besides Esch-sur-Alzette in Luxembourg. On its way from temporary to contemporary, Kaunas has become the city of contemporary art and welcomes art lovers to exclusive events, exhibitions, installations and performances.

Madara Kvēpa, the winner of the Young Painter Award at The Nordic & Baltic Young Artist Award (NBYAA) contest, wishes to outbid the classical understanding of painting but at the same time knows the secret ingredient of the medium – its stillness that can be compared to a landscape after…

The first Helsinki Biennial was held on 12.6.–26.9.2021 and it brought 145 000 visitors to Vallisaari island, its budget of 7 million euros covered three years of work and establishing. The initiative came from Helsinki City and Helsinki Art Museum (HAM), which is behind many public space projects and is also responsible…

The Nordic & Baltic Young Artist Award (NBYAA) contest’s Grand Prix belongs to Sofia Haapamäki this year. Every competition makes participants a bit nervous, but Haapamäki’s winning work itself turned out to be a roller coaster of emotions that rose while trying to answer the questions about identity.

NFT art is surely a buzz of 2021. in an article published in Arterritory Sergej Timofejev interviewed a well-known NFT collector Edgar Aronov to find out what is NFT really about. Who are NFT buyers and collectors, and how many different formats of NFT artworks are there?

This year, the competition was held already for the sixth time with Sofia Haapamäki winning the Grand Prix, besides the additional prizes and special mentionings. A total of 142 works from 78 authors were submitted to the large-scale competition, which gathers the best works of the graduates of Estonian, Latvian,…

This year's winner of the Young Painter Prize (YPP) competition announced Dominykas Sidorovas as this year's best young painter in the Baltic states. MO Museum, where the winners were announced on 18 November, also offered a special prize – the "MO Award" – which went to Kazimieras Brazdžiūnas. By the…

Until 5 December, 75 young artists from Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Finnish art academies are competing for Nordic & Baltic Young Artist Award (NOBA) Public Choice Award. To support the talent of young artists, everyone is invited to vote for their favourites and check out the 142  artworks by young…

Changes in the art market are evident today — the personalities of both artists and their works becoming increasingly interesting. Technology — from social networks to revolutionary nfts, P2P, and blockchain — has the potential to diminish the role of intermediaries. Art researchers are marking the beginning of a new…

For the second year in a row, the organizers of the international contemporary art fair ArtVilnius'21 invites everyone who could not come to the event and those who want to return to Litexpo to visit the virtual 3D fair tour.

Last week, a new museum - new MUNCH - one of the world’s largest museums dedicated to a single artist, was opened in Oslo. The highlights in the new museum include monumental mural paintings including The Sun (1909), which stretches nearly 8 meters, as well as several versions of Munch’s iconic work, The…