This year Artissima has redesigned its format and takes place in an Unplugged, more intimate and at the same time more widespread version, composed of physical exhibitions and digital projects.
The art critic Evelina Januškaitė and the artist Julija Pociūtė have a virtual conversation about the exhibition ‘The Dazzled Eye Lost Its Speech’ (Meno Parkas gallery, 2020).
Elena Balsiukaitė–Brazdžiūnienė solo exhibition “Oxymoron Trap” represents artworks of recent four years. According to the author – at the beginning it is always the word – that‘s how thoughts and ideas emerge. Being not too verbose in life, in her paintings she lets this stream of thoughts free and observes – …
“What is next to nothing from the perspective of human or world history, for an individual it is a significant period of time intheir life and work. History is usually created by regularity, while people's lives and their destinies are often determined by chance.One distant summer, 1984, Polish and Lithuanian …
Painter Vytautas Dubauskas in his personal exhibition “Dose” is presenting his newest, never exhibited paintings on canvas and paper, created during last four years. “I love Kaunas very much. Although I have never held a personal exhibition here. That is why I decided to dedicate this exhibition to my dear …
„If there is something, that is taking over, in the first place it is a human mind, which thawed the universal insanity.Therefore, it is possible to make a preliminary guess about likely scale, by disrupting a common sense.Nature is crossed out, creativity is crossed out. Wild world has drown. Art …
„I would prefer not to.“—constantly repeats Bartleby the scrivener, the main character in Melville’s famous short story. And as it later turned out, Bartleby worked in the dead letter office. “I would prefer not to.”—he finally answers even when asked his own name. But what if the protagonist of such…
It is the first joint exhibition of these two pals, where their at a first glance different works integrate and supplement or contrast each other at their encounter.
The paintings by Alvīne Bautra portray human beings in the process of dissolving into an empty space. The multiple, overlapping faces and body parts seem to slip away, however, the characters’ presence seem to be rooted in the moment with their look directed straight to the viewer. Their expressions are…
Since the beginning of my painting studies, I started to experiment with various techniques and materials. It was, and still is, very interesting to search for the limits of painting. Where is painting, where we can name an artwork as a result of the expresion of painting, and where it‘s …
Title of Marks’ project – "THE WORLD AROUND ME (is moving faster and faster)" – is taken from the title of his video installation of 16 short animations which will be the center piece of his installation.16 tablets on the wall in the exposition where on each of them a …
In this exhibition I present part of collection of project the ‘Parallel Card Catalogue‘. This art project explores the means of perceiving time and temporality as well as works of memory. I aim comprehending where the state of experiencing parallel times comes from.I explore manifestations of everyday life: things, interiors, …