Displayed in the small temporary exhibitions hall and various unexpected spaces of the gallery are experimental works created using computing, software, and networking technologies in the 1990s and 2000s. In a time when the impact of digital technologies on our pandemic-ridden daily life is greater than ever, the exhibition offers…

The National Gallery of Art presents a solo exhibition by Emilija Škarnulytė and her latest audiovisual installation 'Circular Time. For Aleksandra Kasuba'. The idea of the work was inspired by Škarnulytė's personal acquaintance with the prominent American artist and architect of Lithuanian origin Aleksandra Kasuba and her creative legacy. In…

This exhibition presents, for the first time, the creative heritage of the visionary Lithuanian American environmental artist Aleksandra Fledžinskaitė-Kašubienė-Kasuba (1923-2019), spanning seven decades of her work (1942-2019).

Petras KalpokasVisions of nature. Études and WatercolorsPetras Kalpokas (1880-1945) - one of the most famous Lithuanian artists, educator, scenographer, and fresco painter of the first half of the 20th century. His first teachers were Latvian painters Vilhelms Purvītis and Johan Valter. However, the artist matured at the modern Anton Ažbe …

Ferdynand RuszczycGolden RoomFerdynand Ruszczyc (1870-1936) during his time of residence in Vilnius created a pastel with an intriguing title The Golden Room (1913), in which he depicted the interior of the apartment he rented in Užupio street no. 24. In the pastel picture, the shapes of the objects are drawn …

Wild SoulsSymbolism in the Art of the Baltic StatesIn the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th the present-day Baltic states were part of the Russian empire, and were subjected to a power struggle between the tsarist authorities and the former Germano-Baltic elite (present day …

Rūta JunevičiūtėAesopicaThe exhibition 'Aesopica' by Rūta Junevičiūtė is based on the name of the Greek fabulist and storyteller Aesop. The show draws attention to the Aesopian utterance and its cultural complexity from the perspective of a younger generation and links it to relations of different generations, adaptation, communication, and various …

The new collection display is divided into thematic chapters "Explosion", "Modernization Projects", "Crisis and Rebellion", "Transformation" and "The Contemporary: Criticism and Imagination" which present Lithuanian art of the 2nd half of the 20th c. and the 21st c. in the context of epoch-making local and international political, social and cultural …

Red Becomes White Whilst Falling

At the height of 20th Century modernism and one of the followers of Moholy Nagy and his concept of New Vision, Moï Ver (1904-1995), alias Moshé Vorobeichik alias Moshé Raviv, was one of the rising stars in European photography. Born in Lebedevo, in Belarus, he wandered through Europe until he…

There are three main participants in this exhibition: the author (the artist), his workspace (the workshop or study), and the artwork.The first participant does not really need to be introduced – Savickas is a bright figure in Lithuanian art history: painter, art historian, educator, writer. A multicoloured personality who created …

For the last thirty years, Lithuania had a clear sense of direction. Yet, by the second decade of the 21st century, having reached its essential goals (EU and NATO membership, adoption of the Euro), the country suddenly found itself without clear coordinates to follow. Furthermore, the Western world, which had…

American painter, printmaker, and sculptor Oliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935) has created a complex body of work which masterfully weaves together visual influences ranging from the Renaissance to modernism with principles of rhythm and improvisation drawn from his study of African cultures and American jazz.Oliver Lee Jackson: Recent Paintings will …

Loose Ends is an exhibition about artistic communication by mail, about the sender and the receiver, or his/her absence, about the thought that you start and not always finish, about speculative and playful resistance against systems, rudiments of social networks in the Soviet times and finally, about colliding comets. A …

The core of this exhibition comprises artworks that represent the museum’s collection, supplemented with other artworks by Chinese traditional ink artists, oil painters, graphic artists, sculptors and watercolour painters – selected by the curators. The exhibition introduces Lithuanian audiences to an important feature of Chinese art called Xieyi that combines …