ART VILNIUS '17 - International Art Fair

ART VILNIUS'17

Select galleries, international art institutions, mega-sized installations and performances, discussions about art collecting – all this and more is part of the international contemporary art fair ArtVilnius’17 in its eight edition. The event runs June 8 through 11 at LITEXPO.

Regional leader - ArtVilnius’17 will introduce 55 galleries, 200 artists from 20 countries (ranging from Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Ukraine, and Lithuania to Belarus, the Georgia, Russia, Italy, and France), and exceptional collections featuring artworks by world-class artists.

The exclusive partner of the art fair is Lewben Group and its Lewben Art Foundation.

International projects

Alongside the main program, where galleries will showcase the best of their offerings, ArtVilnius is organizing a special project zone and many additional events. Video art will be in focus at this year’s fair.

A collection of works from one of Europe’s oldest video art festivals, Videonale – Festival for Video and Time-Based Arts, is to be brought from Bonn, Germany.

Jonas Mekas, the outstanding Lithuanian-American artist, is also showing his new film at the fair.

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK returns with a new project, while the fair’s exclusive partner Lewben Group is presenting a collection of Lewben Art Foundation works by famous foreign artists, including a winner of the prestigious Turner Prize.

Sculptures / Performances

"We are particularly proud of PATH, our annual international exhibition of large-scale sculptures, installations and performances, which has attracted a record-number of applications from aspiring and established artists this year. We took pains to select the best work by creators from Lithuania, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, and Ukraine," enthuses Sonata Baliuckaitė, the fair’s art project director. This year, PATH program is particularly rich with performances by the likes of Raul Rajangu (Estonia), Erik Alalooga (Estonia), Sarah Hadou (Germany), Mindaugas Navakas, Petras Mazūras, Monika Dirsytė (Lithuania), and others.

Educational Program “Among creators” Stand 5.20

Vilnius Academy of Arts, Justinas Vienožinskis Art School in Vilnius, Art School for Children and Youth and art shop Skizze, sponsor of the educational program.

GALLERIES

5 MALŪNAI, VDA galerija, Vilnius

A galerija, Panevėžys

Agijas Sunas art gallery, Riga

Akademija, VDA galerija, Vilnius

ARgenTum VDA galerija, Vilnius

Artifex, VDA tekstilės galerija, Vilnius

Aukso pjūvis, Kaunas

Baroti galerija, Klaipėda

CAP gallery, Vilnius

Contour Art gallery, Vilnius

Dailininkų sąjungos galerija, Vilnius

Dusetų dailės galerija. Kultūros centras, Dusetos

e.k.art, Vilnius

Foku, Tallinn

Galerija 555, Vilnius

Galerija Kristina Norvilaitė, Vilnius

Galleri NB, Viborg

GRAFO galerija, Vilnius

Grosart, Moscow

Happy Art Museum, Riga

Haus Gallery, Tallinn

Immaginaria Arti Visive Gallery, Florence

Irenos Mikuličiūtės dailės galerija, Kaunas

Karavan gallery, Paris

Kovcheg, Moscow

Kauno langas, Kaunas

Klaipėdos galerija, Klaipėda

Kunstkamera, Vilnius

Kuldīga Artists‘ residence, Kuldiga

Maksla XO, Riga

Meno niša, Vilnius

Meno parkas, Kaunas

Menų tiltas, Vilnius

Molėtų dailės galerija, Molėtai

Nivet-Carzon, Paris

Nulinis laipsnis. Architektūros galerija, Vilnius

Okapi Galeri, Tallinn

Panevėžio miesto dailės galerija, Panevėžys

Post, Kaunas

Project ArtBeat, Tbilisis

Rixc gallery, Riga

Stalowa gallery, Warsaw

Šv. Jono gatvės galerija, Vilnius

Terra Recognita, Vilnius

The Rooster Gallery, Vilnius

Tifana Art Gallery, Riga

Titanikas. VDA galerija, Vilnius

Trivium, Vilnius

“Ў” Gallery, Minsk

Vilniaus vaikų ir jaunimo meno galerija, Vilnius

ARTVILNIUS’17 PROJECTS

COLLECTIONS

Lewben Art Foundation exhibition “All These Beautiful Ladies”, curator Francesca Ferrarini

Videonale – Festival for Video and Time-Based Arts exhibition VIDEONALE.16 on Tour, curated by Tasja Langenbach (Bonn)

MOCAK – Museum of Contemporary Art, curator Monika Kozioł (Krakow)

RUPERT – Arts and Education Centre (Vilnius). Curators Justė Jonutytė, Maximilian Gallo and Adomas Narkevičius

Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center (Vilnius)

ARTISTS

Vytenis Jankūnas (Vilnius – New York)

Raul Rajangu (Tallinn)

Juhan Soomets (presents Estonian internet platform for art NOAR)

Kęstutis Svirnelis (Vilnius – Stuttgart)

Vladimir Tarasov (Vilnius – New York)

Sculptures, installations and performances exhibition PATH

Curators Diana Stomienė, Sonata Baliuckaitė

40 artists from France, Ukraine, Estonia, Germany, Lithuania and Latvia:

Erik Alalooga, Tallinn - Aleksas Andriuškevičius, Kaunas - Jonas Aničas, Vilnius - Robertas Antinis, Kaunas - Bionics (Lina Pranaitytė, Urtė Pakers), Kaunas - Tadao Cern, Vilnius - Evelina Dapkutė, Vilnius - Monika Dirsytė, Vilnius-London - Andrius Erminas, Vilnius - Nerijus Erminas, Vilnius - Kęstutis Grigaliūnas, Vilnius - Marija Griniuk, Vilnius-Copenhagen - Sarah Haddou, Paris - Severija Inčirauskaitė – Kriaunevičienė, Vilnius - Matas Janušonis, Vilnius - Albinas Jukumas, Klaipėda - Aistė Kanapickaitė, Vilnius - Tauras Kensminas, Vilnius - Bodo Korsig, Trier - Domas Mykolas Malinauskas, Vilnius - Petras Mazūras, Vilnius - Roman Mikhaylov, Kiev - Šarūnas Nakas, Vilnius - Mindaugas Navakas, Pasvalys - Andrius Petkus, Vilnius - Rafal Piesliak, Vilnius - Petro Pyrohov, Vilnius - Louis Rollinde&François Durif, Paris - Mykolas Sauka, Vilnius - Raimonda Sereikaitė, Vilnius - Benas Šarka, Klaipėda - Lukas Šiupšinskas, Kaunas - Jelena Škulienė, Vilnius - Rasa Šmite, Riga - Raitis Šmits, Riga - Džiugas Šukys, Vilnius - Audronė Vaupšienė, Vilnius -

VERNISSAGE

Thursday, June 8, 3 pm

VIP 12 - 3 pm only with invitation

Tickets available on Bilietai.lt

OPENING HOURS

Thursday, June 8, from 3 pm - 8 pm

Friday, June 9, from 11.30 am - 8 pm

Saturday, June 10, from 11.30 am - 8 pm

Sunday, June 11, from 11.30 am - 6 pm

Lithuanian Exhibition & Congress Centre LITEXPO

Halls 3, 4, 5

Laisves av. 5, 04215 Vilnius, Lithuania

www.artvilnius.com

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Phone +370 5 261 0975, +370 640 38 221