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

For any questions please contact
info@artvilnius.com
Phone +370 5 261 0975, +370 640 38 221