7 October, Friday
Rita Stankevičiūtė. Performance “Organisms dipping”.
„Litexpo“, balcony of hall 3, T.19.
Monika Dirsytė and Agnė Sabulytė. Performance “Axis code”, 2022.
Litexpo outside space (T.07)
Discussion Kaunas 2022 – Co-Creation for Lithuania and the World.
Participants: Simonas Kairys, Minister of Culture; Virginija Vitkienė, director of “Kaunas 2022”; Arvydas Žalpys, director of gallery Meno Parkas. Moderated by Rytis Zemkauskas, curator of “Kaunas 2022”, journalist.
Initiated by: Office of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
More details about the event can be found on the Facebook event.
Language: Lithuanian
The discussion will be broadcasted on the ArtVilnius’22 YouTube channel.
Performance by artist Gleb Divov. Duration – 30 min.
Presented by OKAPI gallery (Tallinn, Estonia)
Location: hall 5, OKAPI gallery stand 5.22
Performance by Paulina Pukytė, I Have Been Locked Up for Three days (Confession of an Influencer). Duration – 10 min.
Presented by VAA gallery 5 malūnai
Location: hall 3, stand 3.39
ArtVilnius’22 official opening evening, the award ceremony for the best fair participants.
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
Art After Hours
Art After Hours is a contemporary art festival for night owls that takes place one evening per year. During the festival, selected galleries, art institutions, and spaces in Vilnius open their doors free of charge to visitors until late hours. The art program is accompanied by events such as meetings with artists and gallerists, exhibition tours, exhibition openings, and performances.
For the full detailed program visit: www.artafterhours.lt/en
8 October, Saturday
Monika Dirsytė and Agnė Sabulytė. Performance “Axis code”, 2022.
Litexpo outside space (T.07)
Discussion Invisible Archives. Is it necessary to digitize physical archives, seemingly to make information more accessible, and which digital technologies can really ensure this?
Participants: Juozapas Blažiūnas, Doctor of Arts, director of the Lithuanian Archives of Literature and Art, and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Communication, Vilnius University; Andrius Bartminas, head of SUPER HOW?, a research center for blockchain technology; Viktorija Kolbešnikova, initiator of the queer archive “išgirsti”. Moderated by Ieva Gražytė, researcher of Digital Culture and ArtTech Ecosystem.
Presented by innovation laboratory SUPER HOW? and project superhow.ART.
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
More details about the event can be found on the Facebook event.
Language: Lithuanian
The discussion will be broadcasted on the ArtVilnius’22 YouTube channel.
Rita Stankevičiūtė. Performance “Organisms dipping”.
„Litexpo“, balcony of hall 3, T.19.
Performance by artists Erik Alalooga and Temuri Khvingia. Duration – 1 hour.
Presented by OKAPI gallery (Tallinn, Estonia)
Location: hall 5, OKAPI gallery stand 5.22
Performance by Paulina Pukytė, I Have Been Locked Up for Three days (Confession of an Influencer).
Duration – 10 min.
Presented by VAA gallery 5 malūnai
Location: hall 3, stand 3.39
Podium discussion Art in the Face of War and Conditions of War. Participants: director of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art dr. Arūnas Gelūnas; art critic, prof. dr. Giedrė Jankevičiūtė; head of the Internal Control and Prevention Division of the Department of Cultural Heritage, Povilas Mečkovskis.
The event will be moderated by the head of Vilnius Auction dr. Simona Skaisgirė.
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
Language: Lithuanian
The discussion will be broadcasted on the ArtVilnius’22 YouTube channel.
Discussion Art at War: Protests and Survival Strategies. A discussion between Ukrainian and Lithuanian curators and artists led by Virginijus Kinčinaitis on creative activities and survival strategies of the art market in the face of war.
Participants: Pavlo Gudimov, head of art center Ya Gallery (Ukraine); Oleksandr Shchelushchenko, head of gallery TSEKH (Ukraine); Eglė Ganda, chairwoman of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association; Dovilė Dagienė, photographer, co-curator of the exhibition #Ukraine. Moderated by Virginijus Kinčinaitis, art theorist and critic, who will comment on fragile contexts.
The event will be held in Lithuanian and Ukrainian languages (with translation by Vladislav Zurba).
Presented by Lithuanian Culture Institute
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
More details about the event can be found on the Facebook event.
The discussion will be broadcasted on the ArtVilnius’22 YouTube channel.
Conversation Why Collect Contemporary Art?. Participants: Justė Jonutytė, contemporary art market expert, founder of @TEMAprojects; Vita Zaman, artist, art consultant, gallerist; JL Murtaugh, artist, curator, and art consultant.
Language: English
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
The discussion will be broadcasted on the ArtVilnius’22 YouTube channel.
Vytautas Kašėta. Presentation The Meaning of Art and Exhibiting Alternatives in the Metaverse. The perception of the term ‘metaverse’ has changed since its coining in 1992. Alternative realities, in which shared consumer experiences and social interactions are central, dictate new forms of art, but are direct interactions at a distance possible?
Presented by innovation laboratory SUPER HOW? and project superhow.ART.
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
More details about the event can be found on the Facebook event.
Language: Lithuanian
The discussion will be broadcasted on the ArtVilnius’22 YouTube channel.
9 October, Sunday
What (Else) Can Be Done? A Conversation on Art, Ecology, Disinformation and More in the Context of the Russian War in Ukraine.
Among many other things, the Russian aggression into Ukraine also revealed how culture, ecology, economy, disinformation, and other sociopolitical realities are intertwined. In this context, the questions that are more or less loudly raised are what can art institutions (from artists and curators to museums and audiences) do to help Ukraine succeed in this war? Are the muses silent during the war? How should we behave regarding the contemporary Russian art world – should we cancel it, postpone it, help, or? Should – and if yes, how – the art world immerse and participate in the ongoing wars of (dis)information?
Participants: curator of the ArtVilnius’22 project area Valentinas Klimašauskas; Ukrainian art curator and researcher in visual studies Lesia Kulchinska; Ukrainian art critic living in Lithuania, lecturer at Vilnius Academy of Arts and the European Humanities University, Valentyn Odnoviun; artist and writer Olia Sosnovskaya, living between Minsk and Vienna.
Language: English
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
The discussion will be broadcasted on the ArtVilnius’22 YouTube channel.
Discussion Culture and Ecology. Which One Will Save the World?
Participants:
Presented by the weekly journal Literatūra ir menas.
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
Language: Lithuanian
The discussion will be broadcasted on the ArtVilnius’22 YouTube channel.
Performance by artist Gleb Divov. Duration – 30 min.
Presented by OKAPI gallery (Tallinn, Estonia)
Location: hall 5, OKAPI gallery stand 5.22
Performance by Paulina Pukytė, I Have Been Locked Up for Three days (Confession of an Influencer). Duration – 10 min.
Presented by VAA gallery 5 malūnai
Location: hall 3, stand 3.39
Discussion Extraordinary Architecture and Art at Home: How Has It Changed Over a Decade?
Participants:
architect Gilma Teodora Gylytė; architecture critic and architect dr. Matas Šiupšinskas; co-owners of Baltic Sotheby’s International Realty Marius Bružas and Paulius Gebrauskas.
Moderated by Ūla Ambrasaitė, founder of the publishing house Lapas.
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08
Language: Lithuanian
The discussion will be broadcasted on the ArtVilnius’22 YouTube channel.
Award ceremony for Audience Select Gallery and Audience Select Ukrainian Artist (award by Volfas Engelman)
Location: LRT studio, hall 5, stand 5.08