Solving Painting as a Medium. A conversation with the painter Kristina Ališauskaitė

Kristina Ališauskaitė (b. 1984) is a young Lithuanian painter, based in Vilnius and known to gallery visitors, both nationally and internationally, for her dark, almost monochrome canvases that depict encounters between elements of ordinary life and all that is hiding…

The Invisibility of Huge things: a research of fictional strategies to reveal the unperceivable

An interview with Pedro Hurpia, the former resident at Nida Art Colony Pedro Hurpia is a visual artist and researcher from Brazil. He was a professor of Visual Arts at the Pontifical University of Campinas between 2015 and 2017, teaching Photography, Drawing and Orientation in Final…

Tatzu Nishi: an architect of imaginative places | 11th Kaunas Biennial

Tatzu Nishi. Freedom, installation, 2017. Photo: Kristina Čyžiūtė

The Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi is renowned for his exceptional public art projects in which he merges the boundaries between the public and the private. Paradoxically, he achieves this by constructing temporary living or hotel rooms around the monuments of…

About surfaces and Vincent. Giedrė Legotaitė in conversation with Povilas Ramanauskas

Povilas Ramanauskas (b. 1987) is a young, active artist, who has been improving his vocational levels methodically: since completing his undergraduate studies at the Kaunas faculty of Vilnius Academy of Art, where he also gained his Master’s degree in painting,…

Art that hurts: there are no victims without perpetrators

Renowned for their so-called ‘counter-monuments’, the world famous German artistic duo Horst Hoeheisel and Andreas Knitz will visit Lithuania this year as one of the participants at the Kaunas Biennial. Scientist and sculptor Horst and architect Andreas create sensational and…

All options are better options. Robertas Narkus in conversation with Borbála Soós

Robertas Narkus, ‘Träger’, exhibition view, CAC, Vilnius, 2017

Borbála Soós is a London based curator, currently undertaking a residency at Rupert, Vilnius. As a former collaborator of Robertas Narkus (she hosted his project , Turbulance 3 – curated by Juste Kostikovaite, at Tenderpixel in London in 2014), she…

Julius von Bismarck in conversation with Mindaugas Gapševičius

I met up with Julius von Bismarck at the CAC café in Vilnius, where he came for an interview with me, initiated by the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, as part of his exhibition entitled Citynature: Vilnius and Beyond…

Contemporary painting strategies. Merike Estna in conversation with Alberta Vengrytė

Merike Estna, Blue Lagoon, installation, 2014. Courtesy of Art Museum of Estonia. 16th International Vilnius Painting Triennial ‘Nomadic Images’. Photo: Gintaras Janavičius

Alberta Vengrytė: Towards the end of November, one of your works – an installation entitled Blue Lagoon (Blue Lagoon first showed in 2014 in a solo show curated by Kati Ilves for KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia) was presented at…

Maria Arusoo in conversation with Kęstutis Kuizinas

Both the Center for Contemporary Arts Estonia (CCA) and Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius (CAC) opened in the early 90s to develop local art scenes and initiate international projects. Towards the end of this October, the exhibition Random Rapid Heartbeats opened…

Poems, things and ‘risky normality’. Conversation with Krišs Salmanis

Alberta Vengrytė: Your exhibition, which recently opened at Vartai gallery in Vilnius, is titled Poems and Things. The very concept of a ‘thing’, partly used to name this particular art event and its ideological whole, or which possibly includes constituent…