Editorial is delighted to present ‘Cloackroom’ – a solo show by a Lithuanian artist Antanas Gerlikas.
I wake up early and readily throw a dream off myself. It then moulders in the corner like an old cloak, its sleeves are fastened with steel shavings. I am trying to stay disciplined, to keep my gaze from wandering so that it doesn’t tumble my thoughts. Yet in fact, I can laugh at all of it, that’s why the names come to me easily. Surely, there come harder days, or nights, when it’s difficult to find my voice or my place. But that’s how I usually work — I come at a place and throw off a dream. Then I look at what’s left of it.
– Monika Kalinauskaitė
Antanas Gerlikas (g. 1978) is an artist who lives and works in Vilnius. His solo exhibitions have taken place at the “Tulips & Roses” gallery (together with Liudvikas Buklys, 2008), at the Contemporary Art Centre’s (Vilnius) showcase (2011) and kitchen (2014), the “Art in General” centre in New York (2013), the “Objectif Exhibitions” art centre in Antwerp (2013), at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius with his exhibition “Kopos/Dunes” (2016), P////AKT (solo show with Laura Kaminskaitė, Amsterdam, 2018). He has participated in a number of group exhibitions at the CAC (Vilnius, 2014), the contemporary art gallery “Bunkier Sztuki” in Krakow (2015), the XIIth Baltic Triennial in Riga (2016), the art space “Lokomotif” in Lentvaris, Lithuania (2019). Gerlikas took part in the Lithuanian pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennial (2013). In 2017, he was nominated for the Porto municipality’s art prize. In 2019, he was an artist-in-residence at the art, residencies and education centre Rupert.
This show is part of Vilnius Gallery Weekend program.
Editorial program is supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius Municipality.
The artist and Editorial would like to thank to: Laura Kaminskaitė, Monikai Kalinauskaitė, Jonas Žukauskas, Robertas Narkus, Mindaugas Petravičius and “Almecha”. UAB “Politeca”, Edgaras Gerasimovičius, Audrius Antanavičius, Matas Labašauskas, Nerijus Rimkus, Gediminas G. Akstinas
‘Cloackroom’
Antanas Gerlikas
September – October 9, 2021
Editorial, Vilnius
Exposition: Laura Kaminskaitė
Photography: Ugnius Gelguda
