Photo reportage from the project ‘Visits’ by (AV17) gallery

From October 16th to November 6th, contemporary sculpture, object and installation exhibitions were opened in eleven different spaces and buildings across Vilnius. “Visits” is a project presented by Gallery (AV17), inviting to get acquainted with the works of both famous and emerging Lithuanian artists in non-traditional spaces, or ones that are unusual for contemporary art.

Exhibitions of different authors created unique relationships with their surrounding environment and architecture and offered a different perspective on the city’s buildings and spaces. Nerijus Erminas extended the interior of the Composers’ home building – which is considered to be a masterpiece of postwar modernist architecture – with his installation “Living Room”. At the same time, Džiugas Šukys’s exhibition displayed in the park of the Sapiegos Palace reflected the reconstruction of Vilnius’s permanent public spaces. At the Vilnius railway station, artist Danas Aleksa rethought the changes in human and animal behavior caused by architectural decisions, while the Vilnius University Planetarium became a temporary home for Tauras Kensminas’s sculptural series of spacial bodies and spacecraft fragments, entitled “Future Fossils”.

The works presented in urban spaces during the project touched on topics ranging from social and cultural relationships to current world issues. The objects on display created using a full range of different media – from traditional sculptural materials to light and sound installations – allowed the viewer to see the diversity of contemporary sculpture and rediscover the surrounding buildings and spaces. Participated artists: Danas Aleksa, Jonas Aničas, Evelina Dapkutė, Andrius Erminas, Nerijus Erminas, Tauras Kensminas, Rimantas Milkintas, Raimonda Sereikaitė-Kiziria, Rafal Piesliak, Marija Šnipaitė and Džiugas Šukys.

The project is sponsored by Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius City Municipality, JCDecaux.

Photography: Karolis Milaševičius