12th Kaunas Biennial | June-September 2019 AFTER LEAVING | PRIEŠ ATVYKSTANT Traveling used to be romanticised. A long journey used to be compared to the symbolic journey through life. There are numerous proverbs about journeys and traveling, both in the physical and spiritual senses. It is said that a journey is an antidote to prejudice, […]
12th Kaunas Biennial / June-September 2019 AFTER LEAVING | PRIEŠ ATVYKSTANT Our lives are journeys: from naive and curious childhood, to a (possibly) wise and mature old age, from the house of our parents to the cities and countries unknown, from the safe world to the unsafe one. We observe spiritual and physical journeys around […]
When Lithuania broke free from Soviet rule a quarter of the century ago, it quickly removed all monuments that had anything to do with communist ideology or the Soviet occupation. Then, with the same hastiness, she rebuilt the national monuments destroyed by the Soviets, and erected some new ones, albeit exactly of the same pre-war […]
The well-known South African artist Philip Miller makes music for films, theatre and sound installations, and is famous for his experimental working techniques and musical collages. His music is extremely complex and has many layers, is rich in different sounds and cultural contexts and often involves the telling of a story or stories. In the […]
The Slovenian artist, curator and writer Manca Bajek focuses on different forms and possibilities of monuments and their meaning in post-conflict zones. She believes that monuments can have a very different impact on society, if only expressed in the right way they can remind us of certain things, encourage thinking and even participate in […]
A multidisciplinary artist from England, Jenny Kagan believes that art can be found in the strangest of places and that its primary goal is to elicit emotion. She’s not afraid to speak about her parents’ painful experience in the Kaunas Ghetto during the Holocaust, one of the themes she’ll be addressing during this year’s Kaunas […]
15 SEPTEMBER 2017 (Friday) 12 noon – 3 pm Guided tours for professionals around the main exhibition. Registration required 6 pm GRAND OPENING at Vienybės aikštė, Kaunas (Vienybės Square, Kaunas). Curator Paulina Pukytė. Artists: Adina, Manca Bajec, Karolina Freino, Allard van Hoorn, Jenny Kagan, Horst Hoheisel & Andreas Knitz, Jonas Oškinis & Raimundas Krukonis, Juozas Laivys, Dainius Liškevičius, Anton […]
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 the world’s great cities including a living room for the Christopher Columbus statue in New […]
The Polish contemporary artist Karolina Freino is one of many artists whose work will appear at the Kaunas Biennial 2017. Her original use of history in her site-specific and public art projects is fascinating, and the way she displays her works, leaving conceptual riddles for the audience to figure out, is very interesting indeed. We […]
Allard van Hoorn is a highly creative contemporary artist from the Netherlands who makes unusual musical city maps – Urban Songlines – all over the world. In his site-specific sound installations and choreographic performances the artist translates architecture and other environmental objects that surround us into music. The following is a conversation with the artist […]