- May 04, 2018
A documentation of the site-specific exhibition THERE AND NOT THERE – (Im)possibility Of A Monument. 2017
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, [...]
- Nov 30, 2017
Jenny Kagan
The abandoned building perched on the hill was once a Hassidic Jewish Synagogue. It was last used as a synagogue in 1940 when the Jewish population of Kaunas was 32,000 people, almost a quarter [...]
- Nov 24, 2017
Tatzu Nishi
The Freedom Monument in Kaunas – a symbol of independent Lithuania and one of the first monumental sculptures of the nation state – was commisioned by the Minister of Defence and [...]
- Nov 20, 2017
Kostas Bogdanas
300,000 is a number. It is also the number of Lithuanians uprooted and deported to Siberia by the Soviet regime. Statistical numbers are difficult to comprehend. The larger the number the [...]
- Nov 20, 2017
Paulina Pukytė
A memorial to Jan Zwartendijk has been unveiled on the façade of 29 Laisvės Avenue, Kaunas, Lithuania. Jan Zwartendijk, Acting Dutch Consul in Kaunas in 1940, worked in this building. In July of 1940 [...]
- Nov 20, 2017
Jonas Oškinis and Raimundas Krukonis
„Hope!“ the low echoes from the shore replied, The valleys and the forest Konrad woke, And laughing wildly, answered, “Where am I?” To hear in this place – hope? Wherefore this [...]
- Nov 20, 2017
Manca Bajec
A miniature [monument] does something that a gigantic one cannot: it offers the possibility of possession but at the same time it seeks and captures attention in a different way. In its unthreatening form, [...]
- Nov 20, 2017
Philip Miller
There were around 34,000 Jews in Kaunas before the Holocaust. The language of Yiddish, spoken by the Jewish people of Europe was then a vibrant part of the sound world in [...]
- Nov 20, 2017
Juozas Laivys
A grey dot on a grey surface in Kaunas is the reincarnation of a work by Juozas Laivys entitled White Puck – White Dot, created in Minsk in 2002. (The artist continues not [...]
- Nov 17, 2017
Dainius Liškevičius
Freedom Avenue (Lith. Laisvės alėja) is the most important artery of Kaunas’ city centre. In 1919, on the occasion of Lithuania’s declaration of independence, it acquired the name of Freedom. Its [...]