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 […]