- Jul 15, 2021
The 13th Kaunas Biennial: Once Upon Another Time…gyveno jie jau kitaip
One of the largest international contemporary art festivals in the Baltic region, the 13th Kaunas Biennial will take place from 12 November 2021 to 20 February 2022. The exhibition, titled “Once [...]
- Jul 09, 2021
MagiC Carpets Emerging Curators’ meeting in Croatia
After a long year and a half in Zoom, curators are seeing each other live in Jelsa, Croatia for their yearly meeting, updates on the Year 4 residencies, facilitated discussions, networking [...]
- May 31, 2021
Interview with Elina Valaite, the curator of the “Tbilisi Photo Festival”: on the power of art and its relationship with Lithuania
While the global pandemic caused severe stagnation in all areas of human life, the field of art has found a way to adapt to this new reality. Last year, the Creative [...]
- Apr 27, 2021
MagiC Carpets: Year 3 across Europe
The MagiC Carpets platform has faced the challenge of the Year III of the project which overlapped with the global pandemic in 2020. But we’ve managed to overcome these challenges which [...]
- Apr 08, 2021
MagiC Carpets Landed: Exhibition Dates and Curator Announced
Kaunas Biennial is delighted to announce that the international exhibition “MagiC Carpets Landed” will take place in Kaunas (Lithuania) on 5 November 2021 – 23 January 2022. The “Magic Carpets Landed” [...]
- Mar 23, 2021
Live stream: Contemporary Canadian Art
Contemporary Canadian Art with curator Josée Drouin-Brisebois. Live tonight at 5:30 pm (LT time). Please see the streaming in here
- Mar 22, 2021
Contemporary Canadian Art: online event with curator Josée Drouin-Brisebois
The Office of the Embassy of Canada to Lithuania and Kaunas Biennial are delighted to invite you to an online presentation on contemporary Canadian art by the 13th Kaunas Biennial curator [...]
- Mar 17, 2021
European Communities Fight Pandemic with Creativity: European Community Awards “Co-create & Comprehend” for Cultural Continuity
“MagiC Carpets” is a platform funded by “Creative Europe”, uniting 15 European cultural organisations. It traditionally nominates its participants for enhancing cultural accessibility, cultural activism and participation. The European community award [...]
- Mar 17, 2021
Open Talks: FOLLOW THE WAVES
In collaboration with Latitudo Art Projects and ABAROMA ABAROMA – Academy of Fine Arts Rome. Follow the Waves is the title given to the series of talks that will start this [...]
- Feb 26, 2021
The Month of La Francophonie 2021: Contemporary Canadian Art
The Office of the Embassy of Canada to Lithuania and Kaunas Biennial are delighted to invite you to an online presentation on contemporary Canadian art by the 13th Kaunas Biennial curator [...]
- Feb 26, 2021
Conversations on Curating: Josée Drouin-Brisebois
Award-winning contemporary art museum on University College Cork campus The Glucksman invites to the Conversations on Curating series event with Josée Drouin-Brisebois. Josée Drouin-Brisebois is the Senior Curator of Contemporary Art [...]
- Feb 26, 2021
THE MOST MEMORABLE KAUNAS’ ARTIST IN 2020: MANTAS STABAČINSKAS
Mantas Stabačinskas became the winner of the title Most Memorable Kaunas’ Artist organized by Kaunas Artists’ House. The artist was noticed for mature creativity and active social activities. This year, nine [...]
- Feb 26, 2021
“KAUNAS VISIEMS” AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED: CONTEMPORARY DANCE LABORATORY WITH PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES WAS NOTICED
For the second year in a row, the “Kaunas visiems” campaign is a symbolic sign of gratitude and respect for organizations and individual Kaunas residents for their special attention to people [...]
- Feb 12, 2021
Vote for the most memorable Kaunas cultural initiative
Kaunas Artists’ House for the third time this year are inviting people to vote and elect the most memorable cultural initiative of Kaunas city and region. The candidates were chosen by [...]
- Jan 26, 2021
MagiC Carpets Landed: Save the Date
We are delighted to announce that we are part of the international exhibition presenting the results of the four years of “MagiC Carpets” platform – “MagiC Carpets Landed” – which will [...]
- Jan 13, 2021
Mykola Ridnyi ‘Lost baggage’ exhibited in Vilnius
Commissioned for the 12th Kaunas biennial ‘After Leaving | Before Arriving’ artwork ‘Lost Baggage’ by Mykola Ridnyi till the end of January is exhibited in Vilnius, at the courtyard of Lithuanian [...]
- Dec 14, 2020
MagiC Carpets: What is art?
NARA talked with “MagiC Carpets” emerging artists who participated in the residency project across Europe in 2019. And here is some thoughts on a very hart question – what is art? [...]
- Nov 03, 2020
The Tales of Kaunas: interview with the creative team
The Tales of Kaunas – project by Lukas Valiauga, Justas Motuzas, Inga Galvanauskaitė and Eglė Valadkevičiūtė. An interdisciplinary project which aims to re-evaluate the work of the little-known 20th century writer [...]
- Oct 26, 2020
Presentation of digital artworks and mobile application
The new mobile application “Digital Heart of Kaunas” offers an opportunity to discover hidden spaces and stories of Kaunas city with the help of digital artworks. Today, digital technologies, computers and [...]
- Oct 14, 2020
MagiC Carpets and communities searching for their identities
This beginning of autumn is associated not only with crisp and warm weather and changing colours of nature, but also the tension lingering in the air regarding the possible announcement of [...]
- Sep 15, 2020
MagiC Carpets: local artists in Kaunas
Kaunas Biennial and the project MagiC Carpets presents five interdisciplinary projects by the local artists and different communities of Kaunas city and district at the Kaunas 2022 Fluxus festival. The project [...]
- Sep 04, 2020
Kaunas 2022: MagiC Carpets at the Fluxus festival
Kaunas Biennial and the project MagiC Carpets presents five interdisciplinary projects by the local artists and different communities of Kaunas city and district. On the 12th of September at the Kaunas [...]
- Aug 04, 2020
Poetry in the Yards of Šilainiai
The actors Edita Niciūtė and Arnis Aleinikovas, initiators for one of the five interdisciplinary Kaunas Biennial projects in Kaunas communities this summer, invited the people of Šilainiai area to share their [...]
- Jul 13, 2020
Summer in the city by Kaunas Biennial: five interdisciplinary projects with communities
This year, Kaunas Biennial, which implements an international platform project MagiC Carpets, changes its activities and will pay more attention to the native artists and local community initiatives. Its five interdisciplinary [...]
- Jul 02, 2020
The second year of MagiC Carpets: launching the magic recap video
The carpets carrying the full scale of culture projects, artistic ideas, new stories and inspiring collaborations have landed. The year 2 of the MagiC Carpets platform has been an exciting journey [...]
- May 06, 2020
Curator and Dates Announced for the 13th Edition of Kaunas Biennial
Kaunas Biennial is delighted to announce the appointment of Josée Drouin-Brisebois as Curator for the 13th Kaunas Biennial, which will take place on 5 November 2021 – 30 January 2022. The [...]
- Apr 16, 2020
Aftermovie of the 12th Kaunas Biennial
At this uncertain nowadays it is so nice to remember more sunny times – last summer with the 12th Kaunas Biennial “After Leaving | Before Arriving”. For its 12th edition, the [...]
- Apr 14, 2020
Curator Neringa Stoškutė: the trend of displaying art online will outlast this global crisis
MagiC Carpets is a four-year (2017–2020) platform project made possible by Creative Europe and headed by Kaunas Biennial (Lithuania). It is a network of fifteen international organisations in fifteen European countries. [...]
- Feb 27, 2020
Catalogue of the 12th Kaunas Biennial
12th Kaunas Biennial AFTER LEAVING | BEFORE ARRIVING, a catalogue of harmoniously concocted texts revealing the time-travel of Kaunas as a city and the architecture, people and stories that have become [...]
- Sep 24, 2019
Inga Galinytė and Anna Papathanasiou: ‘By hybridizing two different polarities you always have the possibility to create a new language’
Lithuanian artist Inga Galinytė and Greek artist Anna Papathanasiou, two halves of an artistic duo, have been researching the phenomenon of empathy since the day they met. Responding to individual traumatic [...]
- Sep 23, 2019
12th Kaunas Biennial AFTER LEAVING | BEFORE ARRIVING Closing Week
GUIDED TOURS 99 meters | September, 26 21:00 – 22:00 The directions have already been installed in train wagons, the waiting hall, the platform. They will help you to make the [...]
- Sep 17, 2019
12th Kaunas Biennial AFTER LEAVING | BEFORE ARRIVING visitor research
12th Kaunas Biennial would like to get to know you a bit better, to find out what interests you, who influences you, what you think about the After Leaving | Before [...]
- Sep 13, 2019
ATTENTION – TEMPORARY CHANGES AT THE J. CIBIC INSTALLATION
ATTENTION – on the 21st of September performance at the installation by the artist Jasmina Cibic at the Vytautas the Great War Museum is canceled. We are sorry for any inconvenience. [...]
- Sep 11, 2019
Laura Kaminskaitė: “Curiosity is one of the most amazing qualities”
Laura Kaminskaitė is an artist from Lithuania, whose works play with words as elements that constantly shift their forms and become works of art that find their place in galleries. In [...]
- Aug 27, 2019
The 12th Kaunas Biennial: a journey full of unexpected discoveries
Kaunas Biennial, the largest event of contemporary art in Kaunas, is approaching the finish line. The exhibition AFTER LEAVING | BEFORE ARRIVING by thirty international artists has been presented in different [...]
- Aug 27, 2019
curator Elisabeth del Prete: ‘The biennial draws specifically on the history of the city of Kau-nas as well as Lithuania to comment on ideas of passage and transition’
Elisabeth del Prete is one of the five curators of this year’s Kaunas Biennial AFTER LEAVING | BEFORE ARRIVING. Engaged in a wide range of activities, from curating exhibitions to providing [...]
- Aug 26, 2019
Bálint Szombathy: ‘I do not offer ready-to-use recipes because I am not a politician but an artist’
The body of work of Bálint Szombathy, an artist from the autonomous province of Vojvodina in Serbia, is political and brave. The artist, who began his career in difficult and politically [...]
- Aug 22, 2019
Every Last Sunday of the Month Discounts for the Tickets at Kaunas Biennial and Free Instalations
Kaunas Biennial is joining the national initiative for the free museum day. Every last Sunday of the month visit the exposition „After Leaving | Before Arriving“ with the discount and even [...]
- Aug 22, 2019
The Last Week of The Japan and Lithuanian Contemporary Textile Exposition in Kaunas
The exhibition presenting contemporary textiles of ten artists from Japan and Lithuania Deep “Rivers Flow Silently“ is open to the public till the 1st of September at M. Zilinskas Art Gallery [...]
- Aug 21, 2019
12th Kaunas Biennial artist Francesca Grilli: ‘My performances start as images’
Italian artist Francesca Grilli often collaborates with very diverse and sometimes marginalized people, invites them to face their limitations and encourages them to disregard them in her performances. During the opening [...]
- Aug 19, 2019
ATTENTION – TEMPORARY CHANGES AT THE J. CIBIC INSTALLATION
ATTENTION – on the 23rd of August installation by the artist Jasmina Cibic at the Vytautas the Great War Museum will be open until 3 pm. On the 24th of August [...]
- Aug 17, 2019
12th Kaunas Biennial artist Ghenadie Popescu: a traveller with a wheelbarrow
Extravagant Moldovan artist Ghenadie Popescu has walked several hundred kilometers during his performances. The body of his work is diverse and distinctive and raises many questions, those of a political nature [...]
- Aug 13, 2019
Kaunas Biennial will be closed for the Assumption of Mary Day
Dear visitors, the 12thKaunas Biennial exposition “After Leaving | Before Arriving” will be closed for the Assumption of Mary Day on the 15thof August. On Wednesday, the exhibition will work one [...]
- Aug 13, 2019
Visual games by 12th Kaunas Biennial artist Tamu Nkiwane
London-based artist Tamu Nkiwane explores themes of historical amnesia, local identity and spirituality. Combining autobiographical elements and universal experiences in his body of work, he creates visual narratives full of cultural [...]
- Aug 08, 2019
Alessandra Troncone: ‘Kaunas’s identity is very visible through its architecture’
Italian art curator Alessandra Troncone is one of the five curators of the 12thKaunas Biennial AFTER LEAVING | BEFORE ARRIVING. Her practice focuses on projects in public spaces, and she believes [...]
- Aug 05, 2019
Exhibition “Deep Rivers Flow Silently” opened – photoreportage
Kaunas Biennial presents an exhibition for contemporary textiles of ten artists from Japan and Lithuania “Deep Rivers Flow Silently”. This exposition is part of an international textile art project, which began [...]
- Aug 04, 2019
Lýdia Pribišová: ‘Contemporary art is a space of discovering and testing the unpredictable’
Slovak curator and editor in chief of Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition, Lýdia Pribišová is one of the five curators of this year’s Kaunas Biennial AFTER LEAVING | BEFORE ARRIVING. [...]
- Jul 31, 2019
TALK BY GALERIE UBERALL DIRECTORS
12th Kaunas Biennial titled “After Leaving | Before Arriving” has partnered with Galerie Uberall directors, artists, leading businessmen and art dealers, to deliver elements of its public programme both in Lithuania and internationally. [...]
- Jul 23, 2019
JAPANESE AND LITHUANIAN CONTEMPORARY TEXTILE EXHIBITION IN KAUNAS
On the 2ndof June the exhibition, presenting contemporary textiles of ten artists from Japan and Lithuania, will be opened in Kaunas. This exhibition is part of an international textile art project, [...]
- Jul 12, 2019
Taus Makhacheva and 380 Kilos of Well-planned Absurdity
The spectrum of the themes explored by Taus Makhacheva, a Russian artist from the Caucasus, is very vide. Whether she’s dealing with complex political issues or creating mock-ups for the Venice [...]
- Jul 02, 2019
Kaunas Biennial will be closed for the Statehood Day
Dear visitors, the 12th Kaunas Biennial exposition “After Leaving | Before Arriving” will be closed for the Statehood Dayon 6thof July. On Friday, the exhibition will work one hour shorter than usual. [...]
- Jun 27, 2019
MagiC Carpets Presents Year 2
1-5 of July, Kaunas Biennial will host partners of the international project MagiC Carpets. On the 3rd of July, in Kaunas participants will present creative residencies for the year 2 of [...]
- Jun 23, 2019
Tour with Galerie Uberall director
Photos by: Gintarė Žaltauskaitė Over the course of 12th Kaunas Biennial, Galerie Uberall Office temporarily relocates to the underground passage in Kaunas Train Station. Here it serves as the starting point [...]
- Jun 20, 2019
12th Kaunas Biennial artist Ieva Epnere: ‘I like to leave some space for the spectator’s imagination.’
Ieva Epnere is a Latvian-Russian artist that often discusses the complex themes of identity and its crisis in her body of work. By subtly connecting autobiographical elements and the experiences of [...]
- Jun 19, 2019
ATTENTION – J. Cibic installation temporary closed
ATTENTION 19-21st of June installation by the artist Jasmina Cibic at the Vytautas the Great War Museum is temporarily closed for visitors. We are sorry for any inconvenience.
- Jun 19, 2019
Ana Kovačić presents her artwork “Migrating Species – Reflections on Moving (Rest)”
Sundays are for lazy afternoons watching birds and eating ice-cream! 12th Kaunas Biennial “After Leaving | Before Arriving” presents MagiC Carpets resident Ana Kovačic and her artwork. The installation “Migrating Species [...]
- Jun 10, 2019
Francesca Grilli “The Forgetting of Air”
Francesca Grilli (b. 1978 Italy) The Forgetting of Air, 2016/2019 Performance Courtesy Umberto Di Marino, Naples The Forgetting of Airis a performance originally conceived for Italy as a ‘gate of Europe’, [...]
- Jun 09, 2019
„Empatiškas kūnas: savo būgno ritmu“
„Empatiškas kūnas: savo būgno ritmu“ Inga Galinytė (Lietuva) ir Anna Papathanasiou (Graikija) Performansas Inga Galinytė ir Anna Papathanasiou kartu dirbti pradėjo 2018 m. Watermill Centre Niujorke (JAV) vykusios Tarptautinės Roberto Wilsono [...]
- Jun 08, 2019
The 12th Kaunas Biennial: AFTER LEAVING | BEFORE ARRIVING
The 12th Kaunas Biennial: AFTER LEAVING | BEFORE ARRIVING invites visitors to embark on a journey through the city. Until September 29, 2019 Biennial is taking the history of Kaunas as [...]
- May 30, 2019
To Mathematically Calculate Infinity: 12th Kaunas Biennial Artist Laura Grisi
The artistic world of the Italian artist Laura Grisi (1939 – 2017) is a geometricized reflection of a reality that has moved away from earthly chaos. During her career of several [...]
- May 18, 2019
Mykola Ridnyi: “Nowadays, it is impossible to stay outside the political and social reality”
Menininkas, filmų kūrėjas ir kuratorius iš Ukrainos Mykola Ridnyi - vienas iš 12-os Kauno bienalės menininkų, kuriantis specialų darbą Kaunui. Menininko darbai apima daugybę medijų: nuo ankstyvųjų kolektyvinių akcijų viešosiose erdvėse, [...]
- May 15, 2019
Jasmina Cibic: In Search of National Identity in Art
Jasmina Cibic (b. 1979) is a Slovenian artist based in London. In her work, the artist discusses issues of national representation, construction of national identity and gendering in art and architecture. [...]
- May 13, 2019
Daniel Milnes: The Viewer of an Exhibition Needs to Be Open, Brave and Confident
The 12th Kaunas Biennial, one of the biggest cultural and art events in Lithuania, returns at the beginning of June. This year, the Biennial AFTER LEAVING | BEFORE ARRIVING presents several [...]
- May 09, 2019
Artūras Morozovas: ‘Telling stories with images is a mission that requires a lot of responsibility.’
Photographer Artūras Morozovas is one of the 12th Kaunas Biennial artists whose new project will be presented in Kaunas on June 7 until September 29. The photographer, known to many for [...]
- May 07, 2019
This summer, the Kaunas Biennial invites you on an unforgettable journey
The upcoming 12th Kaunas Biennial AFTER LEAVING | BEFORE ARRIVING, like the distant rumble of a puffing train, will encourage everyone to embark on a journey that will start on June [...]
- Apr 03, 2019
LAUNCH EVENT in Kunstverein München
On Tuesday 9. April 2019 at 7 pm, Kunstverein München will host a launch event and discussion in anticipation ofthe upcoming 12th Kaunas Biennial: AFTER LEAVING | BEFORE ARRIVING, which will [...]
- Mar 20, 2019
Getting to know the world through art
I met Ms. Kotryna Žemaitytė, Executive Director of Kaunas Biennial, at a cosy café, just outside her office. While there are so many meetings and preparations going on behind the scenes [...]
- Feb 25, 2019
KAUNAS BIENNIAL ANNOUNCES THE LIST OF ARTISTS FOR ITS 12th EDITION
Kaunas Biennial announces the final list of artists for its 12th edition titled AFTER LEAVING | BEFORE ARRIVING thatincludes 26 artists, 9 of which will make artworks specifically for Kaunas.
- Jan 16, 2019
KAUNAS BIENNIAL INVITES YOU ON A JOURNEY IN THE SUMMER OF 2019
Kaunas Biennial announces curators and concept for its 12thedition titled AFTER LEAVING | BEFORE ARRIVING to take place from June 7 to September 29, 2019 in Kaunas, Lithuania and entrusts its [...]
- Nov 15, 2018
- May 04, 2018
OPEN CALL FOR EMERGING CURATORS TO PARTICIPATE IN KAUNAS BIENNIAL 2019
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 [...]
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