{"id":23775,"date":"2025-03-14T14:05:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T12:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/parodos\/the-lithuanian-national-museum-of-art-presents-its-spring-programme-dedicated-to-the-acquaintance-with-the-old-and-contemporary-forms-of-artistic-expression-from-the-collections-of-lithuanian-and-fore\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T14:05:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T12:05:45","slug":"the-lithuanian-national-museum-of-art-presents-its-spring-programme-dedicated-to-the-acquaintance-with-the-old-and-contemporary-forms-of-artistic-expression-from-the-collections-of-lithuanian-and-fore","status":"publish","type":"paroda","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/exhibitions\/the-lithuanian-national-museum-of-art-presents-its-spring-programme-dedicated-to-the-acquaintance-with-the-old-and-contemporary-forms-of-artistic-expression-from-the-collections-of-lithuanian-and-fore\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lithuanian National Museum of Art presents its spring programme dedicated to the acquaintance with the old and contemporary forms of artistic expression from the collections of Lithuanian and foreign collections\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For the spring of 2025, the Lithuanian National Museum of Art (LNMA) presents a broad exhibition programme featuring foreign and Lithuanian artists. The LNMA departments in Vilnius, Klaip\u0117da and Palanga invite to get acquainted with the old and contemporary modes of artistic expression in the artwork from museum collections in Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, the Netherlands, USA and elsewhere.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fourteen-exhibition-programme embraces themes as the Jewish People and their relationship with images, remembrances of the Holocaust, passage from youth to adulthood. The programme includes events that symbolically mark birth anniversaries of significant 20th-century Lithuanian artists and bring centre stage from obscurity the early women photographers\u2019 strong voices, showcasing them alongside with contemporary creators. Visitors interested in curatorial ideas and research behind each of the exhibitions, are welcome to book guide services and educational workshops.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Vilnius: reflections on complicated pasts and the bashfulness of youth\u00a0\u00a0<\/h6>\n

From 5 March, <\/span>Vilnius Picture Gallery<\/span><\/b><\/a> hosts an exhibition <\/span>You Shall Not Make an Image. Commandments, daily life and change<\/a>,<\/span><\/i> an exploration into contradictory Jewish People\u2019s relationship with images. This exhibition that marks the centennial anniversary of the founding of the YIVO Institute in Vilnius, is centred on different interpretations of the Second Biblical Commandment by the Judaic tradition and Christian Civilization. On display are Jewish religious, secular, monumental and applied art pieces from the 18th to the first half of the 20th century from the collections of the YIVO Institute in New York, from Lithuania and other European countries. The exhibition is on until mid-September.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

28 March the <\/span>National Gallery of Art<\/span><\/b><\/a> (NGA) in Vilnius opens its grand exhibition, <\/span>Silver Girls. Retouched History of Baltic Photography,<\/span><\/i> introducing the art by 21 early women photographers from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. They not only worked in the shadow of men, as retouch technicians, picture copyists and assistants, but also founded their own studios and shaped the aesthetics of the period, contributing to the expansion of commercial photography and establishing photography as a branch of art. Though parallels between the development of photography in the three Baltic countries are seldom drawn, the works from three contemporary artists Marge Monko, Di\u0101na Tamane and Goda Palekait\u0117 are expected to succeed at bridging this divide in the upcoming exhibition.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From 30 April the NGA presents its new permanent exhibition of Lithuanian art from the 1st half of the 20th century. Originally opened in 2009, since then the display experienced several curatorial interventions. Yet, as the needs of visitors keep changing, to meet them, two curators, <\/span>Giedr\u0117 Jankevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 and Gabriel\u0117 Radzevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, have been invited to reshape four permanent exhibition rooms introducing a new approach to story-telling and ways of displaying the exhibits. Their curatorial project is family-with-children-centred and will offer integrated education and workbooks that will facilitate independent exploration of inter-war Lithuanian children\u2019s literature, the artists\u2019 childhood world and their games.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>Radvila Palace Museum of Art<\/span><\/b><\/a> (RPMA) of the LNMA started the spring season with the exhibition <\/span>Everything You Are Not Supposed to Do<\/span><\/i><\/a> (13 March \u2013 28 September). The exhibition curator Monika Kalinauskait\u0117 invades the \u201cforbidden\u201d territory and invites to discover the practices of contemporary women artists within an unusual context of the museum\u2019s permanent exhibition of the old art, featuring nearly a hundred of Western European art pieces from the 15th through the 19th centuries. Among these \u201cvibrant profiles of the old world\u201d the curator integrates 21st-century pieces by women artists in the LNMA\u2019s collection. Such juxtaposition draws attention to the diversity of present-day techniques and genre and the dramatic contrast in the take on some of eternal themes.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

9 April the Radvila Palace Museum of Art opens an exhibition <\/span>Post Ars. <\/span><\/i>The Post Ars group emerged in 1989 and really stood out on the Lithuanian art stage through their eccentric ideas and unorthodox for that time forms of art. Visitors will have an opportunity to see acts in space of this longest enduring group \u2013 their installations and actions and the most recent work by individual group\u2019s members (<\/span>Aleksas Andriu\u0161kevi\u010dius, Robertas Antinis, \u010ceslovas Lukenskas, and Gintaras Zinkevi\u010dius).\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of May RPMA will host a solo exhibition by Janina Sabaliauskait\u0117 (b. 1991), a photography artist on the rise in Lithuania and abroad. Her artwork chronicles daily life, leisure and love of LGBTQ+ people. The upcoming exhibit will be a new series by the artist, dedicated to the expression of sexuality by couples and communities with all kinds of disabilities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

4 April, <\/span>Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art<\/span><\/b><\/a> opens an international exhibition<\/span> We Are 17<\/span><\/i> coordinated by Meno avilys. At its core is a homonymous photography series by the Dutch film-maker and photographer Johan van der Keuken. It is composed of 30 portraits of young people taken by him in 1955, when the artist was 17. These spontaneous, open pictures show the generation of post-war teenagers moving towards adulthood. In the exhibition, over a hundred of portraits by 17-year-old Catalonians, Lithuanians and Romanians enter into a dialogue with the work by Johan van der Keuken. Until 11 May, the exhibition will be accompanied by educational events and screenings of Johan van der Keuken\u2019s and Jonas Mekas\u2019 films.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of May, VKMA opens an exhibition by Tania Mourad (b. 1942). The contemporary French artist brings to Vilnius her exhibit <\/span>In Honour of Pain Reborn,<\/span><\/i> dedicated to the memory of the victims of Holocaust. The exhibition put together specially for Vytautas Kasiulius Museum of Art includes 41 pieces where she continues hew explorations of the Yiddish writing and new reflections on Litvak memory and heritage.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From 11 April, the Museum of Applied Arts and Design<\/strong><\/a> hosts a jewellery exhibition <\/span>Touch-Sensitive<\/span><\/i> featuring collections of jewellery by 23 artists from the Latvian Jewellery Association with portraits of wearers selected by individual artists.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From 17 April through 14 September, the MAAD will host a retrospective of Stasys U\u0161inskas (<\/span>1905\u20131974): the Iceberg of Lithuanian Modernism. Professor Stasys U\u0161inskas is among the most esteemed Lithuanian artists of the 20th century, largely inspired by Cubism and Constructivism. The retrospective, curated by Dr Ramut\u0117 Rachlevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, and celebrating 120th birth anniversary of the artist, will include, besides his broadly best-known works (stained glass, marionettes, glass vases, drawings and other), two previously unexhibited historical paintings from the 1939 New York World\u2019s Fair.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Artistic winds from Ukraine and Japan at the coastal venues of the LNMA\u00a0\u00a0<\/h6>\n

The audience that fell for Japanese popular culture at the National Art Gallery in Vilnius, should start planning trips to coast Lithuania to see the exhibition <\/span>Japanese Kabuki Images in Ukiyo-e<\/span><\/i> Woodblock Prints,<\/span><\/i> which is on at the Palanga <\/strong><\/a><\/span>Amber Museum<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0through 27 April. It is an opportunity to see a rare and unique collection of colour Ukiyo-e woodblock prints from the collection of the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts, evacuated to Lithuania. The prints stage a boisterous space of socializing and entertainment, such a contrast to our awe-stricken silence dominating theatre atmosphere.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

24 April <\/span>Pranas Dom\u0161aitis Gallery<\/span><\/b><\/a> in Klaip\u0117da opens <\/span>I Give You Sunlit Art<\/span><\/i>, the exhibition of the celebrated Ukrainian visionary folk artist Maria Prymachenko (1909 \u2013 1997), already received with love in Vilnius. The collection was evacuated from the Zaporizhzhya Regional Art Museum. These badly damaged works evacuated to Lithuania in September 2024 are being restored at the Pranas Gudynas Restoration Centre of the LNMA. The works, a veritable profusion of flowers, phantastic animals, scenes of daily peasant life and symbols, are not only a feast to the eye, these days they keep reminding of the wounds of war.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

24 April, too, an exhibition by the painter Patricija Jurk\u0161taityt\u0117 and the sculptor Gediminas Akstinas, <\/span>Blood Rock<\/span><\/i> opens at the gallery. The exhibition curator Anders Kreuger compares the earlier and contemporary artwork by the artists of individual voices, symbolically referencing the red ochre.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The last project by Pranas Dom\u0161aitis Gallery this spring is an exhibition <\/span>Compositions<\/span><\/i> by Antanas Gudaitis, Lithuanian 20th-century artist of a complicated fate. From 15 May, the rooms open to visitors, will feature Gudaitis\u2019 creative period perceived as his best by the artist himself, from 1959 till his passing away in 1989. The painter\u2019s artwork will be expanded by materials from Algimantas Kun\u010dius\u2019 photography archive, with film and still pictures evoking Gudaitis\u2019 studio environment and glimpses of his private life.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The spring season of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art invites to take a fresh look at the life, our own reality through different lens \u2013 from religious symbolism to playful experiments. Each project is expanded by specially designed programmes inclusive of lectures, discussions, film screenings, tours, creative workshops for different age groups. Alongside with temporary projects, the LNMA keeps up its activities of One\u2019s Own Museum tailored for individuals with developmental disorders and carried out by the museum\u2019s specialized staff.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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