{"id":23754,"date":"2025-03-07T11:51:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T09:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/radvilu-rumu-dailes-muziejus\/renginiai\/the-new-radvila-palace-exhibition-shows-all-we-should-not-do\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T11:51:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T09:51:02","slug":"the-new-radvila-palace-exhibition-shows-all-we-should-not-do","status":"publish","type":"renginys","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/radvila-palace-museum-of-art\/events\/the-new-radvila-palace-exhibition-shows-all-we-should-not-do\/","title":{"rendered":"The new Radvila Palace exhibition shows all we should not do\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The new exhibition of the Radvila Palace Art Museum of the LNMA, Everything You Are Not Supposed to Do <\/i>stages an encounter of contemporary female artists with the historical painting tradition. The exhibition of contemporary art, opening at 6 pm 13 March, hones in on the artwork by female artists, which the exhibition curator Monika Kalinauskait\u0117 embeds into the exhibit of the museums\u2019 historical painting. The opening event will symbolically celebrate the encounter of the old and new by a performance from the Lithuanian Queer Archive i\u0161girsti<\/i>.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition <\/span>Everything You Are Not Supposed to Do<\/span><\/i> invites to explore contemporary female art practices against an unorthodox backdrop \u2013 the permanent historical painting exhibit of the Radvila Palace Art Museum. The building of the museum on Liejyklos St. houses a display of nearly a hundred of 16th to 19th-century paintings from Italy, Spain, Netherlands, France, Germany and other countries, organized by the curators Dr Tojana Ra\u010di\u016bnait\u0117 and Joana Vitkut\u0117 into thematic blocks established on the basis of iconographic similarities or purely on association.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Amongst these <\/span>Vibrant Profiles of the Old World, <\/span><\/i>Monika Kalinauskait\u0117 situates 21st-century female artwork from the LNMA\u2019s collections. Such juxtaposition brings into relief the technical\/generic variety together with intricate thematic complexities of contemporary art, counterpointing matters eternal and the pressing issues of today. The museum\u2019s repositories of paintings, photography and video, ceramics, textiles and other forms of art are annually enriched by new acquisitions, art pieces by male and female artists across all generations. In her selection of works for the exhibition, the curator explored the artwork by 21st-century women artists, practitioners of contemporary \u2013 distinct in terms of theme and content \u2013 forms, that have surfaced over the past 25 years, the period of dramatic geopolitical, social and information shifts in Lithuania and globally.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018There are things you simply must not do. You must not yell or kiss under the watchful eyes gazing eternally from the paintings, you must not swear or recall certain matters, or doubt some big truths. There are all sorts of little abrupt acts we are not supposed to do, and they are easy to quickly discipline, control and condemn. Nobody cares too much to preserve them for the future \u2013 we will hardly come across many museums of provocations or hooliganism round the world. Yet art cares for these little no-noes \u2013 and what they tell of the victims and perpetrators of the big crimes,\u2019 the curator of the event Monika Kalinauskait\u0117 introduces her line of thought.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Even being a female artist in various societies has long been unacceptable, and could be punishable, that is exactly one of the reasons why displaying contemporary female artwork against the backdrop of the paintings by the old masters is consequential.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Each piece selected for the exhibition interacts with the themes and stories by the old masters, testing their boundaries as they do. For instance, the video <\/span>Songs from Compost<\/span><\/i> (2020) by <\/span>Egl\u0117 Budvytyt\u0117 (<\/span>with Marija Ol\u0161auskaite and Julija Steponaityt\u0117) presents an image of expansive nature defiant of any usual categories, while Agn\u0117 Juodvalkyt\u0117\u2019s painting <\/span>(Y)Wedding <\/span><\/i>(2021) shows a traditional phenomenon rendered by traditional media, which, however, becomes a work of abstract mood refusing to be labelled. The works \u201cinvading\u201d the permanent museum\u2019s exhibition challenge the boundaries of similar social, political, personal or natural phenomena, inviting to take a free and somewhat rebellious look at them \u2013 not necessarily in a generally acceptable way.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition is accompanied by a programme of events, curator and museum\u2019s guide guided tours. The opening event with a performative gesture from the Lithuanian Queer Archive <\/span>i\u0161girsti (They Are Heard<\/span><\/i>) takes place at 6 pm 13 March at the exhibition halls of the Radvila Palace Museum of Art.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition at the South Wing of the Radvila Palace Museum of Art (Vilniaus St. 24, Vilnius) will run through 28 September 2025.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Participating artists: <\/span>Egl\u0117 Budvytyt\u0117, Janina Gra\u017eina Degutyt\u0117-\u0160va\u017eien\u0117, Laura Garb\u0161tien\u0117, Kristina In\u010di\u016brait\u0117 ir Rita Ma\u010dili\u016bnait\u0117, Agn\u0117 Juodvalkyt\u0117, Geist\u0117 Marija Kin\u010dinaityt\u0117, Danut\u0117 Kvietkevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, Aurelija Maknyt\u0117, Relita Miel\u0117, Elena Narbutait\u0117, Egl\u0117 Rakauskait\u0117, Gintar\u0117 Sokelyt\u0117, Regina \u0160ulskyt\u0117.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition organized by the Radvila Palace Museum of Art of the LNDM\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Curator Monika Kalinauskait\u0117<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Curator assistant Audrius Jera\u0161ius<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Coordinator: Lina Jonkuvien\u0117, Nojus Kiznis<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Designer Gail\u0117 Pranck\u016bnait\u0117\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Communication coordinator Aist\u0117 Marija Stankevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Guide Erikas Siliuk\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Educators: Daiva Banikonien\u0117, Ona Kva\u0161yt\u0117<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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