{"id":23810,"date":"2025-03-28T09:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T07:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/vytauto-kasiulio-dailes-muziejus\/renginiai\/vytautas-kasiulis-art-museum-sets-stage-for-a-dialogue-of-postwar-and-todays-17-year-olds\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T09:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T07:24:04","slug":"vytautas-kasiulis-art-museum-sets-stage-for-a-dialogue-of-postwar-and-todays-17-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"renginys","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/vytautas-kasiulis-museum-of-art\/events\/vytautas-kasiulis-art-museum-sets-stage-for-a-dialogue-of-postwar-and-todays-17-year-olds\/","title":{"rendered":"Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum sets stage for a dialogue of postwar and today\u2019s 17-year-olds\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>At 2 pm 4 April, 2025, Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum (VKAM) <\/strong><\/span>opens an international exhibition We Are 17<\/i> coordinated by Meno avilys. The event is anchored to and inspired by the Dutch film-maker and photographer Johan van der Keuken and his photographic series composed of 30 portraits of adolescents, shot in 1955 by a 17-year-old artist. These spontaneous, candid shots capture the generation of postwar teenagers as they advance towards adulthood. The series, emblematic of the artist\u2019s nascent career, reflects on a young individual\u2019s feelings in different contexts of space and time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The photographic images immortalize daily life of postwar youth and their adolescent impatience; there, even restful moments are pregnant with anticipation of a new life on their doorstep. The emphatic, sensitive Johan van der Keuken\u2019s art is part of postwar – photography – and – film humanist tradition. The images on display are printed from the artist\u2019s original negatives using contemporary technique of pigment ink.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition sets the stage for an interesting dialogue, that involves over a hundred of images by young Catalonian, Lithuanian and Romanian photographers hanging alongside with the artwork by Johan van der Keuken. In Lithuania, Meno avilys have organized five creative workshops at Lithuanian schools. Inspired by the Dutch artist, the 17-year-olds took portraits of their contemporaries and of senior individuals, who were 17 in 1955. The guides for the teenagers\u2019 creative process were photographers <\/span>Art\u016bras Morozovas, Vilma Samulionyt\u0117, Aist\u0117 \u017degulyt\u0117 (Lithuania), Ingrid Ferrer, Tanit Plana, M\u00f2nica Rosell\u00f3, Berta Vicente Salas (Catalonia), Lorena Dumitrascu, Melissa Ivana, Luiza Puiu (Romania).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The visual artwork is accompanied by sound recordings of the participants sharing some of their experiences and dreams.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition <\/span>We Are 17<\/span><\/i> shows different generations in dialogue and invites the audience to reflect on their own experience of adolescence and their identity. Though the images of 17-year-olds taken in 2025 and in 1955 are 70 years and thousands of miles apart, their experience and dreams are likely to have plenty in common.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition will be accompanied by educational events and film screenings at Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum, Skalvija Film Theatre and Meno Avilys Cinematheque. The events will include some of the young participants to help to communicate how the young generation of today perceives the world and reflects it using photography.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We invite you to discover this unique project, intended to inspire to ruminate on our identity and future visions. The exhibition <\/span>We Are 17<\/span><\/i> will run at the Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum from 4 April to 11 May. It will subsequently travel to Barcelona Contemporary Culture Centre (CCBC) and to Timi\u0219oara.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Curators A Bao A Q and \u00c9rika Goyarrola<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Coordinator for Lithuania Meno Avilys<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition architect Jurgis Dagelis<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Designer Jurgis Gri\u0161kevi\u010dius<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The internation exhibition <\/span>We Are 17<\/span><\/i> is part of the international creative photography project from which it also borrows its title. In Lithuania, the project is carried on in partnership with: Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art, \u201c<\/span>Saul\u0117tekio\u201d General Education School in Bezdonys, Vilnius region; \u201c\u0160ilo\u201d Gymnasium in Juod\u0161iliai; Adomas Brakas\u2019 Art School in Klaip\u0117da; \u201cAitvaras\u201d Gymnasium in Klaip\u0117da; \u0160eduva Gymnasium, Radvili\u0161kis region; \u201cDan\u0117\u201d, Social Services Centre in Klaip\u0117da, and \u0160eduva Nursing Home.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Project and exhibition is organized by the Culture Association <\/span>A Bao A Qu<\/span><\/a> (Catalonia), Culture Association <\/span>Contrasens<\/span><\/a> (Romania), Media Education and Research Centre <\/span>Meno avilys<\/span><\/a> (Lithuania).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Project and exhibition funded by: European Union programme Creative Europe, Culture strand, Lithuanian Culture Institute.<\/span><\/p>\n

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