{"id":23876,"date":"2025-04-17T10:23:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/prano-domsaicio-galerija\/renginiai\/from-ukraine-to-the-lithuanian-coast-the-opening-of-the-exhibitions-by-maria-prymachenko-and-two-lithuanian-artists-in-klaipeda\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T10:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:23:55","slug":"from-ukraine-to-the-lithuanian-coast-the-opening-of-the-exhibitions-by-maria-prymachenko-and-two-lithuanian-artists-in-klaipeda","status":"publish","type":"renginys","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/pranas-domsaitis-gallery\/events\/from-ukraine-to-the-lithuanian-coast-the-opening-of-the-exhibitions-by-maria-prymachenko-and-two-lithuanian-artists-in-klaipeda\/","title":{"rendered":"From Ukraine to the Lithuanian coast: the opening of the exhibitions by Maria Prymachenko and two Lithuanian artists in Klaip\u0117da\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Pranas Dom\u0161aitis Gallery of the LNMA (Liep\u0173 St. 33, Klaip\u0117da) opens its spring season with two exceptional events. From 6 pm Thursday, 24 April, the Gallery invites its local visitors and holidaymakers to coastal Lithuania to see one of the most celebrated Ukrainian folk artists Maria Prymachenko (1909\u20131997). Her exhibition I Give You Sunlit Art,<\/i> showcasing her collection of the artwork evacuated to Lithuania from the Zaporizhzhya Regional Art Museum, already presented with great success to Vilnius audience, arrives in Klaip\u0117da. 24 April is also the opening of an exhibition by two established Lithuanian artists, titled Bloodstone, <\/i>showcasing Gediminas Akstinas\u2019s (b. 1961) sculpture pieces and Patricija Jurk\u0161aityt\u0117\u2019s (b. 1968) paintings. The exhibition will be on in Klaip\u0117da until 21 September.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI am happy that <\/span>Pranas Dom\u0161aitis Gallery presents two unique exhibitions accompanied by a special programme of events and education evolutions. These activities involve more volunteers of different age and different education levels, they help to strengthen the community of the museum. This time volunteer guides will give experience tours of the exhibitions,\u201d Skaist\u0117 Mar\u010dien\u0117, director of the Pranas Dom\u0161aitis Gallery of the LNMA, says.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The artwork by Maria Prymachenko, a symbol of Ukrainian culture\u00a0\u00a0<\/h6>\n

The visionary art by <\/span>Maria Prymachenko has been become a legend and a recognizable symbol of Ukrainian culture. The self-educated folk artist is one of the most cherished artists of the country. <\/span>Her likeness has appeared on the country\u2019s coinage and stamps, her works have been used to illustrate fairy-tale books and featured in animation films. Sixteen Ukrainian memory institutions hold collections of world-wide-exhibited art of <\/span>Maria Prymachenko.<\/span> Her paintings have become symbols of the war-devasted Ukrainian culture, and from 2022 have been featured by the museums and galleries in Dresden, Kyiv, London, New York, Warsaw and other cities. Prymachenko\u2019s work <\/span>My Home, My Truth<\/span><\/i> (1989) sold for 110,000 euros at the April 2022 charity auction in support of Ukraine. The images of the painting <\/span>The Dove Has Spread Her Wings<\/span><\/i> and Asks for Peace<\/span><\/i> (1982) have been shared worldwide on the web, in posters and support messages.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

T<\/span>he Pranas Dom\u0161aitis Gallery display will feature 63 selected <\/span>Prymachenko<\/span>\u2019s gouache paintings from her collection of 100 pieces that arrived in Lithuania. A part of her works created from 1960\u20131994 are being restored at <\/span>the Pranas Gudynas Restoration Centre of the LNMA<\/span>. In the autumn of 2024, the Lithuanian National Museum of Art and the Jonas Karolis Chodkevi\u010dius Charity and Support Fund launched a fundraising campaign for the restoration and conservation of the work by the Ukrainian artist. The artwork restored on the raised money will be presented to the public at the Gallery in Klaip\u0117da in September 2025. The exhibition of <\/span>Maria Prymachenko\u2019s unique and powerful art at the Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of the LNMA in Vilnius in the autumn of 2024 attracted plentiful visitors.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The search for new artistic expression in Patricija Jurk\u0161aityt\u0117\u2019s paintings and Gediminas Akstinas\u2019s sculpture pieces\u00a0<\/h6>\n

\u0160iauliai based artist Gediminas Akstinas has branded himself through his hybrid \u201cshelves\u201d, which he conceived of producing and presenting in the early 1990s. His method allows for flexible use of elements across diverse visual arts, sculpture and architecture, drawing and painting. He has not satiated yet with these assemblages of thought and form, and will hardly ever do so. This format allows him to change the proportions of open and closed, empty and full, image and narrative. This exhibition is a space where the manifestations of the shelf that came about in the early 1990s and its recent kinds coexist, singly, or in collections, entitled \u201ca shelf and an image\u201d. There architectural and sculptural elements are supplemented by watercolours, where metaphor, abstraction and emblematic qualities come together.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These past few years saw Patricija Jurk\u0161aityt\u0117 come about a new concept and practice for art making. She gave up the method perfected by her during three previous decades of paraphrasing classical composition and emulation of the traditional techniques of priming, grisaille and glazing. Jurk\u0161aityt\u0117 reinvents herself as a painter, carving out a new place for herself: now the clarity comes about by giving up all the exquisite skills and by \u201cunlearning\u201d many things. Now success depends on rapid execution of a series of premeditated momentary gestures, without any retouching. Such series of paintings as <\/span>Seashore<\/span><\/i> (2023), <\/span>Stairs<\/span><\/i> (2024) or <\/span>Street View<\/span><\/i> (2024) are her experiments with simple materials and mediums: the first layer of red ochre, white gypsum, masking tape, decorative stencils and wide priming brushes.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The title of the exhibition was prompted by the use of ochre pigment in the works of the two artists, <\/span>Akstinas opting to paint one part of the temporary walls in faded red ochre, thus showing solidarity to the co-artist of the event Patricija Jurk\u0161aityt\u0117, now red ochre being so important in her works. Nearly all of the pieces on display are property of the artists, most are exhibited for the first time.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition is accompanied by events and educational evolutions in Lithuanian and Ukrainian\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition <\/span>I Give You Sunlit Art.\u00a0 Maria Prymachenko\u2019s<\/span><\/i> Collection of Artwork Evacuated From <\/span><\/i>the Zaporizhzhya Regional Art Museum<\/span><\/i> is accompanied by tours and education events prepared in cooperation with the Ukrainian guide Iryna Bila. <\/span>Pranas Dom\u0161aitis Gallery of the LNMA invites to take part in free events, a guided (in Ukrainian) tour with Iryna Bila at <\/span>3 pm and 4.30 pm 26 April; at 1 pm 27 April<\/span><\/b> and a creative workshop <\/span>Tree of Life<\/span><\/i> in the art of <\/span>Maria Prymachenko (in Ukrainian) at <\/span>11 am 27 April<\/span><\/b>. The artist\u2019s works abound in plants, as she longed to create \u201cParadise on Earth\u201d. Participants of the workshop will use monotype printing to create their own \u201ctree of life\u201d.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Guided tours with volunteer guides, representatives of different professions, start with the first such event <\/span>at 5 pm 17 May<\/span><\/b>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I Give You Sunlit Art<\/span><\/i><\/b> at<\/span><\/b> the<\/span><\/b> Pranas Dom\u0161aitis Gallery of the LNMA will run from 6 pm 24 April 2025 till 14 September; the <\/span><\/b>Bloodstone<\/span><\/i><\/b> by Patricija Jurk\u0161aityt\u0117 and Gediminas Akstinas will be on from 24 April 2025 till 21 September 2025.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I Give You Sunlit Art.\u00a0 Maria Prymachenko\u2019s<\/span><\/i><\/b> Collection of Artwork Evacuated from <\/span><\/i><\/b>the Zaporizhzhya Regional Art Museum<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Curators:<\/span><\/b> Aurelija Malinauskait\u0117, Skaist\u0117 Mar\u010dien\u0117, Ilona Ma\u017eeikien\u0117, Skaistis Mikulionis, Birut\u0117 Pank\u016bnait\u0117<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Designer <\/span><\/b>Marius \u017dalneravi\u010dius\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Architect<\/span><\/b> Aust\u0117 Kulie\u0161i\u016bt\u0117-\u0160emet\u0117<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Patron<\/span><\/b>\u202fUkrainian Minister of Culture and Strategic Communication Mykola\u202fTochytsky<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Project leaders:\u202f<\/span><\/b>Director General of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art Dr Ar\u016bnas Gel\u016bnas,\u00a0 Director of the Zaporizhzhya Regional Art Museum Inga Jankovych, Director General of the Lviv National\u202fBorys Voznytsky\u202fArt Gallery Taras Vozniak<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Restorers: <\/span><\/b>Egl\u0117 Pi\u0161\u010dikait\u0117, Paulius Zov\u0117, Ryt\u0117 \u0160imait\u0117, Jurga Bla\u017eyt\u0117-Denapien\u0117, Janita Petrauskien\u0117, Dalia Jonynait\u0117\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Translators:<\/span><\/b> Jurgita Jasponyt\u0117, Irena Jomantien\u0117, D\u017eiulija Elena Fedirkien\u0117, Ruslanas Skroba\u010das\u202f\u202f\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Language editor<\/span><\/b> Ieva Puluikien\u0117\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Organisers:<\/span><\/b> The Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Zaporizhzhya Regional Art Museum, Lviv National\u202fBorys Voznytsky\u202fArt Gallery<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In partnership with institutions: <\/span><\/b>Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Ukraine, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Republic of Poland, Ukrainian Embassy in the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuanian Armed Forces, Lithuanian Riflemen\u2019s Union, Ukrainian Patrol Police, Ukrainian State Boarder Guard Service, Ukrainian State Customs Service, Customs of the Republic of Lithuania;\u00a0\u00a0 \u0160ventaragis 1008th Riflemens\u2018 Company, 313th Company of Western (Sea) Riflemen 3rd Riflemen Territorial Unit, the Prymanchenko Family Foundation, LAW NET\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Supporter General<\/span><\/b> BTA Baltic Insurance Company<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Supporters:<\/span><\/b> UAB AD REM, UAB Bunasta, CLS Brokerage Company, UAB Nova Post Lithuania, <\/span>Jonas Karolis Chodkevi\u010dius Charity and Support Fund<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Donar<\/span><\/b> Robertas Gabulas<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Information partner<\/span><\/b> Klaip\u0117da Tourism Information Centre<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Lithuanian National Museum extends gratitude to the contributors:<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Andrey Chernenko, Volodymyr Chornohor, Oleksiy Danilov, Lyubomyr Demianchuk, Valdas Dovyd\u0117nas, Robertas Gabulas, Tadas Ge\u010dauskas, Rita Grochovskien\u0117, Tomas Ivanauskas, Renata Kanarskaja, Mirijana Kozak, Svitlana Naumenko, Ambassador Valdemaras Sarapinas, Narimantas Savickas, Elvyra Vasiliauskien\u0117 and Agata Voleiko<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Patricija Jurk\u0161aityt\u0117 and Gediminas Akstinas<\/span><\/b> Bloodstone\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Curator<\/span><\/b> Anders Kreuger<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Architect<\/span><\/b> Marius Puskunigis<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Designer<\/span><\/b> Domantas Pigulevi\u010dius<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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