{"id":25151,"date":"2026-05-14T09:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/taikomosios-dailes-ir-meno-muziejus\/renginiai\/design-in-jazz-rhythms-tadas-baginskass-exhibition-at-the-museum-of-applied-art-and-design\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:55:13","slug":"design-in-jazz-rhythms-tadas-baginskass-exhibition-at-the-museum-of-applied-art-and-design","status":"publish","type":"renginys","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/museum-of-applied-arts-and-design\/events\/design-in-jazz-rhythms-tadas-baginskass-exhibition-at-the-museum-of-applied-art-and-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Design in jazz rhythms \u2013 Tadas Baginskas\u2019s exhibition at the Museum of Applied Art and Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Museum of Applied Art and Design invites to the exhibition Tadas Baginskas. Design Counterpoints. <\/em>The event celebrates the 90th anniversary of the architect and designer Tadas Baginskas, one of the foremost figures of the Lithuanian design scene.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The display spans a career of over sixty years, featuring pieces of architecture and lightning, interior designs and conceptions of exhibition design, examples of graphic design and architectural drawings. Conceived around the theme of musical motifs intertwined in Baginskas\u2019s creative work, the exhibition develops different narrative threads featuring other creatives and collective projects, which reflect the importance of collaboration in Baginskas\u2019s career. Of joined projects, many have been realized with his wife, glass and stained-glass artist Ginta Baginskien\u0117. Her artwork and the couple\u2019s collaborations are extensively presented in the display.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cMy biggest treasure are the people I have met \u2013 among them are my Teachers, my pupils and students, and my colleagues. The milieu I have explored as an observer \u2013 now, as a story-teller,\u201d Baginskas speaks of the importance of creative links emerging in the exhibition.<\/p>\n

One exhibition, different voices<\/h6>\n

According to the exhibition\u2019s chief curator, Dr Karolina Jakait\u0117, the idea of the event has been inspired by Baginskas\u2018s vinyl collection, his audio equipment as well as by jazz and dance rhythms \u2013 part and parcel of his life.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur decision on the concept finally settled on our initial idea: we will seek to identify recurring musical links and harmonies. Hence the term of counterpoint in the title. This approach opened the door to other creators now included in the exhibition,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Counterpoint weaves together several independent melodies played simultaneously. The nickname of Modern Jazz Quartet, attached to a group of young architects, Baginskas among them, by Kaunas-based brother architects Algimantas and Vytautas Nasvy\u010diai, was not for nothing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe exhibition seems to have emerged from a free jazz rhythm that carried us along the exhibition building process: inspired by the covers of the vinyl records and by music we occasionally listened to, including some rather radical avant-guard. Yet most importantly, we have listened to the stories by Baginskas and have arranged them for the exhibition audience to discover,\u201d Jakait\u0117 says.<\/p>\n

The breadth of multilayered Baginskas\u2019s creativity<\/h6>\n

Baginskas has employed a diversity of materials to realize his ideas \u2013 from wood, plastic or glass \u2013 to amber and precious stones. He combined his architectural and design practice with pedagogy. Baginskas as design professor has drawn together different generations of designers, contributing significantly to the emerging concept of contemporary design in Lithuania. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a completely traditional retrospective. There is plenty of improvisation and experiment about it. As a design historian, I always feel like researching my subject matter. This exhibition, too, presents some discoveries, and includes some reconstructions. However, to me, the most enjoyable part of it are contemporary interpretations and dedications to Baginskas and his zesp\u00f3l \u2013 <\/em>the word he used to refer to the circle of his closest friends and colleagues. We, the creators of the exhibition, have also built a kind of zesp\u00f3l<\/em> \u2013 the three curators making the core of if in collaboration with other team members and plenty of other helping hands,\u201d Jakait\u0117 shares the experience of the exhibition team.<\/p>\n

Attempts have been made to locate authentic artefacts for the display, yet many are lost or inaccessible. Therefore, fragments of extant objects or parts of such are presented embedded in contemporary interpretations. The idea of counterpoint emerges as a key motif of the exhibition and places it within a broader context of duality of existence, the anonymity of a design object, interactions and contradictions of different perspectives. Insightful quotes by Baginskas guide the viewer through the exhibition narrative.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The exhibition Tadas Baginskas. Design Counterpoints <\/em>will be on until 23 August at the Museum of Applied Art and Design of the LNMA. Baginskas\u2019s creative biography bridges Kaunas and Vilnius, architecture and design, pedagogy and collaboration, conceptualizing design as a process of linking humans, ideas and environments. The exhibition will be accompanied by tours and education events offering an opportunity of a deeper familiarization with the prominent figure of Lithuanian design and with his milieu.<\/p>\n

Featured artists and designers: Tadas Baginskas, Ginta Baginskien\u0117, Vytautas Br\u0117dikis, Eugenijus Antanas Cukermanas, Vytautas Ge\u010das, Juozas Gelguda, Vaidilut\u0117 Gru\u0161eckait\u0117, Antanas Kazakauskas, Mantas Lesauskas, Dainius Li\u0161kevi\u010dius, Vytautas Puzeras, Vladas Suncovas, Algimantas Sto\u0161kus, \u0160ar\u016bnas \u0160lektavi\u010dius, Lijana Turskyt\u0117, Teodoras Kazimieras Valaitis, Kazimiera Zimblyt\u0117<\/p>\n

\nChief curator: Dr Karolina Jakait\u0117<\/p>\n

Curators: Julijus Bal\u010dikonis, \u017divil\u0117 Intait\u0117, Karolina Jakait\u0117<\/p>\n

Consultants and researchers: Dr Rasa Dargu\u017eait\u0117, Dr Aist\u0117 Di\u010dkalnyt\u0117, Gra\u017eina Gurnevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, Dr Rasa Janulevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117<\/p>\n

Architect Vytautas Ge\u010das<\/p>\n

Graphic designer Aurelija Slap\u0161yt\u0117<\/p>\n

Coordinator Ma\u017evydas Truklickas<\/p>\n

Restorers: Ar\u016bnas Baublys, Ram\u016bnas Gilys, Lukas Rakauskas, Donatas Stasiulis, Darius Varnas<\/p>\n

Sound installation conceived by \u0160ar\u016bnas Nakas<\/p>\n

Lithuanian text proofing Dr Ilona \u010ciu\u017eauskait\u0117<\/p>\n

Translator Laima Bezginait\u0117<\/p>\n

Financed by: Lithuanian Council for Culture<\/p>\n

Partners: Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuanian Design Association, LAPAS Publishing House<\/p>\n

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