The poetry of Adauktas Marcinkevičius' photographs 2016-11-14
Optimists and Skeptics is the title given to the exhibition by its curator Margarita Matulytė. The exhibition features photographs created over a five-year period. Looking at the exhibition through the curatorial lens it can be said that M. Matulytė succeeded to show Adauktas Marcinkevičius’ photographic interests quite widely and consistently - from practicing students to the portraits of the prominent artists of the time.
Jan Bulhak and his Vilnius 2016-10-21
Photography exhibition Jan Bulhak: photograph with your heart! was opened at the National M. K. Čiurionis Art Museum in September. The curator of the exhibition Aidas Kulbokas spoke more about the exhibition and J. Bulhak's personality. In addition to speaking about the photographer's heritage stored at the National M. K. Čiurionis Art Museum the curator agreed to contemplate on the city of Vilnius the way it was back then and how it is now.
Evelina Šimkutė, "Šilainiai facade is only one piece of the puzzle" 2016-09-28
Evelina Šimkutė has been photographing her district and making art in relation to her native spaces for many years. Last autumn she started the Šilainiai project, which consists of Kaunas district of Šilainiai photography archive on the internet, photo-walks, art photography workshops in local schools, exhibitions and Šilainiai photo album.
Photo artists' seminar Nida 2016: negotiating the truth of photography 2016-09-20
"Photography has been traveling for several decades from Nida to Nida," wrote Skirmantas Valiulis almost ten years ago. This year, on September 6th to 10th photographer's roads led to Nida for the 39th time and their meetings and discussions raised not only new and relevant, but also repeatedly heard questions that raised doubts about how far photography has actually developed.
Arūnas Kulikauskas: photo diary in the times of Facebook 2016-09-16
A. Kulikauskas' photo diaries are special and can be distinguished by the fact that author, in his photographs captures what Lithuanian semiotician Algirdas Julius Greimas - who lived in France after the World War Two - called the “aesthesis” in his last book On Imperfection. Aesthesis is an unexpected flash of light in the dark, when things are seen in a new light.
Asphalt vaults, gardens and stagnant Armenia 2016-09-13
If you consider yourself a lover of art and especially a fan of photography, get ready to spend a lot of time at the Kaunas Photo Festival exhibition Street value, because here, your eyes will be delighted with the abundance of information and images. Street value explores the boundaries between public spaces - visible to all, available to everyone to pass through and step on - and the impact this space has on our lives and our own development.
The city pulsating in photographer Milda Kiaušaitė's veins 2016-09-02
"I live and work among people of culture who surround me since childhood, thus, you could say, I have created at least a some kind of oasis to shield me from political madness," says photographer Milda Kiaušaitė who is currently working as a secretary at the Kaunas branch of the Lithuanian Writers' Association. We are talking about the city, art, film cameras, protests, kitsch, photographs frozen in the memory and today.
Vika Eksta's exhibition Dievs Daba Darbs - an imitation of being 2016-08-10
The Latvian photographer Vika Eksta's exhibition Dievs Daba Darbs, currently running at the Kaunas Photography Gallery examines the topic of unwittingly chosen female loneliness. Life depicted in the artist's photographs both took place and is ongoing. Circumstances would come about naturally and to resist them - especially talking about villages and women of the past - was often futile.
Andrew Miksys: focus on the fringe 2016-08-02
A. Miksys' photography series Disco shows how the person living in the United States is forced to open up to the Other because of his interest in his roots and search for his own origins; that Other is a country and people, the actual existence of which and the precise otherness the author may have thought about previously, but has never felt it in a sensory way. A. Miksys' photographs point to the cracks in the US reality, which are filled with a new content by the former Soviet colony.
Lithuanian Photo Biennial in Germany - from experimental to traditional narrative 2016-07-26
Lithuanian Photo Biennial Photographic stories is running from the 25th of June till 7th of August at the Hobeck gallery located at the historical Baron Munchausen family castle (Leitzkau, Germany). The biennial features 12 professional photographers from Lithuania. The artists are presented in detail in Lithuanian, English and German languages. Since the beginning of the event German media and TV shows have been preparing reports about Lithuanian artists.
