A. Obcarskas was born in Zapyškis (Kaunas district) in 1958. He studied at Kaunas Four-year Children’s Art School (present Kaunas Antanas Martinaitis Art School)in 1971-73, at Kaunas S.Žukas Applied Art College (present J.Vienožinskis Art Faculty of Vilnius College) in 1973-1977, at Vilnius State Art Institute (present Vilnius Academy of Arts) in 1977 – 1982. He is a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association since 1990, a member of Angis Artists’ Group since 1993. The works of A. Obcarskas encompass many fields: painting, objects, installations, video art, photography. Works of the artist have been purchased by Lithuanian and foreign art museums: Lithuanian Art Museum, National M.K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Detmold City Museum (Germany), Herne City Gallery (Germany), private collectors in Lithuania and abroad.

 

     

One-man exhibitions

1988 “Painting”, Kaunas Artists’ House, Kaunas (Lithuania)
1990 “Paintings from Lithuania”, gallery Lusiada, Berlin (Germany)
1992 “Painting”, Mikuličiūtė’s gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
1992 “Painting”, gallery AL, Palanga (Lithuania)
1993 “Painting” gallery KIK, Berlin (Germany)
1995 “Painting”, gallery Linal, Hilversum (Holland)
1997 “Painting”, gallery Ruta, Nijmegen (Holland)
1998 “Painting”, Eglė’s gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
1998 “Painting”, Embassy of Lithuania, Berlin (Germany)
2000 “Painting “, Lithuanian Artists’ Centre. Vilnius Town Hall. Vilnius (Lithuania)
2004 “No crossings”, gallery Meno Parkas, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2004 Fluxus action “Air from Kaunas in Warsaw”, DAP Gallery, Warsaw (Poland)
2005 “Planes”, gallery Kairė – Dešinė, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2007 “WC of European galleries: Personal research”, gallery Arka, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2007 “Die Segel” Galerie mare Liberum, Hamburg (Germany)

2009 “100x81”, Savickas Picture Gallery, Vilnius

2010 "Painting", gallery ASVS, Porto, Portugal.

2011 “Painting“, gallery Sofa, Druskininkai (Lithuania)

2011 “Horizons”, gallery A, Panevėžys (Lithuania)

Selected group exhibitions

1982 – 1994 Exhibitions of Kaunas Artists, National M.K.Čiurlionis Art Museum (Lithuania)
1986 – 1989 Republican Exhibitions of Visual Art, Art Exhibition Palace, Vilnius (Lithuania)
1988 4th Exhibition of the Baltic Artists’ Fine Arts “Youth – 88”, Art Exhibition Palace, Vilnius (Lithuania)
1988 “Youth of Country”. USSR young artists’ exhibition. Central exhibitions' hall. Moscow
1988 USSR young artists’ exhibition. China Art Museum. Beijing (China)
1989 Exhibition of the Young Lithuanian Artists’, Szentendre Gallery, Szentendre (Hungary)
1989 “8 Kaunas Artists”, National M.K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
1990 Exhibition of Kaunas Artists’ Works, Gallery Jana Seta, Riga (Latvia)
1992 “Bialowieza - 91”, Gallery Arsenal, Bialystok (Poland)
1993 Contemporary Lithuanian Art from Kaunas, Mestna Gallery, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
1993 “Berlin - Kaunas - London”, Kunstlerhaus Schwalenberg, Schieder - Schwalenberg (Germany)
1993 International Exhibition, Kunstmeile Portcenter, Rostok (Germany)
1993 4th Exhibition of the Group Angis, National M.K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
1994 “Exhibition of Groups”, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
1994 6th Exhibition of the Group Angis, Panevėžys Art Gallery, Panevežys (Lithuania)
1995 “Under the Gemini Sign”, National M.K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
1996 “Angis-96”, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
1997 The exhibition “Far and Near” of IV international painting symposium dedicated to the memory of A.Samuolis, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, M.Žilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
1997 “Bridges of Europe”, Gallery Zamecek, Pribram (Czech Republic)
1998 “The Exhibition of the six cities”, Polish culture institute Gallery, Berlin (Germany)
1998 “Generation of the Break”, Gallery Fjosangersamlingene, Bergen (Norway)
1998 “Rezus + / - ”, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai (Lithuania)
1998 Action “River”, Zapyškis (Lithuania)
1999 “Artists from Lithuania”, Gallery Huset i Asnaes, Asnaes (Denmark)
1999 “Exhibition of six”, Gallery Studio, Warszawa (Poland)
1999 “Exhibition of six”, Gallery EL, Elblag (Poland)
1999 “Angis 1989 - 1999”, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
1999 “The Beginning of the End” Art Exhibition Palace, Baroti Gallery, Klaipėda (Lithuania)
1999 “Angis 1989-1999”, Art Gallery, Šiauliai (Lithuania)
2000 “Resus + / - “, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2000 Westdeutscher Kunstlerbund exhibition "Von haus zu haus". Museen der Stadt Ludenscheid, Ludenscheid (Germany)
2000 “Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW Dusseldorf”, Dusseldorf (Germany)
2000 “The Last Christmas Haiku of XX c.”, LAA Kaunas Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2000 “Angis 2000”, Picture Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2001 “Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW Dusseldorf”, Dusseldorf (Germany)
2001 “The best artwork of 2000”, Picture Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2001 “Water and Color. Self-portrait: I’m an artist”, LAA Kaunas Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2001 “Krakow – Kaunas 2001”. D.Rostworowski gallery, Krakow (Poland)
2001 The international exhibition “Mysterium Magnum”, LAA Kaunas Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2002 “Entre deux mondes”, Chapelle Des Penitents, Aniane (France)
2002 Takako Saito and Lithuanian artists, National M.K. Čiurlionis Art museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2002 “Journeys” Westbury Gallery, Milton Keynes (England)
2002 Angis group project “Erase the Marked Place”, Picture Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2002 The international exhibition “Ars longa vita brevis”, LAA Kaunas Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2003 “At First Sight”, TPK Tecla Sala, Barcelona (Spain)
2003 “Sees”, Linna Gallery, Parnu (Estonia)
2003 Project “Insert”, Savanorių 168, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2003 Fluxus action “Drifted art”, Kaunas sea (Lithuania)
2003 “Between Vilnius and Kaunas”. Town Hall. Vilnius (Lithuania)
2003 “Kaunas-Krakow-Vilnius”. Gallery Arka. Vilnius (Lithuania)
2003 “Painting today”, Gallery Meno Parkas, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2004 “Seven rules of painting”, 12th Vilnius Painting Triennial, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2004 “Art LT”, ABC Treehouse Gallery, Amsterdam (Holland)
2004 Fluxus action “Drifted art. Letter”, Kaunas sea, (Lithuania)
2004 “Meeting”, Gallery DOXA, Cesky Krumlov (Czech Republic)
2004 The international exhibition “Unsupportable reality”, Gallery Meno Parkas, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2005 “The best artwork of 2004”, National M.K.Ciurlionis Art museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2005 “Reality in X abstract”, Gallery Intro, Vilnius. Siauliai Picture Gallery, Siauliai. Klaipėda Art Exhibition Palace, Klaipėda (Lithuania)
2005 “Artists from Kaunas”, Gallery Havnen, Saeby (Denmark)
2005 1st Lithuanian Contemporary Art Quadriennale, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2005 Fluxus action “Drifted Art. A Fish, Called Jurgis (Maciunas)”, Kaunas see (Lithuania)
2005 Westdeutscher Kunstlerbund exhibition “Lohn der Arbeit”, Stadtische Galerie im Schlosspark Strunkede, Herne (Germany)
2005 „Geometrisch – Konkret X“, Galerie Kunen, Dulmen (Germany) 
2005 “Postcard”, Gallery Meno Parkas, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2006 “Geometrisch. Concreet. X”, Mondriaanhuis Museum voor Constructieve en Concrete Kunst, Amersfoort (Holland)
2006 “Kaunas Artists in Tartu”, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu (Estonia) 
2006 “Bitė’s Art Spaces” , Town Hall square. Kaunas (Lithuania)
2006 „KoViKaVi Conference“ Kunsthallen Braenderigarden, Viborg (Denmark)
2006 “Carrement” , Gallery 4,Barbier, Nimes (France)
2007 “Kaunas artists at Edmundas”, Klaipėda Art Exhibition Palace, Klaipėda (Lithuania)
2007 “Brucke” manifest – 100 years, Gallery Arka, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2007 “KoViKaVi-Postblablu”, National M.K.Ciurlionis Art museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2007 “Zeitgenossische Kunst aus Litauen”, ThyssenKrupp Steel AG. Bildungszentrum, Duisburg (Germany)
2007 “Sieben Kunstler aus Litauen”, Brigitte Bailer Gallery, Dortmund (Germany)
2007 “Art + Art of Communication. Photo Intentions”, M.K.Ciurlionis Art museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2007 “Pro forma”, Gallery Pamenkalnio, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2008 “WC of European galleries: Personal research”, The 4th Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Galerie mare Liberum,Hamburg (Germany)
2008 “The best artwork of 2007”, National M.K.Ciurlionis Art museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2008 „Geometrisch – Konkret X“, Gallery Meno Parkas, Kaunas (Lithuania) 
2008 TPK Art Centre and Arts Plastiques anniversary exhibition, Gallery TPK Art Centre, Barcelona (Spain)
2008 Contemporary Lithuanian Art ANEW, Municipal Gallery bwa Bydgoszcz (Poland)
2008 “Lithuanian Humour in Photography 1993-2008”, 5th festival of art photography “Kaunas Photo 08”, Fujifilm photography gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania) 
2008 Contemporary Lithuanian Art ANEW, Gallery Szyb Wilson, Katowice (Poland)
2008 Exhibition of the Group Angis “Urgentum praecipitatum sulfur”, Gallery Vartai, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2008 “Baltic Landscapes”, Prano Domsaicio Gallery, Klaipėda (Lithuania)
2008 Contemporary Art festival “Kaunas in Art: Contexts”, Gallery 101, Kaunas (Lithuania)

2009 “Contemporary Lithuanian Art - ANEW”, gallery BWA, Olsztyn, Poland

2009 “Blue” Savickas Picture Gallery, Vilnius

2009 “Contemporary Lithuanian Art – ANEW”, Klaipėda Art Exhibition Centre, Klaipėda

2009 “Art Vilnius‘09”, international art fair, Litexpo Exhibition Centre, Vilnius

2009 “Soutine Days 2009”, LAU exhibition hall, Vilnius

2009 2nd quadrennial of Lithuanian contemporary art, Litexpo Exhibition Centre, Vilnius

2010 “Kaunas – on this Side of Painting“, Klaipėda Art Exhibition Centre, Klaipėda (Lithuania)

2010 “Contemporary Art from Latvia and Lithuania”, Gallery “Art Promotion02“ Liebshausen, (Germany)

2010 “6. International Contemporary Art”, Plassenburg Castle, Kulmbach, (Germany)

2010 “Contemporary Modern Lithuanian Painting”, Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2010 “Carrement”, Gallery “4, Barbier”, Nimes (France)

2010 “Contemporary Modern Lithuanian Painting”, Gallery Pylimo, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2011 “Angis-20”, Retrospective Exhibition of Artist group. Exposition Hall of Vilnius Academy of Art Titanikas, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2011 “Angis-20” “Comebacks”, College of Kaunas, Vienožinskis art faculty, Kaunas (Lithuania)

2011 “Angis -20” “Videospektyva”, gallery Meno Parkas, Kaunas (Lithuania)

2011 „Angis-20“ Retrospective exhibition of group Angis, M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, Picture Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)

2011 “Landscape in painting”, A.Mončys Museum, Palanga (Lithuania)

2011 “Three generations of Kaunas painters”, gallery Tilto, Klaipėda (Lithuania)

2011 “International Art Meet”, Nandalal Bose & Jamini Roy Gallery, Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, Kolkata (India)

2011 “Behind the White Curtain” (Project of Darius Mikšys in 54th Venice biennal), CAC, Vilnius; Venice, Italia

2012 “Zelwa 2011” Centre of Lithuania, Lithuanian Embassy in Poland

2012 “Landscape in art”, A.Žmuidzinavičius museum of artworks, Kaunas, Lithuania

2012 “Gardens of secrets”, gallery XX, Panevėžys, Lithuania

2012 “Art without boundaries. Focus Europa Vilnius”, gallery Arka, Vilnius, Lithuania

2012 “Grenzenlos” Shedhalle am Auenpark. Marktredwitz, Germany

2012 Viborg International Billboard Painting Festival 2012. Viborg, Denmark

2012 “Art Vilnius ‘12”, international contemporary art fair, Litexpo, Vilnius, Lithuania

2012 “Identity”, Lithuania Artists Association collection, Andorra la Vella town gallery, Andora

2012 “Sans Frontieres”, Maison Consulaire, Mende, France

2012 “Identity”, Lithuania Artists Association collection, Berchtoldvilla gallery, Zalcburg, Austria

2012 “Lithuanian painting. Impressions of Palanga” Talsi county museum, Latvia                 

2012 “LT00Painting”, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania

2012 “Colour-Mood-Symbol 2012”, gallery Balta, Kaunas, Lithuania

Awards, achievements

1990 1st prize for the installation "12 m2 of Hay (Crib)" during the exhibition “Image”, gallery AL in Kaunas
1993 Stipendium des Landesverbandes Lippe, Germany.
1997 Highest scholarship of the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture.
1997 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, USA.
2000 Prize of Kaunas City Municipality, Department of Culture for the installation “Intervention” during the exhibition “The Best Artwork of 2000 in Kaunas” at the National M.K.Čiurlionis Art Museum.
2000 1st prize of Nida Municipality during the 6th international Nida plain-air of painting “Nida Space 2000”
2002 Prize of Kaunas City Municipality, Department of Culture for the object “Cucumber I-II” during the exhibition “The Best Artwork of 2002 in Kaunas” at the National M.K.Čiurlionis Art Museum.
2005 Individual state stipendium of the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture for art and culture creators.

2013 Exhibition “Colour-Mood-Symbol”, Gallery Balta. Grand Prix 1st prize, Kaunas, Lithuania

Plain-airs and symposiums

1991 “Bialowieza – 91”, international plain-air of painting, Poland
1992 “Pogranice”, international plain-air of painting, Vigriai, Poland
1997 4th international plain-air of painting for the memory of A.Samuolis, Kaunas
1998 “River”, international action, Zapyškis
1999 “Jažwiny – 99”, international plain-air of painting, Wroclaw, Poland
1999 “Alaušas – 99”, plain-air of painting, Sudeikiai
2000 “Paraphrases of Classics”, international plain-air of graffiti for the memory of J.M.Basquiat, Kaunas
2000 “Space of Nida”, 6th international plain-air of painting, Nida (1st prize)
2000 “Rumšiškės-2000”, international plain-air of painting, Rumšiškės
2000 “Between Earth and Sky”, 2nd plain-air of painting, Cimaniūnai
2001 “John’s plain-air”, plain-air of painting, Veliuona
2001 “Chilli”, international plain-air of painting, Pedvale, Latvia
2002 “Bikuškis-2002”, international plain-air of painting, Bikuškis estate, Utena district
2002 “Time”, international plain-air of painters, Žemaitkiemis estate, Kaunas district
2002 “Journeys”, 2nd international symposium of painters, Milton Keynes, England
2003 „Dipoly“ 5th plain-air of Kaunas and Vilnius painters, Bikuškis estate, Utena district
2004 “Live Road of Nida Expressionists“, international plain-air of painting, Nida
2004 „Dipoly – 2“, Plain-air of Kaunas and Vilnius painters, Bikuškis estate, Utena district
2005 „Dipoly – 3“, Plain-air of Kaunas and Vilnius painters, Bikuškis estate, Utena district
2005 “Panevėžys 2005”, international plain-air of painters for the memory of K.Naruševičius, Duokiškis, Rokiškis district
2005 1st plain-air of painting, dedicated for the memory of A.Vaitkūnas, Šilavotas, Prienai district
2006 “Dipoly-4” plain-air of Kaunas and Vilnius painters, Bikuškis manor, Utena district
2006 “Nida Expression 2006”, 12th international plain-air of painting. Nida
2007 “Between Vilnius and Kaunas Towers”, plain-air of painters, Bikuškis manor, Utena district
2007 “Silence”, plain-air of Kaunas painters, Šilavotas, Prienai district
2007 “Regina 2007”, plain-air of painting, Druskininkai
2008 “Between Vilnius and Kaunas Towers,” plain-air of painters, Bikuškis manor, Utena district
2008 “Space of Manor”, plain-air of painters, Bikuškis manor, Utena district
2008 “Parallel Realities”, plain-air of Angis Group, Šilavotas, Prienai district

2009 “Between Vilnius and Kaunas Towers”, plein-air of painters, Bikuškis Manor, Utena district

2009 “Manor Space”, plein-air of painters, Bikuškis Manor, Utena district

2009 “Soutine Days 2009“, international plein-air of painters, Minčia village, Utena district

2009 “Window to eternity”, international art residency, Mumbai, Delhi, India

2010 “Space of Manor”, plain-air of painters, Bikuškis Manor, Utena district (Lithuania)

2010 “Urok”, International plain-air of painters, Miasteczko Galicyjskie, Nowy Sącz (Poland)

2010 “Seven dwarfs”, International plain-air of painters, Palanga (Lithuania)

2010 “Raigardas 2010”, International plain-air of painters, Druskininkai (Lithuania)

2011 “Landscape in painting”, International plain-air of painters, Palanga (Lithuania)

2011 “Space of Manor“, plain-air of painters, Bikuškio manor, Utena district (Lithuania)

2011 “Zelwa 2011”, International plain-air of painters, Zelwa (Poland)

2011 “Zarasai – lake district”, International plain-air of painters, Zarasai (Lithuania)

2011 “International Art Meet”, International Art residency, Kolkata (India)

2012 “Alaušas 2012” , International plain-air of painters, Sudeikiai, Lithuania

2012 Project ”Art in old mansions of Lithuania” 1st international plain-air of painters, Kaunas, Lithuania

2012 “Spot”, plain-air of painters, Jonava, Lithuania

2012 “Regina 2012”, plain-air of painters, Druskininkai, Lithuania

2012 “Palette of friendship”, international plain-air of painters, Batumi, Georgia

 

Contact information

Mob. tel.: +370 612 62120

E-mail: obcarskas@delfi.lt