“And twist about the past your thoughts
Like some parasitic vine
Which on an ancient structure’s walls
Its widely-scattered arms will twine.”
Adam Mickiewicz, Forefathers’ Eve, The Living Dead
Translated by Charles S. Kraszewski
„ruduo“ prasidėjo nuo minčių apie tarpinę būseną,apie neįvardyto dabarties jausmo siaubą ir dovaną. Penkiuose kūriniuosemenininkės (-ai) kviečia įžengti, ar iš šono pažvelgti,į ryšį tarp daiktiško ir žmogiško buvimo būdų, kartų, tuštumos ir užpildo,susintetinto ir vienalyčio kažko.
Prieš du šimtus metų pradėjęs rašyti poemą „Vėlinės“Adomas Mickevičius, tuomet jaunas kūrėjas, patyrė naikinančią imperializmojėgą, išgyveno asmenines netektis, širdgėlą, sėkmės ir rinkos spaudimą.Kolektyvinį ir asmeninį nerimą jis perkėlė į šmėklos personažą. Kūriniai irgiyra šmėklos. Jie, kaip ir Vaiduoklis poemoje, yra tarpininkai tarp skirtingųlaikų ir erdvių, išlieka to paties amžiaus, stringa momento begalybėje irkeliauja kiaurai seno namo sienas. „ruduo“ primena, kad kartojasi ne tik sezonai.
The JCDecaux Award is an annual cycle of exhibitions initiated in 2016 by the Contemporary Art Centre and the JCDecaux to promote the artwork of emerging Lithuanian artists, raising its profile in Lithuania and abroad, and expanding the public interest in contemporary art. Each year, the project’s curators receive applications through an open call, evaluate them and select participants to receive financial and institutional support for the creation and presentation of new artworks. The one-off award of €4,000, granted by the JCDecaux, is awarded by an international jury to one participating artist or collective based on the originality, relevance and artistic expression of their artwork. The public are also encouraged to express their preference. The artist most appreciated by the public will be given the opportunity to present their project within the JCDecaux OOH network of public advertising spaces.
The exhibition will run until 2025. January 5 In the Northern gallery of the first floor of the Sapieha Palace (L. Sapiegos g. 13, Vilnius). Opening hours of the Sapieha Palace: I, III, IV, V 12:00–20:00, VI 11:00–19:00, VII 11:00–18:00. Visiting the exhibition is free.
JCDECAUX AWARD 2024 PARTICIPANTS
MANTAS VALENTUKONIS is a painter who lives and works in Kaunas. In 2023, he completed his BA in Painting at the Faculty of Kaunas of the Vilnius Academy of Arts. This year, he organised a personal exhibition, Apparitions, at the Drifts Gallery in Vilnius and also curated the group exhibition Tarpinės gliaumos / Intermediate Glooms at the Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre. The artist has presented his work in group exhibitions in Vilnius, Kaunas, and Klaipėda.
ONA BARBORA ŠLAPŠINSKAITĖ is an artist and educator who lives in Vilnius, where she is currently studying for an MA in Sculpture at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. The artist creates installations in which personal memories, family stories, and political contexts unfold and sometimes create conditions for different communities to meet. Recently, she has been rethinking the role of ‘ghosts’ in her work, both on personal and political levels. In using auto- and biographical facts and weaving them into fictional stories, Ona Barbora tries to highlight the influence of history and ideological heritage on past, present and future identities.
KAMILĖ PIKELYTĖ is a visual artist who lives and creates in Reykjavik and Vilnius. She uses found footage and physical remains in her work. In her installations and performances, the artist examines humanity’s dominance and the tendency to annihilate non-human life forms. In questioning the systematic labelling of certain things as ‘dirty,’ Kamilė explores the masking of inconvenient truths in such a way.
EGLĖ RUIBYTĖ is a visual artist and graphic designer who combines these fields and thus searches for meaning in particularly standardised global processes. She graduated from graphic arts studies at the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts and then studied typography and sculpture at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts (HFBK). Delving into industrial technologies and looking for functional-emotional metaphors, Eglė constructs seemingly mass-produced objects partly by handiwork. In this way, the author deliberately allows mistakes to occur, which speak of contradictory humanity in the industrial machine.
ELENA LAURINAVIČIŪTĖ is an artist from Anykščiai who currently lives and works in Vilnius. In 2024, she completed her Master’s at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. The artist creates experimental ceramic wind instruments. Their sharp edges cut the invisible air and thus transform it into humming and whistling sounds, from which the artist forms three-dimensional soundscapes of air vibrations. Elena explores the relationship between sound and space, actualising the sonic heritage of clay whistles and connecting past and present with ceramic tools.
JCDECAUX AWARD 2024 CURATORIAL TEAM
The team of curators of the JCDecaux Award changes every two years. This aims to ensure the originality of the exposition, unexpected project solutions every time. The exhibition is curated for the second time by Kotryna Markevičiūtė and Ona Juciūtė.
KOTRYNA MARKEVIČIŪTĖ is a curator of art and educational activities and a researcher. In her professional activity, she combines interests broadly encompassing contemporary art, cultural education, and sociology. Markevičiūtė is interested in the interdisciplinary interaction between these fields, both in creating new experiences of art and cultural education and in reflecting on the relationship of contemporary art with established ways of knowing (science) or forms of organising social life (politics). Markevičiūtė currently works in the education department of the National Gallery of Art and collaborates with other Lithuanian cultural institutions on curatorial and educational projects. In 2018-2020, she was a curator of residencies and exhibitions at the Rupert Centre for Art, Residencies and Education, where she co-curated the exhibitions Jonas Mekas: Let Me Dream Utopias (2019, Rupert) and Other Rooms (2020, Rupert, LDS Gallery).
ONA JUCIŪTĖ is an artist, curator, and stage designer based in Vilnius. She has held solo exhibitions at Editorial Project Space (Vilnius) and the Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry (London). Her work has also been presented in group exhibitions at MOCAK Museum (Krakow), Istanbul Biennial Parallel Programme, Kaunas Artists’ House, and multiple institutions in Vilnius, including the Contemporary Art Centre, National Gallery of Art, Atletika, Rupert, Swallow Project Space, and others. Juciūtė participated in residency programmes at AIR Niederosterreich in Austria, Stiftung Kuenstlerdorf in Germany, and Diyalog Istanbul in Turkey. In 2021, her sculptures became part of the permanent collection of the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki. Juciūtė has been awarded the JCDecaux Prize 2016 and a prize founded by Lithuanian-born American artist Aleksandra Kašuba.
JCDECAUX AWARD 2024 CURATORIAL TEAM
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Parodos komanda:
Menininkės (-ai):
Elena Laurinavičiūtė, KamilėPikelytė, Eglė Ruibytė, Ona Barbora Šlapšinskaitė, Mantas Valentukonis
Kuratorės:
Kotryna Markevičiūtė, Ona Juciūtė
Koordinavimas:
Edgaras Gerasimovičius, PovilasGumbis
Parodos architektūra:
„Draugų vardai“
Techninė komanda:
Jokūbas Čižikas, AntanasDombrovskij, Vsevolod Kovalevskij
Edukacija
Margarita Žigutytė, Agnė Taliūtė,Goda Damaševičiūtė, Laura Misiūnaitė, Saulė Noreikaitė, Gerda Sokelytė
Grafikos dizainas:
Vytautas Volbekas
Komunikacija:
Monika Valatkaitė, Giedrė Ivanova
Kalbos redaktorė:
Dangė Vitkienė, Gemma Lloyd
Vertėjas:
Aistis Žekevičius
Projekto vadovės:
Neringa Bumblienė, KarolinaTomkevičiūtė
Organizatoriai:
Šiuolaikinio meno centras,„JCDecaux“, Sapiegų rūmai
Padėkos:
Nora Blaževičiūtė, Milda Dainovskytė, Rokas Dovydėnas, Justinas Drakšas, Algirdas Jakas, Audrius Janulevičius, Eglė Jovaraitė, Adomas Kaikaris, Laura Kaminskaitė, Aras Adomas Karosas, Goda Karosienė, Jogailė Laurišonytė, Agnė Makariūnaitė, Modesta Malinauskaitė,Gediminas Pašvenskas, Domas Puvačiauskas, Deimantė ir Romualdas Rakauskai,Kornelija Steinsvik, Olivija Steinsvik, Diana Šlapšinskienė, Tumas Šatūnas,Simona Šufinskaitė ir grožio salonas „Beauty Peak“, Deividas Valentukonis,Viktorija Valskytė, Ieva Vaškelytė, KTU metalo dirbtuvės, „Sunpor KunststoffGmbH“, Vilnius Gercas, VDA keramikos laboratorija, žemaitukai Bučkis ir Meška.
