Kaunas Biennial’s art and public commission is concerned with new practice and thinking about role of artists in the context of the city.

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Kaunas Biennial’s art and public commission is concerned with new practice and thinking about role of artists in the context of the city.  From June until November 2009, Jeanne van Heeswijk, an artist from Netherlands, will create an art project at Kaunas Castle Bus Station. 

Celebrating the 1st millennium anniversary of Lithuania, the intention is to bring back attention to this almost abandoned district, which is located just beside the most important and the oldest part of the city.

Jeanne van Heeswijk is known for her site specific, socially engaged and collaborative art projects.  In collaboration with artists, architects, citizens and government she created art projects in different countries of the world but until now never in Lithuania. One of her best known projects „De Strip“ was created in a regeneration area of Westwijk, Vlaardingen. The project continued for a decade during which van Heeswijk, together with the local community, created plans for the district‘s regeneration, established art zones in the derelict buildings of the area, created education opportunities for local people and transferred new arts and cultural capacities to local people.