We thank sincerely all artists who participated at the submission and negotiation process for 9th Kaunas Biennial UNITEXT exhibitions and thus made great input into generalization and conceptualization of the new term “unitext”. During past months we received 447 applications from artists representing 65 countries!
The exhibition will be held in Kaunas / Lithuania at the galleries of biennial partner -  National Museum of M. K. Čiurlionis during the period 13 09 2013 – 31 12 2013.

Kaunas Biennial UNITEXT structure:

- Invited artists’ exhibitions: Patricia Piccinini (Australia), Gao Yuan (Taiwan), Daniel Palacios (Spain), Monika Žaltauskaitė-Grašienė and Bronė…

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Virginija Vitkienė, artistic director of Kaunas Biennial, will present the last edition of biennial TEXTILE’11: REWIND-PLAY-FORWARD at the European Commission conference EUROPEAN AUDIENCES: 2020 AND BEYOND, which will be held in Brussels on 16-17th October, 2012. Kaunas biennial will be presented among successful examples on the topic of audience development.

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The tour of Kaunas biennial expositions continues. Following the invitation of Rasa Grybaite, exhibition of Gao Yuan (Grand prix winner at Kaunas Biennail in 2011, Taiwan) and textile artist J. Petruskeviciene (Lithuania) was opened in V. Grybas memorial museum in Jurbarkas. During the opening ceremony R. Grybaite (manager of V. Grybas museum), biennial director V. Vitkiene and J. Petruskeviciene performed a brief introduction of both artists and Kaunas biennial.

The “12 moons”, a portrait series of 12 women with their infants by Gao Yuan, present a subject of western culture expansion in the east. By combining western depiction of Madonna…

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Andrea Milde, an artist of biennial’ exhibition REWIND PERSONAL STORY, was present at Kaunas and other Lithuanian cities during the opening week period (21st – 30th of September, 2011). She looked carefully through the eye of the camera and found many beautiful moments – not only in the exhibition halls. We are very happy that Andrea Milde published the review about Kaunas Biennial and ETN conference program events on her blog in German and Spanish. This photo report inspires and invites to work again creating the place of meetings, collaborations, and dreams. Have a pleasant moment …

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Kaunas Biennial exhibition REWIND HISTORY (curator dr. Rasa Andriušytė-Žukienė) was presented at Panevėžys City Art gallery from 15 12 2011 till 15 01 2012.

The exhibition REWIND HISTORY questions the understanding of textile as a genre of reproduction that has been formed in art history. Curator Rasa Andriušytė-Žukienė was invited for a difficult challenge, which was to organize an exhibition, the technological decision (works made with a computerized Jacquard loom) and theme (historical perspective) of which had already been dictated by the biennial’s organizers. She highlighted the aspect of reproduction (which is inseparable from both the history of tapestry in…

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Due to the request of the visitors the opening hours of Kaunas Biennial in M. Žilinskas Art Gallery and the overall dates of the exhibition in Kaunas Picture Gallery were prolonged. 

Kaunas Biennial TEXTILE is due to finish at 4th of December in Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis National Art Museum, M. Žilinskas Art Gallery, however the opening hours on December 1st to 3rd were prolonged to 7 p.m. Kaunas Biennial TEXTILE will operate in Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis National Art Museum, Kaunas Picture Gallery until 23rd of December. Due to the high popularity of interdisciplinary program PLAY performances the dates were prolonged…

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