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), Monika Žaltauskaitė-Grašienė and Bronė Neverdauskienė (in collaboration with Ignas Kazakevičius, Lithuania).
- Competitive exhibition: Ai ITO / Japan, Marija Marcelionytė / Lithuania, Audrius Janušonis / Lithuania, Boris Oicherman / Israel, Chun Hua Dong / China – Canada, Craig Fisher / United Kingdom, Judit Hettema / Netherlands, Dana Sederowsky / Sweden, Harri de Ville (Sabrina Inkeri Harri and Alexia de Ville de Goyet) / Finland – Belgium, Horia Boboia / USA, Jūratė Jarulytė / Lithuania, LIAO, Chi-Yu / Taiwan, Rubiane Maia / Brazil, Silvia Giambone / Italy, Vidmina Stasiulytė / Lithuania, Violeta Laužonytė / Lithuania, Naglis Baltušnikas / Lithuania, Kristina Sereikaitė / Lithuania, Sadik Kwaish Alfraji / Iraq – Netherlands; FILM category: Tamar Nissim / Israel, Victoria Marchenkova / Russia, Wei Liu / China, Danny Winkler / United Kingdom.
- Emerging artists’ projects / Lithuania: Aistė Jančiūtė, Augustinas Kluoda, Barbora Gediminaitė, Gabrielė Gervickaitė, Karolis Vaivada, Laura Selmistraitytė, Linas Blažiūnas, Marija Šnipaitė, Neringa Kisielienė, Paul Paper, Povilas Ramanauskas, Renata Laurinavičiūtė, Renata Vinckevičiūtė, Rūta Naujalytė, Tim Kliukoit, Vytautas Viržbickas, Rūta Šatalovaitė.
- Satellite exhibitions (personal, duo and group shows): Karina Bisch (France), Lina Jonikė (in collaboration with Audrys Karalius), Jolanta Šmidtienė (collaborating with Kaunas Dance Theatre AURA), Giedrė Kriaučionytė, Severija Inčirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė, Feliksas Jakubauskas and Zinaida Vogelienė.
- Educational program, which unites all mentioned parts: seminars, lectures, meetings with artists, special programs for shchool-age children, and family weekends.
