September 18 
6 pm Grand Opening of Kaunas Biennial  

Kaunas Central Post Office (Laisvės a. 102, Kaunas)

Opening of exhibition Threads: A Fantasmagoria about Distance, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud. Artists: Saâdane Afif, Arnas Anskaitis, Hicham Berrada, Walead Beshty, Roberto Cabot, Attila Csörgő, Bronė Sofija Gideikaitė, Liam Gillick, Lothar Hempel, Carsten Höller, Katja Novitskova, Pakui Hardware (Neringa Černiauskaitė & Ugnius Gelguda), Katie Paterson, Amalia Ulman, Julijonas Urbonas, Kelley Walker, Darius Žiūra

September 19 partners‘ presentation:

4 pm M. Žilinskas art gallery (Nepriklausomybės a. 12, Kaunas)

Silvia Giambrone personal exhibition A Terrible Love Of War. Opening performance by Perpetuum Mobile (choir of A. Kačanauskas mucis school)

Audrius Janušonis personal exhibition Homage to Kaunas Poets.

Lewben Art Foundation exhibition Networked Encounters Offline. Curator: Francesca Ferrarini. Artists:  Ian Cheng, Gabriele De Santis, Nick Darmstaedter, Mohammed Namou, Deimantas Narkevičius, and Simon Denny.

Exhibition Sonic Pattern. Curator prof. Janis Jefferies. Artists: James Bulley, Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, Mytro Karanika & Jeremy Keenan, Scanner & Ismini Samanidou, Knyttan & Common Works.

7 pm  Kaunas Picture gallery (K. Donelaičio g. 16)

Mattia Vacca personal exhibition A Winters‘ Tale. Curator Paola Re / Arte&Arte, IT.

Artūras Morozovas personal exhibition The Birth of Kikimora.

9 pm Factory Dirbtinis pluoštas (Pramonės pr. 4, Kaunas)

9 pm Factory Dirbtinis pluoštas (Pramonės pr. 4, Kaunas)
Site specific project Work’n’Fun by Ignas Maldžiūnas (LT)
Site specific project A Cabinet In Memory of Eleonora by Monika Žaltauskaitė Grašienė (LT)

PSILICONE THEATRE (Auksė Petrulienė, Darius Petrulis) & CHUI music trio (Toni Starešinić, Vojkan Jocić, Janko Novoselić / Croatia) performance Hairy Hairy Mouth

11 pm After-party at cafeteria of Dirbtinis pluoštas. Performers: DJ E-roott (Groove Tribe), CHUI (HR) 

September 20 at Šančiai (one of Kaunas’ post-industrial districts)

3-7 pm Friendly Zone #6. Cabbage Field, a site specific land reclamation project led by Vita Gelūnienė and Ed Carroll

7-11 pm [Post]factory Drobė (Drobės g. 62) 

Exhibitions:

Site specific project by Konsortium: Lars Breuer, Sebastian Freytag, Guido Münch (D) Division and Addition

Exhibition From Agora to Syntagma by Croatian partners LAB852. Curators: Karmen Krasić Kožul & Danijela Oberhofer Tonković. Artistic Director: Elisabeth Schimana (AT). Artists: Bojan Gagić (HR), Miodrag Gladović (HR), Zdravko Krasić (HR), Barbara Raad (HR)

Sound:

Bojan Gagić & Miodrag Gladović (HR) live electronics and installation

Elisabeth Schimana (AT) live electronics

September 21 – 22 M. Žilinskas art gallery (Nepriklausomybės a. 12, Kaunas)

11 am – 4:30 pm Sonic Patterns seminar (Organiser Crafts Council (UK)). For registered participants. Fee: 15 eur
Curator Dr. Karen Gaskill. Lecturers: Mytro Karanika & Jeremy Keenan, Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, David Littler, Knyttan & Common Works, James Bulley, Alex McLean.
Workshop led by Alex McLean.
7 pm Performances by David Littler & Alex McLean (Free entry).

September 23 – October 4  M. Žilinskas art gallery (Nepriklausomybės a. 12, Kaunas)

Residency programme Cotemporal Encounters: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Sound, Memory, and Place. Curator: Sandra Kazlauskaitė. Residency leader: Jeremy Keenan. Participants: Simona Muzzeddu (IT), Hrvoslava Brkušić (HR), Barbara Raad (HR), Valdemaras Manomaitis (LT), Yiorgis Sakellariou (GR), Steinar Yggeseth (NO), Živilė Labutytė (LT), Paulius Rainys (LT), Bionics (Urtė Pakers & Lina Pranaitytė, LT), Gintarė Minelgaitė (LT), Tom Tlalim (NE), Jonas Lozoraitis (LT), Nikolaj Kynde (DK).

October 3, 6 pm. Opening of exhibition and sound performances emerging from residencies.

October 3, 4 pm M. Žilinskas art gallery, Cinema Hall (Nepriklausomybės a. 12, Kaunas)

Presentation of the book Contemporary Art Biennial as a Site Specific Event: Local versus Global. Editor Dr. Daiva Citvarienė. Writers: Marieke van Hal (co-founder of Biennial Foundation and International Biennial Association), Michaela Ott (philosopher), Lewis Biggs (curator, founder and long-lasting developer of Liverpool Biennial), Eugen Rădescu (co-founder of Bucharest Biennial, theoretician, curator), Tomasz Wendland (Artistic Director at Mediations Biennale (Poznan), Skaidra Trilupaitytė (PhD in Art History). Interview with Virginija Vitkienė (PhD in Art Criticism, curator, Artistic Director of Kaunas Biennial), Nicolas Bourriaud (writer, curator).

October – November, 2015                                                                     

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME sponsored by KAZICKAS FAMILY FOUNDATION

This programme is designed for various local target groups in relation to exhibits and projects. The programme will be announced and registration will start in the middle of September.

Guided tours though [post]industrial textile zones. 

VENUES:

Kaunas Central Post Office (Laisvės a. 102, Kaunas LT 44001 (II – VI levels). Working hours: II – VII 11 am – 7 pm.
M. Žilinskas art gallery at Nacional M.K.Čiurlionis art museum (Nepriklausomybės a. 12, Kaunas. LT 44311). Working hours: II, III, V, VI, VII 11 am – 5 pm, IV 11 am – 7 pm.

Kaunas Picture gallery at Nacional M.K.Čiurlionis art museum (K. Donelaičio g. 16, Kaunas LT 44213). Working hours: II, III, V, VI, VII 11 am – 5 pm, IV 11 am – 7 pm.

[Post]factory Drobė (Drobės g. 62, Kaunas LT 45188). Special events.
Factory Dirbtinis pluoštas (Pramonės pr. 4, Kaunas  LT-51329). Special events.
Monte Pacis guests complex at Pažaislis Monastery (T. Masiulio g. 31, Kaunas 52436).

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
LAB852 (Croatia), Arte & Arte (Italy), Crafts Council (United Kingdom), Lewben Art Foundation, National Museum of M. K. Čiurlionis, Vytautas Magnus University’s art gallery 101, Kaunas Faculty of Vilnius Art Academy, Lithuanian Post, Monte Pacis, Drobė, Dirbtinis pluoštas.

SPONSORS:
The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania
Lithuanian Council for Culture
Kaunas City Municipality
Creative Europe programme of the European Union
Lewben Group
Kazickas Family Foundation