X Baltic Triennial of International Art in Vilnius “Urban Stories: “Black Swans, True Tales and Private Truths”
Vilnius, Litouwen
Arūnas Gudaitis, "Vilnius Postcard Series", 2009
The Second Royal Palace Club, "The Second Royal Palace", mixed media, 2009
Filming Laura Garbštienė's "Film About Unknown Artist", 2009, (photo: Vygantas Šimbelis)
Vygantas Šimbelis
Ibrahim Quraishi, "Wild Life Take Away Station", performance in Vilnius, 2009
My Barbarian, "The Case of the Stairs", live performance with LA Fog, Hana Van Der Kolk and Leilani Drakeford, Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art, 2008, courtesy of My Barbarian
Filming Laura Garbštienė's "Film About Unknown Artist", 2009 (photo: Vygantas Šimbelis)
Vygantas Šimbelis
My Barbarian, "The Only One", video i.c.w. Lara Schnitger, 2008, courtesy of My Barbarian and Steve Turner Contemporary
Rosalie Knox
Pavel Braila, "Chronology of the Failure", video installation, 2009
Quirine Racke and Helena Muskens, "Celebration", video, 2005
Building up the work of Zilvinas Landzbergas
opening Urban Stories: “Black Swans, True Tales and Private Truths"
Rogier Taminiau
opening Urban Stories: “Black Swans, True Tales and Private Truths"
Rogier Taminiau
opening Urban Stories: “Black Swans, True Tales and Private Truths"
Rogier Taminiau
opening Urban Stories: “Black Swans, True Tales and Private Truths"
Rogier Taminiau
opening Urban Stories: “Black Swans, True Tales and Private Truths"
Rogier Taminiau
opening Urban Stories: “Black Swans, True Tales and Private Truths"
Rogier Taminiau
opening Urban Stories: “Black Swans, True Tales and Private Truths"
Rogier Taminiau
opening Urban Stories: “Black Swans, True Tales and Private Truths"
Rogier Taminiau
Opening Friday 25 September, from 6 pm onwards
CAC, Vokieciu 2, Vilnius (LT)
At the invitation of the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Vilnius (Lithuania), Ann Demeester (director, de Appel arts centre) and Kestutis Kuizinas (director, CAC) are curating the tenth edition of the Baltic Triennial of International Art. Titled “Urban Stories” and consisting of the main exhibition “Black Swans, True Tales and Private Truths” and the project “Vilnius COOP” it is the pinnacle contemporary art event of the national programme of "Vilnius – European Capital of Culture 2009". The Triennial was founded during the soviet era, in 1979, as “The Baltic Triennial of Young Fine Art in Lithuania”. Since the mid-1990s it has expanded in scope, from the Baltic-Nordic region, to become truly international. The theme of this year will complement and counteract the Vilnius culture capital year, by adding a measure of reflexiveness and even playful criticism to a stream of images and reports about Vilnius.
“Black Swans, True Tales and Private Truths”
The main exhibition, titled “Black Swans, True Tales and Private Truths” is a group show that reflects upon the fact that the Triennial is being staged in Vilnius during a time of crisis – the term 'Black Swan' refers to events that appear by complete surprise and have a major impact (coined by Nassim Taleb) – and upon the idea that every image, reconstruction or evocation of a city contains a high degree of the ‘consciously false’.
Participating artists are amongst others:
Akvilė Anglickaitė (LT) Kevin van Braak (NL) Pavel Braila (MD) CHIM↑POM (JP) COMFORTABLE project (CN) Cora Roorda van Eijsinga (NL) Laura Garbštienė (LT) Beatrice Gibson (UK) Arūnas Gudaitis (LT) HA ZA VU ZU (TR) Alison Jackson (UK) Colter Jacobsen (US) Evaldas Jansas (LT) Edmunds Jansons (LV) Paul Ramirez Jonas (US) Frank Koolen (NL) Irina Korina (RU) Algimantas Kunčius (LT) Žilvinas Landzbergas (LT/NL) The Second Royal Palace Club (LT) Aurelija Maknytė (LT) Thomas Manneke (NL) Darius Mikšys (LT) MY BARBARIAN (US) Deimantas Narkevičius (LT) Kristina Norman (EE) Nikolay Oleynikov (RU) Ariel Orozco (MX) Gail Pickering (UK) Ibrahim Quraishi (PK/NL) Quirine Racke & Helena Muskens (NL) Kęstutis Šapoka (LT) Emily Wardill (UK) Vita Zaman (LT)
For more information please download the press release on this page or have a look at the following website: www.cac.lt or please contact Hiske Zomer via Hzomer [at] deappel.nl.