16TH INTERNATIONAL VILNIUS PAINTING TRIENNIAL ‘NOMADIC IMAGES’

The idea of the 16th International Vilnius Painting Triennial ‘Nomadic Images’ is based on a strategy of wandering in different territories, without priorities or a uniform plan, observing, comparing, evaluating, but not conquering. When travelling, combinations of seen objects and experiences form in an accidental and unregulated order, and bring back forgotten memories, which summon new combinations. This provision of the organisers is closely related to the wandering world vision articulated by the contemporary thinkers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, in which reality is constantly changing, and is described using notions of the rhizome and the labyrinth. Nomadic space is understood as a decentralised expansion of territory, an arena for unprogrammed processes, accidents, spontaneity and incompleteness. In adapting these ideas to the field of contemporary painting, we can understand the forms of expression as a potential infinity that can take various configurations, grow freely, and develop in any direction. A conceptual approach towards the triennial’s content allows us to avoid a horizontal view of the field of painting, like an overview, and gives it an intellectual dynamic. Innovation in painting, and changes in the forms of representation, format and materials, are emphasised, together with connections with other media and other fields of art.

The 2016 Triennial consists of two separate but complementary parts, united by a shared concept: International Contemporary Painting Exhibition and Lithuanian Contemporary Painting Exhibition.

The second part of the Triennial is an exhibition of work by Lithuanian artists. Seventy-three professional artists and art students entered the competition for this exhibition, submitting works created over the last three years. Twenty-nine were chosen by the competition jury, and they is shown at the Kaunas Picture Gallery Three artists will be awarded valuable prizes. The participants in the exhibition: Aistė Kirvelytė, Indrė Ercmonaitė, Kęstutis Grigaliūnas, Marta Vosyliūtė, Andrius Zakarauskas, Eglė Ulčickaitė, Eglė Karpavičiūtė, Kęstutis Lupeikis, Ričardas Bartkevičius, Auris Radzevičius, Arūnė Tornau, Aušra Andziulytė, Dainius Trumpis, Darius Jarusevičius, Laura Slavinskaitė, Romualdas Balinskas, Simona Lukoševičiūtė, Vidmantas Jusionis, Antanas Obcarskas, Irma Leščinskaitė, Ramūnas Grikevičius, Algis Griškevičius, Miglė Kosinskaitė, Linas Gelumbauskas, Kunigunda Dineikaitė, Mykolė Ganusauskaitė, Simonas Kuliešis, Vidmantas Zarėka, Kristina Ališauskaitė.