Exhibition “TARTU 6+6 KAUNAS”

The purpose of the exhibition “TARTU 6+6 KAUNAS” is to prompt more intensive cooperation between two countries, to share experience and ideas. While collaborating networks are grumbling the world, we are building international partnerships, creating and developing global relationships to improve the accessibility of art and culture to the public.

The idea of collaborative exhibition came up while looking at the historical achievements of two countries: the official relations between the countries started in 1921 when Estonia and Lithuania declared de jure each other's independence. Later, in 1991 Estonia declared Lithuania and Lithuania declared Estonia second time. In 1934, the Baltic States signed the treaty of concord and cooperation, but the peak of cooperation was reached on September 23, 1989, when the 650-kilometer-long Baltic Way embraced all three members of the treaty and attracted to cooperate 2 million people from all three Baltic States to achieve the sublime purposes.

These two cities have plenty of connecting interfaces: Tartu University has educated such famous Lithuanian people as Jonas Biliūnas and Antanas Merkys. Tartu is considered as the intellectual center of Estonia, and Kaunas, the temporary capital of Lithuania, 1920-1939 was the center of Lithuanian politics, economics and culture. Although these cities, as the universities inside them, are partners for more than 20 years, nevertheless the biggest cooperation plans between two countries are waiting in the nearest future.


Organizers:
Vilniaus dailės akademijos Kauno fakultetas

Nacionalinis M. K. Čiurlionio dailės muziejus

Pallas University of Applied Sciences
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Curators:
Ona Mikalauskytė, Miglė Ceinorytė, Rolandas Rimkūnas, Jurgita Rimkutė-Vainiuvienė