22/05/2013

“People used to think that contemporary art was nothing serious, that it was just a game for youngsters. People used to see it as something temporal, as a fashion that has come from the West, and hoped that the real art trends would return. Of course, they never returned.” An  interview with Kęstutis Kuizinas, the director of the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, who has been invited to curate an exhibition for this year’s edition of  Cēsis Art Festival. Read more...

An interview with architect Rolandas Palekas

21/05/2013

Rolandas Palekas has a reputation of being one of today's most established and well-respected Lithuanian architects. He is a professor of architecture at the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, and since 2000 has run his own company, Paleko ARCH studija, which recently completed the work on the most ambitious architectural project of contemporary Lithuania – the building of the monumental Vilnius University Library, Science Communication and Information Center. Read more...

Textile Spaces at Another Space, Copenhagen

20/05/2013

Usually textiles are associated with design, fashion and craftsmanship, but lately we have seen an increased interest in textiles as art. As the world around us has been digitalized to a great extent, many artists turn to the tactile. Read more...

17/05/2013

Until May 21 it is still possible to see the exhibition “The Same in Mirrors” 
by the young German painter Pius Fox (1983) at the art gallery Māksla XO. The son of a speech therapist and a rock musician tends to paint rows of small paintings, arranging them on a big wall. Not only in the exhibition, but also during the work process. The artist tells Arterritory.com that he has long lost the illusion that it is possible to place “everything” in one painting. Read more...