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Witty, surreal, and ambiguous, painter Evelina Paukštytė’s exhibition Death in Lilacs will delight visitors until June 30. Despite technical challenges, the 2 × 2.5 m work made it to Anykščiai. Our sincere thanks to “Anykščių ratas” and its director Vygantas Šližys for their help! Yesterday at the Angel Museum, we immersed ourselves in E. Paukštytė’s inner world, rich with the color violet, literature, books, pop legends, impermanence, lilac blossoms, a sense of looming death, and everyday situations. The exhibition repeats not only the color violet, but also the motif of tennis courts. As Evelina says: “Each of us has ...

From May 30 to July 19, we invite you to visit Lithuania’s Small Capital of Culture — Kurkliai. There, in the former Kurkliai Synagogue building (S. Nėries St. 4A, Kurkliai), an exhibition of ceramic works by Lina Bekerienė will be on view. On May 30, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., you are invited to meet the exhibition’s author, Lina Bekerienė. “To survive, you have to tell stories.” — Umberto Eco Lina Bekerienė shares her thoughts: People are storytellers. Drawings on cave walls, medieval manuscripts, Gothic cathedrals, bridges and skyscrapers, novels and poems by poets are attempts to give meaning ...

To mark European Museum Night, on May 23 at 6:00 p.m., the exhibition Rhona Gorvy: Life and Dreams will open in the former Kurkliai Synagogue building (S. Nėries St. 4A, Kurkliai, Anykščiai District Municipality). Rhona Gorvy, an artist born in South Africa to Jewish emigrants from Lithuania, has left Lithuania a rich creative legacy. The exhibition presents cycles of her graphic works and sculptures, reflecting social problems of humanity, raising questions relevant to society, and encouraging viewers to take a close look at the multifaceted human nature. Although Rhona Gorvy (1921–2016) was born in Springs, South Africa, her parents’ ...

You are warmly invited to the opening of the jubilee watercolor exhibition by Kajetonas Sklėrius, Nature and Human Being: The World of Kajetonas Sklėrius’s Watercolors, on Tuesday, April 14, at 5:30 p.m. at the Chapel – The Cultural Creation Center of Anykštėnai of the World (Vilniaus St. 36, Anykščiai). The opening event will feature art historian, Doctor of Humanities Danutė Zovienė, and pianist, Doctor of Arts Jurgis Aleknavičius. The exhibition is dedicated to marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of local artist Kajetonas Sklėrius (1876–1932), presenting his work as an important part of Lithuania’s artistic heritage. On display ...

On March 20, the joint painting exhibition Heart and Nail opened at the Chapel – the Cultural Creation Center of Anykštėnai of the World (Vilniaus St. 36). The exhibition invites visitors to see a collection of works created during plein-air painting sessions held at the Troškūnai Bernardine Monastery. The Troškūnai plein-airs are a living tradition that began when Saulius Filipavičius was parish priest. Today, this initiative is being continued by painter and curator Ausma Bankauskaitė. Over the past six years, many professional artists from Vilnius and Kaunas have created here. It is a meeting of different summers, different perspectives, ...

The works presented in Andrius Zakarauskas’s exhibition "Double" reveal doubling as a conscious artistic method, one that unsettles the static image and explores the idea of an image within an image. It is a strategy the artist has been developing consistently, allowing him to produce a tremor in the image, optical tension, and the illusion of movement. By placing two close, and at times identical, elements side by side, the image begins to pulse, as if existing between two states. Through doubling, the artist does not freeze a specific moment; instead, he expands it, making visible not only the ...

You are invited to the opening of the group painting exhibition “Širdis ir Vinis” on Friday, March 20 at 6:00 PM at the Chapel – the Cultural Creation Center of Anykštėnai of the World. The exhibition presents a collection of works produced during plein-air sessions held at the Troškūnai Bernardine Monastery. The opening will feature the plein-air initiator and patron, Rev. Canon Saulius Filipavičius, artists from Kaunas and Vilnius, and the exhibition’s curator A. Bankauskaitė. This exhibition is the result of a creative collaboration between artists from Vilnius and Kaunas, revealing varied artistic experiences and individual perspectives on place, ...

We’re sharing highlights from the opening of Eglė Velaniškytė’s exhibition “Aš ateinu” and the meet-the-artist event, which took place on February 10 at the Angels Museum – Sacral Art Center. During the event, the artist spoke about how her work is created and warmly engaged with attendees, answering questions about the exhibited pieces and her artistic journey. The painter also led an educational session — a discussion in the exhibition — with students from the Anykščiai Art School. The exhibition “Aš ateinu” (literally “I am coming”) presents paintings from 2015–2022 that consistently explore biblical themes. The artist focuses primarily ...

FOLK ART EXHIBITION Tomorrow, January 31 (Saturday) at 12:00, we invite you to the opening of the Anykščiai Region Folk Art Exhibition at the Chapel – the Cultural Creation Center of Anykštėnai of the World (Vilniaus St. 36, Anykščiai)! Students from A. Vienuolis Progymnasium will perform (teacher Vilė Mikučionytė). The exhibition is open Monday–Thursday 8:00–17:00 and Friday 8:00–16:00. Admission: 1 Eur.