Arūnas Vaitkūnas (1956 - 2005)

Arunas Vaitkunas 

Memebership:

Since 1993 he was a member of the artists‘ group Angis.

Since 1990 he became a member of the Lithuanian Painters’ Union.


Education:

1974-1980 He studied painting at the State Art Institute, Vilnius.

 

Awards and grants: 

2001 Individual State Stipend for Art and Culture Creators, Lithuania.

1996 Pollock – Krasner Fund Stipend. New York, USA.

1992 Stipend of Austrian Ministry of Culture, Horn, Austria.

1991 Lippe land stipend. Schwallenberg, Germany.

 

Collection: 

Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius.

National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas.

Contemporary Art Museum, Vilnius.

Silkeborg Art Museum, Denmark.

Lippe Land Municipality, Detmold, Germany.

Private collectors in Lithuania and abroad.

 

Personal exhibitions:

2004 Painting, Restaurant-music club "Senoji Kolonada", Druskininkai.

2003 Painting, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.

2003 Painting, Akademija Gallery, Vilnius.

2003 "Staircases and Interiors", exhibition of painting, O 11 Gallery, Vilnius.

2002 "Evolvement", Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai.

2001 Akademija Gallery, Vilnius.

2001 Kauno Langas Gallery, Kaunas.

2000 Studio Gallery (with Vladas Kazakauskas), Kaunas.

1999 "Idea of Painting", Studio Gallery, Kaunas.

1998 "Painting on paper", National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.

1998 National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas.

1998 Giedrė Bartelt Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

1998 "Arka" Gallery, Vilnius.

1996 Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai.

1996 National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas.

1995 Kauno Langas Gallery (with Leonas Strioga), Kaunas.

1994 National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas.

1994 Arka Gallery, Vilnius.

1992 Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.

1992 Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai.

1992 National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas.

1990 Art Gallery, Nida.

1984 Painters’ Union, Kaunas.

 

Major group exhibitions:

2005 "Reality X Abstraction", Intro Gallery, Vilnius, Šiauliai, Klaipėda.

2005 "Europe, Artists Open Your Heart as a Carpet", the workshop in Garikula, ECA Artists Encounter, May 2005, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2004 "Competition of large-scale works", Meno Parkas Gallery, Kaunas.

2004 12 Vilnius Painting Triennial, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.

2004 International plain-air of painters "Raigardas 2004", Druskininkai.

2003 International plain-air of painters "Raigardas 2003", Druskininkai.

2003 International exhibition "Unbearable Reality", National M. K. Čiurlionis Art. Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.

2003 Plain-air of group Angis, Šilavotas prudes’ house, Prienai district.

2003 "Vilnius in Warsaw", Domu Artysty Plastyka Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.

2003 "Between Vilnius and Kaunas", "Dipoly" plain-air of painters, Bikuškis estate, Utenos district.

2003 "Painting Today", Meno Parkas Gallery, Kaunas.

2003 "Landscape in Lithuanian Painting", Arka Gallery, Vilnius.

2003 "Lithuanian Colour Range", Didrichsen Museum, Helsinki, Finland.

2003 "Insert", project of group Angis, Savanorių pr. 168, Kaunas.

2003 "Largest Gallery in New Municipality", Vilnius City Municipality, Vilnius.

2002 "Erase the Marked Place", project of group Angis, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.

2001 International symposium "Resort Town Romance", Palanga.

2001 Painting plain-air "Raigardas 2001", Druskininkai.

2001 "The Nordic countries and the Baltic States", Biennial in Painting, Vasby Konsthall and Vilunda Gallery, Sweden.

2001 Project "Kaunas-Krakow", Rostworowski Gallery; Palac sztuki TPSP, Krakow, Poland.

2001 "Between two Worlds", Chapelle des Penitents - Aniane, France.

2001 "Retrospective of Still-Life", Arka Gallery, Vilnius.

2001 8th International project for the memory of A. Samuolis "Mutations", National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas.

2001 "Architecture and Art of Lithuanian Churches: experience and tendencies between 1990-2001", Architects’ House, Kaunas.

2001 "Grosse Kunstausstellung Nrw Dusseldorf 2001", Germany.

2001 "Gloria Deo", Jesuit Monastery, Kaunas.

2000 International graffiti plain-air dedicated for the memory of Jean Michel Basquiat: Paraphrases of classics, UAB Baltic Sign, Kaunas.

2000 Exhibition of Lithuanian Painters, Rostorowski Gallery, Krakow, Poland.

2000 "Tradition and future", review exhibition of fine and applied arts of 1997-2000, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.

2000 "Painting, Graphics, Sculpure", Dortmund City Hall, Germany.

2000 "Competition of large-scale works", Artists’ Union Gallery, Kaunas.

1999 Painting, Huset Gallery, Asnaes, Denmark.

1999 "Yesterday-today", National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.

1999 "The beginning of the end", Baroti Gallery, Klaipėda.

1999 "Lithuanian painting - 10 years", Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.

1999 "The best artwork of the year", National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.

1999 "Angis 1989-1999", National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas; Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai.

1998 "Generation of breaking", Fjosangersamlingene Gallery, Bergen, Norway.

1997 International painting plain-air. Nida.

1997 "Silent and famous whispers of colours on paper. Modern Lithuanian painting", Sparkasse Gallery, Erfurt; EKS im Haus der Philarmonie, Zul, Germany.

1997 "Lithuanian painting 97: galleries present", Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.

1996 "Painting 96", National gallery, Vilnius.

1996 "Art from Kaunas", Latvian Art Academy, Riga, Latvia.

1996 "Personal time", Zachenta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland; Central Exhibition hall, S. Petersburg, Russia.

1996 "Angis 96 and guests", National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, M. Žilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas.

1995 "Under Gemini sign", National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.

1995 "1995: Lithuanian Painting", Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.

1994 Exhibition of groups, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.

1993 "Group Angis", National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.

1993 "Painting and sculpture from Kaunas", Vanha Kappalaisentalo, Porvoo Borga, Finland.

1993 "Modern Lithuanian Art from Kaunas", Likovnih Umetnosti Gallery, Slovenij Gradec; Mestna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

1993 "I.E. Letter", National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.

1992 "Knowing no Walls", National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, M. Žilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas.

1991 "Modern avant-guarde", Sheraton Art Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.1990 Baltic Painting triennial, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.

1991 "8 Kaunas artists", National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.

1990 Painting triennial of Baltic States, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.

1990 "Kaunas painters", Jana Seta Gallery, Riga, Latvia.

1990 "8 Kaunas artists", F-15 Gallery, Moss, Norway.

1990 "13 positions of time", Maerz Gallery, Linz, Austria.

1989 "Folk traditions in Lithuanian art of the 20th century", Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.

1989 "8 Kaunas artists", National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.

1988 Republican Art Exhibition, Art Exhibition Palace, Vilnius.

1988 "Youth 88", Art Exhibition Palace, Vilnius.                                      

1988 Exhibition of 14 young Lithuanian painters. Municipal theatre, Luxemburg.

1986 Exhibition of young Lithuanian painters, Art Exhibition Palace, Vilnius.

1985 "Kaunas Artists", National Art Museum, Riga, Latvia.

1984 Exhibition of young Lithuanian painters, Art Exhibition Palace, Vilnius.

1982 "Youth 82", Art Exhibition Palace, Vilnius.

1982 "5 Kaunas painters", National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas.

1980-1994 Exhibition of Kaunas painters, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.

 

Works in object: 

2001-2002 Wall painting at Kaunas Business and Management College, Kaunas.

 

Exhibitions after the May 14, 2005:

2009 "The Smell of Life", National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.

2008 "Lithuanian Pictures, Paintings and Objects", G.Gounaropoulou Museum, Athenes, Greece.

2008 "Between Two Eras", Schleswig-Holstein Haus, Germany.

2008 "Art New", contemporary Lithuanian Art, Bydgoszcz city Gallery, Poland.

2007 "Raigardas 2007, Metaphor of Signs", painting plain-air in memory of A.Vaitkūnas, Nida.

2007 "Persistent Signs of Painting" (last paintings of A. Vaitkūnas), Druskininkai City Museum, Druskininkai.

2006 "Expression of Nida", international painting plain-air in memory of A. Vaitkūnas, Nida.

2006 "Metaphysics of the spaces", Lithuanian embassy, Tbilisi, Giorgia.

2006 "Historie indywidualne", Dominik Rostworowski Gallery, Krakow, Poland.

2006 "10+1", Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas.

2005 "Painting in the sky", M. Žilinskas Gallery, M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas.

2005 1st Contemporary Art Quadrennial, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.

2005 Beijing Biennale, Beijing, China.

2005 "Painting in the sky", Klaipėda Art Exhibition Palace, Klaipėda.

2005 "Lohn der Arbeit", Emschertal Museum, Herne, Germany.

2005 "Metaphor of shift and persistent signs", National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery; Meno Parkas Gallery, Kaunas.