Česlovas Lukenskas (Česius) (1959)

Ceslovas

Education:

1966-1974 Panevėžys 5th secondary school.

1974-1978 Panevėžys J. Svedas College of Music.

1978-1984 Lithuanian Academy of Music.

1978-1982 Vilnius Part-time School of Art.

1995-1996 Kaunas University of Technology, master program studies in education management and education science.

Work experience:

Since 2002 Vilnius Art Academy, Kaunas Art Institute, lecturer.

2000-2002 Kaunas Art Institute, assistant director for Studies.

1999-2000 Vice Principal for Education, Kaunas M. Salcius Secondary School.

1996-1999 Limited-stock company, "Elitėja", department Manager.

1992-1996 "Anima" Aesthetic Education School of Kaunas, principal.

1987-1992 Kaunas J. Gruodis College of Music, instructor.

1984-1987 Karmelava Secondary School, Kaunas District, teacher.

Personal exhibitions:

2011 "Theses of Homicide" personal exhibition and performance at the gallery "4 Barbier", Nimes, France.

2011 personal exhibition - project "Česiaus" (opening of the gallery), Kultuvėnai, Lithuania.

2010 Project "Accumulation" Panevėžys Art Gallery, Lithuania.

2009 Project "Motografika - Aptapyba - Apkaustika". Kaunas picture gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania.

2009 Kaunas In Art: Contexts, Contemporary art festival. Re-installation "TRAUMOZER", Gallery "Meno parkas", Kaunas, Lithuania.

2008 Action art "Opencard", publication "Prick Poetry" presentation.Gallery "Meno parkas", Kaunas, Lithuania.

2007 Project "Menas + menas bendrauti", "Fotointencijos". Kaunas picture gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania.

2007 Performance "Selfpod II", audiovisual performance "CesiusRadio" II, Kaunas picture Gallery , Kaunas, Lithuania.

2007 Performance "Selfpod I", theatre festival, Kaunas, Lithuania.

2006 Land art project "Drugys(butterfly)" Kaunas, Lithuania.

2006 Audiovisual performance "Cesius Radio" together with O.Molokojedov and V.Labutis. Kaunas, Lithuania.

2006 Action – provocation, together with R.Antinis. CAC TV, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2004-2005 "Cactuses" Art objects,(14 art objects installation).Panevėžys region, Lithuania.

2002-2004 Sound installations "Audio projects", Kaunas, Lithuania.

2001 "River Eyes", a land art project in Prishna 901-2001 international art symposium, Brixen, Italy.

1999 Installation "Oak Book". Book shop "Humanitas", Kaunas, Lithuania.

1999 Exhibition "The painting on the wood". Bank "Vilnius", Kaunas, Lithuania.

1996 Festival of Contemporary Music "Was horenWir?", installation "The Nest", Kaditsch, Germany.

1994 Exhibition of Assemblages and Small Installations. Art Gallery, Panevėžys, Lithuania.

1991 Installation "Homo Faber". Kaunas Artists’ House, Kaunas, Lithuania.

1989 Exhibition of Assemblages. Art Exhibition Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1987 Exhibition of Sculptures and Assemblages. Kaunas Architects’ House, Kaunas, Lithuania.

1987 Exhibition of Sculptures and Assemblages in the Youth Festival. Art School, Panevežys, Lithuania.

1985 Exhibition of Sculptures and Assemblages. Kaunas Teachers’ House, Kaunas, Lithuania.

Actions:

2002 Action "Limuzin". New York, USA.

2000 Action "The Expelled Man". Kaunas, Lithuania.

1996 Action "Against Violence" with Jonas Maldžiunas. Kaunas, Lithuania.

1993 Actions "Fire on the Head", "Bottles", "Fishes", "Potatoes", "Breathing", "Chicken", "Cabbage", "Beet-root". Video gallery "After-After".

1992 Action "Human Bush".Kaunas Architects’ House, Kaunas, Lithuania.

1991 Action, "Hammer" with A. Andriuškevičius. Jonava district, Lithuania.

1991 Action "Man – Star". Jonava district, Lithuania.

1990 Action "Burning Thing I, II". Jonava district, Lithuania.

1990 Action "Travelling Quadrangles I, II, III". Jonava district, Lithuania.

1990 Action "Human Seed". Jonava district, Lithuania.

1990 Action "Fecundation of the Earth". Zatyšiai, Lithuania.

1990 Action "Human". Jonava district, Lithuania.

1989 Action "Burning of a Man". Jonava district, Lithuania.

1989 Action "Expelled Man". Kaunas, Lithuania.

1989 Action "Posts".Jonava district, Lithuania.

1989 Action "Man and Things". Jonava district, Lithuania.

Group exhibitions:

2011 - Upstream People Gallery presents the 9th Annual Color: Bold/Subtle Juried Online Int'l Exhibition. Omaha, JAV.

2011 exhibition "Salon d’Automne", gallery "Meno parkas", Kaunas, Lithuania.

2011 exhibition "Imaginary Stories" at the Užutrakis manor house, Trakai, Lithuania.

2010 "Kaunas – Porto", contemporary art exhibition, Fundacao Jose Rodrigues and gallery "Espaco IMERGE", Port, Portugal.

2008 Project "Art+ Art communicate", performances "Selfpod II", "Cesius radio II". Kaunas picture gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania.

2007 Project "Art + Art communicate", "Photointentions". Kaunas Picture Gallery. Kaunas, Lithuania.

2007 International performance festival "Dimensija –II". CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2006 The Arts festival "Ocupation", object "Svetimas". Kaunas, Lithuania.

2006 International performance festival "Dimensija –I". CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2006 International exhibition "Enigma", installation and performance "Dzikai". Gallery "Vartai", Vilnius, Lithuania.

2006 "Contemporary Lithuanian Art". Vilniaus Radvilų Rūmai, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2006 "101,3km: Konkurencija ir bendradarbiavimas". CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2005 Action "Floatable Art. The Fish is Jurgis.2005". Kaunas region, Lithuania.

2005 "7th Annual Abstraction Juried International Online Art Exhibition". Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, JAV.

2005 "Art+Art to communicate, Sculpture 2005". Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania.

2004-2005 "Art Stars”, project "My Art Star". "ON 25" gallery Moulin d-Asselborn, Luxembourg.

2002 ,"Objects…". Janina Monkute "Marks" gallery, Kėdainiai, Lithuania .

2002 Project for blind "Dreams of the Day". National M.K.C. Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania.

2000 International exhibition "Innocent Life". Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1999 "Lithuanian Art 1989-1999: TheTen Years".Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1999 Installation "Brisius. Dream in Journey to Tajmahal". Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania.

1998 "Body and the East". Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

1996 "Three Agendas 2 Lithuanian Art". The Tampere Hall, Tampere, Finland.

1995 "Three Agendas: Lithuanian Art". Palace of Art Muscarnok, Budapest, Hungary.

1995 "Recent Documents". Balzekas Museum, Chicago, USA.

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

1994 Exhibition of Art Groups. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1994 "Europe Rediscovered". Copenhagen 1994, Copenhagen, Denmark.

1993 "It’s – a Letter". Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania.

1993 Europa Biennale "Niederlausitz II". Land Brandenburg, Germany. Awarded Grand Prix.

1993 "Between Sculpture and Object in Lithuania". Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1993 "Aujourd’hui les Baltes. Art Contemporain d’Estonie, Lettonie, Lituanie". Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Art, Paris, France.

1992 Festival of Art from Eastern Europe "Orients". Old factory of Bekescsaba city, Hungary.

1991 International Festival of Performances "The Works". "Langas" Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1991 Installation "The Last Supper". Art Exhibition Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1991 5th Triennial of Young Baltic Artists’ Art. Art Exhibition Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1988 Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Contemporary Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine.

1981 Exhibition of Paintings and Assemblages (with R. Paniulaitis). Evening Art School, Vilnius, Lithuania.

With the group POST-ARS:

2010 "Landpartie". Abtei Liesborn Muzeum, Germany.

2010 "Kaunas – Porto", Contemporary Art Exhibition , "Fundacao Jose Rodrigues Gallery". "Espaco IMERGE Gallery", Porto, Portugal.

2009 Retrospective exhibition "Post–Ars 20 Contexts". VDU gallery "101", Kaunas, Lithuania

2009 Retrospective exhibition "Post–Ars 20 Contexts", Contemporary Art Center (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania.

2002 Performance "Our language". "Artteritorija", Kaunas, Lithuania.

2001 Performance "Transmisijos". Center of Contemporary Art, Warszawa, Poland.

2000 Action-object "The Expelled Man". Sculpture symposium "Abonementas Skulpturai", Kaunas, Lithuania.

2000 Object-installation "Eyes-Scales". Together with R. Antinis. Sculpture symposium "Riga 800", Riga, Latvia.

2000 Action "Baptism" together with R. Antinis. Art Festival, Jonava, Lithuania.

1999 "The First Land Art Symposium". Art Union building, Kaunas, Lithuania.

1999 "Mandala" together with POST-ARS group. Symposium of Land Art, Moscow and Pereslavlj-Zaleskii, Russia.

1999 A retrospective exhibition-installation for the 10-year anniversary of POST-ARS group "Camouflages". Together with M. Engelhardt. Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania.

1999 Action-concert with M. Litwinsky. Kaunas Small Theatre, Kaunas, Lithuania.

1999 "7 Days of Love for Postmodern Art" together with A. Brazdziūnas.Kaunas Picture Gallery. Kaunas, Lithuania.

1996 Action - installation at the opening of the FLUXUS exhibitions "Reception". Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1994 Action "Period of 16 Measures". Kaunas, Lithuania.

1994 "Entanglement. Amplification. Alteration." with M. Engelhart and the group Bruni and Barbarit. Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania.

1994 "Dodecaphonia". Lithuanian State Academic Drama Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1993 Actions at the opening ceremonies of the Small Theatre and the art centre Art to the Side "Teleinstructions and Blind". Kaunas, Lithuania.

1992 "Happening Games". Gallery AL, Kaunas, Lithuania.

1992 Exhibition of POST-ARS Photo Documents, Drawings, Projects, Actions. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1992 Action "Bed". Kaunas Architects’ House, Kaunas, Lithuania.

1991 Installations of POST-ARS. Gallery "Rzezby", Warsaw, Poland.

1990 Action "Zatysiai". Jonava district, Kaunas, Lithuania.

1990 POST-ARS Installations. Exhibition Palace, Palanga, Lithuania.

1990 POST-ARS Installations and Action. Kaunas Architects’ House, Kaunas, Lithuania.

1990 Installations of Kaunas Artists. Exhibition Hall of the Artists’ Association, Kaunas, Lithuania.

1989 POST-ARS Conference "Happening". Jonava district, Lithuania.

Grants and scholarships:

Award for the most memorable Kaunas’ artist of 2009.

2006-2007 Scholarship of Lithuanian Government for land art projects.

2001 Scholarship of Open Society Fund – Lithuania for studies in Summer University, Central European University. Budapest, Hungary.

2000 Grand of Open Society Fund – Lithuania for preparing a new course for art students.

1999 Grand of Open Society Fund – Lithuania for the project ,,Mandala” (Accomplished with POST-ARS group). Moscow – Pereslavl – Zaleskij, Russia.

1996 Grant by "Denkmalshmiede Hofgen" gallery for the project "Nest". Germany.

1994 Grant of Soros Contemporary Art Center for catalogue of POST- ARS group.

1994 Grant of Soros Contemporary Art Center for the project "Europe Rediscovered". Denmark.

1994 Grant of Soros Contemporary Art Center.

Membership:

2005 joined Lithuanian Artists’ Association.

1989 a member of the artists‘ group "Post Ars" (and one of the formers).