Jonas Gasiūnas
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JONAS GASIŪNAS
Born in 1954 in Altaj region, Russia. Lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania Since 1985 participates in the exhibitions Since 1990 member of the artists' group "Angis" Since 1991 teaching in Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, proffessor (2010), head of department since 2009. EDUCATION
1972–1973 Pedagogical Institute of Šiauliai, Lithuania 1975–1978 Kaunas Applied Art College, Lithuania 1978–1984 State Art Institute, Vilnius AWARDS
1988 First Prize in "Youth '88" Young Baltic Artists' Triennial 1990 Vilnius Painting Triennial Diploma 1993 First Prize in Vilnius Painting Triennial 1997 First Prize in Vilnius Painting Triennial 2009 Swedbank Art Award 2010 Lithuanian National prize for Art and Culture
Recipient of 1st level state grants: 2006–2007 2001–2002 1999–2000 PICTURES IN COLLECTIONS European Central Bank art collection, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; National Art Gallery, Vilnius; M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania; Tretjakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia; Stadtmuseum Nordico, Linz, Austria; Private collections.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 This Have Been Once Before. Obsessions retrospective. Torun Contemporary Art Centre (Poland) 2012 „Tapyba“, Festivalis „Wilno w Gdansku“, Łaźnia contemporary art centre, Gdansk, Poland. 2011 „Northwesterly wind“ , Contemporary art festival, Cesis, Latvia. 2007 "Edward‘s trajectory", Lithuanian Theater, Music and Film Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania 2005 Gallery "Vartai", Vilnius, Lithuania 2004 "Drawing with Smoke", Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania 2000 "Pipe“, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania "Frederiksbastion", Copenhagen, Denmark 1997 "Arbeit Macht Frei II", Art Gallery, Šiauliai, Lithuania 1995 "Arbeit Macht Frei", Kaunas Picture Gallery, Lithuania; Exhibitions‘ Hall, Telšiai, Lithuania; Samogitian Art Museum, Plungė, Lithuania 1994 Art Gallery, Panevėžys, Lithuania 1993 "Garden of Ashes", CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania 1985 Showrooms of the Lithuanian Art Fund, Vilnius, Lithuania
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Contemporary art fair POSITIONS BERLIN, Berlin, Germany. Global contemporary art fair ART15 London, Olympia (London, UK);
2014 International exhibition CAFE EUROPA - LA METAFORA COM A RESISTENCIA. TPK Art Center TePeKaLe, L‘Hospitalet, Spain. "Generations (do not) Repeat". Gallery "Meno forma, Kaunas, Lithuania;
2013 XV Vilnius Painting Triennial „Contexts of painting“, CAC, Vilnius. NordArt 2013, Büdelsdorf, Germany.
2012 „Landscape transformation in lithuanian painting“, National Art Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania. „Lithuanian Art – Painting“, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania. „Three painting lectures“, Kaunas Art Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania. „Three painting lectures“, Tartu Kunstimuuseum,Tartu, Estonia.
2011 „Three painting lectures“, Galerija Szyperska, Poznan, Poland. Art fair „Art Vilnius ‘11“
2010 „Swedbank Art Award 2009“, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania. „Contemporary Lithuanian Art“, European Central Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
2009 "Swedbank Art Award 2009", Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia "Quadrienniale of Lithuanian Contemporary Art", LITEXPO palace, Vilnius, Lithuania "Contemporary Lithuanian Art ANEW", Olsztyn, Poland; Klaipėda, Lithuania "Brigada Kormoran", Vilnius Train Station, Lithuania "Radar", Lithuanian Embassy in Warszaw and MGSL Galeria Willa, Lodz, Poland „Abstraction and expressionizm: two traditions in painting of Vilnius 1960–2009“, Gallery „Arka“, Vilnius, Lietuva
2008 "Contemporary Lithuanian Art ANEW", Galeria Miejska bwa (Municipal Gallery), Bydgoszcz and Art Gallery Szyb Wilson, Katowice, Poland "Urgentum praecifitatum sulfur“, Gallery "Vartai", Vilnius, Lithuania Video installation "Elephant Bullet", Art Museum of Estonia (KUMU), Tallinn, Estonia
2007 XII Vilnius painting triennial, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania "Jonas Kaido", Gallery "Vartai", Vilnius, Lithuania "KOVIKAVI postblablu", Kaunas Picture Gallery and Gallery "Meno parkas", Kaunas, Lithuania "Invisible bridges of cultures: Africa and Lithuania, 2007", Gallery "Vartai", Vilnius, Lithuania; Geneve, Switzerland
2006 "KOVIKAVI Conference", Kunsthallen in Viborg, Denmark "Double Game", Gallery "Vartai", Vilnius, Lithuania "Neopop", "Menų spaustuvė", Vilnius, Lithuania "One Picture Exhibition“, Gallery "Vartai“, Vilnius, Lithuania
2005 "Two Altar", Gallery "Vaal", Tallinn, Estonia 2 Berliner Kunstsalon, Art Fair, Berlin, Germany Painting exhibition, Gallery "Vartai", Vilnius, Lithuania
2004 "Here, But Not Now", Lithuanian and Estonian Painting Exhibition, Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania "In My Own Juice", Contemporaray Lithuanian Art, Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn, Estonia; "Kunstiremont", Parnu, Estonia Art Action "Platform: Ground Zero", Vilnius Municipality, Lithuania
2003 "Contemporary Art from Lithuania", Technopolis, Athens, Greece Exhibition - Action "Incest“, Kaunas, Lithuania
2002 Project of Group "Angis" – "Rub Down the Marked Place", Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania; Painting and Photography exhibition "Tracing", Former Printing-House, Maironio st. 3, Vilnius, Lithuania "Fears", Gallery "Arka", Vilnius, Lithuania 2001 Walls of NATO", CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania Painting Biennial of the Nordic Countries, Väsby Konsthall, Sweden
2000 "Rhesus +/- 2", Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania "Painterly", 11th Vilnius Painting Triennial, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania "You Could Come Later", Galery of Studgart Academy of Fine Arts, Studgart, Germany "Image and Sound", Art Gallery, Panevėžys, Lithuania
1999 "City", Gallery "Frederiks Bastion", Copenhagen, Denmark "Six Cities", Gallery "L", Jeblong, Poland "Lithuanian Art: 1989–1999. Ten Years", CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania Retrospective of group "Angis", Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas; Art Gallery, Šiauliai, Lithuania
1998 "Painting", Gallery "Studio", Warsaw, Poland "Rhesus +/-", Art Gallery, Šiauliai, Lithuania "Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW Düsseldorf 1998", Kunstpalas, Düsseldorf, Germany "Men”. Project "Zuwys”, Art Gallery, Šiauliai, Lithuania
1997 "Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW Düsseldorf 1997", Kunstpalas, Düsseldorf, Germany Festival of visual arts "Zuwys", Art Gallery, Šiauliai, Lithuania "Unnecessary”, Gallery “Jutempus", Vilnius, Lithuania
1996 "Three Agendas II. Lithuanian Art", Tampere City Exhibition Hall, Tampere, Finland "Vilnius Art School and It‘s Traditions", Regional Museum, Torune, Poland "Pro '96", Gallery „Charlottenborg", Copenhagen, Denmark
1995 "Lithuanian Art '95", CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania
1994 "Exhibition of Lithuanian Artists‘ Groups", CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania Exhibition of group "Angis", Gallery "Lietuvos aidas", Vilnius, Art Gallery, Panevėžys, Lithuania
1993 Vilnius Painting Triennial, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania – 1st prize "ART-MA" Foundation. 2nd Budapest International Contemporary Prize of Fine Arts, Hungary "Dynamic Compositions", Kozlekedesi Museum, Budapest, Hungary Exhibition of group "Angis", Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania "Between Sculpture and Object in Lithuanian Art“, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania "i.e. Letter", CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania
1992 "Renouncing Borders", Stadtsmuseum Nordico, Linz, Austria; M. Žilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas and CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania Exhibition of group "Angis", Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania Painting and sculpture exhibition, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania "Baltiske Billeder", Herning Art Museum, Sollerod Museum pa Gammel Holtegaard, Denmark
1991 "13 Positionen zur Zeit", Stadtmuseum Nordico, Gallery "Maerz", Linz, Austria "My Time as a Pilot", Gallery "Frie", Copenhagen, Denmark "Apocalypse and Faith", Contemporary Art in Lithuania, University Museum of Art and Culture, Marburg; Lippisches Landesmuseum, Detmold, Germany Exhibition of group "Angis", Art Exhibition Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania
1990 Vilnius Painting Triennial, Art Exhibition Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania 1st exhibition of group "Angis", Lazdynai Exhibitions‘ Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania "Night and Day Painting", Art Exhibition Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania
1989 Exhibition of young Lithuanian artists, Exhibitions Hall of Estonian Artists‘ Association, Tallinn, Estonia "14 Young Lithuanian Artists in Luxembourg", Municipality Theater Hall, Luxembourg Exhibition of young Lithuanian artists, Szentendre Gallery, Szentendre, Hungary
1988 4th Exhibition of young Baltic artists‘ fine arts "Youth '88", Art Exhibition Palace, Vilnius – 1st prize
1987 Union‘s exhibition of young artists works "Youth of the Country", Central Exhibitions Hall, Moscow, Russia Vilnius creative youth festival, Artists‘ Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania Exhibition of Lithuanian fine arts, Art Exhibition Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania Exhibition of young Lithuanian artists‘ works, Art Exhibition Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania 1986 Exhibition of young Lithuanian artists‘ works, Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania Lithuanian art exhbition "Man and environment", Art Exhibition Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania Exhibition of young artists‘ works, Artists‘ Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania
1985 Exhibition of young Lithuanian artists‘ works, Exhibition Palace, Šiauliai, Lithuania "Exhibition of one painting", Kaunas Artists‘ House, Kaunas, Lithuania |
