Open Call for Textile Artists: 2019 Exhibitions in the VAA (Vilnius Academy of Arts) Textile gallery ARTIFEX
The main direction of the Textile Gallery ARTIFEX
Artifex is a Vilnius Academy of Arts - affiliated gallery in Vilnius, Lithuania, with a focus on contemporary textile (art and design), broadly-interpreted. It frequently features exhibitions by the Academy’s staff and students as well as prominent international artists, collective exhibitions and collaborations. Its intimate 36- square- meter space at the heart of the Vilnius Old Town often hosts cultural events and participates in the public life of the city’s artistic scene. It is the only professional gallery of textile in Lithuania, which during the ten years of its prosperity greatly contributed to the prevalence of the contemporary textile not only in Lithuania but also overseas. This gallery is one of the most interesting and most reputable spaces for art in the context of the contemporary Lithuanian art (in 2012 it was regarded as the best Lithuanian gallery at the Contemporary art fair ArtVilnius 2012).
The Latin word artifex was chosen as the title for the gallery in order to on the one hand, reflect a notion of an artist as a conceptual generator and an initiator of ideas, but on the other, to reflect a concept of a craftsman and a master of his/her trade. In such disposition, it emphasises the inclination for a dialogue between the new artistic ideas and the learned craftsmanship, mastery and brilliance in an effort to transcend the mainstream division of the two.
Simultaneously it critically debates with both notions in a search for new forms of creative expression. The guiding object at the core of the gallery’s focus lays materiality in all its reflexive and physical forms. It welcomes projects that engage in the topic in a variety of ways: from sound to cloth, from object to text, from thought to action. Thus, Artifex seeks the re-discovery of textile under new and creative terms and in unexpected and ever-changing circumstances.
Deadlines for submission of applications for 2019 exhibitions in the VAA textile gallery ARTIFEX
In 2019 the textile gallery ARTIFEX will celebrate its 10th anniversary, for this occasion we are expecting many textile art and design exhibition contributions from the artists from Lithuania and from abroad! Your applications for personal and group exhibitions for 2019 are awaited twice a year (for the first and the second semesters)!
The applications for the exhibitions for the first semester (January- July, 2019) are expected until the 9th of September. Results will be announced by the 23rd of September!
The applications for the exhibitions for the second semester (September- December, 2019) are expected from the 1st of January until the 3rd of February (2019). Results will be announced by the 17th of February (2019)!
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Application deadlines 2019
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First semester exhibitions (January-July)
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Second semester exhibitions (September- December) |
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Applications are accepted until 09.09. 2018 !!! |
Results are announced by 23.09.2018 |
Applications are accepted from 01.01.2019 until 03.02.2019 |
Results are announced by 17.02.2019 |
All information (the author‘s CV, the concept of exhibition and the visual materials) should be sent to artifex@vda.lt. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, we will gladly provide the answers to your queries.
The authors for the exhibitions will be selected by the jury:
Eglė Ganda Bogdanienė: textile artist, Professor of VAA, Vice-Rector of VAA;
Laima Oržekauskienė: textile artist, Professor of VAA;
Lina Jonikė: textile artist, Associate Professor of VAA;
Laura Pavilonytė: textile artist, Associate Professor of VAA, Head of Textile Department (Vilnius Faculty) of VAA.
Monika Žaltauskaitė-Grašienė: textile artist, Associate Professor of VAA, Head of Textile Department (Kaunas Faculty) of VAA.
Gallery Staff:
Severija Inčirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė: textile artist, Associate Professor of VAA, Head of the gallery ARTIFEX; Jelena Škulienė: textile artist, Coordinator of the gallery ARTIFEX; Dileta Deikė: textile artist, Manager of the gallery ARTIFEX.
IMPORTANT TO KNOW
For the community members of the VAA (Vilnius Academy of Arts): VAA lecturers, students and alumni (max two years after graduation from the VAA) are provided with exhibition space for free. The gallery retains the right not to apply the fees for the guest artists invited by the gallery members. For other creators who would like to exhibit their works in the VAA gallery ARTIFEX operating expenses are applied ( weekly fee is approximately 100 euros, [the exact price is 82euros +VAT= 99,22 euros.]).
Social networks:
facebook - Tekstilės galerija "Artifex"
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