22° G: Milieu

22° G: Milieu

On September 1-27, 2025, a series of three exhibitions united by the title 22° G is presented at Vilnius Academy of Arts’ Titanikas exhibition halls and the Akademija and 5 malūnai galleries.

The 22° G exhibitions are dedicated to the 220th anniversary of Vilnius Academy of Arts’ Department of Graphic Art and present three generations of artists active in the contemporary art and graphic art scene. The authors featured in the exhibitions include prolific artists of the younger generation who are alumni of the Department of Graphic Art, artists who educate the new generations of graphic artists as tutors at the department, and young artists studying at Vilnius Academy of Arts who associate their professional future with graphic art.

The exhibition at the gallery 5 malūnai, 22° G: Milieu, presents works by the students of the VAA Department of Graphic Art.
Opening on September 1 at 4 pm.

This is part of the three-exhibition series 22° G dedicated to the 220th anniversary of Vilnius Academy of Arts’ Department of Graphic Art, presenting the work of 77 young authors currently studying graphic art at the Academy. The architectural installation marking the territory urges the visitors to get lost, tangled in the torrent of time, technologies, images, ideas, and media in a good sense, and when they find a way out, to be surprised by the immense diversity of the graphic art study stages! Conceptually, four or six years of study at the Academy is an incredibly safe space that presents certain tasks, but is absolutely open to all possible scenarios. In this environment, both one’s own and other people’s expectations persist, personalities take form, a community emerges, and the first prominent ideas are born in the context of contemporary art. It is highly likely that very soon some of the authors presented in this exhibition will boldly and uniquely shape the graphic art of the future with their work.

Curated by Marija Marcelionytė-Paliukė

Accompanying events:

September 13 (Saturday), 12:30 pm: guided tour of the exhibitions at the VAA Titanikas exhibition halls and the Akademija and 5 malūnai galleries with the curators Elena Grudzinskaitė, Jurgita Ludavičienė and Marija Marcelionytė-Paliukė. Duration of tour – 2 hours.

September 13 (Saturday), 3 pm: paper lithography workshop by the artist Saule Budriūnaite at the Vilnius Academy of Arts Graphic Laboratory. Duration of creative workshops – 2 hours.

September 27 (Saturday), 12:30 pm: guided tour of the exhibitions at the VAA Titanikas exhibition halls and the Akademija and 5 malūnai galleries with the curators Elena Grudzinskaitė, Jurgita Ludavičienė and Marija Marcelionytė-Paliukė. Duration of tour – 2 hours.

September 27 (Saturday), 3 pm: bookbinding workshop by the Arklys publishing initiative at the Vilnius Academy of Arts Graphic Laboratory. Duration of creative workshops – 2 hours.
The exhibition is part of the programme of Vilnius Gallery Weekend taking place on September 11–14.
More information: http://vilniausgalerijusavaitgalis.lt

The project is financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius Academy of Arts

Organised by Vilnius Academy of Arts and the Department of Graphic Art
Initiated by Elena Grudzinskaitė
Graphic design by Jokūbas Griška, Jonė Dūdaitė
Exhibition catalog design by Agnė Dautartaitė-Krutulė, Ūla Norvilaitė
Lithuanian language editor Jurgita Radzevičiūtė
Translator Jurijus Dobriakovas
Partners and support by Media Traffic, www.echogonewrong.com, Vilnius Graphic Art Centre, National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art 

Artists:

Mindaugas Aniūnas
Rugilė Beržonskytė
Kotryna Bizunovičiūtė
Rokas Bočkus
Guostė Budrikaitė
Saulė Budriūnaitė
Andrius Bursovas
Emilija Čepulė
Povilas Dūda
Jonė Dūdaitė
Julius Gaižauskas
Izabelė Genytė
Sofija Gravova
Jokūbas Griška
Smiltė Jablonskytė
Ugnė Janeliauskaitė
Elena Juknevičiūtė
Kamilė Juškaitė
Anastasija Kadilinaitė
Rūta Karvelytė
Tomas Kavarskas
Emilė Krutulytė
Vėjūnė Leškytė
Normantas Matonis
Elzė Milašiūtė
Ieva Narutavičiūtė
Šarūnė Nečiūnaitė
Ūla Norvilaitė
Milda Paužolytė
Daria Podluzhna
Paulė Popovaitė
Giedrė Pučkytė
Ignas Puikis
Vita Pukštaitė-Bružė
Mantas Puodžiukaitis
Mark Radlinskas
Jurgita Ramanauskė
Gintautė Siniakovaitė
Nojus Sitnikov
Austė Skardžiukaitė-Kabašinskienė
Alvė Skauronaitė
Justina Tamulevičiūtė
Konradas Urbonas
Beatričė Vaitkutė
Laura Valiūnaitė
Bernadeta Dominyka Vaškovič
Neda Vengalytė
Andrėja Vilčiauskaitė
Justas Zabulėnas
Ūla Zareckaitė
Izabelė Žepnickaitė

Photos by Anna Chostegian