Exhibitions presented by Kaunas 2022 and partners at the Central Post Office

The organisers of the Biennale in Dresden aim to present the interdisciplinary content of their exhibitions not only in Germany, but also in various parts of Europe, and therefore organise travelling exhibitions. In cooperation with the European Capitals of Culture, in 2022 artworks from the OSTRALE Biennale are presented in Lithuania.

The themes of constant movement, migration of animals and humans, their encounter with challenges and each other are interpreted by the exhibition artists. Each artist’s perspective depends on the political and economic reality one comes from. This is an exhibition about globality and all the nowness, unfulfillments and subtexts of this multi-layered phenomenon.

Human power and activity changed our natural landscapes and ecosystems, repurposed vast areas of land yet transformed the global climate. Throughout the centuries architects had the power of a Vision. What is needed now, is a vision for renewal and recovery.

Continuing the 20-year tradition of architecture cooperation between the two countries, the East-East 5 Exhibition presents 40 works by architects and architecture studios from Japan and Lithuania. The Exhibition aims to present the architect’s techniques and philosophy as a “Recipe for Recovery” and the architectural process of the best Japanese and Lithuanian architects. Through the models, plans, sections, details, hand drawings, elevations, diagrams, axonometric views etc. architects demonstrate how their projects came to be.

The interactive exhibition “Archi/Textūra” presents the three-year research of architect Rasa Chmieliauskaitė and art researcher dr. Justinas Kalinauskas’ on non-visual experiential architecture. During this research, carried out in cooperation with the community of the Lithuanian Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired, a new grammar for the organization of architectural space, aimed at an invisible dialogue with the surrounding environment, which unfolds via tactile, audial, and orientational relations with the phenomenon of architecture, was being sought.

An intercultural Lithuanian-Japanese architectural residency program is dedicated to the non-visual architectural research and expression with members of the Lithuanian community of the blind and visually impaired. The residency program is aimed at addressing the non-visual experience of space through the traditional-ethnographic (vernacular) and critical regionalist architectural aspects in the study of the semantic, psycho-physiological, and material non-visual architectural impact on perceivers while searching for intercultural (Lithuanian-Japanese) architectural properties and unconventional readability.

Exhibition of the 21st International Bone Porcelain Symposium “Porcelain City” is dedicated to the history of Kaunas porcelain, as well as trends in post-industrial ceramic art. The international team of artists present bone china artworks, created during the symposium. The exhibition will be complemented by a thematic exposition reviewing the history of Kaunas porcelain: coffee sets and small edition designs created in “Jiesia” , dish and set projects created by the Department of Ceramics and Porcelain of Kaunas Art Institute.

“Kaunas’ ASORTI“ – designerly exposition and historical reconstruction of 1984 exhibition, presenting the Lithuanian graphic design stories of the second half of the twentieth century. Posters and their sketches, projects of packaging and logos, designed in 1964–1984, today such artifacts tell us not only about the processes of design history, the creators and their works, but also present the stories about time, identity and sustainability.