{"id":113411,"date":"2022-08-25T20:34:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T20:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaunas2022.eu\/?p=113411"},"modified":"2022-08-30T09:05:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T09:05:24","slug":"a-long-awaited-event-in-lithuania-the-exhibition-the-learning-garden-of-freedom-by-the-world-renowned-artist-yoko-ono-opens-in-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaunas2022.eu\/en\/2022\/08\/25\/a-long-awaited-event-in-lithuania-the-exhibition-the-learning-garden-of-freedom-by-the-world-renowned-artist-yoko-ono-opens-in-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"A long-awaited event in Lithuania: the exhibition The Learning Garden of Freedom by the world-renowned artist Yoko Ono opens in autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yoko Ono<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On 10 September this year, the exhibition The Learning Garden of Freedom by the world- renowned artist Yoko Ono will open at Kaunas Picture Gallery. The show will feature conceptual artworks, installations, objects, experimental films, performances, sound and text works. While waiting for the exhibition, Kaunas residents and guests are also invited to visit Yoko Ono\u2019s installation Ex It currently on display at the Kaunas branch of the Bank of Lithuania. The installation works as the introductory part of the retrospective exhibition and will be on display until 11 September.<\/p>\n

Yoko Ono (b. 1933, Tokyo) began her career in the 1950s. She worked closely with George Ma\u010di\u016bnas, the founder of the Fluxus movement, and her first solo exhibition (featuring works from the\u00a0Instruction Paintings\u00a0series) was held in 1961 at New York\u2019s AG Gallery, also founded by Ma\u010di\u016bnas and Almus Salcius. In addition to her innovative paintings and performances, the artist later began to create objects, films and spatial installations, to bring other artists together in collaborative actions, and to invite the audience to actively engage in artistic processes. In her performances and other works, Yoko Ono raises issues closely related to the feminist movement, such as the female body and women\u2019s empowerment in society. The artist\u2019s name is also often associated with the pacifist movement, which remains more than relevant to this day.<\/p>\n

One of the central components of Yoko Ono\u2019s work are ideas. They can be serious or playful, utopian or poetic, expressed in words or actions, realised as objects and installations or simply in the imagination of the audience. Her work is highly political and social, not losing its relevance with the flow of time, encouraging the viewer to critically assess the world around them and, by using the language of art, to actively express one\u2019s position on important socio-political issues.\u00a0The Learning Garden of Freedom\u00a0is an invitation to get to know Yoko Ono\u2019s work and to reflect on the seriousness and playfulness of life as well as the power of imagination.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is organised by the Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania) in collaboration with the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (Porto, Portugal) and Yoko Ono\u2019s studio Studio One (New York, US), and curated by the artist\u2019s long-time friend and curator of Fluxus exhibitions, Jon Hendricks. It is a continuation of the exhibition held at the Serralves Museum in 2020, specially adapted for Kaunas, George Ma\u010di\u016bnas\u2019 hometown. The exhibition is organised as part of the project Kaunas\u00a0\u2013 European Capital of Culture 2022 and will run until 4 December this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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