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 national
art gallery
(Subdivision of
Lithuanian Art Museum)
Contacts
Address: Konstitucijos pr. 22, LT-08105 Vilnius.
Tel.: (+370 ~ 5) 212 29 97.
Fax (+370 ~ 5) 212 28 88.
Email: info[at]ndg.lt
http://www.ndg.lt/
http://www.ldm.lt/NDG/Index.htm
Information Centre of Art :
http://ic.ndg.lt/index.php?id=37&L=1
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Information for Visitor
Opening hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday 12–19,
Thursday 13–20,
Sunday, national holidays eve 12–17.
Closed on Monday and national holidays
Information Centre of National Art Gallery:
Tuesday,
Wednesday, Friday 12–18,
Thursday and Saturday 13–18,
Closed on Monday, Sunday and national holidays.
 Admission:
adults – Lt 6;
pupils, students and OAP – 3 Lt;
children under 7, disabled, ICOM member – free.
Please note that tickets are available till the last half of an hour before
closure of the gallery.
Guided tours:
lithuanian language – 30 Lt;
foreign languages – 50 Lt.
Information about guided tours and reservation tel. (+370 ~ 5) 219 5961.
E-mail: edukacija[at]ndg.lt
Access:
the gallery is fitted for visitors with mobility impairments.
 About the Gallery
Gallery is a subdivision of
Lithuanian Art Museum. It is composed of 10 collection exposition
halls, a Grand Exhibition Hall, Auditorium, Information Centre,
Museum Education Centre, storages, administration premises, bookshop
and café.
The goal of the National Art Gallery is to collect and research
Lithuanian art of the 20th and 21st Century and present it to
Lithuanian and international audiences as a part of the international
modern art culture. Our aim is to study Lithuanian art heritage of
this period, broaden the view of our audiences, reveal the links
between Lithuanian art and art in other countries, encourage new
interpretations of Lithuanian art, and develop a culture of
understanding visual arts. NGA is a contemporaneous, multifunctional
centre for art and culture seeking a dialogue with society. This is a
space for active communication where the audience can see the
permanent exposition and temporary exhibitions as well as participate
in cultural events, lectures and educational programmes.
Exhibitions of 20th–21st Century Lithuanian and international art are
organised in the Grand Exhibition Hall. Commissioned new art works
are featured in the lobbies and courtyard. The 150 seat Auditorium
hosts lectures, conferences, cultural events and screenings of films
and videos by Lithuanian and foreign artists.
The Information Center runs the only in Lithuania archive on
20th–21st Century Lithuanian artists and the library–reading room.
 Exposition
The 20th–21st Century Lithuanian art collection includes over 46 000
exhibits. Modern and contemporary Lithuanian painting, sculpture,
graphic arts, photography, installations and video art are presented
in the collection exposition covering:
multinational art milieu of Vilnius in the beginning of the 20th
Century, the birth of the Lithuanian art movement;
modern art in Lithuania and Vilnius region in the first half of the
20th Century;
works of Lithuanian artists affected by World War II and Soviet
occupation in mid 20th Century; manifestations of socialist realism;
Lithuanian art and photography in the second half of the 20th Century
continuing the modernist tradition; the art of Lithuanian artists in
exile;
contemporary Lithuanian art at the end of the 20th–21st Centuries.
Exhibitions
Present Exhibitions >
Archive Exhibitions >
Collections
Modern and Contemporary Lithuanian Art in the Collections of
Lithuanian Art Museum
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Mstislavas Dobužinskis.
Vilnius. Mėsinių Street.
1906–1907 |
Art of the first half of the 20th
century
Vilnius was the main centre of Lithuanian artistic life at the
beginning of the 20th Century. Then it was a city of the Russian
Empire, and the centre of the region. Artists who studied at schools
in Warsaw, Krakow, St. Petersburg, Paris and Munich lived and worked
here; art societies were founded and exhibitions were organised.
Artists who studied at the Vilnius Drawing School and later became
famous include Jacques Lipchitz, Chaim Soutine, Lazar Segal, Michel
Kikoine. The artists who lived in Vilnius were mostly Russian, Polish
and Jewish. The Lithuanian art movement was stimulated by The
Lithuanian Art Society, which organised exhibitions of Lithuanian art
from 1907. Various tendencies, such as realism, impressionism,
symbolism, modernism, can be seen in works by Vilnius artists. The
art in Vilnius from this period is strongly represented in the
collection of the Lithuanian Art Museum, which is in possession of
works by some the most renowned painters of the time:, including Lev
Antokolski, Stanisław Bohusz-Siestrzeńcewicz, Stanisław Jarocki,
Sergei Juzhanin, Ivan Rybakov, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Nikolai
Sergeyev-Korobov, Kazimierz Stabrowski and Ivan Trutnyov, and also by
works from participants of the first exhibitions of Lithuanian art:
Petras Kalpokas, Adomas Varnas, Justinas Vienožinskis, Antanas
Žmuidzinavičius.
More >
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Aloyzas
Stasiulevičius.
Blue Crossroads.
1998 m. Canvas, Oil.
81x100. |
Art of the second half of the 20th
century
Developments of art in Independent Lithuania were interrupted
by the occupation of the USSR, which began in 1941. After the war,
Lithuanian art divided into two branches: those who stayed in the
country and those who emigrated to the West. Artists who were forced
to leave Lithuania spread across North and South America, Australia
and Europe; they cherished traditions of their country’s art, but and
also experienced influences of art in other countries. The collection
of the Lithuanian Art Museum also includes paintings, sculptures and
prints by some of the artists who worked in exile, including Paulius
Augius-Augustinavičius, Alfonsas Dargis, Pranas Domšaitis, Albinas
Elskus, Pranas Gailius, Adomas Galdikas, Vytautas Ignas, Vytautas
Kazimieras Jonynas, Vytautas Kasiulis, Vytautas Kašuba, Petras
Kiaulėnas, Pranas Lapė, Žibuntas Mikšys, Antanas Mončys, Vaclovas
Ratas-Rataiskis, Vytas Sakalas, Magdalena Stankūnienė, Elena
Urbaitytė, Telesforas Valius, Albertas Vesčiūnas, Romas Viesulas,
Viktoras Vizgirda, Kęstutis Zapkus, Kazimieras Žoromskis and others.
More >
Education
The Museum Education Centre organizes art lessons, practical art
workshops, excursions, lectures, meetings with museum curators as
well as Lithuanian and foreign artists. Educational programmes on
modern and contemporary Lithuanian and international art are designed
for families with children, schoolchildren and visitors of various
age groups.
 History of the Gallery
The National Gallery of Art is situated on the right bank of
the River Neris in the new public and commercial centre of Vilnius, in close
proximity to the Vilnius Municipality, banks, hotels as well as commerce and
entertainment centres.
The prime building was
designed by architects Gediminas Baravykas and Vytautas Vielius in 1968. It
was built in 1980 and housed the Museum of Revolution of the LSSR.
A
subdivision of the National Art Museum of Lithuania, the National Gallery of
Art, was opened in this building in 1993. Until the building was closed for
reconstruction it held constant expositions of Lithuanian folk art and
sculpture by Vytautas Kasuba. In 2003 a project by Audrius Bučas, Darius
Čaplinskas and Gintaras Kuginys won the competition for the architectural
reconstruction and extension of the National Gallery of Art.
In 2005 the National Gallery of Art was awarded a Japanese cultural grant
aid to the value of 180,000 EUR; to furnish the auditorium with audiovisual
equipment for conferences and culture events.
The reconstruction and
extension of the National Gallery of Art is part of the Millennium of
Lithuania Programme and was finished in 2009.
The National Gallery of Art hosted two of the principal projects of Vilnius
- "European Capital of Culture 2009: the international exhibitions Dialogues
of Colour and Sound. Works by Čiurlionis and His Contemporaries" and "Cold
War Modern: Art and Design in a Divided World. 1945-1970".
Photos by Andrius Valužis etc.
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