Gintaras Makarevičius (b. 1965)
Lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania
Education:
1988–1994 Vilnius Academy of Arts, Department of Painting
Awards:
2017 Lithuania’s National Culture and Arts Prize. Lithuania
2008, 2012, 2013 Golden Stage Cross
2008 Grand Prix of the Lugano Film Festival. Switzerland
Artworks acquired by:
National Gallery of Art. Lithuania
Modern Art Centre. Lithuania
Finnish National Gallery’s Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA. Finland
Private collections – Lithuania, Switzerland and Germany
Solo exhibitions:
2022 Plastic Crow. Gallery Meno Niša, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018 The Time Catcher. Gallery Meno Niša, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016 Surrender. Titanikas, Vilnius Academy of Arts Exhibition halls, Vilnius, Lithuania
2010 Drawings 2004–2010. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2008 Parallels. Gallery schleicher+lange, Paris, France
2005 vidéo surveillance_001. Gallery schleicher+lange, Paris, France
2004 Emission 2004 – Vaskichi. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
1998 Position and Strategy. Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
Art fairs:
2022 Viennacontemporary. International contemporary art fair, Vienna, Austria
2021 ArtVilnius’21. International contemporary art fair, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020 POSITIONS Berlin. International contemporary art fair, Berlin, Germany
2020 ArtVilnius’20. International contemporary art fair, Vilnius, Lithuania
2019 Viennacontemporary. International contemporary art fair, Vienna, Austria
2019 ArtVilnius’19. International contemporary art fair, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018 ArtVerona. International contemporary art fair, Verona, Italy
Selected group exhibitions:
Active participant of group exhibitions since 1994
2019 Back to the Future. Gallery Meno Niša, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 Reality Bites. KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
2012 Lithuanian Art 2012. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2010 Darkroom. Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland
2010 Aires de Jeux. La police ou les Corsaires. Centre d’art contemporain de Quimper, Quimper, France
2010 Why Do You Resist?. Pori Art Museum, Finland
2010 Lithuanian Art 2000–2010: Ten Years. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2009 Politiche della Memoria. NABA, Milan, Italy
2009 Pieces de Resistance. Thun Art Museum, Thun, Switzerland
2006 Face the Unexpected. Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany
2005 La Rochelle International Film Festival, France
2005 BMW. The IX Baltic Triennial of International Contemporary Art. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2004 Instant Europe. Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Italy
2004 EU Positive. Art Academie, Berlin, Germany
2003 24/7 Wilno-Nueva York. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2002 Manifesta 4, European Biennial of Contemporary Art. Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2002 Public Relations. Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2002 Changing Society: Lithuania. Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2002 Rauma Biennale Balticum’02. Rauma Art Museum, Finland
2002 The Baltic Times. Galerie im Taxipalais, Innsbruck, Austria
2001 Looking for Mr. Fluxus. Art in General, New York, USA
2001 Self-esteem. Lithuanian Art 01. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2000 Proper (Vilnius Date). Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2000 Proper. ArtGenda. Helsinki, Finland
2000 Parallel Progressions. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2000 Innocent Life. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Selected scenographic projects:
In scenography since 1997
2018 Post Futurum by Gintaras Sodeika (dir. Oskaras Koršunovas, National Opera and Ballet Theatre)
2017 Cleansed by Sarah Kane (dir. Oskaras Koršunovas, National Theatre in Oslo)
2017 Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (dir. Gintaras Varnas, National Kaunas Drama Theatre)
2016 Measure for Measure by W. Shakespeare (dir. O. Koršunovas, Dramatic Theatre of Warsaw)
2016 The Oedipus Myth by Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides (dir. G. Varnas, National Theatre in Oslo)
2015 Our Class by T. Slobodzianek (dir. O. Koršunovas, National Theatre in Oslo)
2014 Fidelio by L. van Beethoven (dir. O. Koršunovas, Bergen National Opera)
2011 Expulsion by M. Ivaškevičius (dir. O. Koršunovas, National Drama Theatre)
2009 Uncle Vanya by A. Chekhov (dir. E. Lacascade, Oskaras Koršunovas Theatre)
2008 The Elixir of Love by G. Donizetti (dir. O. Koršunovas, National Opera and Ballet Theatre)
2007 Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy by W. Gombrowicz (dir. J. Vaitkus, State Youth Theatre)
2004 Cantio by Sharon Lynn Joyce, Vykintas Baltakas (dir. O. Koršunovas, OKT, Munich Biennial, Germany)