EVALDAS JANSAS (b. 1969)
Lives in Vilnius
Education
1988-1995 Vilnius Academy of Arts, Department of Painting
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019
JANSAS – Paintings, Objects, Video, Vilnius Town Hall; Siauliai Art Gallery, Lithuania
2017
“Arrive…Depart” site-specific project/exhibition at the shop, atelier “Lapės spinta” (Šiaulių Str. 5, Vilnius) the part of Vilnius gallery weekend
2016
Jansas Way, “Pamenkalnio” Gallery, Vilnius;
PARAopera, POST Gallery , Kaunas, Lithuania
2014
Fetish, “Artfex” Gallery, Vilnius;
I Have Hangover, And She Has PMS , “Meno niša” Gallery, Vilnius;
On The Stage For Too Long, Project Space ,,Malonioji 6‘‘, Vilnius
2012
The Composition For The Gas heater, For The Beer Backes and For The Audience (interactive, audiovisual installation for one evening)), Commune Art Gallery “Cmuer Omnat”, Vilnius
2011
Jansas TV, Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius
2009
Evaldas Jansas, ARTscape – The Project of European Cultural Capital, Vartai gallery, Vilnius;
The Premiere of The film Soundtrack, Cinema Centre ,,Skalvija‘‘, Vilnius;
Evaldas Jansas In Video Screen, Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius
2007
retroPERspektyve, Gallery of contemporary art, Klaipeda, Lithuania
2006
retroPERspektyve, Cinema Centre „Skalvija“, Vilnius
2005
Evaldas Jansas for CAC/TV. Contemporary Art Center/ TV 1 channel, Vilnius
2004
Repudiated Realities, CAC, Vilnius;
In My Own Juice, Lithuanian Contemporary Art, part of an exhibition, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
2000
New Works, CAC, Vilnius
1999
Please Tie a Knot into the Bag, Kunstlerhaus, Boswill, Switzerland
1996
From Life’s Illustrations, Jutempus Gallery, Vilnius
1995
Jutempus Gallery, Vilnius
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
Animal – Human – Robot, MO Museum, Vilnius;
Back to The Future, gallery Meno Niša;
2018
ARTAPES. FAST-FORWARDED. SELECTED LITHUANIAN VIDEO WORKS SINCE THE 1990S, MAXXI, Roma; MATTA, Pescara, Italy;
2017
Man, Woman and the Sea, The Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia;
Futures, CAC, Vilnius
2016
Another Crossroads of Epochs Contemporary Lithuanian Art from the Collection of the Lithuanian Art Museum: 1989-2007, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius
2015
Attention! Beware Of The Object #2, POST Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania;
In General, I Am Brave In Art… “Laznia” Contemporary Art Centre, Gdansk, Poland;
A Brief History of Wasted Time – Artists’ Association Gallery Vilnius, Vilnius
2014
Prototypes. Ideas, sketches, models and instructions, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius;
Shifts – Gallery Prospekto, Vilnius;
Enter 12, media arts festival, Šiauliai, Lithuania;
Gypsies are found near Heaven, Pärnu City Gallery, Pärnu, Estonia;
Wide Angle. The Time Limit, “Arka” Gallery, Vilnius;
Attention! Beware Of The Object, POST Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2013
Summertimes Readings, Selected works from the exhibition from Cesis, CAC, Vilnius;
Summertimes Readings International Exhibition of Contemporary Art The Cesis Brewery and various urban venues Cesis, Latvia;
Revelations and Illusions, Pärnu City Gallery Pärnu, Estonia
2012
VIRAGES – GALERIJA VARTAI;
Vilnius How did I get here Painting in Lithuania CAC, Vilnius;
Lithuanian Art 2012 18 th exhibitions CAC, Vilnius;
HUMAN NATURE, Rauma Art Biennale Balticum 2012, Rauma Art Museum, Finland;
God’s Medman, Pärnu City Gallery Pärnu, Estonia
2011
A Walk around Vilnius MONUMENTS THAT ARE NOT, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius
2010
500 Newton, Studio Gallery, Budapest;
Lithuanian Art 2000 – 2010: Ten Years, CAC, Vilnius;
Friend Ship, International Performance Art Project, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Klaipeda;
e-flux video rental – Fondazione Giuliani, Rome
FROM ARTISTS WORKSHOPS, VARTAI gallery, Vilnius
2009
Urban stories, The X Baltic Triennial of International Art, CAC, Vilnius
2008
Vilnius Art Scene After 2000, The Arsenāls Exhibition Hall of the LNMA, Ryga;
e-flux Video Rental / 1st Floor of the Foundation central building – Centro de Arte Moderna – CAM – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Lithuanian Art’08 Photography, CAC, Vilnius
2007
STILL HERE: humour in post-communist performative video, gallery Artspace, Sydney Australia
2006
101.3 KM: competition and cooperation, Picture gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania;
CAC Vilnius stand, Vienna Fair the International Art Fair Focused on CEE, Vienna
2004
The Young Artists’ Biennial – Images of Violence/ Violence of Images – META Cultural Foundation, Bucharest;
The Others Are Me, Gallery Bunkier Sztuki, Krokow, Poland;
RAM 6, CAC, Vilnius;
From the Centre to the Edge, Kilkenny, Ireland
2003
RestCycling Art Festival, Berlin;
Baltixplatation, Hunter College, New York;
Parallel Progressions 3: etc., CAC, Vilnius
2002
SEX (Social Exhibitionism), Railway Museum, Riga
2001
Self-esteem. Lithuanian Art ‘01, CAC, Vilnius;
Walls for NATO, CAC, Vilnius;
Male, Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje, Celje, Slovenia;
Exotica, CAC, Vilnius;
Human Project, Bac – Presence Balte, Ileana Tounta CAC, Athens
2000
Human Project, Bac – Presence Balte, Baltic Art Centre, Visby; Metronome, Barcelona;
Innocent Life, CAC, Vilnius;
ArtGenda, Helsinki; Part of The System, <rotor> association for contemporary art, Graz, Austria;
Dialog 2: Articulation, OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
1999
View Assistences, Bazel, Switzerland;
Lithuanian Art 1989-1999: The Ten Years, CAC, Vilnius;
Apartment’ 99, Vilnius
1998
Cool Places, CAC, Vilnius;
International Performance Festival, Gallery Rigth-Left, Vilnius;
After Painting, CAC, Vilnius;
Twilight, CAC, Vilnius;
The Different – The Same, Bergens Kunstforening, Bergen, Norway
1997
Dimension O, International Performance Festival, CAC, Vilnius;
Ground Control, Beaconsfield, London
1995
Mundane Language, Vilnius;
1995: Art in Lithuania, CAC, Vilnius
Selected Film/Video Festivals
2018
KuFF – Kumu Art Film Festival, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
2014
Recontres Internationals, Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Tokyo Palace, Paris
2011
Ad Hoc: Inconvenient Films, Human Rights Festival, Vilnius, Vilnius Documentary Film Festival, Cinema Centre Skalvija, Vilnius, Kino pavasaris, Vilnius International Film Festival, Vilnius
2007
Recontres Internationals Paris/Berlin, Pompidou centre, Paris Nets, International Short Film Festival, Klaipėda, Vilnius
2006
Pulsar, Cinemateca Nacional, Carakas, Vensuela
2005
Recontres Internationals Paris/Berlin, Screenings at city space, Paris;
Invideo 2005. The short film festival, Milan, Italy
2004
Recontres Internationals Paris/Berlin.
The Grand Halle of la Villette, Paris
19th Brest European Short Film Festival, Brest, France;
Short Film Festival in Nevers, France
Nets, International Short Film Festival, Klaipėda, Vilnius
Politically Incorrect Film Festival, Ljubljana
20th International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
2003
Wide World Video Festival, Amsterdam
2002
Nets, International Short Film Festival, Klaipėda, Vilnius
Special
2000
Ode rutinai (Ode to Routine). Book by Evaldas Jansas (in Lithuanian). Publisher: Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania.