EXHIBITION

05 20 – 06 20
VAA KF gallery
Muitinės st. 2
​Kaunas

Jump into the illustration festivities!

June 1st – July 1st
Visit online exhibition of 7 finalists of Kaunas Illustration Biennial at www.irgigalerija.lt

May 20th – June 20th
Visit the biennial exhibition at the VAA KF gallery, Muitines st. 2, Kaunas. Register here. Registration required!

From May 20th
Join the virtual opening of the exhibition here.

From April 1st
follow the participants' of the biennial presentations on Instagram: kaunas_illustration_biennial

Jump – spend one second in the intuitive space between earth and sky. Is it really not a flight or a moment of levitation? Jump is an infinite platform. An independent fortress. The fastest way to time travel. A shift in the system of energy. Single jump is needed to find yourself in another universe. A getaway? Rotating at a sharp angle? Dancing in a circle? What else can it mean? 

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The theme of Kaunas International Illustration Biennial – Jump – is open to innovative concepts and experimental forms of expression.

Adelė Urbanavičiūtė (LT)
Ainė Jacytė (LT)
Alex Kochan (LT)
Alice Mulder (NL)
Alfonso Lourido (UY)
Anatoly Safonov (RU)
Andreja Gregorič (SI)
Anna Kiszka (PL)
Antonio Hidalgo (ES)
Ariadna Sys (RU)
Artiom Brancel (LT)
Astrid Vandendael (BE)
AsurSura (LT)
Barbara Beke (HU)
Carlos Lizama Fuentealba (CL)
Dion Choi (NZ)
Dovydas Bou (LT)
Egle Gelaziute-Petrauskiene (LT)
Elena Motiejūnaitė (LT)
Elyssa Padillo (CA)
Emily Hayes (UK)
Eva Daniela Alves Vieira (PT)
Eva Mlinar (SI)
Gabija Gasiūnas (LT)
Gabriel Cela (BR)
Greta Duobienė (LT)
Greta Alice Liekytė (LT)
Hatiye Garip (TR)
Herman Drowning (LT)
Inae Coelho (BR)
Indrė Svirplytė (LT)
Inga Dagilė (LT)
Yuki Kodaira (JP)
Yuqiao Zheng (UK)
Jolita Puleikytė (LT)
Joseph Reyes (CA)
​Julie Pernet (BE)

Karolina (Robinson) Puckutė (MT/LT)
Katariin Mudist (EE)
Kornelija Žalpytė (LT)
Kristina Nabažaitė (LT)
Laima Matuzonytė (LT)
Laura Aguzzi (IT)
Liliana Lopez Villegas (CO)
Lily Qian (CN)
Lucas León (CL)
Maryam Khaleghiyazdi (USA)
Medeinė Tuzikaitė (LT)
Mélanie Corre (NL)
Mohamad Hossein Matak (IR)
Müberra Bülbül (TR)
Neus Gómez (ES)
Nuria Velázquez (ES)
Paulina Wojciechowska (PL)
Paz Fernandez (USA)
Pooja Sreenivasan (IN)
Priyashi Galiawala (IN)
Rachel Katstaller (AT)
Rocío Iriarte (ES)
Sadeq Asad (IR)
Sasha Laskowsky (CL)
Soscha Kikken (NL)
Stephanie Petagno (USA)
Teklė Ūla Pužauskaitė (LT)
Toshifumi Kawaguchi (JP)
Ugnė Petreikytė (LT)
Ūla Šveikauskaitė (LT)
Valentina Bykova (LT)
Vera Koss (RU)
Viktorija Stasevičiūtė (LT)
Viktorija Valužytė (LT)
Vytautas Trafik (LT)
​Zhao Zhao (CN)

JURY

The jury evaluated illustrations according to the following
main criteria: interpretation of the topic, relevance, originality/creativity, ​technicality.

LI BOND (Liena Bondare) is a graphic artist who lives and works in Riga, Latvia. Liena has had eleven solo exhibitions, including solo shows in USA and Germany. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions and projects, printmaking contests in Latvia and abroad and also had few artist residencies (China, Belgium, Germany). Liena received an honourable mention from “22 Premio Internacional de Gráfica Máximo Ramos 2012” Centro Torrente Ballester in Spain for her work Kunst >everyday nothing and 3rd prize at the 1st International Printmaking Biennial in Kaunas.
Liena Bondare was one of the organizers and the main curator of Latvian part “Et nuit illumina la nuit” of the exhibition “EXPOSITION D’ART CONTEMPORAIN BALTE” in Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, France (2008) and contemporary printmaking exhibition “Power and man” in Novas Gallery, London, UK (2006). She has been the curator of 12 other exhibitions in Latvia and abroad.
More information: lienabondare.lv

Lina Itagaki is an illustrator and comics artist from Lithuania. In 2015, her illustrations from “A Picture Book for Tomorrow” received the 3rd place award at the Book Art exhibition “Illustration and books 2015” in Vilnius, Lithuania and TOP 10 illustrators award at COW International Design Festival „Illustration 2015“ in Ukraine. “Siberian haiku” published in 2017, was Lina’s 1st full size graphic novel and the most successful project – was nominated the Main Year’s Award at the Book Art contest, was selected as the most beautiful book of the year 2017 and won many other awards in Lithuania. The book was already published in French, Italian, English and Latvian. 
More information: linaitagaki.com

Natalia Romaniuk is a graphic artist from Poland. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice with honors in 2009. Her diploma was selected by the International Print Triennial Society to the review 'The Best Polish Graphics Diplomas'. In 2014 she defended her doctorate (PhD) consisting of a series of 16 digital prints titled „Dereconstruction of Identity”. Her essay was titled „Dereconstruction of Identity. Image in the Age of Digital Media” and is going to be published soon. 
More information: nataliaromaniuk.com

Marko Kekishev is a graphic designer who lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia. For many years, worked in various advertising agencies in Estonia and currently operating in its graphic design studio “Siirup”. He is currently a professor in the Department of Media Design at Pallas University of Applied Sciences. He is the founder and organizer of the Haapsalu Graphic Design Festival. Outside Estonia, works have been exhibited in Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Italy, Germany, Iran, Bolivia, Ecuador, South Korea, Japan, China, USA, Russia, Ukraine, etc. 
Winner of several advertising and logo competitions, major recognitions: 2003 Grand Prize in the logo category of the Kyiv International Advertising Festival; Laureate of the Moscow International Graphic Design Festival "Golden Bee 7" 2006; ADC * E "Estonian Design Award 2011", in the category Graphic identity – gold award. Annual Award of the Estonian Cultural Endowment for Fine Arts and Applied Arts 2011.

Rolandas Rimkūnas is a graphic artist and graphic designer who lives and works in Kaunas, Lithuania. He has worked with such important clients as Government of the Republic of Lithuania, Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Lithuania, Department of Fire Protection of the Republic of Lithuania, Directorate of Vilnius Castles State Cultural Reserve, Bank of Lithuania, Lithuanian Post, Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Vilnius University of Educational Sciences and others. He participated in various group exhibitions in Lithuania, Germany, Canada, Turkey, Japan, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Portugal, Italy, etc. He has won many coin design competitions in lithuania and also he is author of the coats of arms of many Lithuanian cities.

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