FROM AMBER TO THE STARS TOGETHER WITH M. K. ČIURLIONIS: NOW AND THEN

Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Lithuania’s most famous composer and Symbolist painter!

The exhibition FROM AMBER TO THE STARS. TOGETHER WITH M. K. ČIURLIONIS: NOW AND THEN will take a fresh look at the achievements and interests of Čiurlionis through the connections that he made between the sea and the cosmos. It will bring together his most significant works, showing them alongside those of his contemporaries, and will take us up to the present day with the inclusion of work by artists practicing today, most particularly those who continue to engage with these two key themes. The exhibition will also consider the importance of science in underpinning much of the creativity of the time, and the inspiration that it has gone on to provide for artists world over.

CURATORS:
Kathleen Soriano (United Kingdom) | Greta Katkevičienė (Lithuania) | Vaiva Laukaitienė (Lithuania)

INSTITUTIONS:
Tate | Musee d‘Orsay | Centre Pompidou | British Museum | Eesti Kunstimuuseum KUMU | Latvijas Nacionālais mākslas muzejs | Wenzel Hablik Museum | National Museum in Kraków | Jagiellonian University Museum | M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art | Lithuanian National Museum of Art | Lithuanian Sea Museum | Lithuanian Museum of Ethnocosmology | Museum of Vilnius University | Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania  | Atelier Anselm Kiefer | Katie Paterson Studio | Hauser & Wirth | Thomas Rehbein gallery| Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain | Kuckei + Kuckei | Lithuanian art centre TARTLE | Dr. Jaunius Gumbis Lithuanian Art Collection

ARTISTS:
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (Lithuania) | Clara Arnheim (Germany) |Ira Jean Belmont (USA) | William Blake (United Kingdom) | John Brett (United Kingdom) | Vija Celmins (Latvia-USA) | Kodo Chijiiwa (Japan) | Cecile Samain De Coene (Belgium) | Andreas Dirks (Germany) | Adomas Galdikas (Lithuania) | Wenzel Hablik (Germany) | Ichiryusai Hiroshige (Japan) | Vytautas Ignas (Lithuania) | Gusen Yamanouchi (Japan) | Leopold von Kalckreuth (Germany) | Petras Kalpokas (Lithuania) | Anselm Kiefer (Germany) | Jirí Kolár (Czechia) | Tania Kovats (United Kingdom) | Šarūnas Leonavičius (Lithuania) | Natalija Luščinaitė-Krinickienė (Lithuania) | Balys Macutkevičius (Lithuania) | Konrad Mägi (Estonia) | George Melies (France) |Matas Menčinskas (Lithuania) | Otto Müller (Germany) | Mariele Neudecker (Germany) | Kristina Õllek (Estonia) | Katie Paterson (Scotland) | Rūdolfs Pērle (Latvia) | Vaclovas Ratas-Rataiskis (Lithuania) | Kristjan Raud (Estonia) | Albert Reich (Germany) | Miguel Rothschild (Germany / Argentina) | Ferdynand Ruszczyc (Lithuania / Poland) | Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman, Joe Gerhardt) (United Kingdom) | Kajetonas Sklėrius (Lithuania) | Léon Spilliaert (Belgium) | Kazimieras Stabrauskas (Lithuania / Poland) | August Strindberg (Sweden) | Kazys Šimonis (Lithuania) | Emilija Škarnulytė (Lithuania) | Keith Tyson (United Kingdom) | Leonas Urbonas (Lithuania / Australia) | Monika Žaltauskaitė Grašienė-Žaltė (Lithuania) | Antanas Žmuidzinavičius (Lithuania) | Leon Wyczółkowski (Poland)

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