Lithuania: Creative & Contemporary at broadbean

There is more to Lithuania than linen and folk crafts. “Lithuania: Creative and Contemporary” presents contemporary minds, young designers and creative prodigies. Let’s refresh the image of Lithuania via exhibitions, workshops, Pink Soup Party, networking evenings and conference.

The installation artist and photographer with an architectural background, Tadao Cern always looks for most conceptual expressions and dives deep into contemporary art field. Tadao observes human habits from an architectural perspective, studies the reasoning behind human actions from an artistic point of view, and experiments with natural behavior boundaries in his creative process. With his series of sculptural installations Black Balloons, Tadao strips everyday objects to their basic concept and reintroduces them as art, creating an interactive experience for spectators.

Jolita Vaitkutė uses food and everyday objects to embody her ideas creating installations, performances, and portrait illustration. Jolita is especially fond of portraying subjects from pop culture and prominent political figures which have had a great impact on the world we live in now. By using simple aesthetics, she ensures easy engagement with the public, while still communicating a deeper meaning. Reflecting the ever-changing modern world, most of her artwork is transient in nature, as it either gets eaten up or destroyed in the process.

Lukas Kučinskas is one of the five nominees to win the Young Designer Prize 2018, an annual contest in Lithuania, organized by Vilnius Academy of Arts, encouraging professional development of design students, providing them with an opportunity to present ideas outside the Academy. Lukas’s artwork exhibition celebrates innovative ideas in product design, communication design and fashion design, as the young artist interprets devices for individual dandruff removal and medical cream application. As for his creative objectives, Lukas analyzes human psychology and produces a functional, environment fitting product design.

Karolina Petraitytė is the winner of the Young Designer Prize 2018, an annual contest in Lithuania, organized by Vilnius Academy of Arts, a product designer focused on designing educational tools combined with technological innovations. Her winning project Chem Tokens is an innovative learning tool for chemistry class, combining interactive technology as augmented reality with physical experience which schools often lack. The design of the Tokens is based on the basic principles of the periodic table, allowing to easily study the structure of the table and its elements, physically connect and create molecules.

The second-largest city and the historical center of Lithuanian culture, Kaunas has been designated to be the European Capital of Culture in the year 2022. The city has launched an artistic community programme “from temporary to contemporary”, while actively collaborating with creative talents, curators, galleries and partners for future endeavours. Come and meet representatives at Broadbean showroom as well as other events, learn about their creative objectives set to empower young generation artists and the further advancement of the Kaunas 2022 concept.

Gerda Liudvinavičiūtė, the founder of CELSIUS 273, is a jewelry artist whose works are an example of interdisciplinarity and conceptualism. The artist got special attention this year for its jewelry inspired by Kaunas modernist architecture, showing the diversity of interdisciplinary perspectives in heritage interpretation. At DESIGNART she represents Kaunas modernist and Tokyo Metabolist architecture synthesis brought in concrete material details. Gerda’s creative research is set to discover sense the impetus of the city, and feel the synthesis of space and human experiences which the city brings together in details.