Ugnius Gelguda born in Vilnius, Lithuania
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
Ugnius Gelguda’s artistic portfolio includes photography, time-based media art projects. Since 2007 he is represented by gallery VARTAI, which is based in Vilnius. Ugnius Gelguda and Neringa Cerniauskaite started collaborating in 2009.
Contact
ugnius.gelguda@gmail.com
galerija@galerijavartai.lt
Artists’ résumé
Ugnius Gelguda and Neringa Cerniauskaite started collaborating in 2009. Since their first project, the artists have been interested in visual memory and how it can be manipulated through usage of certain mediums. Their latest works include 16 mm films, photo slides, neon objects, vinyl, and are strongly influenced by material history and language of cinema. Three new projects were represented in a solo show Now More Than Ever at the Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius) in June 2012. Both artists are based in Brooklyn, New York.
Ugnius Gelguda’s (born 1977, Lithuania) artistic portfolio includes photography, time-based media art projects. Since 2007 he is represented by gallery VARTAI (Vilnius). He has received Licentiate of Arts degree in Vilnius Art Academy, Department of photo and media art. His work was represented in MUMOK (Vienna), Salamanca Contemporary Art Centre (Spain), Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw), Prague biennale 3 (Prague) and films screened in Les Rencontres Internationales (Centre Pompidou (Paris), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Cineteca Matadero, Madrid). His solo shows include venues of ARCO (Madrid, 2008), Art Cologne (Cologne, 2007), Contemporary Art Centre together with Neringa Cerniauskaite (Vilnius), gallery VARTAI (Vilnius, 2011), Lithuanian Art Museum (2008). Gelguda’s series were acquired by Modern Art Centre (Vilnius) to their collection in 2012.
Neringa Cerniauskaite (born 1984, Lithuania) is an art critic, curator, editor. She has curated several exhibitions of younger generation artists as well as international group exhibitions at the largest contemporary art gallery in Vilnius Vartai as well as in unconventional spaces in Vilnius. She contributes texts for Lithuanian cultural press, exhibitions’ catalogues and international magazines (Flash Art, Parkett, ARTMargins.com, MAP). She is an editor of the web-based art magazine www.artnews.lt that was launched in 2008. She is a M.A. candidate, 2014, at Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, NY.
Additional information about Ugnius Gelguda:
Education
2008-2010
Vilnius Art Academy, Department of photo and media art (Licentiate of Arts)
2004–2006
Vilnius Art Academy, Department of photo and media art (MA)
2000-2004
Vilnius Art Academy, Department of photo and media art (BA)
Awards
2010
Special prize of Ministry of Culture for work Zalgiris
2007
Moscow International Festival of Arts (special prize for work Zalgiris)
2006
Laureate of Ministry of Culture Award for the best professional art debut
Selected solo exhibitions
2013
Wolfgang, is that you?, Ugnius Gelguda and Neringa Cerniauskaite, gallery VARTAI, Vilnius
2012
Solo exhibition Now More Than Ever at Lithuanian Art 2012, Ugnius Gelguda and Neringa Cerniauskaite, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius
2011
VARTAI 20 years: Ugnius Gelguda, gallery VARTAI, Vilnius
2009
Solo for Photography gallery, site-specific photo-installation together with Neringa Cerniauskaite, Photography gallery, Vilnius
Solo for Photography gallery, site-specific photo-installation together with Neringa Cerniauskaite, Photography gallery, Klaipeda, Lithuania
2008
Spacetimer: People/Friction, photo-installation together with Antanas Sutkus, Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius
Solo project at Arco 2008, Madrid, Spain. Presented by gallery VARTAI
2007
Open space, Art Cologne, presented by gallery VARTAI, Cologne, Germany
125 bpm, Photography gallery, Vilnius
Selected group exhibitions
2013
Space travelers, ar/ge Kunst Gallery Museum, Bolzano, Italy
2012
A Paradise Tree screening at Space, Time and Reminiscences, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius
Generation of the Place, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Photography gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
Crowds, National Art Gallery, Vilnius
Virages, group exhibition with Zilvinas Kempinas, Egle and Goda Budvytyte, Ieva Miseviciute and others, gallery VARTAI, Vilnius
Les Rencontres Internationales, A Paradise Tree screening at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Cineteca Matadero, Madrid, Beirut Art Center, Lebanon
ArtVideoExchange, Lithuania Program Tromso 2012 (together with Egle Budvytyte, Antanas Gerlikas), Tromso, Norway
Circulation(s), gallery CÔTÉ SEINE, Paris
2011
Generation of the the Place: Image, Memory and Fiction in the Baltics, Tallinn Kunsthalle, Estonia
Screening of the A Paradise Tree at Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, at the Centre Pompidou, Paris
28th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, screening of the A Paradise Tree, Kassel, Germany
Noorderlicht, Groningen, Netherlands
2010
Gender check, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warszawa
Lithuanian Art 2000-2010: Ten Years, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
Trys, Fotohof gallery, Salzburg, Austria
Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland
The Way, international airport Riga, pilot project of Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga
2009
Gender check, Mumok, Vienna
ARTscape Italy (with Gianluca and Massimiliano de Serio, Rä di Martino), gallery VARTAI, Vilnius
Dabar!/Now!, art from Lithuania, gallery Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland
The Heroes of Today, Jonas Mekas visual arts centre, Vilnius
Contemporary Lithuanian art ANEW, Exhibition hall, Klaipeda, Lithuania
2008
Crossroads, Interfaces between rock and contemporary art, Salamanca Contemporary Art Centre, Spain
Lithuanian Art 08. Photography, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
Raw esperanto, MAMA showroom for media and moving art, Rotterdam, Holland
Contemporary Lithuanian art ANEW, Municipal Gallery, Bydgoszcz, Poland
European night, Les Rencontres d'Arles photography festival, Arles, France
Talent latent 08, SCAN, Tarragona, Spain
Contemporary Lithuanian art ANEW, Galeria Szyb Wilson, Katowice, Poland
PatRIOTs, gallery VARTAI, Vilnius
2007
Prague biennale 3, Baltic Mythologies, Prague
Us, Them and Some Out-takes, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
Moscow International Festival of Arts, Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow
1907:2007. Private conversations (100 years after the first Lithuanian art exhibition), gallery VARTAI, Vilnius
Corre(a)ctions, gallery VARTAI, Vilnius
2006
101.3 KM: competition and cooperation, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
Double game, gallery VARTAI, Vilnius
III Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin
Tale continues, Exhibition Hall, Klaipeda, Lithuania
2004
Project Just what is it..., Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
2003
Les Boreales festival, Zebra crossing, Caen, France