BIO
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003 – Painting Exhibition (“ArtEFactum” gallery, Ikast, Denmark)
2004 – “Painting Exhibition ( “COWI A/S, Copenhagen)
2005 – “Painting Exhibition („Codan“ A/S, Aarhus, Denmark)
2005 - Painting Exhibition (Gallery”Plancore”, Aarhus, Denmark
2006 – Painting Exhibition “Unreal Reality” (“Krebsen”gallery, Copenhagen)
2006 – Painting Exhibition “Unreal Reality No2” (“Artima” gallery, Vilnius)
2008 – Painting Exhibition (Gallery “Svanlunda”, Malmoe, Sweden)
2008 – Painting Exhibition (TEKO CENTER, Herning, Denmark)
2009 – Painting Exhibition “Printed Over…” (Lietuvos Aidas gallery, Vilnius)
2009 – Painting Exhibition (“ArtEFactum” gallery, Ikast, Denmark)
2010 - Painting Exhibition (Gallery “Svanlund”, Malmoe, Sweden)
2010 – Painting Exhibition “ Shadows Lights” (Gallery Spor 1, Brande, Denmark)
2011 – Painting Exhibition “Among Shadows” (“Baroti”gallery, Klaipeda, Lithuania)
2011 – Central Park (“ArtEFactum” gallery, Ikast, Denmark)
2012 – “Stories from the Forent” (Gallery “Svanlund”, Malmoe, Sweden)
2015 – “At the Exhibition” – Utopia, Holstebro, Denmark
2016 – “Rhythm” (Gallery “Svanlund”, Malmoe, Sweden)
2016 - Painting Exhibition “Perfect Reflections of Everyday Life” (“Baroti”gallery, Klaipeda, Lithuania)
2016 - Painting Exhibition “Perfect Reflections of Everyday Life” (“Aidas gallery, Vilnius)
2016 – „Gallery Reflections“ (Kempinski Hotel Cathedral Square, Vilnius)
2018 –„ Kitchen Conversation“ (Pamenkalnis gallery, Vilnius)
2018 – „Kitchen Conversation“ (Baroti gallery, Klaipeda)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 – Central Park (“ArtEFactum” gallery, Ikast, Denmark)
2012 - “Imaginary Stories: Portraits” Painting exhibition (Uzutrakis palace, Lithuania)
2013 – “Unmoving Slip” (“Arka” galleri, Vilnius)
2013 – The Urban Landscape In Contemporary European Painting (Palais de Nations, Geneva, Switzeland)
2015 – Still Life” (“Arka” galleri, Vilnius)
2016 – Art Vilnius
2016 – “Breaking News” (Martynas Mažvydas Library, Vilnius)
2017 – “Silence- Sound- Silence” (TV project of Vision and Sound, “Arka” gallery, Vilnius)
2017 – Wild. Cultivated Plant (Manson of Traku Voke, Lithuania)
2018 - “Measuring Personal Paint in Promilie”, (Gallery 555, Vilnius)
2018 – “Section” (“Trivium gallery”, Vilnius)
2019 – Art Olympia 2019, (Toshima Center Square, (Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan))
2019 - Art Olympia 2019, (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum (Ueno, Tokyo, Japan)
2019 – “The Facsimile God” (“Arka” gallery, Vilnius )
2020 – Art Vilnius (Litexpo Exhibition Center, Vilnius)
2021 – [NOT]DETERMINATED, Vilnius Painting Triennial, Arsenale, Vilnius
WORKSHOPS AND RESIDENCES
2001 – 9th International Workshop of Visual Arts in Brande (Denmark)
2001 – International Workshop of Visual Arts in Sveksna (Lithuania)
2002 – Lithography Workshop (I.Chr. Sorensen Printing House, Aarhus, Denmark)
2004 – Guest Artist in Herning Hojskole
2005 - 13th International Workshop of Visual Arts in Brande (Denmark)
2007 – Residence in Kirsten Kjears Museum (Frostrup, Denmark)
2008 – Chaim Soutine Painting Workshop (Mincia, Lithuania)
AWARDS
2008 - Diploma of 1st Baltic Biennale of Visual Arts (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
2010 - Stipendium of Lithuanian Ministry of Culture
2018 - Stipendium of Lithuanian Ministry of Culture
2019 – Excellence prize (Bienale of Tokyo, Art Olympia, Japan)
2020 - Stipendium of Lithuanian Ministry of Culture
2020 – Vilnius Municipality Meer Award
FILMS
1998 – created set dressing and costumes for film “Integrity of Parks” (dir. D. Jakubauskaite “Mokomoji” Film Studio, Vilnius)
2000 – created set dressing (Lithuanian part) for film “Invincible” (Dir. Werner Herzog (Germany))
Was born in 1972. He is a Lithuanian painter.
He lives and works in Vilnius since the late 1990s.
In 1998 he graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts, majoring in painting and theatre set design. For several years he has been setting movie design and painting at the same time. His most acclaimed work included creating sets for the 2001 Werner Herzog film Invincible. In 2004, he has devoted himself solely to painting.
‘The paradox is what I still like very much. An unexpected proposition is always very interesting. Things that combine contradictory features or qualities lead to re-thinking. Looking at something new makes us angry, nervous, sometimes happy. For me, a paradox means making an impact’, Vytautas Tomasevicus.
Vytautas creates his story by counterposing small to large, bright to fuzzy, colored to black and white, calm to expressive. ‘I like it so much and consider it as means of expression. Dozens of colorful exotic birds in the landscapes of an industrial city, graffiti-stained yaks in front of the mountains speak re-
minds us about a changing world that we do not notice when we drown in our daily routine’, artist states.
In 2008 Tomaševicius was awarded First Place prize at the Baltic Art Biennial in Saint Petersburg.
In 2019 he won an Excellence Award in the Open Category at the third Art Olympia Biennale in Tokyo, with his work A Still Life with Two Objects (2016) that will be shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Tokyo, the same year. Tomaševicius is the first Lithuanian artist to be awarded this honor.
Vytautas Tomasevius
