(cv since 2000)

Artūras Raila: born 1962 in Rainaičiai, Lithuania.

Solo Exhibitions:

2016 Libretto for Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller. Synopsis, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania;

2008 Power of the Earth. Mythological Vilnius, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania;

2007 Power of the Earth. Final chapter, ACA Allenheads, Northumberland, England;

2006 Power of the Earth, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main, Germany;

2006 Power of the Earth. Berlin, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany;

2004 Roll Over Museum, Art Museum of Estonia, Exhibition Hall in Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn, Estonia;

2004 Roll Over Museum/Live, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania;

2004 Roll Over Museum/Railway Version, Railway Museum, Riga, Latvia.

Group Exhibitions:

2016 Another Crossroad of Epochs, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania;

2015 Welfare State, MHKA, Antwerp, Belgium;

2013–2014 The Desire for Freedom, MOCAK, Poland;

2013 Panslavisms, KC PZPR, Warsaw, Poland;

2013 Part of a Larger Whole. Lithuanian Contemporary Art, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania;

2012 Beyond Good and Evil, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark;

2012 Sense of Place, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium;

2012 Art-Art, looking from here, GFZK, Leipzig, Germany;

2010 Lithuanian Art 2000–2010: Ten Years, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania;

2010 Northern Soil, ACA Shop, Allenheads, England;

2009 Setting the Fell on Fire, ACAdovetail gallery, Newcastle, England;

2008 Vilnius Art Scene After 2000, Arsenals Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia;

2008 Conscious Environments, European Kunsthalle (Eberplatz), Cologne, Germany;

2008 Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England;

2008 Satellite Tunes: Art from the Post-Soviet States, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary;

2007 Art of the Possible, Lund Konsthall, Sweden;

2006 Models for a Fictional Academy, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary;

2006 Socialist Memory : Documentary Approaches in Contemporary Art, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary;

2006 Face the Unexpected : Media Art from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany;

2005 Biennale Cuvee, O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria;

2005 The IX Baltic Triennial of International Art : BMW, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania;

2005 Akademie. Kunst lehren und lernen, Kunsverein in Hamburg, Germany;

2004–2005 What is Important, 3rd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, Kiel, Germany; Bergen, Norway; Vilnius, Lithuania; Riga, Latvia; Tallinn, Estonia; Pori, Finland; Malmö, Sweden;

2004–2005 Instant Europe. Photography and Video from the New Europe, Villa Manin, Passariano, Codroipo (Udine), Italy;

2004 New Photographic Approach 1, Buro Empty, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;

2004 The Others are Me. The Social Instinct in Lithuanian Art, Contemporary Art Gallery “Bunkier Sztuki”, Krakow, Poland;

2004 EU Positive – Art from the New Europe, Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany;

2004 The Second Gaze, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany;

2004 Violence of Tone, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;

2004 New Video, New Europe, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago;

Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, USA;

Tate Modern, London, England;

2003–2004 Dialog – Loci, Fortress Kostrzyn/ Festung Kustrin, Poland;

2003 24/7: Wilno – Nueva York, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania;

2003 Fantastic Prophecy, part of “What Now” projects, Academiegalerie, BAK, Utrecht, The Netherlands;

2003 Coup de Coeur/Sentimental Choice, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France;

2003 Prophetic Corners, The 6th Periferic Biennial, Iasi, Romania;

2003 Witness, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England;

2002 Fundamentalisms of the New Order, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark;

2002 Geschichte(n), Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria;

2002 About Belief, South London Gallery, London, England;

2002 Public Relations, Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia;

2002 Filter, Bergens Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway;

2001 Berlin Biennale 2, Berlin, Germany;

2001 Self-Esteem, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania;

2001 Vi. Intentional Communities, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden;

2001 Walls for NATO, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania;

2000 Manifesta 3. European Biennial for Contemporary Art, Ljubliana, Slovenia;

2000 Dialog 2: Articulation. O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria.

Grants, awards, fellowships, residency programmes:

2003 Hansabank Art Award.

2006 Schering Stiftung grant, Berlin.

2006 State fellowship for artists of the Republic of Lithuania;

2007 Arts Council England International Fellowship at Allenheads Contemporary Arts.

Collections:

The National Art Museum of Lithuania, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK), Modern Art Centre in Vilnius (MMC), Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (MHKA).

Bibliography in English (since 2007)
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Volume VIII, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2008. Curators: Francesco Manacorda, Lydia Yee. ISBN-13: 978-1-8589-4459-3
Sense of Place. European Landscape Photography, Bozar Books 2012. Guest Curator Professor Liz Wells. ISBN 978-3-7913-4745-5
Setting the Fell on Fire. Allenheads Contemporary Arts, edited by Tracey Warr, Ele Carpenter, Alan Smith and Helen Ratcliffe, 2009. Distributed by Cornerhouse Publications. ISBN 978-0-9557478-3-0
ŠMC-15 metų / CAC - 15 years, sudarytojai: Kęstutis Kuizinas, Julija Fomina, 2007 m. Spaudė: Logotipas. ISBN 978-9986-957-34-8
Reading Room: A Journal of Art and Culture. Transcendental Pop, Issue/02 2008. Lars Bang Larsen The Surface No Longer Holds: Affect, Powerlessness and Obscene Fluctuations of Meaning in New Occult Art, p. 64-81. ISSN 1177-2549
Migrating: Art: Academies:, editors Mindaugas Gapševičius, John Hopkins, Vytautas Michelkevičius. EESI, KHM, VDA, 2010. Artūras Raila Power of the Earth p. 242-257. ISBN 978-9955-854-91-3
Kunstforum, Hanne Cecilie Gulstad Sprikende god, 25.09.2012, internetinė prieiga: http://www.kunstforum.as/2012/09/sprikende-god/
BE Magazin # 14 "Slavery". Managing director: Christoph Tannert. Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2007. Patrick B. Kremer Good Vibrations: Ideomotricity in Art. Arturas Raila (LT) maps Berlin's Energy Fields, p. 62-67. ISSN 0946-3585
UOVO # 14 Green-Ecology, Luxury & Degradation. The Bookmakers ED. Torino Italy, 2007. Chus Martinez on Arturas Raila.
Baltic Outlook (Air Baltic Inflight Magazine) June 2009. Peter Walsh Exploring Life on the Fringes,
p. 54-57.
Lithuanian Culture Express. 03, 2007. The Importance of How, What and When by Birutė Pankūnaitė, p. 30-39. Published by Lithuanian Institute, ISSN 1822-1874.

Afterall (A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry) Autumn/Winter 2015 (40). Travis Jeppesen The Diagnosis is Naivety: Artūras Raila’s Journey into the Woods, p. 28-41; Lolita Jablonskienė Navigating Through Chaos with Artūras Raila, p. 42-51. Published by: Afterall Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London, UK, ISBN 978-1-84638-162-1, ISSN 1465-4253.
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