We invite you on a retrospective journey through nine decades of the twentieth century, following the traces of Lithuanian artists far beyond the borders of their homeland.
Vilnius Picture Gallery of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art (LNMA) opens an exhibition With Heart and Eyes. Wincenty Sleńdziński (1838–1909). It is the first solo exhibition in Lithuania by the painter known for celebrating the mundane, composed to present his multifaceted art and his person. Four works were lent to this exhibition by TARTLE.
We invite you to visit the TARTLE exhibition “In the Shadow of Knowledge. Sculpture Pre-Context” on the last 5 weekends of this winter!
Visiting times and tickets: https://bilietai.tartle.lt/lit/events/14
Tickets can also be purchased at the museum.
Although Kazimiera Zimblytė-Kazė (1933–1999) and Rose Lowder (b. 1941) lived and worked around the same time, the two artists never met. They were part of different contexts: Zimblytė spent most of her life in Soviet-occupied Lithuania, while Lowder has spent much of hers primarily in Western Europe. Their disciplines also diverge – Zimblytė is best known as a painter and Lowder continues to work in experimental cinema. Yet, despite their differing circumstances, the artists share a common ground: through abstract expression both ask how we see and experience the world. Three works by Kazė Zimblytė from the TARTLE collection have been lent for the exhibition.
The exhibition Forever Temporary is a dialogue between art history and the present, between then and now, between this and that. What does art history reveal about artworks and their viewers when we see it not merely as a succession of styles or eras, but as humanity’s ongoing effort to understand itself in the world? Each period brings its own context and visual language, yet all share a common thread: timeless existential questions around which creativity unfolds. TARTLE lent three artworks for this exhibition.
This exhibition at the Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art presents, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the artistic legacy of the sisters Irena and Joanna Karpińska. Vilnius played a particularly important role in their lives: Irena and Joanna began studying at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Stephen Báthory University in 1928 and 1929, respectively, and it was there that their artistic outlooks, approaches, and individual styles matured. They never forgot Vilnius, and throughout their lives they shared memories of the city and the people they had met there. A work by Joanna Karpinska was lent for the exhibition by TARTLE.
On 22th September an exhibition “The Cosmic Choir” was opened at the Church Heritage Museum.
From June 8 to September 21, 2025, you can visit Gediminas and Nomeda Urbonai installation Futurity Island from the TARTLE collection at the Helsinki Biennale.
Emerging as a countermovement to the rationalism of Classicism, Romanticism swept across Europe as a new artistic and literary movement that opened up space for emotions, dreams, and individualism. The genius of the creator began to be boldly exalted, spiritual values were elevated above material ones, and those seeking moral support or inspiration were encouraged to look backwards, to a past stretching back centuries. In Lithuania, however, Romanticism ‘lingered’; rather than yielding to Realism, which was gaining prominence in the West during the second half of the 19th century, it transformed into Neo-romanticism, or National Romanticism, which inventively employed the expressive means of Symbolism, Art Nouveau, and other contemporary styles. Some artworks at the exhibition were loaned by TARTLE.
On June 6th the exhibition “Creative gene” was opened in Pakruojis for the 120th anniversary of the birth of one of the most prominent Lithuanian artists, Stasys Ušinskas. TARTLE has lent 9 artworks by Stasys Ušinskas for the exhibition.