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Žilvinas Kempinas
About
Born 1969 Plunge, Lithuania
Lives and works in New York

Education
1998-02 Studies in Combine Media at Hunter College, City University of New York, MFA
1987-93 Studies of Painting, Art Academy, Vilnius, BFA

Exhibitions

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010        Žilvinas Kempinas, Galeria Leme, São Paulo
 
2009        53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
 
2008        Žilvinas Kempinas, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
                Žilvinas Kempinas, Le Grand Café. Centre d\'art contemporain, Galerie des Franciscains, Saint-Nazaire, France
                Open Studio, Atelier Calder, Saché, France
 
2007        Parallels/Flying Tape, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
                White Noise, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
 
2006        Flying Tape, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
                Columns / Bike Messenger, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
 
2004        Flying Tape, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
 
2003        Still and 186 000 mi/s, site specific installations, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
 
1996        The New Year of King Nebuchadnezzar, site specific installation, Vilnius
                Portraits-Fossils, Jutempus Gallery, Vilnius
 
1994        Painting from Nature, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
2010        Contemporary Art from Lithuania, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
                Sketches of space - MUDAM, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
                AV Festival, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, UK
                From Artists\' Workshops, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius
                Listen to your eyes, 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
                Transmediale.10 - Future Obscura, Hause der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
 
2009        Locus Solus, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris
                Fall In/Fall Out, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, Canada
                ZEROplus, 401 Contemporary, Berlin
                Go East II, MUDAM, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
                Nightmare Full of Things Unspeakable, Concept V, New York
                Das Fundament der Kunst – Die Skulptur und ihr Sockel seit Alberto Giacometti, Städtischen Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
                The Immediate Future, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden
                Espèces d\'espaces, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York
                We Go Round in Circles at Night, Contemporary Art Museum Rochechouart, France
 
2008        NOW JUMP, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin/Seoul, Korea
                New Work: Zilvinas Kempinas, Alyson Shotz, Mary Temple, SFMOMA, San Francisco
                Go East, Musee d\'Arte Moderne, Luxembourg
                MANIFESTA7, Bolzano, Italy
                Permutations, at the Musée des Beaux Arts et d\'Archéologie, Valence, France
                + De Réalité, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France
                MANIF D’ART 4, La Biennale en Art Actuel de Quebec, Canada
 
2007        Collected Visions: Modern and Contemporary Works from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Pera Museum, Istambul, Turkey
                Voyage Intérieur, FRAC-Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France
                StereoVision: From 2D to 3D, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida
                The Last Seduction- A Welcome Surrender To Beauty, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
                Château de Tokyo/Tokyo Redux, Centre International d\'art et du paysage de l\'île de Vassivière, Ile de Vassivière, France
                Ready-Made, Yvon Lambert, New York
 
2006        Les Fils de Marcel, CRAC LR Art Center, Sète, France
                Hapax, APERTO, Montpellier, France
 
2005        Red, White, Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
                Drawings / Works with Paper, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
 
2002        MFA Thesis Show, Time Square Gallery, New York
 
1999        Prague Quadrennial 1999, Prague, Czech Republic
                Lithuanian Art 1989 -1999, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
 
1998        After Painting, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
 
1997        Footnotes, Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik
 
1996        Holy Lie, press project, Vilnius
 
1995        Whales Stomach, site specific installation, Vilnius
                Recent Documents, Balzekas Museum, Chicago
 
1994        Lithuania Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
                For Beauty, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
 
1993        Kultr, Gallery Arka, Vilnius
 
1992        Good Evils, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
                Advent Bunch, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
 

Awards
2007/08Calder Prize and Atelier Calder Residency Award, Sachè, France
1998      Kristoforas Award for best Drama Theater Stage Design, Vilnius, Lithuania.
1994      Westerly Trust Grant, London, UK.
1994      Academie Schloss Solitude Grant, Stuttgart, Germany

LAURA GARBŠTIENĖ, ŽILVINAS KEMPINAS, ŽILVINAS LANDZBERGAS, S&P STANIKAS at the 6th Liverpool Biennial
LAURA GARBŠTIENĖ, ŽILVINAS KEMPINAS, ŽILVINAS LANDZBERGAS, S&P STANIKAS at the 6th Liverpool Biennial
Vartai Gallery is looking for Liverpool based volunteers to assist in the Lithuanian Pavilion project "City Without Walls" at the 2010 Liverpool Biennial
Vartai Gallery is looking for Liverpool based volunteers to assist in the Lithuanian Pavilion project \
Ugnius Gelguda
Ugnius Gelguda
Žilvinas Kempinas
Žilvinas Kempinas
Žilvinas Landzbergas
Žilvinas Landzbergas
Žilvinas Kempinas at the 53rd International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia

Žilvinas Kempinas at the 53rd International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia
Press coverage of Lithuanian Pavilion

 

 
Press coverage of Lithuanian Pavilion
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