The project is implemented by a public institution “Inovatyvūs kūrybiniai projektai” (Innovative Creative Projects). BOOK “ONE THING STORIES” Most people, like you or me, somewhere in the darkest corner of their closet or a dusty attic, keep some dear item inherited from the ancestors, some thing that we cannot say goodbye to: a handmade woven […]

Friendly Zone #5, summer of 2014.  A white inflatable house with an inscription “Friendly Zone” appeared in Kaunas neighborhood of Žemieji Šančiai. It popped up in the territory of the 19th century barracks playfully referred to as the “Warehouses of Sauerkraut”, during the months of July, August and September of 2014. The inflatable house is […]

During the last decades, artists and researchers of culture are increasingly focusing on genius loci, pointing to the existential importance of the place. It is understood that the place is an important part of the cultural heritage, human existence and everyday life, which has become increasingly detached from a person due to the relentless processes […]

It is a story of one typical apartment block No. 43 located in Kaunas. Even though there is no commemorative plaque on this house, no important historical events have taken place in it, and it does not aim to become a memorial, this five-storey building is worth a story as both a monument for the […]

It is the début of a creative duo by Raminta Garbuzaitė and Ala Raguzina, 2nd course Master’s students of Creative Industries at Vytautas Magnus University. “Stories of Generations in Kaunas” is a community project, gathering people who live / used to live in Kaunas and placing them in a single memory map capturing the history […]

Landscapes of the Old Town and New Town of Kaunas painted by Avraham Kan (Israel), painter of naive art and primitivism. “The cycle ‘My Kaunas’ was born after our visit to Kaunas, my native city, in December of 2013. It is as if Kaunas enchanted the artist and brought back my own memories of youth, […]

I was inspired to create the exposition “54°53’50”N, 23°53’10”E Niekieno miestas” (Nobodies city) by the pre-war image of Kaunas in photos by Mečys Brazaitis. They perfectly captured the vision of a developing European city. Similarly, as in the book by Marcelijus Martinaitis “Mes gyvenome. Biografiniai užrašai” (We Lived. Biographic Notes), Marcelijus Martinaitis recalls: “Even though […]

A reminiscence, like any other material thing, wears out, and as time goes by, fades away, until it disappears from the memory completely, so every picture I have capture was significant. I believe that with this project, I will at least partially preserve my own memory and that of the local people. We all have […]

On 25–27 of October 2013, VMU art gallery “101” introduced a memory project in Laisvės Alėja called “The Bohemia of Laisvės Alėja: Memory Sites”. Artists who participated in the project, namely Arnas Anskaitis, Dainius Liškevičius, Vita Gelūnienė, Ed Carroll, Gintaras Česonis and Inga Likšaitė, explored memory sites of the bohemian life in Laisvės Alėja: material […]

It is a cooperative project between young (students from different areas) and experienced researchers initiated by the Gallery “101” and dedicated to the research of urban memory. The project took place from October to December of 2013 and analyzed memory places related to the bohemian lifestyle in Laisvės Alėja (Laisvės Ave). The following dimensions were […]