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Evaldas Jansas

Born 1969 in Kaunas
 
Education:
1988-1995 Vilnius Academy of Arts, Department of Paiting

Lives and works in Vilnius

Selected Solo Exhibitions/Screenings:

2011/09 Jansas TV. Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius
2009/10/9-11/6 Evaldas Jansas, ARTscape - European Capital of Culture project - GALERIJA VARTAI, Vilnius
2009/10/7-8 SoundTrack, Skalvija Cinema Centre, Vilnius
2009/01 Evaldas Jansas's Works on Video Screen, Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius
2007/10 RetroPERspektyve, Gallery of contemporary art, Klaipėda, Lithuania
2006/11/07 RetroPERspektyve, Skalvija Cinema Centre, Vilnius
2005/05/12 Evaldas Jansas for CAC/TV. Contemporary Art Center/ TV 1 channel, Vilnius
2004 Repudiated Realities, CAC, Vilnius
2004 In My Own Juice, Lithuanian Contemporary Art, part of exhibition, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
2000 New video works, CAC, Vilnius
1999 Please Tie a Knot into the Bag, Kunstlerhaus, Boswill, Switzerland
1996 From Life’s Illustrations, Jutempus Gallery, Vilnius
1995 Jutempus Gallery, Vilnius

Selected Film/Video Festivals:

2011/09 Ad Hoc: Inconvenient Films, Human Rights Film Festival, Vilnius
2011/09 Vilnius Documentary Film Festival, Cinema Centre Skalvija, Vilnius
2011/03 Kino pavasaris. Vilnius International Film Festival, Vilnius
2010/04 Mediawave, International Film and Music Festival, Győr, Hungary
2010/02 6th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Berlin
2009/09 Nets, International Short Film Festival, Klaipėda, Vilnius
2009/06 37. Festival der Nationen, Ebensee, Austria
2008/09 Nets, International Short Film Festival, Klaipėda, Vilnius
2008/07 Recontres Internationals Paris/Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2008/06 Me Social Life, cinema and video festival, Alytus, Lithuania
2008/05 Recontres Internationals Paris/Berlin , Complejo el Aguila Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid;
2007/11 Recontres Internationals Paris/Berlin, Pompidou centre, Paris
2007/09 Nets, International Short Film Festival, Klaipėda, Vilnius
2006 Pulsar, Cinemateca Nacional, Carakas, Vensuela
2005 Recontres Internationals Paris/Berlin, Screenings at city space, Paris
2005 Invideo 2005. Short film festival, Milan, Italy
2004 Recontres Internationals Paris/Berlin. The Grand Halle of la Villette, Paris
2004 19th Brest European Short Film Festival, Brest, France
2004 Short Film Festival in Nevers, France
2004 Nets, International Short Film Festival, Klaipėda, Vilnius
2004 Politically Incorrect Film Festival, Ljubljana
2004 20th International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
2003 Wide World Video Festival, Amsterdam
2002 Nets, International Short Film Festival, Klaipėda, Vilnius
2002 Lithuanian cinema and video, Opal Contemporary Art Gallery,Tel Aviv’as.

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2011/05-08 A Walk around Vilnius. MONUMENTS THAT ARE NOT. National Gallery of Art, Vilnius
2010/12 500 Newton, Studio Gallery, Budapest
2010/09-11 Lithuanian Art 2000-2010: Ten Years, CAC, Vilnius
2010/06/15-21 Friend_Ship, International Performance Art Project, Stockholm-Copenhagen-Klaipeda
2010/02-04 FROM ARTISTS’ WORKSHOPS, GALERIJA VARTAI, Vilnius
2009/09-11 Urban stories: The X Baltic Triennial of International Art, CAC, Vilnius 
2008/12-09/01 Vilnius Art Scene After 2000, The Arsenāls Exhibition Hall of the LNMA, Ryga
2008 Lithuanian Art‘08/Photography , CAC, Vilnius
2007 STILL HERE: humour in post-communist performative video, gallery Artspace, Sydney Australia
2006 101.3 KM: competition and cooperation, Picture gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2005/12/15 CAC TV Nigth, CAC, Vilnius
2004 Image of Violence/Violence of Image, Biennal of Young Artits, Bucharest
2004 The Others Are Me, Gallery Bunkier Sztuki, Krokow, Poland 
2004 From the Centre to the Edge, Kilkenny, Ireland
2003 Baltixplatation, Hunter College, New York
2003 Parallel Progressions 3: etc., CAC, Vilnius
2002 SEX (Social Exhibitionism), Railway Museum, Riga
2001 Self-esteem. Lithuanian Art ‘01, CAC, Vilnius
2001 Walls for NATO, CAC, Vilnius
2001 Male, Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje, Celje, Slovenia
2001 Exotica, CAC, Vilnius
2000-2001 Human Project, Bac - Presence Balte, Baltic Art Centre, Visby; Ileana Tounta CAC, Athens; Metronome, Barcelona
2000 Innocent Life, CAC, Vilnius
2000 ArtGenda, Helsinki
2000 Part of The System, <rotor> association for contemporary art, Graz, Austria
2000 Dialog 2: Articulation, OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
1999 View Assistences, Bazel, Switzerland
1999 Auslander Korespondenten, Cargo Cult TV, Bazel, Switzerland
1999 Lithuanian Art 1989-1999: The Ten Years, CAC, Vilnius
1999 FLAT’ 99, Vilnius
1998 Cool Places, CAC, Vilnius
1998 International Performance Festival, Gallery Rigth-Left, Vilnius
1998 After Painting, CAC, Vilnius
1998 Twilight, CAC, Vilnius
1998 The Different - The Same, Bergens Kunstforening, Bergen, Norway  
1997 Dimension O, International Performance Festival, CAC, Vilnius
1997 Lithuanian Art 07/Galleries Present, CAC, Vilnius 
1997 Ground Control, Beaconsfield, London
1995 Mundane Language, Vilnius
1995 1995: Art in Lithuania, CAC, Vilnius

Special:

2000 Ode rutinai (Ode to Routine). Book by Evaldas Jansas (in Lithuanian). Publisher: Contemtorary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Grands:

2009 State Grand of Lithuanian Ministry of Culture;
1996,1998,2000 State Grand of Lithuanian Ministry of Culture for Young Artists;
1999 Soros Contemporary Art Center in Lithuania Grand,
Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art Grand,
Kunstlerhause Boswil Grand.