Kauno Asorti: Stories of Graphic Design from 1964-1984

“Kaunas’ ASORTI“ – designerly exposition, presenting the Lithuanian graphic design stories of the second half of the twentieth century. At the same time, it is a historical reconstruction of the 1984 Republican Applied Graphics exhibition held in Kaunas Picture Gallery. Posters and their sketches, projects of packaging and logos, designed in 1964–1984, today such artifacts tell us not only about the processes of design history, the creators and their works, but also present the stories about time, identity and sustainability.

Exposition presents: Posters, candy and souvenir packaging, brands, envelopes and projects created by Lithuanian authors in 1960s and 1980s and artefacts of the 1984 Republican Exhibition of Applied Graphics from National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, the personal collections of Kęstutis Gvalda and other artists.

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Opening: September 29, 2022 at 18:00
Dates: 2022 09 29–10 22
Location: Kauno centrinis paštas, II a., Laisvės alėja 102, Kaunas

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Artists: Vaidilutė Grušeckaitė, Kęstutis Gvalda, Teresė Ivanauskaitė, Monika Jonaitienė, Jadvyga Laurinavičiūtė, Teresė Bajorūnaitė-Lekienė, Vladas Lisaitis, Gediminas Pempė, Raisa Šmuriginaitė, Kęstutis Šveikauskas & others.

Curator: Karolina Jakaitė
Architect: Julijus Balčikonis
Designer: Paulius Vitkauskas
Graphic designer: Laura Grigaliūnaitė

Partners and sponsors: Dizaino fondas, Lietuvos kultūros taryba, Nacionalinis M. K. Čiurlionio dailės muziejus, Vilniaus dailės akademija, Vilniaus grafikos meno centras, KOPA