Book Art Exhibition | FIRST EDITION

The “First Edition” means the first version of the book and the first edition printed at the time of its original publication. It is not only a physical publication, it is also one of the first attempts to express an idea, to combine a text and an image, to experiment in the field of form and structure. The materiality of a book, i. e. the texture, thickness and weight of the paper becomes an integral part of an artistic experience.

Artists' books invite to engage with multiple themes: to observe time and existence, to experience the creative process, love, personal change and transformation, to explore memory and its perpetuation, to face fears, embrace challenges, and foster relationships with a place, nature, technology and media.

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Artists' books featured in the exhibition are either one-offs or published in limited editions, ranging from just a few to several hundred copies. On display – the acknowledged editions: Ieva Stankutė's original book About a Navel, that was shortlisted as a finalist of the project of unpublished books for the “Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles”, one of the most important book art competitions in the world in 2020, and she was also awarded the main prize at the annual book art competition organised by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture in 2023; Inga Navickaitė-Drąsutė's Half Houses won the main prize in the category "The Best Baltic Dummy" at the awards organised by “Self Publish Riga”; Miglė Ceinorytė's CAPTCHA Exercises won an additional prize in the category of the design research at the “Young Designer’s Prize 2019” competition.

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The authors of the exhibition are current and former students (alumni) of the Applied Graphic Studies Programme of the Kaunas Faculty of Vilnius Academy of Arts and the Department of Graphic Arts of the Vilnius Faculty. Vėtrė Aleksandravičiūtė, Gintarė Perepečai, Rokas Bilinskas, Rokas Bočkus, Brigita Butkevičiūtė, Miglė Ceinorytė, Rūta Cyrolytė, Jonė Dūdaitė, Povilas Dūda, Jokūbas Griška, Emilija Grigaliūnaitė-Čepulė, Sandra Jančiukaitė, Austė Skardžiukaitė-Kabašinskienė, Tomas Kavarskas, Laura Mačiulytė, Inga Navickaitė-Drąsutė, Nastassia Pazniak, Ieva Stankutė, Miglė Stančiauskaitė, Toma Šilinaitė-Subačienė, Jonas Vaikšnoras, Liepa Sofija Vareikaitė, Milda Čimbaraitė, Yana Siletskaya. The exhibited works are the result of academic studies.

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Organizer: Galaunė House-Museum

Curator: Miglė Ceinorytė-Mitašiūnė
Coordinators: Otilija Strimaitytė, Julija Pociūtė
Graphic design: Jonas Vaikšnoras