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press Arturas Bumšteinas - sound artist / visual artist

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Works as sound and visual artist. In sound field Bumšteinas has completed number of musical scores for different instrumental ensembles and orchestras, released 9 albums of electroacoustic music (in Lithuania, USA, Denmark, Ukraine, Canada, Spain, Netherlands), directed multicollaborative project Antiradical Opera with writer Jesse Glass and more than 20 persons from all over the world, curated collective mix event titled Mixthemixthemix, founded laptop quartet 20/21 which is devoted to performances of graphical notation scores and many more activities... Bumšteinas appears in festivals and concerts of experimental music all over the Europe (and US) where he performs his sound works via the electronic and acoustic sound medias. As visual artist Bumšteinas started to work together with artist Laura Garbštienė. In the fall of 2002, during the exhibition Parallel Progressions 3 in Vilnius‘ Contemporary Art Center they founded G-Lab duo, which was devoted to video art, audiovisual installations and performances. From the year 2002 Bumšteinas participated in a number of exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad, represented Lithuanian contemporary art together with other active artists from several generations. Besides of continuous artistic work in G-Lab, Bumšteinas also did collaborations with such artists as Simon Wickham-Smith, Jeff Surak, Jesse Glass, Borut Savski, Max Reinhardt, Rytis Mažulis, Antanas Dombrovskij, Antanas Jasenka, Antanas Kučinskas... Bumšteinas is an organizer of the first-ever serie of experimental music events in Lithuania based on the concept of open mixer and simultaneous participation. Lives and works in Vilnius and Warsaw and is represented by ANTJEWACHS gallery in Berlin.


Events in reversed chronological order (solo, with G-Lab and with Laptop Quartet 20,21):


2009/03 New music piece at Crazy Wisdom event, King's Place, London, UK
2008/10 Performance with 20,21 at Cut'n Splice/BBC3, Wilton's, London, UK
2008/09 Solo exhibition in NEON gallery, Brösarp, Sweden
2008/09 Performance with 20,21 in experimental music festival iFEM, Inari, Finland
2008/09 Solo performance in Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
2008/06 Split exhibition with Tomáš Svoboda in ANTJEWACHS Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2008/05 Performance with 20,21 Skanumezs (Klangwald) , Riga, Latvia
2008/04 Performance with 20,21 in Jauna Muzika festival, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
2008/03 Group exhibition Home Bound, Kunstraum Sylt-Quelle, Rantum, Germany
2007/11 Group exhibition DE_constructing MariaKapel, Hoorn, Netherlands
2007/11 Group exhibition Virtual Documenta. Archives in Translation, KUMU, Tallinn, Estonia
2007/11 Group exhibition on public screens Poslinkis, Vilnius
2007/10 Split exhibition Bumsteinas/Lericolais in Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France
2007/09 Sound installation for ANTJEWACHS Gallery in Berliner Kunstsalon, Germany
2007/09 Experimental music festival Sonic Circuits, Kennedy Center, Washington DC, USA
2007/09 Experimental music festival iFEM, Inari, Finland
2007/06 Performance with 20,21 in The Holland Festival, Bim-Huis (Muziekgebouw), Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007/05 Group exhibition 2420 Ciurlionis from the Yellow Line series, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
2007/04 Electronic music festival Jauna Muzika, Vilnius
2007/03 Group exhibition Hmm... Wystawa Problemowa, Arsenal Gallery Bialystok, Poland
2007/02 Solo exhibition Demo in ANTJEWACHS Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2007/02 Group exhibition Me, You and some Out-takes, from the Yellow Line series, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
2007/02 Solo performance in CSW Laznia, Gdansk, Poland
2006/12 Performance with 20,21 in Audio Art festival, CSW, Warsaw, Poland
2006/10 Group exhibition of post-photographic art comments@3Xpozicija.lt, Prospekto Galerija, Vilnius
2006/09 Festival of Political Music Culture Machtmusik, Leipzig, Germany
2006/09 Group exhibition of young artists Selfobjects, Radvilu Rumai, Vilnius
2006/09 Group exhibition 101,3 km. Competition and Collaboration, Vilnius' CAC - Kaunas' Picture Gallery, Lithuania
2006/05 Group exhibition Videokunst aus dem Baltikum in Kunstraum Duesseldorf, Germany
2006/05 Solo piano performance Klavierkonzert in Palais de Wittgenstein, Duesseldorf, Germany
2006/05 Exhibition of contemporary Lithuanian art Invasion in Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
2006/04 Performance with 20,21 in Jauna Muzika festival, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
2006/03 Experimental music festival Garso Zona, Kaunas, Lithuania
2005/12 Group exhibition Enthusiasts, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
2005/11 Music, dance and theater festival Sensoralia/Romaeuropa in Auditorium Roma, Italy
2005/10 Collaborative performance/installation Ketubah, produced by Oxford Contemporary Music, UK
2005/09 Crossover music festival Turning Sounds 3, Warsaw, Poland
2005/09 Electronic music festival Skanumezs (Klangwald) , Riga, Latvia
2005/08 Performance Sleeping With Cars, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2005/04 Electronic music festival Jauna Muzika, Vilnius
2005/04 Film about experimental music in Lithuania on SMC TV, TV1, Vilnius
2004/12 Baltic video art screenings Video 2004, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
2004/10 New film and video festival Blick 04, Moderna Museet, Stockholm , Sweden
2004/10 New media culture festival Art+Communication: TransCulturalMapping, Riga, Latvia
2004/09 Tallinn XIII Graphic Triennale In Exile, Tallinn, Estonia
2004/08 Lithuanian art exhibition Remains of Innocence in Chapter Arts Center, Cardiff, UK
2004/07 Audio art exhibition Mirrors and Copulations, Rael Artel Gallery, Parnu, Estonia
2004/06 Group exhibition Rauma Biennale Balticum 2004: Talking To Me?, Rauma , Finland
2004/06 Exhibition of contemporary Lithuanian art In My Own Juice, Tallinn, Estonia
2004/04 G-Lab solo exhibition Procedures (Stream), Druskininkai Town Museum, Lithuania
2003/04 Electronic music festival Jauna Muzika, Vilnius
2004/04 Group exhibition of Baltic art Somewhere Near Europa, Brussels , Belgium
2004/?? Experimental music festival Garso Zona, Kaunas, Lithuania
2003/11 Media art festival Avanto, Kiasma Theater, Helsinki, Finland
2003/11 Exhibition of contemporary Lithuanian abd Latvian art 2Show, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
2003/06 Interdisciplinary art festival Launch Option Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2003/06 New music, performance and cinema festival Artacts, St.Johann in Tirol, Austria
2003/04 Electronic music festival Jauna Muzika, Vilnius
2003/03 New music festival Maerz Musik, Berlin, Germany
2002/12 Group exhibition Parallel Progressions 3, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius

 

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Arturas Bumšteinas
Rinktines 21-64
LT-09202 Vilnius
Lithuania

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