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Arturas Bumšteinas - sound artist / visual artist

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Arturas Bumšteinas was born in year 1982 in Vilnius, Lithuania. He is composer of acoustic and electronic music (graduated from Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater), founder of Quartet Twentytwentyone, visual artist with various projects presented in more than 30 exhibitions around Europe. The festivals where Bumšteinas participated with his music and audiovisual projects among others include The Holland Festival, Sensoralia/Romaeuropa, Avanto, Sonic Circuits, Skanumezs, Full Pull, Cut&Splice etc... Since the year 2000 Arturas has collaborated with artists Laura Garbštienė, Jesse Glass, Anton Lukoszevieze, Antanas Jasenka, Antanas Kučinskas, Maarten Ornstein, Simon Wickham-Smith, Jeff Surak, Borut Savski, Max Reinhardt, Rytis Mažulis etc... Amongst the publishers of Bumšteinas' music is new polish label Bolt Records and his visual art is represented by Galerie Antje Wachs in Berlin. Arturas lives and works in Vilnius and Warsaw.



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


2010/10 Residency in Krems, Austria
2010/09 Experimental music festival Sonic Circuits, Washington DC, USA
2010/07 Live version of Works and Days in Wigry, Poland
2010/06 Premiere of Stories from the Organ Safari in Orgelpark, The Holland Festival, Amsterdam
2010/05 International contemporary art fair VIENNAFAIR, Austria
2010/04 Live organ & electronics at Jauna Muzika festival, Vilnius
2010/03 Residency in Kunstraum Sylt Quelle, Rantum, Germany
2010/02 Premiere of new piece by Apartment House in Norwich School of Music, UK
2009/11 Festival of experimental song The Song is You, Club Powiekszenie, Warsaw, Poland
2009/10 Premiere of Five Songs for large ensemble in Wigry, Poland
2009/09 Premiere of Heap of Language (after Robert Smithson), BBC3 / King's Place, London, UK
2009/06 Two performances in Let There Be Night, Vilnius - European Capital of Culture, Vilnius
2009/05 Group exhibition of sound-related art Interplay at Bury St Edmunds Gallery, UK
2009/04 Co-leading masterclasses at Aldeburgh Young Musicians, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, UK
2009/04 Electronic music festival Jauna Muzika, SMC/CAC, Vilnius
2009/03 Premiere of Studie Zwei at Crazy Wisdom event, King's Place, London, UK
2009/01 Performance at Eine Audienz mit dem Publikum, Berliner Konzerthaus, Germany
2008/11 Group exhibition Weltall+Erde+Mensch, ACC, Weimar, Germany
2008/10 Performance with Twentytwentyone at Cut'n Splice/BBC3, Wilton's, London, UK
2008/10 Group exhibition Salon of the Revolution, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2008/09 Solo exhibition Transparent Ears in NEON art space , Brösarp, Sweden
2008/09 Group exhibition Lithuanian Art 08. Photography, SMC/CAC, Vilnius
2008/09 Performance with Twentytwentyone in experimental music festival iFEM, Ivalo, Finland
2008/09 Split performance with Ida Lunden in Gavle Theater, Sweden
2008/09 Solo performance in Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
2008/08 Solo exhibition All Blur in Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Norway
2008/06 Split exhibition Blur & Other Works with Tomáš Svoboda in ANTJEWACHS Gallery, Berlin
2008/05 Performance with Twentytwentyone Skanumezs (Klangwald) , Riga, Latvia
2008/04 Performance with Twentytwentyone in Jauna Muzika festival, SMC/CAC, 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 advertisement 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 Twentytwentyone in The Holland Festival, Bimhuis (Muziekgebouw), Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007/05 Group exhibition 2420 Ciurlionis from the Yellow Line series, SMC/CAC, Vilnius
2007/04 Electronic music festival Jauna Muzika, SMC/CAC, Vilnius
2007/03 Group exhibition Hmm... Wystawa Problemowa, Arsenal Gallery Bialystok, Poland
2007/02 Solo exhibition Demo in ANTJEWACHS Gallery, Berlin
2007/02 Group exhibition Me, You and some Out-takes, from the Yellow Line series, SMC/CAC, Vilnius
2007/02 Solo performance in CSW Laznia, Gdansk, Poland
2006/12 Performance with Twentytwentyone 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, SMC/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 Twentytwentyone in Jauna Muzika festival, SMC/CAC, 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 G-Lab's solo performance/exhibition 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
2004/03 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, SMC/CAC, 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, SMC/CAC, Vilnius

 

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Arturas Bumšteinas
Rinktines 21-64
LT-09202 Vilnius
Lithuania

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