Day 2. Vilnius Street Art Festival 2015. Part I

Vilnius Street Art Festival is taking place for the third time in our capital city.  First Festival was organized in 2013.

This year Festival has started on 19 August and will last till 23 September. Five projects are planned three of which have been finished already. Projects location - Stoties district.

#StreetArt

Official Vilnius Street Art Festival website: http://www.streetart.lt/

All the news  in Lithuanian you ca follow on http://www.ivilnius.lt/naujienos/kulturos-naujienos/

On hot and airless Tuesday afternoon I have visited all three buildings decorated with thsese pieces of art. Although I confess I am not a real passionate fan of graffities, I can assure that these are just marvellous works and refreshen dull buildings and surrounding. 

First project, located on Pylimo str. 56, just opposite the Vilnius Hall Market (Halės turgus) was created by the Itallian artists MILLO.

 

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Second project, located on Pelesos str. 1, may be called "In the future every building will be word-famous for fifteen minutes" was created by the british artist MOBSTR. 

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And the third project, located on Kauno str. 1, called "Corest Fity" was created by to polish artists Michał SEPE Wręga and Daniel CHAZME Kalinski

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Once again I am reminding that all the news in lithuanian you follow on  

http://www.ivilnius.lt/naujienos/kulturos-naujienos/ or on the official website  http://www.streetart.lt/

You can jump to Part II here.

Day 34. Some more graffities in Vilnius. Vilnius Street Arts Festivals 2013 & 2014

Let's go to see some more Vilnius graffities.

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Many of them were created during Vilnius Street Art Festivals ( in 2013, 2014 & 2015).

Paintings created last year during the 3rd festival I have presented here (3 paintings) and here ( 1 more, and also one of 2014 which I call kaip ne zmogus by ARYZ and a famous graffiti on Lietuva cinema (in LT) by Ernest Zacharevic.

Atlants by Ernest Zacharevic you see as you walk along the Neris enbankment starting from Žvėrynas (see here).

And here comes the graffiti on former Soviet Palace of Trade Union located on Tauro Hill (in LT)  (Taurakalnis or Pamėnkalnis (also in LT) (location Naujamiestis district)

Graffiti  by polish artist M-City (2014)

Profsajungu Palace is slowly decaying

View from Tauro kalnas

Here come one more:

#VilniusBy209

Iconic Vilnius Full of Space by Lithuanian anonimous artist 209 (in LT)

(2014) (location Barbakanas Hill (in LT)

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How seven mayors did not overcome one ghost. Vilnius fairytales.

(my translation)

by 209 (2014) on Pamenkalnio str.

Graffiti by Antanas Dubra on the former St. Jacob Hopistal

near the Lukiskes square

Since the hospital is gone the picture does not exist any more

Picture by Organizers of Vilnius Street Art Festivals taken from https://www.delfi.lt

The 

Day 83. Some other graffities around the town. #VilniusGraffities

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Quite a new graffiti in Zverynas on Seliu str. / Kestucio str. corner.

photo taken on 06 12 2018

& the building with the graffiti in January 2019 is already gone :)

so I'm glad that I've captured the picture

#VilniusBy209

A ZOO of humans. D. Morris

A graffiti on sidewalk to 

a new passage over Narbuto str.

Opened just this September (2018)

I guess that graffiti is by 209. (His style Post on Day 34)

Some facts and opinions about 209 you can find in the article: ko-gali-ismokyti-klajones-gatvemis-tapant-graficius-767076

One graffiti which is alreday done is also worth mentioning.

It was created, if I'm not mistaken, on Vilnius Street Art Festival 2016, which was  actually the last Street Art Festival,  on the deserted building near The Energy and Technology Museum on Rinktines str. 2 as you see on the screenshot of some site website, or maybe even the interview with the artist ASYLUM. 

The Graffiti by ASYLUM.

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The building used to be an illegal hostel for artists and the ASYLUM himself says that he used to live here.

The whole story and some more photos of gone graffiti you can find on 15min.lt (in LT).

In 2019 The building is gone. A brand new hotel of Hilton Hotels franchize will be constructed soon. 

to be continued ...

So the graffiti is also gone, and it belongs to a group of so called Gone Vilnius Graffities. Nobody will recall it in few years. 

Everything changes and the only constant idea is a continuous change. 

The city is like a living organism and it never stops progressing. 

#GoneVilniusGraffities

More about street pictures from festivals you can find on  day-14-vilnius-street-art-festival-2015. 

Krioklys aka The Waterfall on the Seimas garage building

Also one of the paintings created on Vilnius Sreet Art Festival 2016.

It is, or rather was, a huge photocollage on the Seimas garage building, on Zveju str. on the ringht enbankment of Neris, scandouslly costing 10 000 eur.

The whole story and the photos could be found in the article on lrytas.lt

And, in June 2019 the Krioklys is already gone.



One more graffiti created on Vilnius Street Art Festival:

by SEIKON, KRIK KONG, SZYMA

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@Drujos street

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Three works by three Polish artists 

The picture in the middle is by Krik Kong. He frequently depicts a bold man.

The picture on the left is by SZyman and

on the right - by Seikon.

Day 147. Kirdiejai Palace. and Vilnius museum.

previous spot or activity: Walk in State Cultural Reserve :)

I've just attended a discussion at Kirdiejai Palace organized by Vilnius museum.

Participants of the discussion: Rūta (moderator, Vilnius Muesum coordinator, historian), Mindaugas Repšys ( former resident of skvotas Barbora, belonged to a punk movement), Povilas (historian), and Viltė (heritage manager). Of course Rasa was also present here, but she was a photographer today.

Kirdiejai Palace is an abandoned building near the Bernardine Garden. And it seem that it has bad luck, because it was abandomed for yeras and years in 17th and 18th centuries, and it is abandomed now.

Kirdiejai Palace was constructed in the begining of 17th century.  

In 1993 skvotas Barbora was established here. 

short deviation:

(Street Artist ASYSLUM has established skvotas at Rinktinės str. 2 (now it will become Double Tree by Hilton hotel)

The last residents of skvotas, among them the family of  Kristojonas who was born in Barbora (his father - Giedrius was a student at VDA), and were evicted in around 2003.  

In 2005 the building was enlisted on the Lithuanian heritage list.

Despite the fact that the buildings have been rented to a private company, it did not help to bring them back to life.

The territory of the buildings belongs to the State Cultural Reserve of Vilnius Castles.

Buildings belong to Vilnius city.

And, as I uderstood, Vilnius museum is planning to move here in the future.

series of: #FutureVisions

Series of: #VilniusMuseum

#StreetArt

#Vilniusby209 (???)

#VilniusWisdom

In the front of the buildings at Maironio str. 1 quite a new Hotel Vilnia is located. 

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Next spot: Menų Spaustuvė

Day 14. Vilnius Street Art Festival 2015. Part II

I have been writing about the festival in September 2015, and, yes, I am comming
back again to the same topic.

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As I've said it'a a continuation of Part I
a question Why? arises.

and the answer is because I haven't shown you all works done in September. I have posted just 3 arts out of 5.

Here comes the 4th one located on Pylimo str. 60

by OSMEGEOS
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Osgemeos about working in Lithuania.

And here you can see how all buildings used to look before the Festival in September.

the Festival on FB.

I would mention one piece of art from Vilnius Street Art Festival 2013.

I am talking about a huge strange dogie ( if it really a dog) by Lithianian artist Antanas Dubra. A picture was placed on previous Saint Jacob Hospital  ( a wall from J. Tumo - Vaizganto street. I was passing this building for hundreds times and I was always wondering why the dogie is so strange, but I never took  picture. Now - the building is destroyed and the painting is gone. 

And, the last painting from Vilnius Street Festival 2014.

I will call this kaip ne žmogus by ARYZ on Dainavos str. 6
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One more piece of art located on Lietuva cinema by Ernest Zacharevic, I think, deserves a separate chapter. 

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One day I will tell you about the Lietuva cinema.

And the cinema Lietuva story comes here.

Some more graffities from previuos Street Art Festivals you can see here. (Street Art Festivals. Part III).

Day 121. Other things in Antakalnis

Series of #Antakalnis

Series of: #StreetArt

Some other things to discover in Antakalnis:

by D.SILVA

Project Kuriu Vilnių (2018)

Lithuanian Artists'Associassion The Walls of Antakalnis

Iron Wolf of Vilnius

Day 153. Street Art. vol. IV

 series of: #StreetArt

series of: #CentralStation

The Newest artwork is located at the Central Station:

Young Einstein by ETTOJA (Artur Širin)

The Painter EttoJa on his pictures (in LT).

@San Diego bar @TechParkas in Sapiegos Park

Entrance to TEATRAS LĖLĖ 

heros of a play

by AUŠRA BAGOČIŪNAITĖ (artist and director)

@Arklių g. 5

right to the entrance to the TEATRAS LĖLĖ

the Town Halll Square

Underground passage in Pilaitė

Cosmos. Underground passage in Pilaitė

Pseudo Labirintas Nr. 1 of Kazys Varnelis

By Morfai (Timotiejus Norvila) @Savanorių ave.

More on this

#Naujamiestis

https://qrco.de/bc2OQQ

Marcelė Kubiliūtė @Labdarių str.

Panorama Underground passage 

@Saltoniškių str.

Dėveti @Sodų str.

Day 99. Vilnius philosophy

#StreetArt

#VilniusBy209

How a cool young guy has got into the system to debug it, 

and the system has digested him.

Vilnius Fairytales

Vilniaus komentatorius

on Kauno str.

 On a rainy Friday morning

in Pilaitė

Narbutas str. sidewalk leading to the bridge over the street

Ed. II

Ed. I

Užupis

Tibet Square

Tibet Square

ane?

                                           Narbuto str.

                                               Ed. III

Day 103. National Holocaust Rememberance Day. 23 September.

National Holocaust Rememberance Day or (Jewish Genocide Day) is commemorated in Lithuania on 23 September 23.
On this day the large Vilnius ghetto was started to liquidate in 1943.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is an international memorial day on 27 January.

#JewishVilnius

The Walls Remember  project

@Entrance into the former Jewish Quarter

Part of Project Kuriu Vilnių, edition 2

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