Zilvinas Kempinas

Plunge, Lituânia, 1969.
Vive e trabalha Nova Iorque, EUA

Zilvinas Kempinas é uma referência mundial em arte cinética. Kempinas emprega materiais não tradicionais nas suas instalações imersivas, tais como a fita magnética desenrolada. O artista explora profundamente as propriedades físicas deste material, a sua leveza, mobilidade e transparência, jogando também com as qualidades gráficas da fita magnética, sua cor, textura e caráter refletor. As suas grandes instalações frequentemente ocupam a área de exibição por inteiro criando um universo misterioso e poético onde o espectador é submergido.

Ao jogar com escala e com a dualidade da percepção, tal como ao experimentar as possibilidades de movimento, as obras de Kempinas abordaram a experiência física e óptica do espectador, a passagem do tempo e a percepção do corpo e da arquitetura. Apesar da forma lúdica em que são apresentadas, suas obras estão cheias de simbolismo, seja através do simples uso de formas como o círculo ou a alusão ao infinito. O artista foi representante do seu país na 53ª Bienal de Veneza e vencedor do Prémio Calder.

Plunge, Lithuania, 1969. Vive e trabalha em Nova York, EUA

FORMACAO

1998-02

Combine Media at Hunter College, City University of New York, MFA

1987-93

Studies of Painting, Art Academy, Vilnius, BFA

EXPOSICOES INDIVIDUAIS

2024

Zilvinas Kempinas, Galerie Frey, Salzburgo, Alemanha

2023

Light Sculptures (curadoria de Skaiste Marciene), Lietuvos Nacionalinis Dailes Muziejus, Lituania

Portraits-Fossils 2023 (curadoria de Migle Survilaite e Ausra Trakselyte), MO Museum, Lituania

2022

Works on paper, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brasil

2021

Analog, BitForms Gallery, EUA

2018

Zilvinas Kempinas, V Formation, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, EUA

2017

Zilvinas Kempinas, Dartmouth college, Hanover, EUA

2016

Zilvinas Kempinas, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lituania

The Big O (installation), National library, Vilnius, Lituania

Zilvinas Kempinas, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Inglaterra

Zilvinas Kempinas, Tube, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Austria

2015

Lio Malca, Airborne, Nova Iorque, EUA

Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brasil

Zilvinas Kempinas, Santorini Arts Factory, Santorini, Grecia

2014

Fifth Wall, Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapeste, Hungria

Scarecrow, Socrates Sculpture Park Public Artwork Comission, Nova Iorque, EUA

2013

Darkroom, Laboratory K20, Kunstsammlung, Dusseldorf, Alemanha

Fountains, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Islandia

Zilvinas Kempinas, Slow Motion, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Suica

2012

Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brasil

2011

Lucid Dream, Yvon Lambert, Paris, Franca

Still, Garage Centre For Contemporary Culture, Moscou, Russia

Vartai 20 Years: Zilvinas Kempinas, Gallery VARTAI, Vilnius, Lituania

Zilvinas Kempinas, Yvon Lambert, Paris, Franca

2010

Ballroom, Yvon Lambert, Nova Iorque, EUA

AV Festival, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, Inglaterra

Zilvinas Kempinas, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brasil

2009

53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Veneza, Italia

2008

Zilvinas Kempinas, Kunsthalle Wien, Viena, Austria

Zilvinas Kempinas, Galerie des Franciscains & Le Grand Cafe, Saint-Nazaire, Franca

Open Studio, Atelier Calder, Sache, Franca

2007

Parallels/Flying Tape, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lituania

White Noise, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA

2006

Flying Tape, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Franca

Columns/Bike Messenger, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA

2004

Flying Tape, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA

2003

Still and 186 000 mi/s, site specific installations, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Nova Iorque, EUA

1996

The New Year of King Nebuchadnezzar, site specific installation, Vilnius, Lituania

Portraits-Fossils, Jutempus Gallery, Vilnius, Lituania

1994

Painting from Nature, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lituania

EXPOSICOES COLETIVAS

2022

ThisPlay (curadoria de Emre Baykal), Arter Museum, Istambul, Turquia

Parallel Time (curadoria de Birute Pankunaite), Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum, Lituania

2021

Calder Now (curadoria de Dieter Buchhart, Anna Karina Hofbauer e Calder Foundation), Kunsthal Rotterdam, Holanda

Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival, Sharjah Art Museum, Emirados Arabes

2020

The Art of Diminished Difference (curadoria de Petr Ingerle), The Brno house of Arts, Brno-stred, Republica Tcheca

2019

Words in Motion (curadoria de Lisa Baldelli e Marie-Noelle Farcy), Mudam Luxembourg, Luxemburgo

Zilvinas Kempinas & Juste Janulyte SKYCITY, WAVES (curadoria Remigijus Merkelys), National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lituania

The Origins of Species: 1990s DNA (curadoria de Vaidas Jauniskis, Rimantas Kmita, Mantas Pelakauskas, Migle Survilaite, Aurimas Svedas, Tomas Vaiseta e Renata Valcik), MO Museum, Vilnius, Lituania

EXTENSION.LT: narracoes paralelas (curadoria de Kristina Romanova e Egle Mikalayune), National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscou, Russia

Liberte (curadoria de Jose-Manuel Goncalves), Bordeus, Franca

Negative Space (curadoria de Peter Weibel, Daria Mille e Anett Holzheid), ZKM Museum of contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Alemanha

Between Us, Kunsthalle Mainz, Moguncia, Alemanha

EXTENSION.LT: Parallel Narratives, Triumpg Gallery, Moscou, Russia

magnetic_T, New Media Gallery, New Westminster, Canada

2018

Re: work, The Holden Gallery, Manchester, Inglaterra

Action – Reaction (curadoria de Serge Lemon e Marianne Le Pommere), Kunsthal Rotterdam, Roterda, Paises Baixos

2017

YOU’VE GOT 1243 UNREAD MESSAGES. Last Generation Before the Internet. Their Lives Latvian National Museum of Art, Great Exhibition Hall, Riga, Letonia

2016

Set in Motion, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, Nova Zelandia

From Realism to the Object. Lithuanian World Art in the Collection of the Lithuanian Expatriate Art Foundation, Lewben Art Foundation, Kaunas, Lituania

A World View. The Tim Fairfax AC Gift, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia

Laboratoires de l’art, Musee des arts et metiers, le Cnam, Paris, Franca

Willow, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lituania

Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, Australia

Se souvenir des Belles Choses, Musee regional d’art contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Serignan, Franca

The Calder Prize 2005-2015, Pace Gallery, Londres, Inglaterra

2015

The Art of Experimentation – Art and Technology, A shared Sphere, Musee des arts et metiers, Paris, Franca

FIRST CUT, TEBA Factory, Arad, Art Encounters Foundation, Romania

Konkret Mehr Raum, Kunsthalle Osnabruck, Osnabruck, Alemanha

Invento | As Revolucoes que nos Inventaram (curadoria de Agnaldo Farias e Marcello Dantas), OCA, Sao Paulo, Brasil

Sculpture by the Sea, Public Sculpture Biennial, Aarhus, Denmark

Walk the Line. New Paths in Drawing, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Alemanha

2014

Solides Fragiles, MUDAM Luxembourg – Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburgo

Sublime: Contemporary works from the Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

The Shine, National Art Gallery, Vilnius, Lituania

The disappearance of the fireflies, Prison Sainte-Anne, Avignon, Franca

On what there might be not, MARSO Galeria Arte Contemporaneo, Cidade do Mexico, Mexico

2013

Mindwalk, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius, Lituania

De leur Temps 4: Nantes, Centre d’art Le hangar a Bananes, Nantes, Franca

Theatre du Monde, La Maison Rouge, Paris, Franca

Projections, Le Musee de L`abbaye Sainte-Croix, Franca

Part of a Larger Whole. Lithuanian Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lituania

TURBULENCES II, Foundation Boghossian/ Villa Empain, Bruxelas, Belgica

Pattern: Follow the Rules, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, EUA

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, EUA

Slow Burn, Railway Zone Tilburg, Holanda

Dynamo – A Century of light and motion in art 1913 – 2013, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, Franca

Anti-Gravity, Toyota Municiopal Museum of Art, Japao

Film as Sculpture/ Sculpture as Film, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Bruxelas, Belgica

2012

Exhibition of the permanent collection (from 1960 to present), Centre Pompidou, Paris, Franca

Echigo-Tsumari Triennale 2012, Niigata, Japao

Trait Papier, Musee des Beaux Arts, Chaux-de-Fonds, Suica

Festival Via, Maubeuge, Franca

The Exit Festival, Creteil, Franca

Lightness?, Maison Particuliere, Bruxelas, Belgica

Beaufort 04, Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea, Belgica

Perfoming Abstraction, Galeria Luciana Brito, Sao Paulo, Brasil

Oh, you mean cellophane and all that crap, A Calder Foundation project, The Mckittrick Hotel, Nova Iorque, EUA

Tapis Volants, Academie de France a Rome, Roma, Italia

Pink Caviar, Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhaga, Dinamarca

Sculpture is Everything: Contemporary works from Collection, Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Stanley Place, South Bank, Queensland, Australia

Masterpieces of The Yvon Lambert Collection, Collection Lambert, Museum of Contemporary Art, Avignon, Franca

Turbulences, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, Franca

Synergy, Hybrid Art 2012, Design Center Artplay, Moscou, Russia

Prestige (Phantasmagoria of Our Times), Culture Communication Center, Klaipeda, Lituania

Moving is Living, Art Stations Foundation, Poznan, Polonia

Silence, Collection FRAC Basse-Normandie, Normandie, Franca

2011

Nuit Blanche Paris 2011 (Paris White Night), Paris, Franca

1.2 Volume, Polyforum Emergen Siqueiros, Mexico

Our Magic Hour, Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japao

Number Five: Cities Of Gold And Mirrors, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Alemanha

The Matter Of Air, Gertrude contemporary, Melbourne, Australia

Play Time, Yvon Lambert, Nova York, EUA

Who Runs The Space Now?, ECOH Galeria, Mexico and Neue Galerie, Suica / Mexico

…so beautiful, NKV, Wiesbaden, Alemanha

Hohenrausch 2 (Trill of Heights 2), OK Centre, Linz, Austria

Parcours Formes Olimpiques, LAM Lille Metropole Musee d’arte contemporain et art brut, Franca

2010

I Believe in Miracles – 10th anniversary of the Lambert Collection – Collection Lambert, Avignon, Franca

Mostre in Corso. Spheres 2010, Galleria Continua, Boissy-le-Chatel, Franca

Sarabande. Zilvinas Kempinas and Deimantas Narkevicius, FRA -Basse-Normandie, Caen, Franca

City Without Walls. 10th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, Inglaterra

Lithuanian Art 2000-2010: ten years, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lituania

Contemporary Art from Lithuania, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Alemanha

Sketches of space – MUDAM, Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburgo

From Artists’ Workshops, Gallery VARTAI, Vilnius, Lituania

Listen to your eyes, 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Metz, Franca

Transmediale.10 – Future Obscura, Hause der Kulturen der Welt, Berlim, Alemanha

On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, MoMA, Nova Iorque, EUA

2009

Locus Solus, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, Franca

Fall In/Fall Out, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, Canada

ZEROplus, 401 Contemporary, Berlim, Alemanha

Go East II, MUDAM, Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburgo

Nightmare Full of Things Unspeakable, Concept V, Nova York, EUA

Das Fundament der Kunst – Die Skulptur und ihr Sockel seit Alberto Giacometti, Stadtischen Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Alemanha

The Immediate Future, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Suecia

Especes d’espaces, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Nova York, EUA

We Go Round in Circles at Night, Contemporary Art Museum Rochechouart, Franca

2008

NOW JUMP, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin/Seoul, Coreia

New Work: Zilvinas Kempinas, Alyson Shotz, Mary Temple, SFMOMA, San Francisco, EUA

Go East, Musee d’Arte Moderne, Luxemburgo

MANIFESTA7, Bolzano, Italia

Permutations, at the Musee des Beaux Arts et d’Archeologie, Valence, Franca

De Realite, Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, Franca

MANIF D’ART 4, La Biennale en Art Actuel de Quebec, Canada

2007

Collected Visions: Modern and Contemporary Works from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turquia

Voyage Interieur, FRAC-Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, Franca

StereoVision: From 2D to 3D, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, EUA

The Last Seduction- A Welcome Surrender To Beauty, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, EUA

Chateau de Tokyo/Tokyo Redux, Centre International d’art et du paysage de l’ile de Vassiviere, Ile de Vassiviere, Franca

Ready-Made, Yvon Lambert, Nova Iorque, EUA

2006

Les Fils de Marcel, CRAC LR Art Center, Sete, Franca

Hapax, APERTO, Montpellier, Franca

2005

Red, White, Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA

Drawings / Works with Paper, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA

2002

MFA Thesis Show, Time Square Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA

1999

Prague Quadrennial 1999, Praga, Republica Tcheca

Lithuanian Art 1989 -1999, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lituania

1998

After Painting, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lituania

1997

Footnotes, Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Islandia

1996

Holy Lie, press project, Vilnius, Lituania

1995

Whales Stomach, site specific installation, Vilnius, Lituania

Recent Documents, Balzekas Museum, Chicago, EUA

1994

Lithuania Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lituania

For Beauty, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lituania

1993

Kultr, Gallery Arka, Vilnius, Lituania

1992

Good Evils, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lituania

Advent Bunch, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lituania

PREMIOS

2007

Calder Prize and Atelier Calder Residency Award, Sache, Franca

1998

Kristoforas Award for best Drama Theater Stage Design, Vilnius, Lituania

1994

Westerly Trust Grant, Londres, Inglaterra

Academie Schloss Solitude Grant, Stuttgart, Alemanha

COLECOES SELECIONADAS

Centre Pompidou, Paris, Franca

CNAP, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Franca

FRAC-Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, Franca

FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen, Franca

JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, EUA

Jumex Collection, Mexico

Julia Stoschek Collection, Alemanha

Lusiana Museum of Modern Art, Dinamarca

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

MUDAM, Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburgo

Societe Generale d’art contemporain, Franca

The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, EUA

The Brno House of Arts, Brno, Republica Tcheca

Spin, 2019

V Formation, 2018

Tube Dornbirn, 2016

Light Art Museum

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