Paroda „Grafikos vertė/s“, Vilnius
EN: “Value/s of Printmaking”, group exhibition, Lithuanian Artists Association, Vilnius
Vilnius – my city, 700th birthday
What would I tell you about Vilnius if you were a friend or a stranger whose arrival I was anticipating… Read on
Art Needs No Roof festival
Since 2020 the quarantine forced art galleries to close and kept artists from exhibiting their work… Read on
Vilnius. Part II
This is what -25 °C looks like, and the River Neris is frozen solid. Vilnius in January 2021, one of the coldest winters on record… Read on
Vilnius. Part I
“Ledereen heeft het recht om lui te zijn en stroopwafels te eten”, which translates to: “Everyone has the right to be lazy and to eat stroopwafels”… Read on
Education for Artists
Smartphone kills creativity, because it kills time. You stop observing, you don’t see those seemingly insignificant things any more and most important, you never get bored. Because we are petrified of getting bored. Your role is to be present… Read on
Pranciškus Gerlikas
Painter, portraitist, and my father Pranciškus Gerlikas passed away unexpectedly on the 6th of May 2020. The opening of his 80th-anniversary exhibition was postponed due to Covid-19 measures in Lithuania in April 2020. It was intended to be a retrospective exhibition and an account of the work of this lifetime – more than 60 years of prolific creative output… Read on
The launch of the new website
Hello,
I am very pleased to announce that I have just launched my new website https://www.gerlikaite.com The main objective for the new website was to make it more business-oriented, secure, functional, and unique. You can now browse my artwork, find different series of images and order an original limited edition fine art print in the SHOP… Read on
2020 – the Man in the Mirror
A year of some hard-headed departures, solitude, failures to arrive, cancelled exhibitions, and new friendships. I found that friendships were increasingly spurred by a yearning for stability, even conformity, and a desire to hold the world as we knew it… Read on
Darijus Gerlikas
In this very house on Dominican street, there was goldsmiths' Jacob Gierke’s workshop in the 17th century. He was one of the most famous Lithuanian Grand Duchy's watchmakers, and he signed all his pieces, as was the custom at the time, adding to his name a toponym – Vilnensis (Lat. person from Vilnius)… Read on
On Meditations Series
The world of Jurgita’s artworks, unanimously appreciated in Lithuania as well as in Eastern and Central Europe, is revealed by the use of various artistic techniques, while the digital printing enables it to gain even more aspects, and the world created by her may seem to anyone too quiet and simply beautiful… Read on
Happy Christmas & 2020
May you always find your way in the mist, across a river, and up the stairs... May you always choose your own path and find that white line of purpose in the middle of your road to guide you… Read on
Petronėlė Gerlikienė
The impetus and inspiration for her work was a vision of her own house she was looking to buy at the time. She envisioned its interior decorated with large scale tapestries and paintings… Read on
Wishes for 2019 & Poetry
“Solitude! The blue egg laid by a great sea-bird, and
the bay-leaves at morning all laden with gold lemons!
Yesterday it was! The bird made off!