MINDAUGAS SIMKUS

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Born in 1973, Palanga, Lithuania

 

 

EDUCATION

 


2001 -2002      Jan van Eyck Akademie, post-academic institution  (The Netherlands)
1999                Artist in residence at the Artist’ House foundation in Boswil (Switzerland)
1992 – 1998     MA in plastic arts, Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts
1988 – 1992     Telsiai Art School

 

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION

 


1999                  Gallery of Boswil (Switzerland)

 


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 


2003                  Hurts so good, (CAC, Vilnius)
2002                  An exhibition by Deimantas Narkevicius
Also with Mindaugas Simkus and Peter Watkins
(Kunstverein München)
2002                  Paths of Europe, (Strasbourg, Apollonia foundation project)
2002                  Deliberate Regression (Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London)
2002                  arte/mare, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
2001                  HARD kijken – video festival (Arnhem, Netherlands)
2001                  Egzotika (CAC, Vilnius)
1999                  Lithuanian Art 1989-1999: A Decade (CAC, Vilnius)
1998                  Utopia (Chateau de Beaumanoir, France)
1998                  Time To Be Young and Time To Get Old (CAC, Vilnius)
1997                  ArtGenda’98 (Stockholm, Sweden)
1997                  Eighty Percent (CAC, Vilnius)
1995                  For Beauty (The Soros Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania)

 

AWARDS


1999                Grant for the Young Artist of the Government of the Lithuania Republic
2001                UNESCO – ASCHBERG, International Fund for the Promotion of Culture

IN THE FRAMEWORK OF

 

Paths of Europe