'Frends is olvais velcome to Lithuania': The Location of Contemporary Lithuanian Art
'Frends is olvais velcome to Lithuania': The Location of Contemporary Lithuanian Art

Summary/Abstract: Taking the work of the contemporary Lithuanian artist collective Academic Training Group as a case study, this article charts the way in which the place of Lithuanian art has been negotiated through international art exhibitions using various geographical frames. What does the subsumption of Lithuanian art into narratives of Eastern European, Nordic, Baltic or national art histories affirm or deny? Following the recent writings of Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski, I argue for the need to write a new critical form of national art history; one that, although 'provincial', takes into account the impact of a complex vector of spatial and political interactions that has itself been one of the critical strengths of contemporary Lithuanian art production.

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