www.sauliusvalius.lt
BORN: Vilnius, Lithuania, 1958
EDUCATION:
1982 MA, Graphic Arts, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
2017 – present Chairman, M.K.Čiurlionis association, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 Member, International Peers' Team, Arts programs’ ass Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education (CQAHE) Split, Croatia
2012-2016 Board member, Culture Council of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011-present Chairman, Committee of Arts, Research Council of Lithuania
2011-2014 Experts board member, Mobility programs module,
Nordic Culture Point,
Nordic Council, Helsinki, Finland.
2009-2011 Board Member, High Education Council, Ministry of Education and Science, Lithuania.
2010-2012 Chairman, Culture Endowment Foundation, Lithuania.
2008- 2013 Member, International Peers' Team, Arts programs’ assessment,
Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education (CQAHE), Vilnius, Lithuania
2006-2010 Board Member, Vilnius Academy of Arts Council, Lithuania
1996-2017 Founder and CEO, Ekspobalta LTD, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017-present Creative director, Ekspobalta LTD, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015-present Founder and CEO, Linkbalta LTD, Vilnius, Lithuania
1994-present Co-founder and Chairman, Cultural Foundation “Uberfahrt” e.V, Dusseldorf, Germany.
1985-present Member, Lithuanian Artists Association. Lithuania
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1992 Guest lecturer, University, Osnabruck, Germany
Lecturer, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania.
1983-1985 Art teacher, Secondary School, Rudiskes, Lithuania
EXHIBITIONS, ART PROJECTS (selected; as Visual Artist):
2020 Installation “Qadrum”, Akureyri Atm Museum, Iceland
2020 Two sculptures/installations for the memorial museum of Maironis
Pasandravys/Bernotai, Lithuania
2019 Kinetic video installation ”Collection of memories”,
International Book Fair, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 Installation “Sky”, International Art project GNAP - 2017, Kaunas,
National M.K.Čiurlionis Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
2016 International art project GNAP - 2016,
Tehran Contemporary Art Museum, Tehran, Iran
2016 Video exhibition “Water”, 7th Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Gongju, Korea
2016 Installation “Wing for the Moon”,
International art project “New Mythology”, Naxos, Greece
2015 Installation “Black star”, International art project GNAP-2015 India, Vadodara University, Gujarat, India
2015 Exhibition MINIMUM, Church Bernardinai, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 Sculpture “Above the horizon”
Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Gongju, Korea
2012 Sound installation “Orchestra of Bells”,
International exhibition “Energy”, Daejeon Museum, Korea.
2006 Kinetic installation “Inner motivation”, National Museum of Cinema Turin, Italy
2005 Installation “Again and again”, Duren Biennial
Duren, Germany
2004 Installation “White page”, UNESCO head quarter, Paris, France
2002 Kinetic installation “Book of history”, Lithuanian pavilion at the International Book Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
EXHIBITION PROJECTS, DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE
( Selected; realised as Creative Director/ Architect/Artist ):
2020 Museum of Etnocosmology, Lithuania
Exposition of folk art, National M.K.Ciurlionis museum,
Kaunas, Lithuania
2019 Exposition “Art of 15-18th ages”, National M.K.Ciurlionis museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
2018 Exposition “Lithuanian design – 100 “, Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 Exposition “ Catastrophys in the See “, Lithuanian See Museum, Klaipeda, Lithuania
2016 Back stage design carpet ( together with Eve Kask )
Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonian
2015 Exhibition “Absolut textile”, Lithuanian Art Museum
Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 Exhibition “Folk art today”, Lithuanian Art Museum
Vilnius, Lithuania
Exposition “ Thomas Mann house”, Nida, Lithuania
2013 Exposition and interior adopting for “Lithanian EU
presidency” National Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 Exposition for the Lithuanian presidency of EU,
Justus Lipsius house, Brussels, Belgium
2012 Exhibition “Samuel Bak”, Jevish Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 National Pavilion of Lithuania, Expo 2010, Shanghai, China.
2010 Exhibition “Cross crafting in Lithuania”
UN headquarters, New York, USA
2009 Opening exhibition, National Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2008 National Pavilion of Lithuania, Expo 2008, Zaragoza, Spain.
2005, 2007, 2009, International biennials “TEXTILE”,
2011, 2013, 2015 Kaunas, Lithuania
2005 Lithuanian language presentation exhibition,
UNESCO headquarters, Paris, France
2005, 2009 Lithuanian Art Quadriennials, Vilnius, Lithuania
2003, 2005 Exhibitions “Lietuvos Grafika - 03 and - 05 “,
CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania
2002 National pavilion of Lithuania, International Book Fair,
Frankfurt, Germany
CURATORIAL PROJECTS ( Selected ):
1990 – 2020 “RUNDGANG” - Every Year visits to Dusseldorf Art Academy of students from Vilnius Art Academy
2017 International Art project GNAP – 2017, Kaunas, Lithuania, National M.K.Čiurlionis Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
2013 “Two islands”, Iceland – Japan artists exhibition
National M.K.Ciurlionis Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
2009 Japan - Lithuanian artists exhibition “Rainbow meets the Sun” National M.K.Ciurlionis Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
2007 International Art project “Seven Words”
National M.K.Ciurlionis Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
2002 Takako Saito retrospective,
National M.K.Ciurlionis Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
2001 Installation “Black hole”, AY-O
National M.K.Ciurlionis Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
1991, 1993, 1995, International Symposiums “Uberfahrt,”
1997, 1999, 2001 Vilnius/Nida/Kaunas, Lithuania.
AWARDS, HONORS, RESIDENCIES ( Selected ):
2013 Honorary Professor at Vilnius Academy of Arts
2005 Grand Prix, International Duren Biennial, Duren, Germany
2003 Cross of the Knight of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, Vilnius, Lithuania
2003 Lithuanian Arts Creators Association Prize
2000 Mino Paper Art Residency, Washi Museum, Mino, Japan.
1991-1993 Artist in Residence, Dusseldorf Art Academy, Dusseldorf, Germany.
1990 Artist in Residence, University of Skovde, Skovde, Sweden.