Exhibitions

Antanas Sutkus

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Antanas Sutkus (b. 1939)
 
 
In 1958 –1964 Sutkus studied journalism at Vilnius University. He was one of the founders of the Lithuanian Society of Photographic Art in 1969, and its chairman in 1980 – 1989. In 1989 –1990 and 1996 – 2009  – the chairman of the Photo artists’ Union and since 1993 – its honorary member. In 1980 Sutkus was awarded the name of Honored Culture Worker of Lithuania; in 1983 he received the Lithuanian State Premium; in 1997 he was decorated with the Order of the Grand Duke Gediminas of the 4th degree; in 1998 he received the Art Award of the Lithuanian Government. In 2001–2002 he won the Erna&Victor Hasselblad Foundation (Sweden) grant Documentation and Conservation of Antanas Sutkus’ Archive of Photographs. In 2003 received the National Premium for Art. In 2006 was decorated with the Golden Cross of the President of  Poland Republic. In 2009 was decorated with the The Honour sign “Lithuanian Millennium Star”. In 2011 was nominated to the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize.
 
 
One-man exhibitions
 
More than 120. Most important of them:
 
2014   J. P. Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in Lithuania. 1965, Lithuanian Embassy, Washington DC, USA
 
            Daily Life Archives 1965 – 2012, Albrecht gallery, Berlin
 
 
 
2013    J. P. Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in Lithuania. 1965, Les Breales festival. Caen, France
 
The Unpublished / Nepublikuota, RTR gallery, Paris
 
J. P. Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir Lietuvoje. 1965, Art festival Artes vertentes, Tiradentes, Brazil
 
A Free Sight, CAIXA Cultural, Rio de Janeiro
 
A Free Sight, CAIXA Cultural, Brasilia. Brazil
 
J. P. Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in Lithuania. 1965, United Nations  Headquarters, New York
 
A Free Sight, CAIXA Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil
 
      Nostalgia for Bare Feet, CAIXA Cultural, Fortaleza, Brazil
 
 
 
2012    J. P. Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in Lithuania. 1965, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
 
Nostalgia for Bare Feet, Art festival Artes vertentes, Tiradentes, Brazil
 
Nostalgia for Bare Feet, Contemporary photography gallery, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
 
A Free Sight, CAIXA Cultural, Salvador, Brazil
 
A Free Sight, Museum Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil
 
            Antanas Sutkus. Photography, Fotomuseet Sundsvall, Sweden
 
From the series J. P. Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in Lithuania, Walter Bishoff galerie, Berlin
 
 
 
2011    Un regard libre, Gallery Le Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, France
 
Intersections. Russian Tea Gallery, Paris
 
 
 
2010    J. P. Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in Lithuania, 1965, Nay, France 
 
People of Lithuania, Galeria Wysokich Napiec, Warsaw, Poland
 
 
 
2009    Retrospektyva, Galerija Birkenfelds, Ryga
 
 
 
2008    J. P. Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in Lithuania, 1965, Rachmaninov dvorik gallery, St Petersburg
 
J. P. Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in Lithuania, 1965, Warsaw, Poland
 
J. P. Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in Lithuania, 1965, Cyklop gallery, Gdansk, Poland
 
            Lithuanian Portraits, White Space Gallery, London
 
            Signs of Time, Gallery Photographer.ru. Moscow
 
            Lithuania, up close and personal, Lensky gallery, Stow-on-the Wold, England
 
 
 
2007    Writers, Retro, Writers’ Club, Vilnius
 
            Retrospective, Art Exhibition Palace, Klaip?da
 
            Retrospective, Rachmaninov dvorik gallery, St Petersburg, Russia
 
            Daily Life Archives,Contemporary Art Museum, Minsk Byelorussia, Minsk
 
            J.- P. Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, 1965. Warsaw, Poland
 
 
 
2006          White Space Gallery, London
 
Stadtmuseum Münster, Germany
 
 
 
2005    Exhibitions “J-P. Sartre and S. de Beauvoir in Lithuania. 1965” for the 100th anniversary of Sartre:
 
            Centre Culturel Francais, Kiev, Ukraine
 
            Centre Culturel Francais, Stockholm, Sweden
 
            Centre Culturel Francais, Rostock, Germany
 
            Centre Culturel Francais, Greifswald, Germany
 
            Photography gallery 17, Salies de Bearn, France
 
            House of Literature, Munich, Germany
 
            Ocean Museum, Kaliningrad, Russia
 
            Photography gallery, Paris, France
 
            Artists’ Union Gallery, Riga, Latvia
 
            Travelling exhibition Daily Life Archives, Latvia
 
            International Photography Festival, Bielsko Biala, Poland
 
            Travelling exhibition Daily Life Archives, Poland
 
            Travelling exhibition Selected Works, Poland
 
            Travelling exhibition People of Lithuania, Russia
 
            City gallery, Marienhamn, Aland Island, Finland
 
 
 
2004    PHP, Prague, Czech
 
            Galerie argus fotokunst, Berlin, Germany
 
Landskrona kulturförvaltning, Landskrona, Sweden
 
Susanne Albrecht gallery, Munich, Germany
 
Stara Galeria ZPAF, Warsaw, Poland
 
            The 5th Moscow Photography Bienalle, Central House of Artists,
 
            Moscow, Russia
 
            CK Zamek, Galeria PF, Poznan, Poland
 
            Galleri Infra, Stockholm, Sweden
 
 
 
2003    Prospekto photography gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
 
Photography gallery, Sundsvall, Sweden
 
Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 
2002        Gallery Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
 
            Photography Striped House Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 
            European Council of Nations, Strasbourg, France
 
            State History Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
 
            National Library, New York, USA
 
            European Union Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium
 
1999        Photography Museum, Riga, Latvia
 
1998        Modern Art Center, Rovinj, Croatia
 
1997        Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
 
Photography gallery, Vilnius
 
            Islington Arts Factory Gallery, London, England
 
1996        Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, USA
 
            UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
 
            Nikon Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 
1994        Nikolaj Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
1993        Photography Gallery, Vilnius
 
1991        Tom Hayden Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
 
            Loyola University, Chicago, USA
 
1987        Center of Photography, Leningrad, Russia
 
1988        Modern Art Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
 
1986        Nicéphore Niépce Museum, Chalon-sur-Saone, France
 
1982        Museum of Photography, Stockholm, Sweden
 
1981        Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
 
1974    Photography Gallery, Vilnius
 
 
Group Exhibitions
 
2012    Der Andere Blick (with Martin Parr and Tom Wood)
 
Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germeny
 
“World in London” project for The Photographers gallery Olimpic cultural program, London
 
,,Paris – Vilnius,  a Glance to Contemporary Lithuanian Photography:  Antanas Sutkus, S&P Stanikai, Ramun? Pigagait?, Deimantas Narkevi?ius“, L‘école nationale supérieure des beaux arts, ENSBA, Paris
 
Amours Libres (with Jean-Philippe Charbonnier), RTR gallery, Paris
 
2010     Four Points. Eight Stops, Galllery „Foto-forum“, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
 
Phenomenon of Lithuanian Photography. 1960-1980 (with Aleksandras Macijauskas and Vitalijus Butyrinas), The Lumiere Brothers gallery, Moscow
 
Lithuanian Photography: Yesterday and Today, The Danish Museum of Photography, Hering, Denmark
 
 
 
2008    Spacetime: People / Friction, Vilnius Picture Gallery
 
Behind Walls, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
 
Street&Studio. An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London
 
Working Men, Analix Forever gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
 
2007    Presumed Innocence, (from the collection of Beth and Anthony Terrana) The DeCordoba Museum, Lincoln, USA
 
Antanas Sutkus and Classics of Lithuanian Photography, The State Russian Centre of Photography, St Petersburg, Russia
 
Two Masters of Lithuanian Photography: Antanas Sutkus and Rimantas  Dichavicius, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
 
2006        Photography Festival FotoGrafia (with A. Macijauskas and R. Požerskis),   Rome, Italy
 
2005    Galeri Konstepidemin (with S&P Stanikas), Goteburg, Sweden
 
            Galerie Lichtblick (with A. Macijauskas and A. Valiauga), Cologne, Germany
 
            Galerie Susanne Albrecht (with Martin Parr), Munich, Germany
 
2003        EU Positive Akademie der Künste Berlin, Germany
 
2002        Les Boreales festival, Caen, France
 
Clear Vision. Photographs from F.C. Gundlach’s Collection, Internationales Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
 
Lithuanian Insight: 1960 to Now. Fotografie Forum international, Kommunale Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 
2000        Self Esteem. Lithuanian Art’ 01, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
 
1999 – 2000    Victoria and Albert Museum Canon Gallery
 
            Modern Lithuanian Photography, Joseph Sudek Photography House, Prague, Czech
 
1993 – 1994    Photography’s Memory. Baltic Photography Today, Exhibition Hall, Rostok, Germany; Martin Gropius Bau Gallery, Berlin, Germany; State Art Academy, Gdansk, Poland; Nikolaj Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, etc.
 
1992        Aspects of Lithuanian Photography, IFA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
 
1990    L’Annee de L’Est, Photography Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland
 
Lithuanian Crosses, Photography Gallery, Oslo, Norway
 
1987        Another Russia. Unofficial Modern Photography of the Soviet Union;
 
            Modern Art Museum, Oxford, England
 
Exhibition of Lithuanian Photography, Photography Museum, Helsinki, Finland
 
1985        Modern Lithuanian Photography, Turin, Italy
 
1979        Lithuanian Photography, Canon Photography Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
 
 4 Lithuanian Photographers, Photographers Gallery, London, England
 
1969        9 Lithuanian Photographers, Journalists’ Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
 
1967        4 Photographers, Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius
 
 
Photographs were acquired by
 
Lithuanian Museum of Art, Vilnius; Museum of Photography, Šiauliai; National Library, Paris; Museum of  French Photography, Paris; Museum of Photography, Helsinki; Agency ‘VU, Paris, France; International Center of Photography, New York; Institute of Arts, Chicago; Art Museum, Minneapolis; Fotoforum Felldeg Gallery, Zurich; Art Gallery, Dresden; Art Museum, Boston; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Photography Museum, Odense, Denmark; F.C. Gundlach’s Collection, Hamburg; Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm; House of Photography, Prague,Czech;  Museum The Moscow House of Photography; Folkvang Museum, Essen, Germany; DeCordoba Museum, Linkoln, USA; Contemporary Art Museum, Riga, Latvia; Lumiere Brothers gallery, Moscow; Gallery Le Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, France; Museum Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil
 
 
 
Private collections
 
Danguole and Viktoras Butkus, Lithuania
 
Aivaras Abromavi?ius, Lithuania
 
Danute Marlat, Belgium
 
The Tosca Photography Fund, UK
 
Mehmet Dalman Collection, UK
 
Keir McGuinness, UK
 
Eric Franck, UK
 
Klaus Schuebel, Germany
 
Paul Smith, UK
 
Herbert Belkin, USA
 
Elizabeth and Anthony Terrana, USA
 
 
Publications
 
Vilniaus šiokiadieniai (Daily Life in Vilnius; with R.Rakauskas), 1965; T?višk?s lauk? suvenyras (A Souvenir from the Fields of Homeland), 1969; Šalis ta Lietuva vadinas (This Land is Called Lithuania; with R.Rakauskas),1970; Senojo Vilniaus Fragmentai (Fragments of the Old Vilnius), 1973; Lazdynai, 1975; Lietuva iš paukš?io skrydžio (Bird’s Eye View of Lithuania),1980, 1981; Neringa, 1980, 1982, 1992; Daina Lietuvai (A Song for Lithuania),1984; Susitikimai su Bulgarija: parodos katalogas (Meetings with Bulgaria: Exhibition Catalogue, 1986); Draugyst? (Friendship), 1988; Naturparadies Kurische Nehrung (with H.Peitch), 1988; Lietuva/Lithuania, 1991,1993; Lietuva (Lithuania), 1993; Bas? koj? nostalgija: parodos katalogas (Nostalgia for Bare Feet: Exhibition Catalogue), 1995; Pro Memoria: Exhibition Catalogue, 1997; Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in Lithuania,1965: Exhibition Catalogue (1999); Antanas Sutkus. Fotografijos, (Antanas Sutkus. Photographs), 2000; Antanas Sutkus. Kasdienyb?s archyvai. 1959-1993 (Daily Life Archives. 1959-1993), 2003; Antanas Sutkus. Sartre & Beauvoir. Cinq jours en Lituanie. Le Bord De L’eau Editions, France, 2005; Sartre & Beauvoir: parodos katalogas; Sartre & Beauvoir: Exhibition Catalogue, 2005; Antanas Sutkus. Exhibition Catalogue, 2008; Antanas Sutkus. Retrospective. 2009; Barbara Romme. Fokus Litauen (with others). Exhibition Catalogue. Stadtmuseum Munster. 2010; Antanas Sutkus. Um olhar livre: Exhibition catalogue, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, 2012; Nostalgia dos tempos da pureza: Exhibition catalogue, Tessitura editora, 2012; Antanas Sutkus. Um olhar livre: Exhibition catalogue, Espaco Cultural Correios, 2013; Antanas Sutkus. Photographs: Exhibition catalogue, European commission, 2013;