Valentinas Klimašauskas (b. 1977, Lithuania) is a curator and writer.
Forthcoming: Inflammation, a solo by Pakui Hardware. 27 October 2023 – 11 February 2024. Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius; the next Lithuanian pavilion at the Venice Biennial 2024 (artists: Pakui Hardware and Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė, cocurating together with João Laia ).
Together with João Laia Valentinas curated “The Endless Frontier”, the 14th Baltic Triennial at CAC Vilnius (2021). With Inga Lāce, they curated “Saules Suns”, a solo exhibition by Daiga Grantina for the Latvian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2019). Klimašauskas worked as a Program Director at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2017/18), and was a curator at CAC, Vilnius (2003-13). Currently, Valentinas is the curator at large at Springs.video, a moving image streaming platform that also serves as an educational and curatorial archive.
Other recently curated projects include “Today, yesterday, tomorrow“, a non-commercial part of the ArtVilnius’23; “Ocean Eyes”, the Coast Contemporary festival in Lofuotta/Láfot/Lofoten Islands (Sept 18-22, 2023); nEYEYEght at Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon (2023); “Fluid bodies”, a series of 5 exhibitions at Nemuno 7, Zapyškis (2022); “An Incomplete & Unreliable Guide to Social Media War Room” at Georg Kargl Gallery, Vienna (2021); “The sex lives of fruit flies” at Low gallery, Riga (2021); “Who Looks out of a Window”, a solo by Valentýna Janů, lítost, Prague; “Pulse” by Alexandra Pirici, enlivenment of the Kaunas Ninth Fort Monument; “Microorganisms & Their Hosts”, a collaborative solo by Mindaugas Gapševičius at Atletika, Vilnius; “Máscaras (Masks” at Galeria Municipal do Porto (with João Laia); “The Cave & the Garden” at Futura CCA, Prague (2020); “Columnists” at Editorial, Vilnius (2019); “Somewhere in between. Contemporary art scenes” in Europe at BOZAR, Brussels (2018); “Portals or location scouting in Kaunas”, presented by Spike Art Quarterly (2017); “A hat trick or a theory of the plankton”, Podium, Oslo and Sodų 4, Vilnius (2016); “a cab”, Kunsthalle Athena, Athens, and Podium, Oslo (2015).
Klimašauskas is the author of “Oh, My Darling & Other Rants” (The Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt, 2018), “Polygon” (Six Chairs Books, 2018), and “B” (Torpedo Press, 2014).
More info at: https://selectedletters.lt
Curator of selected exhibitions:
2023
Ocean Eyes, Lofuotta/Láfot/Lofoten Islands. Coast Contemporary.
nEYEYEght at Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon.
2022
Feverish Organs at ArtVilnius Project Zone, Vilnius.
Fluid bodies at Nemuno7 in Zapyškis, Lithuania.
2021
The Endless Frontier, the 14th Baltic triennial (with João Laia) at the CAC, Vilnius.
Who Looks Out of a Window, a solo exhibition by Valentýna Janů, Litost Gallery, Prague.
The sex lives of fruit flies at Low Gallery, Riga.
An Incomplete & Unreliable Guide to Social Media War Room at Georg Kargl Gallery, Vienna. Part of the Curated by festival.
2020
Pulse by Alexandra Pirici, Kaunas.
Microorganisms and their hosts at Atletika, Vilnius, a solo by Mindaugas Gapševičius.
The Cave & the Garden at Futura CCA, Prague.
MÁSCARAS (MASKS) at Galeria Municipal do Porto, Portugal (with João Laia).
2019
Saules Suns, Latvian national pavilion at the Venice Biennial (with Inga Lace), artist – Daiga Grantina.
Columnists at Editorial, Vilnius.
2018
Somewhere in between. Contemporary art scenes in Europe at BOZAR, Brussels.
Curating a section with artists Jaakko Pallasvuo and Viktor Timofeev.
2017
Portals or location scouting in KAUNAS, exhibition in a video. Presented by Spike Art Quarterly.
2016
A Hat Trick Or A Theory Of The Plankton, Podium, Oslo.
Violet at Sodų 4, Vilnius.
Photo by Ruben Steinum, Ocean Eyes, Lofuotta/Láfot/Lofoten Islands. Coast Contemporary. 2023