The 10th International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius 2024 is an ongoing international interdisciplinary art project.
International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius is more than an exhibition or a set of lectures or creative workshops. It is an international movement dedicated to the artist's book, bringing together a wide range of artists, curators, museums and gallerists from Lithuania and abroad into one artist's book family. Vilnius is the centre of this artistic movement.
The theme of the 10th Anniversary Artist’s Book Triennial is "To Be", born out of a reflection on the current state of the world, with its conflicts between states, crises, and pandemics that affect each of us personally, leaving us all with various existential questions.
Questions that can be unexpected and uncomfortable. Questions that, for a long time, only seemed relevant to inhabitants of some other, "distant" countries but not to us. To be or not? And how to be? How to exist at all, when sometimes there is more evil than good? Is it still possible to be human in the context of our times? These are questions that we have to answer for ourselves and not for anyone else, but the answers are not always forthcoming.
An artist's book is not only a conceptual book, but also an art object with a clearly expressed idea, realised through employing various book forms and structures from the past centuries. An artist's book combines words and images, and traditional book design principles with interdisciplinary art.
To create a contemporary artist's book, the artist uses a variety of materials, such as paper, wood, stone, glass, metal, etc., which are more typical of other art forms, such as sculpture. The aim here is not to illustrate the text (often, artist's book do not feature text at all), but to convey an idea through the relationship between different materials. An artist's book is a unique one-off or limited-edition work, numbered and signed by the author.
The artist's books on the theme "To Be" were submitted by 197 artists from 41 countries. An international jury selected 77 artist's books for the exhibition from 29 countries. The Main Prize was awarded to the artist Jeong-Eun Lee from South Korea. Honorary prizes were awarded to five artists: Barbara Beisinghoff (Germany), Carmelo Cacciato (Italy), Eeva Louhio (Finland), Ema Shin (Australia), and Yuko Wada (Japan).
Exhibition Artist:
Roma Aukškalnytė, Silvana Blasbalg, Irene Boisaubert, Loretta Cappanera, Mara Caruso, Synnove Dickhoff, Krassimira Drenska, Timothy Frerichs, Roberto Gianinetti, Vinka Grbic, Nancy Hart, Živilė Jasutytė, Lis Rejnert Jensen, Carole Kunstadt, Lorraine Kwan, Odine Lang, Jo Ann Lanneville, Gloria Lapena Gallego, Dalia Lopez Madrona, Leo Morrissey, Lois Palframan, Ana Maria Rodriguez, Hilla Rost, Joyce Ryckman, Anna Snaedis Sigmarsdottir, Motoko Tachikawa, James Thurman, Anu Tuominen, Roberta Vaigeltaitė, Yuko Wada, and Dadi Wirz, Stephen Murphy*.
*Evanston Artist
