ART IN A MODERN CITY FOR A MODERN STATE (Working Title)
The Kaunas School of Arts celebrates its centennial in 2022. To mark the occasion, an academic conference was organised in Kaunas on 15–16 September 2022. The conference was co-organised by Kaunas Faculty and Institute of Art Research of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Academy of Arts of Kaunas University of Applied Sciences and M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art.
The processes of artistic education that had been cultivated from the very foundation of the Kaunas School of Arts, and the artistic tradition in Lithuania generated therein, underwent a multitude of transitions. The conference invited participants to ponder anew the origin and nature of the traditions that took shape at the Kaunas School of Arts; discuss the interactions with the ideas of the modernist movement; remember the history of the Kaunas School of Arts, along with its roots and its course of development; highlight parallels with other schools of art in the rst half of the 20th century, especially those established at a similar time.
We invited presenters to discuss key episodes in the history of the Kaunas School of Arts, and to raise questions about processes, personalities and events worthy of attention and wider recognition; in addition, to clarify the links between the activities of personalities a liated and associated with the School, including teachers, artists, architects and art historians, and to identify relationships in the context of local, national and global art.

Editors: dr. Algė Andriulytė, dr. Karolina Jakaitė, prof. dr. Raimonda Simanaitienė
Publication date 2024

 

ART BEYOND THE POLITICS: AFRICA AND THE ‘OTHER’ EUROPE DURING THE COLD WAR (Working Title)
This issue is devoted to the transcontinental cultural relations, representations, and imaginations that occurred and developed between the countries of Africa and Eastern and Central Europe during the Cold War era. 
The links between Central-Eastern Europe and Africa suggest the importance of examining this still unconventional perspective on the configuration of the Cold War, which is traditionally viewed as centring around superpower rivalries. In contrast to the Western vision of one homogenous ‘Soviet bloc‘, the view from the Global South reveals evolving motivations and sometimes contradictory aims of artistic mobilities from socialist countries, whether East Germany, the Soviet Union (including the Baltic States), Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria, among others.

Editors of this issue: dr. Karina Simonson, dr. Karolina Jakaitė
Publication date 2024


THE ENSEMBLE OF THE CHURCH OF THE ST. VIRGIN MARY OF THE COMFORTER: HISTORY AND VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE
Editor: dr. Jolita Liškevičienė
Publication date 2024


THE CONCEPT AND EXPRESSION OF AGE IN CULTURE
Editors of this issue: dr. Tojana Račiūnaitė, dr. Lina Michelkevičė
Publication date 2024


PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE AND ESSAYISTIC FORM IN NONFICTION FILM AND ART
Editors of this issue: dr. Renata Šukaitytė, dr. Aušra Trakšelytė
Publication date 2024


THE ART-LABOUR RELATIONSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY ART IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, 1991-PRESENT
Editors of this issue: dr. Lina Michelkevičė, Edgaras Gerasimovičius
Publication date 2025

MEDIEVAL CULTURE STUDIES, INTERPRETATIONS, CONTINUATIONS
Editor prof. dr. Giedrė Mickūnaitė
Publication date 2025