Contact: lukaskolm@gmail.com
The arrow of time moves forward without stopping. It wipes off and unifies the confusion of the interactions between people, objects, and phenomena. I accept the present as a web of ‘here and now’ rather than an arrow of time with the past, the present, and the future. This moment, as an extraordinary one, is the aspiration of many. Many different recipes for its experience have been created. The creative process is a personal journey to a very close and at the same time unreachable moment: the here and now.
My work resembles the crumbs of phenomena that are pulled out of everyday life. By freezing them in paint, capturing them in objects, temporary installations, video and performance art, I seek to create the kind of fossils – the artifacts of reality. Artifacts, as documents, reflect the daily routine that involves the viscous relationships between people, situations, and phenomena. I am not limited to one art practice in my work. Often, the topic itself provokes the materials used in creation. In Artifacts, I record a problematic triangle of man, nature, and medicine.
Objects, paintings, and performance art practices are a personal atlas of everyday stories and encounters with people. When it comes to imposed and self-made scenarios, I am continuously surprised by how we constantly romanticize our environments.
Lukas Kolmogorcevas
Education:
2017 Art Educator Diploma Vytautas Magnus University
2008 MFA, Visual art, Vilnius Art academy, Lithuania
2006 BFA, Visual art, Vilnius Art academy, Lithuania
2004 Studies in Miguel Hernandez University, Spain
Solo exhibitions:
2022 Trauma, Kaunas Artists House, Kaunas, Lithuania
2020 Nature Pattern Studies, Manor Gallery, Kaišiadoriai, Lithuania
2019 Nervous System, Art Park Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2014 Testimonies, Homo Ludens, Jonava, Lithuania.
2009 Monoimpulses II, Art Container Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2008 Monoimpulses, Ferrodrum Gallery, Tartu, Estonia
2007 Autofragments, Vinco Kudirkos Library Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2004 Pintura-Dibujo, C.B.Oliete Gallery, Alicante, Spain
Solo Art performance:
2022 No Man’s Land, Ostralle Biennale, Kaunas, Lithuania
History of Artefact No7. Bed’s Art Performance Festival, Athens, Greece
2021 ONE DAY LUCK WILL COME, Ostralle Biennale, Drezden, Germany
2020 Home, Home Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
Signs, Homo Ludens Gallery, Jonava, Lithuania
2019 Moon Phases, Performance festival Creature, Kaunas, Lithuania
Group Art Performance:
2022 Synergy, Kedainiai Culture House, Lithuania
2021 Safe and Sound, ORO Public Space Performance Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania
2020 Listing a Book, ORO Public Space Performance Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania
Left and Right, Diverse Universe Performance and Art festival, Parnu, Estonia
2018 Love Is, International performance project Equinox, Kaunas, Lithuania
Selected group exhibinions (from 2010):
2023 Holy, Drobė Gallery, Kaunas
Holy, Janina Monkutė Marks Gallery, Kėdainiai, Lithuania
2021 Invasion, Alytus Culture Centre, Alytus, Lithuania
Paint and Become, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai, Lithuania
2020 Un- Determinated, Vilnius Art Biennal, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018 Harakyri, Homo Ludens Gallery, Jonava, Lithuania
2017 Imago Mundi, Art Park Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2016 Spots II, Homo Ludens, Jonava, Lithuania
Visual, Pamenkalnio Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
Hornet Honey, Homo Ludens, Jonava, Lithuania
Personal Mythologhy, Ukmerge Culture Centre, Ukmerge, Lithuania
2014 Spots, Homo Ludens, Jonava, Lithuania
2012 Kaunas in Art, M.K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
2011 Videoatmosphere, Independence Square, Kaunas, Lithuania
5 Senses of Vilnius, Gedimino Street Scquare, Vilnius, Lithuania
Museum Nights, Raudondvaris Manor Gallery, Raudondvaris, Lithuania
2010 Antipop, VDU Art Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
At This Side of Painting, Art Park Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania