The group exhibition “Tradition and Future”, organised by the Lithuanian Artists’ Association in 2000, was another attempt to reassess the routine of group exhibitions by asking the curators (in this case — Elona Lubytė and Ieva Kuizinienė) to make a selection from the artworks submitted by the members and entrusting the exhibition design to the CAC architect. Ozarinskas turned the Association’s ambition “to raise the bar” into an architectural metaphor by forming partitions between different parts of the exhibition through the use of high jumping bars, and hanging them horizontally at knee height. The translucent yet effective demarcation line made of functional sports equipment did not disturb the exhibits, but for those who got the joke, the space was ringing with the laughter of a prankster.

– Virginija Januškevičiūtė, “Exhibition Design”, in Architect without Architecture? A Retrospective of Valdas Ozarinskas: exhibition guide, ed.: Virginija Januškevičiūtė, Vilnius: Contemporary Art Centre, 2018, p. 34.

Exhibition architect: Valdas Ozarinskas

Exhibition curators: Ieva Kuizinienė, Elona Lubytė

Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, organised by the Lithuanian Artists’ Union

Photographs: CAC Archive

Models on display: Guminis, Villa SBA, Villa Jogaila, SBA gas station

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