I’m Visvaldas Morkevičius a visual artist.
Photography seems to be one of the most accurate mediums for reproducing reality. But even if a picture looks accurate or realistic, it can as easily manipulate the sense of reality and image perception. Images can be visual, acoustic, motoric, sensoric and many more things and forms. An image of objects, phenomena, events, that arise in one’s memory or imagination is a restoration of a previous perception or experience mixed with the context of the moment it's seen. In my work, these ideas are explored in practice through the subjects-objects relation, subconsciousness, self intangibility, dreams and fiction. My works are self-analytic and intimate.
I use anthropological photographs, ordinary snapshots, constructed images, objects or different contexts. By using a variety of Low-Fi and Hi-Fi aesthetics I’m working with materials ranging from classical analog to modern digital tools. In this way, I manipulate the sense of time in my works and their perception.
Collaborated with: L'UOMO Vogue, Dazed digital, i-D online, Zeit Campus, NEON magazin, Nido, "Let it Go", secretthirteen.org, Granvat, Stroom records and others.
2020 Portraitzine. Issue Gintas K
2017 Portraitzine. Issue Remigijus
2015 Public Secrets
2023 “Source”, group exhibition, Państwowa Galeria Sztuki w Sopocie, Sopot, Poland
2022 “Looking Forward to Meet Me”, solo exhibition, Photography museum, Šiauliai, Lithuania
2021 “Permainų šventė”, group exhibition, MO museum, Vilnius
2021 “Looking Forward to Meet Me”, Prospekto galerija, solo exhibition, Vilnius
2021 “Looking Forward to Meet Me”, ISSP gallery, solo exhibition, Riga.
2020 “Homo Absentia” group exhibition, Lewben Art Foundation, Vilnius2020 "Visage(s) D'Europe", Festival_Circulations, group exhibition, Paris
2020 "Wunderkammer", Riga Photography Biennial, Latvian Museum of Photography, group exhibition, Riga
2020 "Inner dialogue", apiece gallery, solo exhibition, Palanga, Lithuania
2019 "Inner Dialogue", Ten-gallery, solo exhibition, Mannheim, Germany
2019 ENTER. Belgrade photomonth, group exhibition, Belgrade
2018 "The Big Picture", Art Vilnius'18, together with The Rooster gallery, group exhibition, Vilnius
2018 "New Chic", Riga Photomonth, group exhibition, Riga
2018 "The Big Picture", The Rooster gallery, group exhibition, Vilnius
2017 "Estonian photographic art fair 2017", Tallinn
2017 "Outside the Wall", group exhibition, Nida art colony, Nida, Lithuania 2017 "My story" Pamenkalnio gallery, group exhibition, Vilnius
2016 "Public Secrets" Pamenkalnio gallery, solo exhibition, Vilnius
2016 "INTIMACY / IDENTITY / CONTEMPORARY REALITIES", group exhibition, Paris
2016 "Public Secrets" Panke, solo exhibition, Berlin
2015 "Public Secrets" Arts printing House, solo exhibition, Vilnius
2015 “550” gallery “Vartai”, group exhibition, Vilnius
MO museum
Lewben Art Foundation
SEB bank art collection
State Gallery of Art, Sopot, PL.
2023 FFWS Residency, Sopot, Poland.
2022 Lithuanian Council for Culture, Artist scholarship.
2021 VV Foundation grant
2021 PAiR Residency
2020 Winners of the Riga Photography Biennial – NEXT and ISSP Gallery Award 2021 “Seeking the Latest in Photography!”
2020 Nordic Culture Point grant.
2020 The 2019 Gomma Prix Award.
2018 Lithuanian Council for Culture, Artist scholarship.
2017 One of Riga Photography Biennial nominees for Award 2018 Seeking the Latest in Photography.
2016 Granted the status of an artist.
2016 Awarded as publisher by Lithuanian Culture Ministry at Book art contest 2015 for most beautiful book (Public Secrets) @ Artistic and documentary photography publications theme.
2015 1st place winner of "Kaunas Photo Festival" portfolio reviews.
2015 Lithuanian Council for Culture, Artist scholarship.
2014 – 2016 Residency at “Art printing house”.
Photography seems to be one of the most accurate mediums for reproducing reality. But even if a picture looks accurate or realistic, it can as easily manipulate the sense of reality and image perception. Images can be visual, acoustic, motoric, sensoric and many more things and forms. An image of objects, phenomena, events, that arise in one’s memory or imagination is a restoration of a previous perception or experience mixed with the context of the moment it's seen. In my work, these ideas are explored in practice through the subjects-objects relation, subconsciousness, self intangibility, dreams and fiction. My works are self-analytic and intimate.
I use anthropological photographs, ordinary snapshots, constructed images, objects or different contexts. By using a variety of Low-Fi and Hi-Fi aesthetics I’m working with materials ranging from classical analog to modern digital tools. In this way, I manipulate the sense of time in my works and their perception.
Collaborated with: L'UOMO Vogue, Dazed digital, i-D online, Zeit Campus, NEON magazin, Nido, "Let it Go", secretthirteen.org, Granvat, Stroom records and others.
Books:
2020 Portraitzine. Issue Gintas K
2017 Portraitzine. Issue Remigijus
2015 Public Secrets
Exhibitions:
2023 “Source”, group exhibition, Państwowa Galeria Sztuki w Sopocie, Sopot, Poland
2022 “Looking Forward to Meet Me”, solo exhibition, Photography museum, Šiauliai, Lithuania
2021 “Permainų šventė”, group exhibition, MO museum, Vilnius
2021 “Looking Forward to Meet Me”, Prospekto galerija, solo exhibition, Vilnius
2021 “Looking Forward to Meet Me”, ISSP gallery, solo exhibition, Riga.
2020 “Homo Absentia” group exhibition, Lewben Art Foundation, Vilnius2020 "Visage(s) D'Europe", Festival_Circulations, group exhibition, Paris
2020 "Wunderkammer", Riga Photography Biennial, Latvian Museum of Photography, group exhibition, Riga
2020 "Inner dialogue", apiece gallery, solo exhibition, Palanga, Lithuania
2019 "Inner Dialogue", Ten-gallery, solo exhibition, Mannheim, Germany
2019 ENTER. Belgrade photomonth, group exhibition, Belgrade
2018 "The Big Picture", Art Vilnius'18, together with The Rooster gallery, group exhibition, Vilnius
2018 "New Chic", Riga Photomonth, group exhibition, Riga
2018 "The Big Picture", The Rooster gallery, group exhibition, Vilnius
2017 "Estonian photographic art fair 2017", Tallinn
2017 "Outside the Wall", group exhibition, Nida art colony, Nida, Lithuania 2017 "My story" Pamenkalnio gallery, group exhibition, Vilnius
2016 "Public Secrets" Pamenkalnio gallery, solo exhibition, Vilnius
2016 "INTIMACY / IDENTITY / CONTEMPORARY REALITIES", group exhibition, Paris
2016 "Public Secrets" Panke, solo exhibition, Berlin
2015 "Public Secrets" Arts printing House, solo exhibition, Vilnius
2015 “550” gallery “Vartai”, group exhibition, Vilnius
Collections:
MO museum
Lewben Art Foundation
SEB bank art collection
State Gallery of Art, Sopot, PL.
Awards/Grants/Nominations:
2023 FFWS Residency, Sopot, Poland.
2022 Lithuanian Council for Culture, Artist scholarship.
2021 VV Foundation grant
2021 PAiR Residency
2020 Winners of the Riga Photography Biennial – NEXT and ISSP Gallery Award 2021 “Seeking the Latest in Photography!”
2020 Nordic Culture Point grant.
2020 The 2019 Gomma Prix Award.
2018 Lithuanian Council for Culture, Artist scholarship.
2017 One of Riga Photography Biennial nominees for Award 2018 Seeking the Latest in Photography.
2016 Granted the status of an artist.
2016 Awarded as publisher by Lithuanian Culture Ministry at Book art contest 2015 for most beautiful book (Public Secrets) @ Artistic and documentary photography publications theme.
2015 1st place winner of "Kaunas Photo Festival" portfolio reviews.
2015 Lithuanian Council for Culture, Artist scholarship.
2014 – 2016 Residency at “Art printing house”.