Andrius Erminas exhibition “Memory Album” at the Pasvalys Regional Museum

Andrius Erminas is a conceptual artist who is known for his sensitive and associative sculptures and installations. Some of the most important ideas of this artist’s work are using references, creating imaginary stories, and changing everyday, used, easily recognizable objects and materials into new, symbolic sculptures. In his works, we can find references to ideas about people and life, as well as reflections on opposites like death and life, culture and nature, and tradition and modernity.

In the exhibition Memory Album, Andrius Erminas keeps searching for personal and shared memories, places, and identities. He looks at how dreams and parts of everyday life are changed into different forms. The artist’s works reveal memories, childhood experiences, and connections to his native environment—themes that become key elements of the exhibition’s narrative. These objects show how important survival and continuity are. The exhibition shows that simple, everyday things can be important because they connect the past with the present. The artworks on display are made up of everyday objects, but their combinations and transformations balance reality and surrealism. In Erminas’ work, childhood memories are more than just a feeling of nostalgia. They are a living source that helps us understand how a sense of belonging is formed and how personal experiences lead to bigger, more universal questions. At the exhibition, details from the past mean something new, and viewers are invited to think again about their relationship with time, place, and identity.

Andrius Erminas was born in 1971, he graduated with bachelor’s degree in fresco-mosaic studies and master’s degree in sculpture at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. A. Erminas’ creativity has earned him various national scholarships for art and culture, as well as prizes and grants for his exceptional skills as an encouragement for their future development. He actively takes part in group and personal exhibitions and art projects both in his home country and abroad – the United Kingdom, Ukraine, Austria, Bulgaria, and Germany. His artworks have been acquired by private collectors and are part of the permanent collection of the modern art Museum MO in Vilnius.

Andrius Erminas’ exhibition “Memory Album” is part of a larger project (AV17) run by the gallery. This project presents the work of contemporary Lithuanian artists in cities outside the capital. In addition to the presentation of Andrius Erminas’ work in Pasvalys, Dainius Trumpis’ exhibition “Skin and Dust” will be presented at the Gargždai Regional Museum in October.

The exhibition “Memory Album” can be visited at the Pasvalys Regional Museum (P. Avižonio g. 6) from September 25 to October 19.

The project is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.