Danas Aleksa
Danas Aleksa is the creator of conceptual interdisciplinary art, working with sculpture, object, performance and video art. The main creative axes of the artist encompass time and space and their relationship. The leitmotifs frequently manifesting in his works include fragments of everyday situations related to a specific place, like traces left by a person or government mechanisms, revolving around the processes of changes, disappearance and destruction. Aleksa also pays a lot of attention to the adaptation of the society and nature to the everchanging conditions and the technological progress of the civilization. The artist does not rely on the values enforced, but rather looks for the social reality at the margins of life, in forgotten or abandoned places. He is like an observer analyzing the surrounding environment, disrupting it in various ways and waiting for its response. Analysing social and virtual spaces, and acting in various performances, Aleksa tries to understand the social status of himself as an artist and his identity in various realities.
Danas Aleksa (b.1971) in 1997 has graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts, where he obtained a master’s degree in sculpture. Since then, the artist has organized over 15 solo exhibitions and is also actively involved in group exhibitions. In 2012, he became a member of the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artist’s Association. The artist lives and works in Vilnius.
Born in 1971 in Vilnius, Lithuania
Lives and works in Vilnius
Education
1995-1997 Vilnius Academy of Arts, Master’s degree in sculpture
1991-1995 Vilnius Academy of Arts, Bachelor’s degree in sculpture
Solo exhibitions
2024 Sculptor’s body, Kunstverein Wagenhalle art centre, Stuttgart, Germany
2024 Changed Purpose, Audiovisual Arts Centre, Alytus, Lithuania
2024 Landscape at 8 km/h, (AV17) gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021 Sculptor's Body, (AV17) gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021 75 kilograms and a beam, gallery “Si: said”, Klaipėda, Lithuania
2020 Canadian Visa, gallery “Si: said”, Klaipėda, Lithuania
2020 Mulasen, Mončys House – Museum, Palanga, Lithuania
2019 The Last Sculpture – S355JR, VAA exhibition hall “Titanic”, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018 Titanic, VAA exhibition hall “Titanic”, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 Danas Aleksa presents Eglė Ridikaitė, gallery “Trivium”, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 Fucked Windows, POST gallery, Laisvės al. 51 A, Kaunas, Lithuania
2017 43H, JMVMC, Malūnų str. 8, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016 Fu..ed Windows, Artifex, Gaono str. 2, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 Flos Artifice, Malonioji st. 6, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 Room 122, Academy Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 Norwegian Utopia, Malonioji str. 6, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 Dialogue, Museum of Energy and Technology, Rinktinės str. 2, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011 Surprises, M. Riomeris University Library, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011 Fe Vilnius, Museum of Energy and Technology, Rinktinės str. 2, Vilnius, Lithuania
2009 G141K1, Aukštoji str.3, Klaipėda, Lithuania
1997 Innocent Sport, Athletes' House, Ašmenos str. 8, Vilnius, Lithuania
Group exhibitions
2024 Fox Cave, Meno Parkas gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2024 ART VILNIUS‘24, LITEXPO, Vilnius, Lithuania
2023 „Nemuno7 |Water Elements | #1“ – DANAS ALEKSA, Nemunas7, Kaunas, Lithuania
2023 ART VILNIUS‘23, LITEXPO, Vilnius, Lithuania
2022 Inventory, POST gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2021 Manila is calling your name, Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021 Waiting, open-air sculpture exhibition, organizer gallery (AV17), Kudros park, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020 State, open-air sculpture exhibition, organizer gallery (AV17), Pakruojis manor park – Panemune castle park, Lithuania
2020 Manila Is Calling Your Name, Baroti Gallery, Klaipėda, Lithuania
2020 Blue Ribbon, organizer gallery “Si:side”, Smiltynė, Lithuania
2020 Conversations With Nature, organized by Kleopas Society, Narvaišiai village, Plungė district, Lithuania
2019 2090, Project space Lokomotif, Lentvaris, Lithuania
2019 Unintended Direction, Vilnius railway station, organizer gallery (AV17), Vilnius, Lithuania
2019 Footprint, Art Park, Kaunas, Lithuania
2018 3Dvs2D, Prospect Photography Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 ART VILNIUS’17, LITEXPO, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 11th Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas Exhibition Hall, Kaunas, Lithuania
2017 Parade, Klaipėda Exhibition Hall, Klaipėda, Lithuania
2016 LT100, Sodų 4, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016 Mind the Object,3, POST gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2016 ART VILNIUS’16, LITEXPO, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 Mind the object,2, POST gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2015 ART VILNIUS’15, LITEXPO, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 Ministry of Fluxus. Fragments, JMVMC, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 ART VILNIUS 14, LITEXPO, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 Repositories of Interdisciplinarity (?), JMVMC, Gynėjų st. 14, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 Seeming, Ministry of Fluxus, Jonavos str. 3, Kaunas, Lithuania
2011 ART VILNIUS’11, LITEXPO, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011 Public Dialogue, Manto Square, Klaipėda, Lithuania
2011 Dormitory, Vilnius, Lithuania
2010 Open Studies Days, Ministry of Fluxus, Gedimino Ave., Vilnius, Lithuania
2010 White Alley, Mažvydas Alley, Klaipėda, Lithuania
2008 Aquarium IV, Exhibition Hall, Baroti Gallery, Klaipėda, Lithuania
2005 Elements / Water, Antanas Mončys House-Museum, Palanga, Lithuania
2004 Required, Gallery “Left – Right”, Vilnius, Lithuania
2001 Contemporary art project on advertising stands, Vilnius, Lithuania
2000 To Be Useful, Panerių str.31 “Skraja”, Vilnius, Lithuania
1997 Art, art gallery, Šiauliai, Lithuania
1997 GJ, JMC Art League, Vilnius, Lithuania