Rimantas Milkintas solo exhibition “Stages” at SCHWARZ CONTEMPORARY in Berlin

In his solo exhibition “Stages”, Rimantas Milkintas presents sculptures and installations created between 2004 and 2025, exploring the stages of his artistic development. Milkintas’s work is characterized by a minimalist aesthetic and the integration of kinetic plasticity. Due to focus on the significant form of a work of art and its material properties, creations of the artist are often compared to those of Lithuanian and foreign classics of modernism. His works are recognizable for their open constructions and the illusion of movement created in space. Instead of traditional materials, the sculptor uses industrial steel, plywood, and iron beams, juxtaposing their physical properties of volumes such as flexibility, sturdiness, softness or fragility with individual experience. By combining strict structural forms, he creates a specific visual tension that allows the objects to respond to the architectural environment and engage the viewer in a direct experience.

The exhibition “Stages” defines transitional states – the time between events, forms, and different conceptual contexts – which in the artist’s work become an active creative space where new structures and meaningful connections emerge. In the context of global tensions and political upheavals, the exhibited works gain new relevance, speaking about the search for balance, the fragility of structures, and constant change. The central piece of the exhibition is the installation “Connection”, which, by linking separate elements into a tense system, reveals itself in the present as a metaphor for the necessity of connections between people, cultures, and experiences, as well as their vulnerability. Thus, the exhibition invites the viewer to experience different “stages” – transitional moments in which tension, fragility, and complex relationships between forms, materials, and experiences are revealed.

Rimantas Milkintas (b. 1977) graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts with bachelor and master degrees in sculpture. Since 2003, he has been actively working in the art field in Lithuania and abroad: China, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Italy, Denmark, Latvia, etc. Milkintas received awards in Lithuania and abroad. Among his accolades there are scholarships for creators of art and culture by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania and prestigious Arnaldo Pomodoro (Italy) third-place prize for contemporary sculpture creators. In 2011, the artist received an award for the best sculpture at the international contemporary art fair “ArtVilnius”. The artist has also created sculptures for public spaces in Belgium, Latvia, and Lithuania. The artist’s works belong to private collections in Lithuania and abroad.

The exhibition “Stages” will be on view at SCHWARZ CONTEMPORARY, Marburger Str. 3, Berlin, until May 16.

The exhibition is part of an international exchange between SCHWARZ CONTEMPORARY and (AV17)GALLERY in Vilnius, Lithuania.

The project is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.