Opening Reception: Friday May 23, 2025, 5pm - 8pm
On view through June 28th

The International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius is an ongoing international interdisciplinary art project dedicated to the artist’s book. Bringing together a wide range of artists, curators, museums and gallerists from Lithuania and abroad into one artist’s book family, Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is at its center.
The theme of the 10th Anniversary Artist’s Book Triennial is “To Be”, born out of a reflection on the current state of the world, with its conflicts between states, crises, and pandemics that affect each of us personally.
The exhibition confronts existential questions that can be unexpected, perhaps uncomfortable. These are the elusive questions that only we can answer for ourselves.
Drawing on historical book forms, combining words and images, the books in this exhibition range from traditional book design to interdisciplinary art, sometimes using materials more closely associated with sculpture or new media.

An international jury selected 77 artist’s books for the exhibition from 29 countries. The Main Prize was awarded to the artist Jeong-Eun Lee from South Korea. Honorary prizes were awarded to five artists: Barbara Beisinghoff (Germany), Carmelo Cacciato (Italy), Eeva Louhio (Finland), Ema Shin (Australia), and Yuko Wada (Japan).

Organisers: Circle “Bokartas” & Artist’s Book Museum Vilnius
Curator: Prof. Kestutis Vasiliunas

In Cooperation with:
Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania
IAKH: Globus Galerie + Edition Lebensretter, Leipzig, Germany
Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
The Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
The Plunge Municipal Clock Tower Library, Lithuania
Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek, Köln, Germany
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, US
Reed Library of the State University of New York at Fredonia, US
The Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, US
Biblioteca del Hospital Real, Granada, Spain

Sponsors:
Joseph and Ludi Visser
Kęstutis Vasiliūnas
Vilnius Academy of Arts
The Plunge Municipal Clock Tower Library
Lithuanian Council for Culture