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The Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center ( lt, Jono Meko Vizualiųjų Menų Centras) is an Official site
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The Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center ( lt, Jono Meko Vizualiųjų Menų Centras) is an avant-garde
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arts
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centre in Vilnius
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, Lithuania.
The Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center was opened on November 10, 2007, by acclaimed Lithuanian filmmaker Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas (; December 24, 1922 – January 23, 2019) was a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist who has been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema". Mekas' work has been exhibited in museums and at festivals worldwi ...
. The premiere exhibition featured ''The Avant-Garde: From Futurism to Fluxus
Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product. Fluxus ...
''. Part of the recently purchased Fluxus
Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product. Fluxus ...
art collection, consisting of 2,600 pieces, is presented to the public in the Visual Arts Center. The total Fluxus collection is worth 12 million litas (5,6 million USD
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).
According to Mekas, he envisioned it as a place for both living, working artists and for retrospective surveys of artists' work./ref>
See also
*Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum was a proposed art museum in the city of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. On April 8, 2008 an international Jury#Non-trial juries, jury named Zaha Hadid, a British-Iraqi architect, the winner of the internation ...
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