Obcarskas Antanas

Antanas Obcarskas was born on 27 May 1958 in Zapyškis. In 1971-73 he studied at Kaunas four-year children’s art school. In 1973-77 he studied at Kaunas S. Žukas Applied Arts Technical School (now Kaunas College J. Vienožinskis Faculty of Arts), in 1977-82 – at Vilnius State Art Institute (now Vilnius Academy of Arts). He has been participating in exhibitions since 1982. Since 1990 – a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Union. Since 1993 – a member of the artists’ group “Agis”. Since 2011 a member of the German Artists’ Union “Focus Europa”. He works in the field of painting and contemporary art.

Mob. tel.: +370 612 62120
E-mail: e-mail: obcarskas@delfi.lt

Solo exhibitions

1988 – “Painting”, Kaunas Artists’ House, Kaunas.
1990 – “Paintings from Lithuania”, Lusiada Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
1992 – “Painting”, I. Mikuličiūtė Gallery, Kaunas.
1992 – “Painting”, AL Gallery, Palanga.
1993 – “Painting”, KIK Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
1995 – “Painting”, Linal Gallery, Hilversum, Netherlands.
1997 – “Painting”, Ruta Gallery, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
1998 – “Painting”, Eglė Gallery, Kaunas.
1998 – “Painting”, Lithuanian Embassy in Germany, Berlin, Germany.
2000 – “Painting”, Lithuanian Artists’ Palace, Vilnius City Hall, Vilnius.
2004 – “Disjunctions”, Gallery “Meno Parkas”, Kaunas.
2004 – Fluxus action “Air from Kaunas in Warsaw”, DAP Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
2005 – “Planes”, Gallery “Left – Right”, Vilnius.
2007 – “WC of European Galleries: Personal Research”, Gallery “Arka”, Vilnius.
2007 – “Sails”, Galerie Mare Liberum, Hamburg, Germany.
2009 – “100×81”, Savickas Picture Gallery, Vilnius.
2010 – “Painting”, Gallery ASVS, Porto, Portugal.

2011 – “Painting”, Gallery ” Sofa”, Druskininkai

2011 – “Horizontai” A Gallery, Panevėžys

Most important group exhibitions

1982-1994 – Kaunas Artists’ Exhibitions, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas.
1986-1989 – Republican Fine Art Exhibitions, Art Exhibition Hall, Vilnius.
1988 – “Youth 88”, IV Baltic Young Artists’ Exhibition, Art Exhibition Hall, Vilnius.
1988 – “Country Youth”, USSR Young Artists’ Exhibition, Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia.
1988 – USSR Young Artists’ Exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing, China.
1989 – Lithuanian Young Artists’ Exhibition, Szentendre Gallery, Szentendre, Hungary.
1989 – “8 Kaunas Painters”, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.
1990 – “Kaunas Painters”, Gallery “Jana Seta”, Riga, Latvia.
1992 – “Bialowieza – 91”, Gallery “Arsenal”, Bialystok, Poland.
1993 – “Contemporary Lithuanian Art from Kaunas”, Gallery “Mestna”, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
1993 – “Berlin – Kaunas – London”, Švalenberg House of Creativity, Šyder – Švalenberg, Germany.
1993 – International Exhibition, Kunstmeile Portcenter, Rostock, Germany.
1993 – IVth Exhibition of the Group “Agis”, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.
1994 – “Joint Group Exhibition”, CAC, Vilnius.
1994 – VIth exhibition of the group “Angis”, Panevėžys Art Gallery, Panevėžys.
1995 – “Under the Sign of Gemini”, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.
1996 – “Angis-96”, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.
1997 – IVth International Painting Plein Air, dedicated to the memory of A. Samuelis, exhibition “Far and Near”, M. Žilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas.
1997 – “Bridges of Europe”, “Zameček” Gallery, Pribram, Czech Republic.
1998 – “Six Cities Exhibition”, Gallery of the Polish Institute of Culture, Berlin, Germany.
1998 – “Generation of the Break”, Fjosangersamlingene Gallery, Bergen, Norway.
1998 – “Rhesus + / -“, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai.
1999 – “Painters from Lithuania”, “Huset i Asnaes” gallery, Asnaes, Denmark.
1999 – “Exhibition of Six”, “Studio” gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
1999 – “Exhibition of Six”, EL gallery, Elblag, Poland.
1999 – “Angis 1989-1999”, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.
1999 – “Beginning of the End” Exhibition Hall, Baroti Gallery, Klaipėda.
1999 – “Angis 1989-1999”, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai.
2000 – “Rhesus + / – “, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.
2000 – “Von Haus zu Haus” retrospective exhibition of the West German Artists’ Union, Museen der Stadt Ludenscheid, Ludenscheid, Germany.
2000 – “Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW”, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2000 – “The Last Christmas Haiku of the 20th Century”, LDS Kaunas Gallery, Kaunas.
2000 – “Viper 2000”, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.
2001 – “The Best Work of the 2000s”, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.
2001 – “Water and Color. Self-Portrait: I Am the Artist”, LDS Kaunas Gallery, Kaunas.
2001 – “Krakow – Kaunas 2001”, D. Rostworowski Gallery, Krakow, Poland.
2001 – “Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW”, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2001 – International Exhibition “Mysterium Magnum”, LDS Kaunas Gallery, Kaunas.
2002 – “Entre deux mondes”, Des Penitents Chapel, Aniane, France.
2002 – Takako Saito and Lithuanian Artists, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.
2002 – “Journeys”, Westbury Gallery, Milton Keynes, England.
2002 – “Erase the Marked Place” project of the group “Angis”, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.
2002 – International exhibition “Ars longa vita brevis

“, LDS Kaunas Gallery, Kaunas.
2003 – “At First Sight”, TPK Tecla Sala, Barcelona, ​​Spain.
2003 – “Sees”, Linna Gallery, Pärnu, Estonia.
2003 – “Insert” project of the “Angis” group, Savanorių pr. 168, Kaunas.
2003 – Fluxus action “Floated Art”, Kaunas Lagoon, Kaunas.
2003 – “Between Vilnius and Kaunas”, Town Hall, Vilnius.
2003 – “Kaunas – Krakow – Vilnius”, Gallery “Arka”, Vilnius.
2003 – “Painting Today”, Gallery “Meno Parkas”, Kaunas.
2004 – “Seven Truths of Painting”, 12th Vilnius Painting Triennial, CAC, Vilnius.
2004 – “Art LT”, Gallery “ABC Treehouse”, Amsterdam, Holland.
2004 – Fluxus action “Floated Art. Letter”, Kaunas Lagoon, Kaunas.
2004 – “Meeting”, Doxa Gallery, Česky Krumlov, Czech Republic.
2004 – International exhibition “Unbearable Reality”, Gallery “Meno Parkas”, Kaunas.
2005 – “Best Work of 2004”, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.
2005 – “Reality X in Abstraction”, Gallery “Intro”, Vilnius; Klaipėda Art Exhibition Hall, Klaipėda; Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai.
2005 – “Painters from Kaunas”, Gallery “Havnen”, Saeby, Denmark.
2005 – 1st Lithuanian Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, CAC, Vilnius.
2005 – Fluxus action “Floated Art. A Fish Named Jurgis”, Kaunas Lagoon, Kaunas.
2005 – West German Artists’ Union’s retrospective exhibition “Lohn der Arbeit”, Stadtische Galerie im Schlosspark Strunkede, Herne, Germany.
2005 – “Geometrisch – Konkreet X”, Galerie Kunen, Dulmen, Germany.
2005 – International exhibition “Postcard”, gallery “Meno parkas”, Kaunas.
2006 – “Geometrisch-Concreet X”, Mondriaanhuis Museum voor Constructieve en Concrete Kunst, Amersfoort, Netherlands.
2006 – “Kaunas Artists in Tartu”, Tartu Artists’ House, Tartu, Estonia.
2006 – “Bitė” Art Spaces, Town Hall Square, Kaunas.
2006 – “Carrement”, gallery “4, Barbier”, Nimes, France.
2006 – “KoViKaVi”, Kunsthallen Braenderigarden, Viborg, Denmark.
2007 – “Kaunasians at Edmund’s”, Klaipėda Gallery, Klaipėda.
2007 – “Brücke” Manifestui – 100″, Gallery “Arka”, Vilnius.
2007 – “KoViKaVi-Postblablu”, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.
2007 – “Zeitgenossische Kunst aus Litauen”, ThyssenKrupp Steel AG. Bildungszentrum, Duisburg, Germany.
2007 – “Sieben Kunstler aus Litauen”, Brigitte Bailer Gallery, Dortmund, Germany.
2007 – “Art + Art to Communicate: Photo Intentions”, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.
2007 – “Pro forma”, Gallery “Pamėnkalnis”, Vilnius.
2008 – “WC of European Galleries: Personal Research”, 4th Hamburg Photo Triennial, Galerie Mare Liberum, Hamburg, Germany.
2008 – “Best work of 2007”, Picture Gallery, Kaunas.
2008 – “Geometrisch – Konkret – X”, Gallery “Meno parkas”, Kaunas.
2008 – TPK Tecla Sala and Arts Plastiques anniversary exhibition, Gallery “TPK Tecla Sala”, Barcelona, ​​Spain.
2008 – “Lithuanian Contemporary Art – NEW”, Galeria Miejska bwa”, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
2008 – “Lithuanian Humor in Photography 1993-2008”, 5th Photo Art Festival “Kaunas Photo 08”, Fujifilm Photography Gallery, Kaunas.
2008 – “Lithuanian Contemporary Art – NEW”, Gallery “Szyb Wilson”, Katowice, Poland.
2008 – “Angis” Group exhibition “Urgentum praecipitatum sulfur”, Gallery “Vartai”, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2008 – “Baltic Landscapes”, LDM Pranas Domšaitis Gallery, Klaipėda.
2008 – Contemporary Art Festival “ArtInKaunas:Contexts”, VMU Art Gallery “101”, Kaunas.
2009 – “Lithuanian Contemporary Art – NEW”, Klaipėda Art Exhibition Hall, Klaipėda.
2009 – “Art Vilnius’09”, International Art Fair, “Litexpo” Palace, Vilnius.
2009 – “Soutine Days 2009”, LDS Exhibition Hall, Vilnius.
2009 – 2nd Lithuanian Contemporary Art Quadrennial, “Litexpo” Palace, Vilnius.
2010 – “Kaunas – Beyond Painting”, Klaipėda Art Exhibition Hall, Klaipėda.
2010 – “Contemporary Art from Latvia and Lithuania”, gallery “Art Promotion 02”, Liebshausen, Germany.
2010 – “6. International Contemporary Art”, Plassenburg Castle, Kulmbach, Germany.
2010 – “Contemporary Modern Lithuanian Painting”, Seimas Exhibition Gallery, Vilnius.
2010 – “Carrement”, gallery “4, Barbier”, Nimes, France.
2010 – “Contemporary Modern Lithuanian Painting”, Pylimo Gallery, Vilnius.
2011 – “Angis-20”, retrospective exhibition of the group “Angis”, VDA exhibition hall “Titanikas”, Vilnius.

2011 – “Angis-20” Retrospective exhibition of the group “Angis”, Academy of Arts “Titanic” exhibition hall, Vilnius
2011 – “Angis-20” “Return”, Kaunas College, Vienožinskis Faculty of Arts, Kaunas
2011 – “Angis -20” “Videospectacle” gallery, “Meno parkas”, Kaunas
2011 – “Angis-20” Retrospective exhibition of the group “Angis”, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Picture Gallery, Kaunas
2011 – “Landscape in Painting”, A. Mončys Museum, Palanga
2011 – “Three Generations of Kaunas Painters”, “Tiltos” gallery, Klaipėda

2011 – “International Art Meet”, Nandalal Bose & Jamini Roy Gallery, Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, Calcutta, India

2011 – “Beyond the White “Curtains” (Darius Mikšys’ project at the 54th Venice Biennale), Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania; Venice

ija, Italy

2012 – “Zelwa 2011” Lithuanian Center at the Lithuanian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland.

2012 – “Landscape in Painting” A.Žmuidzinavičius Museum of Works and Collections, Kaunas

2012 – “Secret Gardens” Gallery XX, Panevėžys

2012 – “Art without Borders. Focus Europe in Vilnius” Gallery “Arka”, Vilnius

2012 – “Grenzenlos” Shedhalle am Auenpark. Marktredwitz, Germany

2012 – Viborg International Billboard Painting Festival 2012. Viborg, Denmark

2012 – “Art Vilnius ‘12”, international contemporary art fair, Litexpo Palace, Vilnius

2012 – “Identity” Lithuanian Artists’ Union Collection. Andorra la Vella City Gallery, Andorra

2012 – “Sans Frontieres” Maison Consulaire. Mende, France

2012 – “Identity” Lithuanian Artists’ Union Collection. Berchtoldvilla Gallery, Salzburg, Austria

2012 – “Lithuanian Painting. Impressions of Palanga” Talsi Regional Museum, Latvia

2012 – “LT00 Painting” ŠMC, Vilnius

2012 – “Color-Mood-Symbol 2012” Gallery “Balta”, Kaunas

Plenary sessions, symposiums, residencies

1991 – “Bialowieza – 91”, international painting plein air, Poland.
1992 – “Pogranice”, international painting plein air, Vigriai, Poland.
1997 – 4th international painting plein air, dedicated to the memory of A.Samuolis, Kaunas.
1998 – “Upė”, international action, Zapyškis.
1999 – “Jažwiny – 99”, international painting plein air, Wrocław, Poland.
1999 – “Alaušas – 99”, painting plein air, Sudeikiai.
2000 – “Classical Paraphrases”, international graffiti plein air, dedicated to the memory of J.M.Basquiat, Kaunas.
2000 – “Nidas erdvė”, 6th international painting plein air, Nida (1st prize).
2000 – “Rumšiškės-2000”, international painting plein air, Rumšiškės.
2000 – “Between Earth and Sky”, 2nd painting plein air, Cimaniūnai.
2001 – “Džona’s plein air”, painting plein air, Veliuona.
2001 – “Chilli”, international painting plein air, Pedvale, Latvia.
2002 – “Bikuškis-2002”, international painting plein air, Bikuškis Manor, Utena district.
2002 – “Time”, international artists’ plein air, Žemaitkiemis Manor, Kaunas district.
2002 – “Journeys”, 2nd international artists’ symposium, Milton Keynes, England.
2003 – “Dipolis”, Kaunas and Vilnius painters’ plein air, Bikuškis Manor, Utena district.
2004 – “Living Way of Nida Expressionists”, international painting plein air, Nida.
2004 – “Dipolis – 2”, Kaunas and Vilnius painters plein air, Bikuškis Manor, Utena district.
2005 – “Dipolis – 3”, Kaunas and Vilnius painters plein air, Bikuškis Manor, Utena district.
2005 – “Panevėžys 2005”, international painters plein air, dedicated to the memory of K. Naruševičius, Duokiškis, Rokiškis district.
2005 – Painting plein air, dedicated to the memory of A. Vaitkūnas, Šilavotas, Prienai district.
2006 – “Dipolis-4”, Kaunas and Vilnius painters plein air, Bikuškis Manor, Utena district.
2006 – “Nida Expression 2006”, XII International Painting Plein Air, Nida.
2007 – “Between Vilnius and Kaunas Towers”, painters’ plein air, Bikuškis Manor, Utena district.
2007 – “Silence”, Kaunas Painters’ Plein Air, Šilavotas, Prienai district.
2007 – “Regina 2007”, painting plein air, Druskininkai.
2008 – “Between Vilnius and Kaunas Towers”, painters’ plein air, Bikuškis Manor, Utena district.
2008 – “Manor Space”, painters’ plein air, Bikuškis Manor, Utena district.
2008 – “Parallel Realities”, painters’ group “Angis” plein air, Šilavotas, Prienai district.
2009 – “Between Vilnius and Kaunas Towers”, painters’ plein air, Bikuškis Manor, Utena district.
2009 – “Manor Space”, painters’ plein air, Bikuškis Manor, Utena district.
2009 – “Soutine Days 2009”, international painters’ plein air, Minčia village, Utena district.
2009 – “Windows to Eternity”, international art residency, Mumbai, Delhi, India.
2010 – “Manor Space”, painters’ plein air, Bikuškis Manor, Utena district.
2010 – “Urok” international painting plein air, Miasteczko Galicyjskie, Nowy Sącz, Poland
2010 – “Seven Dwarfs”, international painting plein air, Palanga
2010 – “Raigardas 2010” international painting plein air, Druskininkai

2011 – “Landscape in Painting”, international painting plein air, Palanga
2011 – “Manor Space”, painters’ plein air, Bikuškis Manor, Utena district
2011 – “Zelwa 2011”, international painting plein air, Zelwa, Poland
2011 – “Zarasai – the Land of Lakes”, international painting plein air, Zarasai
2011 – “International Art Meet”, international art residency, Calcutta, India

2012 – “Alaušas 2012”, international painting plein air, Sudeikiai

2012 – The first international painting plein-air of the project “Art in Old Lithuanian Manors”, Kaunas

2012 – “Dėmė” painting plein-air, Jonava

2012 – “Regina 2012” painting plein-air, Druskininkai

2012 – “Palette of friendship” international painting plein-air, Batumi, Georgia

Awards, scholarships

1990 – 1st prize for the installation “12 m² of hay (Prakartėlė)” at the exhibition “Image”, gallery “AL”, Kaunas.
1993 – Lippe County Institute of Culture Scholarship, Schwalenberg, Germany.
1997 – Highest State Scholarship, Lithuania.
1997 – Pollock – Krasner Foundation Scholarship, New York, USA.
2000 – National M.K.Čiurlionis Art Museum

Prize of the Museum and the Kaunas City Municipality Culture Department for the installation “Intervention” at the exhibition “Best Work of the Year 2000”, Kaunas.
2000 – 1st Prize of the Nida Municipality at the 6th International Nida Painting Plein Air “Nida Space 2000”.
2002 – Prize of the National M.K.Čiurlionis Art Museum and the Kaunas City Municipality Culture Department for the object “Cucumber I-II” at the exhibition “Best Work of the Year 2002”, Kaunas.
2005 – Individual State Scholarship of the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture for Art and Culture Creators.

2013 – Grand Prix of the exhibition “Color-Mood-Symbol” at the “Balta” Gallery

The artist’s works were acquired by: Lithuanian Art Museum, National M.K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Center for Modern Art, Lippe Regional Municipality, Detmold (Germany), Emschertal – Museum, Herne (Germany), Museum Okręgowe w Nowym Sączu (Poland), Das Kleine Museum – Kultur auf der Peunt, Weissenstadt (Germany), Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, Calcutta, (India), organizations and private collectors in Lithuania and abroad.