Contemporary Art Centre
The Contemporary Art Centre or commonly called the CAC in short is the central hub of many exhibitions, conferences, lectures, online projects, musical and cultural fests and movie and film screenings. It holds a great deal of importance as the locale for the representation of contemporary art and paintings in Lithuania. The Contemporary Art Centre is also useful for the access to many books, journals, CDs, DVDs and videos.
Originally started as the Art Exhibition Palace in the year 1968, the Contemporary Art Centre in its very basic and rudimentary stages was run as a branch of the Lithuanian Museum of Art until the year 1988. However, around four years after that, it started out separately and independently once it received it’s funding from the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture. The total available area that can be put to use in the Contemporary Art Centre is around two thousand four hundred square meters. In the arena of commercial Lithuanian television, they have also produced their very own shows since the last five years. Almost each and every episode is a pilot launch and there is a lot of experimentation and creativity that is thrown into each of these plots.
CAC INTERVIU is a show that was produced since the year 2005 by the Contemporary Art Centre where art as a subject is discussed on a quarterly basis. The magazine is published in two languages and they are English and Lithuanian. This bilingual magazine is based on interviews, book reviews and editorials and also covers all the major international events that occur in the Baltic region. CAC/CAFÉ TALKS that started in the same year by the Contemporary Art Centre are a series of lectures that are purely of international standards. Culture, economics and politics are the topics on which discussions are carried on and these are conducted in their connection with the production and reception of contemporary art.
The Lithuanian academic community and the Contemporary Art Centre have developed very strong bonds due to the talks and discussions conducted as mentioned above. Situated right in the center of the city of Vilnius, the Contemporary Art Centre is the largest institution for all the large and major exhibitions. It also has a café that is very popular with the artists there and has over a hundred thousand visitors each and every year. It is definitely the place to be if you want to soak in Lithuanian art.
