Fair and exhibition working hours:
26th September, Saturday, 11AM–7PM
27th September, Sunday, 11AM–6PM
Entry is free of charge
Kaunas Art Book Fair is an event dedicated exclusively to promoting art publications, encouraging the creation of new communities and supporting existing ones, and initiating global trends in Lithuania.
Kaunas Art Book Fair is organised by Kaunas Photography Gallery.
Kaunas Photography Gallery
Vilnius str. 2, Kaunas
After Time: (Re)Written Histories of Photography
What happens when history loses its chronology? When the narrative is fragmented not out of ignorance, but deliberately – as a critical gesture, as a reflection, as a suggestion to think differently?
Exhibition “After Time” presents attempts to rewrite, break down, and appropriate the history of photography, created during zine workshops. This is not a reconstruction, but a defragmentation: texts, comments, and visual notes that may be inserted between the lines. Here, history does not become a final version, but turns into a process – unstable, subjective, personal. These are unfinished stories that raise more questions than they offer answers.
Alongside these attempts, different versions of the history of photography from recent decades are exhibited – academic publications, national narratives, alternative archives. They do not complement each other, but create tension: between the center and the periphery, between institutional knowledge and individual memory. Some of them speak loudly, others – in quiet remarks in the language of the margins.
This exhibition is not about what was. It is about what we could remember differently: from the margins, from mistakes, from silence, from what was not important enough to be emphasized – but still existed. It existed because of us.
Public educational programme for adults and children
Saturday, 26 September
12.00 Fair opening
Sunday, 27 September
13.00 Talk: "Unpacking One's Own Libraries"
Art market curator and contemporary art market expert Justė Jonutytė, artist and publisher Gytis Skudžinskas, and book collector and businessman Darius Lebedzinskas discuss book collecting, paper, money, memory, and sentiment.
Moderated by Kotryna Lingienė.
14.00 Launch of Artūras Morozovas's book "I Met a Person"
(published by "LAPAS")
16.00-17.30 „Short talks“ talk series
Short talks — a series of short essayistic talks on books, collecting, money, and fates.
16.00 Aurelija Maknytė.
Between the Pages, Behind the Sheets.
16.30 Ieva Gražytė.
Beyond the Collection.
17.00 Ernestas Parulskis.
The Autograph Factor in a Book.
11.00 Family creative workshop "Swallows" with artist Beatričė Mockevičiūtė
13.00 Launch of Karolina Latvytė Bibiano's "Forms of Death: Between Fear and Fascination"
The author is in conversation with the book's graphic designer Miglė Ceinorytė.
14.00 Launch of Mila Kotko's artist's book "Verbum Naturae" (published by "TAMAKA")
The event will be held in English.
15.00 Launch of Imantas Selenis's book "Island of Nostalgia" (published by "LAPAS")
The author is interviewed by cultural journalist Kotryna Lingienė.
Fair participants
Karolina Latvytė-Bibiano
An interdisciplinary artist working in drawing, painting, video, installation and text-based practices. Drawing on autobiographical narratives in which personal experience, memory and psychological states intertwine with fiction, her work explores fear, vulnerability, death and identity. In 2023, the artist earned a Master's degree in Contemporary Sculpture from the Vilnius Academy of Arts and was granted the status of Artist by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad.
TAMAKA Publishing
An independent publishing house based in Berlin, specializing in books on visual arts, photography, design and architecture. The publishing house presents exceptional authors who are still little known to international audiences.
RAINAS
RAINAS creates stickers based on his own drawings and paintings – mostly playful or cute animals, cozy landscapes and similar motifs. Colorful, mood-lifting stickers are perfect for decorating a notebook or journal, as well as personalizing everyday items – a phone case, water bottle, or laptop.
AsurSura
AsurSura creates digital illustrations, exploring themes of mythology, human nature and the subconscious. She is actively involved in the cultural field – organizing solo exhibitions and participating in group exhibitions.
Inga Armon
Inga creates graphic postcards, calendars and posters depicting historical and architectural panoramas of Kaunas, Vilnius, the seaside and other locations.
ISSP Shop
A photography bookshop based in Riga, Latvia, part of the ISSP Gallery, which has been presenting contemporary photography as part of the art field and its connections with other media since 2018. The shop connects artists, photographers, publishers and audiences, offering carefully selected publications from Latvia, the Baltics and the world.
TALKA
An independent editor and curator duo from Latvia, focusing mostly on photography-related research and activities. The duo consists of Vladimirs Svetlovs and Anna Volkova.
Kotryna Valasevičiūtė
Iliustratorė iš Kauno, daugiausia dirbanti skaitmeninės iliustracijos, tapybos ir knygrišybos srityse. Taip pat perdirba ir kuria savo gamybos popierių. Meniniuose projektuose dažnai vaizduoja gamtos motyvus, žmonių santykius ir būties laikinumą.
Henrik Duncker
A Finnish photographer based in Helsinki. His work combines documentary and conceptual photography, often exploring urban spaces, everyday objects and cultural landscapes. H. Duncker has published numerous artist photobooks, and his work has been exhibited internationally and featured in monographs.
Gabrielė Connor
In her creative practice, Gabrielė Connor explores the emotional and historical significance of material objects and their connection to memory. She is interested in how the histories of objects, shaped by people and communities, reflect our diverse relationships with the physical world around us, and what the material world preserves and passes on over time.
With a background in design, her work often draws on an anthropological perspective and engages with photography, collage, video and self-publishing practices. In 2026, the artist presented the photography exhibition "Reveransas."
Culture journal “Nemunas”
“Nemunas” is a culture and art magazine published in Kaunas since 1967.
Lithuanian Cultural Research Institute
LCRI is a research institution which studies the historical development of Lithuanian culture, art and philosophy, its peculiarities and links with the history and development of contemporary and world culture. The Institute has its own publishing centre, where most of the Institute's scientific output is prepared for the press: monographs, collections of articles, continuing publications, studies of the heritage of religious culture, and others.
Vilnius Academy of Arts Kaunas Faculty Graphics department
The department, which has been operating since 2004, offers Applied Graphic Art and Illustration study programmes, aiming to educate artists who are able to make professional and creative use of conceptual and functional graphic art technologies and expression possibilities, and then to find, improve and experiment in their own unique stylistic styles, in order to pursue the path of a professional illustrator/creative artist. During the fair, the department will invite you to get acquainted with recent student works, debut books and young creativity.
Rūta Cyrolytė
Graphic designer, illustrator, self-publishing and book production enthusiast working and creating in Kaunas. She mainly works with silkscreen printing, illustration, and self-publishing, but her range of favorite media is constantly expanding. In her work, she explores human connections, the intertwining of past, present, and future, personal transformations, and allows herself to explore everything and anything.
Deimilė Janonytė
A beginner illustrator and graphic designer. She adapts her illustrations to various forms – stickers, postcards, prints, etc. The author also sometimes takes photographs and turns them into postcards.
Mindaugas Kavaliauskas
Photographer and curator, who has been organizing the Kaunas Photo festival for almost two decades. He has been interested in aviation since childhood, and since the beginning of this century, he has been photographing people and airplanes. His photo series travel’AIR was published in 2013, and in 2025, the publishers “Šviesos raštas” and “Diaphane éditions” released the second book in the travel’AIR project, “A-Spot: A Journey into the World of Airplane Spotting”. This is Mindaugas Kavaliauskas’ fifth monographic album, notable not only for its unique structure – it consists of two blocks that can be turned at the same time – but also for its special editions: experiential (with scents) and limited-edition archival author's prints.
Kaunas Photography Gallery
Founded in 1979, it is one of the most active galleries in the country, promoting the art of photography in Lithuania and abroad. The gallery is constantly looking for new forms of presenting photography, organising exhibitions, and has been publishing photography books and magazines for over a decade. The publications include acclaimed representatives of classical Lithuanian photography (Antanas Sutkus, Virgilijus Šonta, Vitas Luckus) and local and foreign artists implementing contemporary art projects (Indrė Šerpytytė, Joan Fontcuberta, Ieva Stankutė).
Team
Armanda Klimavičiūtė
„Kaunas Art Book Fair“ director
kaunasartbookfair@gmail.com
Rūta Cyrolytė
Graphic designer
Donatas Stankevičius
Architect of the Fair
Justina Zubaitė-Bundzė
Curator of Educational Program
Agnė Pinigienė
Public relations coordinator
Darius Matonis
Digital content coordinator
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Lithuanian Photographers Association Kaunas department
Company ID 135510925
VAT Code LT355109219
Rotušės a. 1, LT-44280, Kaunas, Lithuania