Modern Art Festival Virus

For 9 time Siauliai City will be hosting the International Modern Art Festival VIRUS - a major annual event of modern art in Northern Lithuania aiming at introducing new trends.

The VIRUS Festival is a project of modern visual art, theatre, pavement-art, modern dance, fashion and electronic music. Youthful and pilot creative spirits dominate. Beside the theatre, modern dance, visual art, theory, music, digital technology and entertainment industry educational events, such as conferences, seminars, discussions, various presentations, take place.

A fresh program was presented at the VIII International Modern Art Festival in 2003. Four various exhibitions of modern art were held promoting topics of modern pictorial art, feminist art exhibition, architecture interaction and personal exhibitions. Non-uniformly Scientific Multidimensional Conference "Anthropology of the Journey" was held. It was focused on the Journey of the Soul, Pilgrimage, Pathfinders, Life styles, etc. In the field of traditional VIRUS cinema the early cinematic vanguard was presented as well as premieres of pilot theatre performances took place.

Keystone of the IX Festival in 2004, will be the Days of Western Countries Literature, literature conference and transfer of the events. The Festival will react to various innovations and will be opened for vanguard classics and nascent art movements. The future plan of the Festival is expansion of art to the city streets and neighbourhoods. Educational program and international co-operation will be developed as well.

The annual Festival VIRUS is of great importance developing modern art traditions, and providing new challenges for the cultural co-operation.