VJ Varna incorporates minimalist video graphics, multilayered collage videos, animation and drawings aiming to create a delicate and sophisticated visual language. VJ Varna performs at Contemporary art centers, galleries, nightclubs, private parties, and corporate events. Upon a request the logos and additional visual information of an event can be integrated in visuals.

SELECTED VJ PERFORMANCES/
VISUALS

2007 – present
Supper Club, resident VJ, Amsterdam

2006 – present
SMART Project Space, Amsterdam

2005 – present
Freelance VJ for Xsaga, Amsterdam
Performed at:
— The 10th anniversary of Ubachswisbrun at Panama club;
— Night of The Stars, evening for the Holland America
Friendship Foundation;
— Syntens a new location opening, organized by
the Dutch Ministry of Economy.

2005
W139 gallery, Amsterdam

Art magazine LFTFLD, Sugar Factory, Amsterdam

Cannes International Advertising Festival, Club Jimmy’s,
Cannes, FR

2004 – 2005
Club-Bar-Restaurant 11, Video animations, Amsterdam

2004
ELECTRODAYS: unidentified audio object, Contemporary Art
Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

2002 – 2004
Resident VJ at Club Gravity,
Vilnius, Lithuania

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Video postproduction, non-linear video editing.

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects, Photoshop CS2,
Modul 8, Ableton Live

Live video performing
Edirol V4, Mac Book Pro

EDUCATION

2006 - 2008
MA Piet Zwart Institute, Fine Art Department, Rotterdam

2004 – 2006
BA Rietveld Academy, Audio Visual Department, Amsterdam

2000 - 2004
BA Vilnius Art Academy, Photography – media arts, Vilnius, LT

SELECTED PROJECTS, EXHIBITIONS

2008
FOYER: language and space at the border
Contemporaty Art Centre, Vilnius, LT
(upcoming)

If We Can’t Get It Together
Power Plant, Toronto, CA (upcoming)

My Travels with Barry
TENT, Rotterdam, NL

Wilde Metaphysica
Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag, NL

Explum
Cultural Center, Murcia, ES

Conspire
Transmediale, Berlin, DE

2007
The Joy Is Not Mentioned
Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, LT
In collaboration with G.Budvytyte and I.Miseviciute

This is how it must feel to be there
Pakhuismeestern, Rotterdam, NL

Vilnius is burning
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,
Torino, IT
Collaborative project

Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time –
Strategies for a discontinuous future
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE

2006
Selfobjects
Palace of Radvilai, Vilnius, LT
Collaborative project

101.3KM: competition and cooperation
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LT

The Eye of the storm
The Nordic Artists’ Centre (nkd), Dale, NO

Enthusiasts
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LT
In collaboration with G.Budvytyte

2005
Open gauge project
International Culture house, Tbilisi, GE

Art for sail
Loods 6, Amsterdam, NL
In collaboration with G.Budvytyte

VIDEO, FILM SCREENINGS

2008
White night,
Contemporary culture forum, Riga, LV

2007
Art in the New field of visibility,
De Appel, Amsterdam and Platform Garanti,
Istanbul, TR
Migration
Brewery Arts Center, Kendal, UK

2006
Live video perfornance together with sounds by
Nathalie Bruys and Byungjun Kwon
Smart Project Space, during the opening of
Jaki Irvine show, Amsterdam, NL

CATALOGUES, PUBLICATIONS

2008
Small Talk with the Janitor
published by Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam,

CAC INTERVIU
“the quarterly conversation about art”
Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, LT

2007
Notes on the catalog /Catalogue of moves
part of the exhibition “The Joy Is Not Mentioned”,
Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, LT

Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time ­–
Strategien fur eine unstetige Zukunft
Frankfurter Kunstverein,
published by Revolver, DE

Vilnius is blurring
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,
Torino, IT

2006
101.3KM: competition and cooperation Kaunas and Vilnius artist exhibition
Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, LT

AWARDS

2001 Fast Food, 1st prize, Vilnius, LT
2002 (Not)believe 1st prize, Vilnius, LT
2006 Sleipnir, travel grant, Nordic Council of Ministers
2007 Lithuanian Cultural Ministry Award for the young artists, LT