VISIBLE MUSIC: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN SOUND AND IMAGE

April 14, 2025, 6 PM — The Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center presents the exhibition Visible Music, exploring the multifaceted interactions between sound and image.

Visible Music is a unique project that examines how music and sound can transform into visual forms—and vice versa. The exhibition highlights the influence of the Fluxus movement on contemporary creators and invites visitors to reconsider the relationship between sound and image, discovering unexpected interactions between these artistic expressions. The exhibits and artworks, inspired by the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center’s Fluxus collection, create a dialogue between historical avant-garde and contemporary artistic practices.

“Sound and image interact in diverse ways—from illuminated medieval manuscripts with musical notation to Čiurlionis’s sonatas, from Fluxus concerts to vinyl record design. Contemporary artists often turn to sound to create powerful soundscapes or musical performances,” says the exhibition curator Laima Kreivytė, art critic, curator, and lecturer at the Vilnius Academy of Arts.

For the exhibition, the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center invited five interdisciplinary artists — Agnė Matulevičiūtė, Šarūnas Nakas, Liepa Vozgirdaitė, Matas Drukteinis, and Gintaras Sodeika — to create music inspired by the Fluxus collection and to present their visualized interpretations and works: scores, notes, video pieces.

Agnė Matulevičiūtė is a sound artist creating innovative audiovisual installations. Šarūnas Nakas is a composer and musical philosopher. Liepa Vozgirdaitė is an interdisciplinary artist working with sound and image synthesis. Matas Drukteinis is a composer and sound artist exploring innovative audio solutions. Gintaras Sodeika is a composer and project manager, actively involved in the music field—and beyond.

“In this exhibition, we see a dialogue, a debate, and a flirtation between the contemporary and Fluxus concerts and documents—this interaction itself becomes a spatial score,” says curator Laima Kreivytė.

The project will culminate in a special concert held at the Chess Hall of the Vilnius Academy of Arts on May 19, 2025, featuring original works composed specifically for Visible Music.

Exhibition curator – Laima Kreivytė.
Visual identity – Ineta Armanavičiūtė.

Project partners: Vilnius Academy of Arts and Vilnius City Municipality
Project funded by: Lithuanian Council for Culture