one of the sculptures on the street art route through Kaunas: ‘Greed’, by Donatus Dovidavicius (2006) – referring to the bank with is opposite this sculpture
Although perhaps not all of equally great quality, the street art of Kaunas is actually a good attempt to enliven the city. In between the Old Town and the Art Deco buildings the murals and sculptures provide a welcome distraction from the architecture alone, and in most cases add significant colour to the town – especially on the day we were there, grey and overcast. I have selected a few examples of this open air gallery.
There is a map with a street art route, one of the ‘Wallographers Notes’, produced by local enthusiasts, I suppose, which is also available on www.kaunastika.lt (where you will find more maps, as well).
this is ‘The Wise Old Man’, by Gyva Grafika (2013)this is a mural of an apparently well known street artist, Ernest Zacharevic, called ‘Untitled’ (2016)sometimes a whole house is being used for art: ‘Windows’, by Linas Kaziulionis (2015)another mural, one I cannot find name or artist for, close to the Britanika Hotela wall painting, called ‘Princess on a Horse’, a drawing originally by a seven year-old girl, Gabija Menkeviciute, in 2015, transferred to the wall by Tados Simkusone of the sculptures on the street art route through Kaunas: ‘Greed’, by Donatus Dovidavicius (2006) – referring to the bank with is opposite this sculptureanother work, in a non-descript courtyard, probably called ‘Fishes’ – cannot find a referenceanother whole facade being used, for ‘Contemporary Ladies’, a painting by Linas Kaziulionis (2015)this is another one, also in the courtyard, which we kind of had to break in to see, as the gate was closedthere are several paintings in the courtyard of the National Drama Theatre, part of the centenary celebration of the theatreone of the best known, most often used murals, ‘Pink Elephant’, by Vytenis Jakas (2014)this one is not in the route, but equally artistic, facade of a shopanother one I don’t know the name or artist of, but funny enough to include in this selectionthe entrance to the Yard Gallery, perhaps the most expressive courtyard in Kaunas – don’t miss it if you are there!one of the murals at the entrance of the Yard Gallerythis is the actual courtyard, full of artpainted doors and walls, and a bicycle on the balconyone of the inhabitants, I guess, actually woring on one of the wallsit is just fabulous, every side of every house contains another muraland what about this for a wall, each apartment its own scenethis just being one of the many details I could have shownbathtub and coloured tyres, how lse to decorate a brick wall?and the painted bathtub in more detailand we are even spontaneously treated by a classical music concert, not part of the route we followed, but arty enough
