On Wednesday 25 November at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius (Nacionalinė dailės galerija) AlbumArte, independent space for contemporary art, together with Latitudo Art Projects, independent platform for visual art, presents the editorial project "ALL BOOM ARTE. Artisti/e Italiani/e ad AlbumArte 2011 - 2020", curated by Cristina Cobianchi (Quodlibet editore, 2021), realized thanks to the support of the Italian Council (VIII edition 2020), the program to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.

Within the presentation there will be the video screening "DROPS#2", curated by Cristina Cobianchi and Benedetta Carpi de Resmini, a selection of videos by Italian and Lithuanian artists who worked with AlbumArte: Sonia Andresano, Elena Bellantoni, Eglė Budvytytė, Silvia Giambrone, Kristina Inčiūraitė, Rita Mandolini, Anna Raimondo

AlbumArte and Lithuanian art scene have exchanged their energies several times realizing very

interesting and quality projects, hosting for the first time in Italy in different moments, three Lithuanian artists: Lina Lapelytė, in 2017, with her live performance "Yes. Really!" (Italian premiere), also in 2017 Eglė Budvytytė with her first solo exhibition in Italy "Tra ciglia e pensiero" and the traveling performance starting at MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo in Rome, "Choreography for the Running Male". In 2019 Kristina Inčiūraitė with her first solo exhibition in Italy "Reflecting Women" and the performance realized at MAXXI, in collaboration with Latitudo Art Projects "The Fragment as a Proverb". All these projects have been curated by Benedetta Carpi de Resmini. Lolita Jablonskienė - Chief curator, National Gallery of Art of Vilnius and the artist Laima Kreivytė participated in the debates realized on the occasion of the exhibitions. AlbumArte had very good relations with Lithuanian Council for Culture, Lithuanian Culture Institute, Lithuanian Embassy in Italy and its Cultural Department.

The artistic duo Grossi Maglioni, featured in the volume and who will take part in the event in the Lithuanian stage, will present in those days a work at the exhibition Magic Carpets Landed, one of the main events of Kaunas 2022 European Capital of Culture and in the following days will hold a two-day workshop in Kaunas, part of the Public Program of the project.

The National Gallery of Art in Vilnius is the Cultural Partner of the publishing project "ALL BOOM ARTE. Italian Artists at AlbumArte 2011-2020".

AlbumArte is an independent and non-profit space based in Rome that is characterized by its international collaborations and its cycles of investigation on the various languages of contemporary art, offering to the public a free program of projects that cover the various methods of art, such as painting, photography, performance, video art and sculpture, by young or emerging artists and curators, through paths independent from commercial constraints, while carrying out a program of debates and comparisons on major issues of culture, art and contemporary society. Active since 2011, this year celebrates ten years of activity.

The volume "ALL BOOM ARTE. Italian Artists at AlbumArte 2011 - 2020" wants to tell the Italian and international public not only the archive of the work done in the field of contemporary art, but also the presence of a group of artists and curators who actively participate in the program of exhibitions and insights, feeding the sharing and the energy of a non-profit center of independent cultural and artistic production, which has become over time a vital and inclusive platform.

A part of the volume is dedicated to 18 unpublished conversations between the artists and the curators of AlbumArte. The book (484 pages in both Italian and English) is completed by five other sections that illustrate the context of AlbumArte's research from 2011 to 2020: "Anteprima", a program of residencies, video reviews and talks with Italian artists abroad; "AlbumArte | VideoArtForum", an ongoing project of international video art; the chapter dedicated to performances; the project "Donne (non più) anonime" - confronto sul femminicidio, a series of debates on the theme of violence against women; and the chapter that talks about all the exhibitions realized with Italian artists.

The cultural partners of the project: MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome; Roma Capitale. Assessorato alla Crescita Culturale / Azienda Speciale Palaexpo, Rome; National Gallery of Art, Vilnius; Art House, Shkodër; Bn Project, Brussels; Dimora OZ, Palermo; Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast; LE 18, Marrakech; PILOT, Bratislava.

Supported by the Italian Council, the program to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture

To partecipate: free admission, advance registration is necessary, to register please click here or call: (+370 5) 2122997; visitors older than 6 years are kindly asked to wear a protective mask covering nose and mouth.