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    About After the Great War exhibition

    13 September – 8 October 2021,Vilnius

    The new outdoor travelling exhibition created by the ENRS focuses on the turbulent first years after the First World War. Over 200 archive and multimedia materials – pictures, maps and films together with individual stories of people who lived back in these times – present a complex yet coherent picture of New Europe established in Central-East part of the continent after the Great War.

    Vilnius will be the fifth stop of the exhibition in 2021 and the second (after Kaunas) on its tour of Lithuania. It will be displayed in Memorial Complex of the Tuskulenai Peace Park, Žirmūnų g. 1 F, Vilnius 09239.

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    The travelling display depicts how the new political and social order after the First World War came into existance.


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    Gallery

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    Exhibition displayed in the Memorial Complex of the Tuskulenai Peace Park in Vilnius. Photos: Bartosz Frątczak
    Cube-like installation of After the Great War exhibition stands behind the elegant neo-classical gate. Left to it, neo-classical white building of Tuskulėnai manor. Greenery in the background.
    2/18
    Exhibition displayed in the Memorial Complex of the Tuskulenai Peace Park in Vilnius. Photos: Bartosz Frątczak
    The well-kept garden with green grass, flowers, and wooden benches. In the foreground, neo-classical white buildings of the Tuskulėnai Peace Park complex and cube-like installation of the After the Great War exhibition.
    3/18
    Official opening of the exhibition in Vilnius. On the stage from the left: Mr Rafał Rogulski (Director of the ENRS) and Dr. Arūnas Bubnys (Director of Tuskulenai Memorial Complex). Photo: Bartosz Frątczak
    Interior, medium-sized white room. The rows of chairs densly packed with the audience. In front of them, three speakers face the camera. Men on the left and in the middle stand up, while the woman on the speaks from behind the lectern. Projector board and two Lithuanian flags in the background.
    4/18
    Mr Rafał Rogulski (Director of the ENRS). Photos: Bartosz Frątczak
    Photo taken from behind the audience. A middle-aged man speaks into the microphone. He holds a folder with ENRS logo. Projector board and two Lithuanian flags in the background.
    5/18
    Official opening of the exhibition in Vilnius. Photos: Bartosz Frątczak
    Interior, medium-sized white room. The rows of chairs densly packed with the audience. In front of them, three speakers face the camera. Men on the left and in the middle stand up, while the woman on the speaks from behind the lectern. Projector board and two Lithuanian flags in the background.
    6/18
    Lithuanian Minister of Culture Mr. Simonas Kairys. Photos: Bartosz Frątczak
    Interior, medium-sized room. The middle-aged man facing the camera speaks in front of a packed auditorium. On his left, a woman behind the lectern, possibly translating his speech. Projector board and two Lithuanian flags in the background.
    7/18
    Dr. Ján Pálffy, Chairman of the ENRS Steering Committee. Photo: Bartosz Frątczak
    A close-up of the middle-aged man. Dressed in a suit and glasses stands in front of a microphone, facing a camera. Out of focus, two Lithuanian flags are visible in the background.
    8/18
    Mrs. Urszula Doroszewska (Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Vilnius). Photo: Bartosz Frątczak
    Mrs. Urszula Doroszewska (Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Vilnius). Photo: Bartosz Frątczak
    9/18
    Mr. Ladislav Babčan (Ambassador of the Slovak Republic to the Republic of Latvia and Republic of Lithuania). Photos: Bartosz Frątczak
    A close-up of the middle-aged man. Dressed in a dark suit he speaks to a microphone, facing a camera. Projector board and two Lithuanian flags in the background.
    10/18
    Mr. Matthias Sonn (Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Lithuania). Photos: Bartosz Frątczak
    A close-up of the middle-aged man. Dressed in a brown suit he stands in front of a microphone, facing a camera and smiling. Projector board and two Lithuanian flags in the background.
    11/18
    Official opening of the exhibition in Vilnius. Guided tour of the exhibition by Dr. Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk. Photos: Bartosz Frątczak
    Interior of the installation of After the Great War exhibition. In the center, a knee-high board with the infographics, surrounded from all sites by the walls of the exhibition. A young man in the center points towards something on a board. Surrounding dignitaries look at it attentively.
    12/18
    Official opening of the exhibition in Vilnius. Photos: Bartosz Frątczak
    Interior of the installation of After the Great War exhibition. A man in the brown suit inspects closely the board with the infographics at the center, lifting one of the panels under which additional information is hidden. From the distance, four other people are watching attentively.
    13/18
    Official opening of the exhibition in Vilnius. Photos: Bartosz Frątczak
    A man and a woman face the internal wall of the After the Great War exhibition. They are inspecting closely the photography presented there, towards which the man is pointing his finger.
    14/18
    Official opening of the exhibition in Vilnius. Photos: Bartosz Frątczak
    A woman faces the internal wall of the After the Great War exhibition. She inspects one of the pull-out infographic panels, which depicts the territorial losses of Germany after the First World War.
    15/18
    Official opening of the exhibition in Vilnius. Photos: Bartosz Frątczak
    Interior of the installation of After the Great War exhibition. A disembodied hand lifts one of the panels from the central board. It reveals the photography of riot in Kraków, Poland in 1923, and accompanying text on the economic realities of the interwar period.
    16/18
    Official opening of the exhibition in Vilnius. Photos: Bartosz Frątczak
    A group of five well-dressed people faces the camera smiling. They are standing in front of the entrance to the installation of the After the Great War exhibition, surrounded on both sides by its walls.
    17/18
    Official opening of the exhibition in Vilnius. Photos: Bartosz Frątczak
    The open neo-classical gate reveals insides of the garden. In the centre of it stands the cube-like installation of After the Great War exhibition. It is surrounded by the groups of conversing guests.
    18/18
    Official opening of the exhibition in Vilnius. Photos: Bartosz Frątczak.
    The open neo-classical gate reveals insides of the garden. In the centre of it stands the cube-like installation of After the Great War exhibition. The square in which it stands is empty.

    Partners

    Organiser
    logo of ENRS
    Funding
    logo of PL Ministry NEW LOGO 2021
    logo of DE Ministry
    logo of HU Ministry
    logo of SL Ministry
    logo of RO Ministry
    Financial Support
    logo of niepodlegla
    Graphic and Architectonic Design
    logo of Jaz Architekci
    Maps
    logo of PTR kartografia
    The ENRS would also like to thank the following institutions:
    logo of EU Screen
    logo of EFG
    logo of Cineteca Bologna
    logo of CNC
    logo of Deutsches Filminstitut
    logo of Eye Filmmuseum
    logo of Filmoteca Espanola
    logo of FINA
    logo of Imperial War Museums
    logo of Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas
    logo of NFA
    Local partners
    logo of Free Range Productions
    logo of Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania
    logo of Ambasada w Wilnie

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