Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center

The Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center (Lithuanian: Jono Meko Vizualiųjų Menų Centras) is an avant-garde arts centre in Vilnius, Lithuania.

The Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center was opened on November 10, 2007, by acclaimed Lithuanian filmmaker Jonas Mekas. The premiere exhibition featured The Avant-Garde: From Futurism to Fluxus.^[1] Part of the recently purchased Fluxus art collection, consisting of 2,600 pieces, is presented to the public in the Visual Arts Center. The total Fluxus collection is worth 12 million litas (5,6 million USD).

According to Mekas, he envisioned it as a place for both living, working artists and for retrospective surveys of artists' work.^[2]

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v t e Jonas Mekas
Films directed	Guns of the Trees (1962) Walden (1968) Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
Institutions	Anthology Film Archives Film Culture The Film-Makers' Cooperative Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center
Works about	Jonas in the Jungle

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International	VIAF
National	United States

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