Mindaugas Kavaliauskas (MiKas)

is photographer, art critic and lector at Universities of Kaunas, Lithuania, innitiator and author of A PORTRAIT OF KRAÞIAI.

Vilnius Gallery of Photography, Kaunas Public library, Kupiškis Public Library (2003);
Embassy of Lithuania in Washington D.C., Čiurlionis Gallery, Chicago (both USA, 2000);
Kaunas Drama theatre (Lithuania), Pont Neuf gallery, Paris; FNAC gallery, Motpellier (both France, 1999);
Cave des Vignerons de Saint Gervais (Gard, France), Ecole nationale de la photographie (Arles, France, both 1998),
galleries of photography of Kaunas, Panevėžys, Klaipėda Museum of photography of Šiauliai (all in Lithuania, 1994-7).

21 Young Lithuanian photographers, Lithuanian Cultural center, Moscow (2003),
Litauische Fotografie, Bern, Switzerland (2003),
X m2 of Socium, Fujifilm Gallery of Photography, Kaunas, Lithuania (2002),
Heritage, Fujifilm Fujifilm Gallery of Photography, Kaunas (2001) etc.

Grant of the Open Society Fund Lithuania for the project A Portrait of Kražiai (Vilnius, Lithuania 2002),
Scholarship of young author of Ministry of Culture of Lithuania (2003, 2002, 1995),
LVMH Prize (Paris,France, 1998),
FIAP Gold Medal (Ryga, Latvia 1997)

Vintage works of M.Kavaliauskas are kept in public or private collections in Lithuania, France, Switzerland and USA.

Bachelor (1996) and MA degrees (2000) in Art history and Business and Administration certificate (1996) at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas (Lithuania);
Residences at Ecole nationale de la photographie (Arles, France, 1997-8);
Ecole nationale supérieure de Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1998);
New experience in art history, communication and art managemant at University of Lausanne (Switzerland, 2000-2001).

There also was an internship at the Musée de l'Elysée - museum for photography (Lausanne, 2001);
Yearly visits and assistance to the Rencontres internationales de la photographie (Arles, France, 1998-2002).

You probably have met him in the photo festival Arles, after waiting a long line to have your badge done. Remember the guy with a hat?

English and
Russian. Then came
German and
French, and somehow
Polish, learned on TV.

During the work on "A portrait of Kražiai" Mindaugas Kavaliauskas learned the key particularities of the Samogitian dialect of the Samogitian dialect of Lithuanian:)