On Friday, 12 June, at 5.30 pm, at the Klaipėda Gallery of the Klaipėda Branch of the Lithuanian Artists’ Union (Bažnyčių g. 6), the solo exhibition “Chromochron” by the young painter Lukas Pavilonis (curator Inga Šmitienė) opens.

In his work, the young generation painter Lukas Pavilonis consistently explores the relationship between colour, time and observation. In his latest exhibition Chromochron, the artist presents a long-term painterly investigation in which the change of seasons is perceived as an ever-changing cycle of colours. The title of the exhibition combines the Greek words chroma (colour) and chronos (time), describing the artist’s main focus on the experience of time through colour. By resisting the cycles of nature and the changing seasons of Lithuania, the artist creates a distinctive colour system in which each shade becomes a testimony of a moment, a state or a transformation.
In Pavilonis’ work, colour is not just a pictorial tool. It is a way of observing the environment, recording change and exploring man’s relationship to time. The artist is particularly interested in transitional states – the fragile moments between seasons, when one state of nature is already disappearing and another is still in the process of forming. The central axis of the exhibition is the project Let’s smell and worship the spring colourful, which has evolved into a broader exploration of the colours of nature. It is based on plein-air practice, painting from life in different seasons and building up a collection of colours, which today already includes more than a hundred different shades.
According to Lukas Pavilonis, the collection of colours on display in the exhibition consists of over a hundred shades, representing almost a third of the days of the cycle – each day capturing one or more of the colour nuances that emerged at the time. I am expanding the project further and have now collected a colour system for all four seasons, although it remains disproportionate: spring has 48 colours, autumn 28, winter 19 and summer 9 (data is variable). This disproportion reveals my different amount of interest in specific seasons, namely through the prism of colour – writes the author of the exhibition.
In the context of the younger generation of Lithuanian painters, Lukas Pavilonis (born in 2000) is distinguished by his consistent attention to the foundations of the painting medium. The academic background acquired at the M. K. Čiurlionis National School of Arts, the experience of restoration while working on the mural paintings of the Vilnius Cathedral Basilica, and the studies at the Department of Painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts have shaped an artist for whom image and the process of seeing itself are of great importance.
In recent years, the artist has been actively involved in the Lithuanian art field: he has held solo exhibitions at Kaunas IX Fort Museum, VDA Gallery “Kreatoriumas / meno krosnys /” and “The Rooster” Gallery, he was a finalist of the “Zabolis Art Prize” in 2022 and 2025, and in 2025 he was a finalist of the “Young Painter’s Award”. Alongside his individual work, he develops a collaborative practice as part of the duo Vasarė + Lukas.
The colour studies, etchings, landscapes and collected plant specimens presented in the exhibition reveal the artist’s desire not to document nature, but to draw attention to its colourful richness. By deliberately reducing the motifs, the artist highlights the original colour impulse that was the beginning of each work. “Chromochron invites us to slow down and look back to a time of exploration that unfolds in the rhythm of light, colour and the constant changes of nature.

The exhibition will be open until 11 July.
Organised by the Klaipėda Branch of the LDS.
Address: Bažnyčių g. 6
Opening hours of the Klaipėda Gallery: Wednesday-Friday, 12-6 p.m.,
Saturday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
The gallery is closed on public holidays.
During the event there will be photography and filming. Please note that participants may be visible in photographs and videos published in various media for the purpose of publicising the event.