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Between 4 February and 5 March 2016 Pace gallery in London (6 Burlington Garden, W1S 3ET) hosts The Calder Prize 2005 – 2015, an exhibition dedicated to exploring the impact of Alexander Calder through the work of six unique contemporary artists and recipients of the prestigious Calder Prize. Amongst them is one of the most prominent contemporary Lithuanian artists Žilvinas Kempinas, who received the prize in 2007. Joining him are Tara Donovan, Tomás Saraceno, Rachel Harrison, Darren Bader and Haroon Mirza.

The exhibition aims to craft a conversation between these artists and Alexander Calder, the famous 20th century modernist sculptor who challenged the norms and traditions of conventional sculpture. The Calder Prize was founded in 2005 and is given to artists whose early work demonstrates qualities that can be seen as a continuation of Calder’s creative legacy. The works of the recipients of the prize and Calder himself are exhibited side-by-side for the first time, and offer a chance to re-contextualise his legacy.

Žilvinas Kempinas (b. 1969 in Plungė, Lithuania) is a creator of unique installations, currently residing in New York. After studying at the Vilnius Art Academy and Hunter College, City University of New York, Kempinas rose to fame when the entirety of his second show at the Spencer Brownstone gallery, Columns and Bike Messenger, was purchased by the Margulies Collection and exhibited at the Art Basel Miami Beach in 2006. Kempinas’s oeuvre strives towards grace and beauty, incorporating unexpected industrial materials, such as magnetic tape, into the process. One of his most impressive projects is Tube, which represented Lithuania at the 53rd Venice Art Biennale. Tube was a long, translucent tunnel made from VHS tapes, transporting the viewer into a parallel space, and questioning the human connection with time, space and architecture. This year, Tube is going to be reinstalled in Austria.

During 2015, Kempinas showed in Greece, Brazil and the USA, and this autumn his solo exhibition is coming to Ikon gallery in Birmingham. The exhibition at the Pace gallery is a great chance to see Kempinas’s works in London and to witness their dialogue with the legacy of Alexander Calder.

For more information, visit the Pace gallery website: http://www.pacegallery.com/london/exhibitions/12783/the-calder-prize-2005-2015