Education and Professional Career

1964
Born in Prienai, Lithuania

1987 – 1993
Studied art at the Kaunas Art Institute and Vilnius Art Academy, Lithuania. Diploma (MA)

1984 – 1987
Stepas Žukas Kaunas University of Applied Arts, Artistic Design

1982
Graduated from Garliava, Lithuania

2019 – 2020
Jury member for the Berlin-Neukölln District Cultural Fund

2018
One-time workshop at Young Arts Neukölln

Since 2018
Lecturer at the Adult Education Centers Berlin-Neukölln, Biberach, and Werenzhain

2005 – 2012
Art classes at the Lithuanian School in Berlin

2009 – 2010
Course instructor at Textile - Kultur - Haslach, Austria

2009
Curator of the special exhibition "Modern Textile Art of the Baltic States" at Creativa, Dortmund

2008
Curator of the exhibition "Textile Art from Lithuania", Women's Museum, Bonn

2007
Organizer of the International Textile Art Symposium, Kaunas, Lithuania

2006
Art Director and Curator of the exhibition "Berlin - Lithuania", Works of the Lithuanian School, Children's and Youth Gallery Berlin

2005
Curator of the exhibition "Young Textile Art from Lithuania", Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin 2002 Lecturer at the Lithuanian Academy of Arts

1993 - 2001
Teaching assignments at the Kaunas Art Institute, Vilnius Art Academy, Lithuania Since 2001 Freelance artist in Berlin


 Selected Exhibitions and Projects
 

2024

  • Am I Who I Am? / Ar esu kas esu?, Solo Exhibition Celebrating 30 Years of Exhibitions, Kaunas Picture Gallery

  • Lithuania Am I Who I Am? / Ar esu kas esu?, Solo Exhibition, Janina Monkute-Marks Museum-Gallery, Kedainiai

  • Lithuania Am I Who I Am? / Ar esu kas esu?, Utenos Krastotyros Muziejus, Utena, Lithuania

  • "48 Hours Neukölln", Solo Exhibition - Painting, Atelierhaus Schönstedtstr. 13, Berlin

  • "Heritage / Palikimas", Anyksciu kulturos centras, Anyksciai, Lithuania

  • "Whispering Fragments", Group Exhibition, Trofejas Showroom, Berlin 

2023

  • "QUO VADIS?, 7th Riga International Triennial "Tradition and Innovation", Group Exhibition, Riga Stock Exchange Art Museum + Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Riga, Latvia
  • "48 Hours Neukölln", Open Studio, Atelierhaus Schönstedtstr., Berlin "Music and Dance Performance at Britz Palace", together with Shih-Cheng Liu and Yi-Wei Tian
  • 2022 - 2023 "Equation with Unknowns. Lithuanian Artists in Germany by 1945 to today / Lygtis su nežinomaisiais". Lithuanians from the 1945 Revolution, Group Exhibition, V. Kasiulis Art Museum, Vilnius,
  • Lithuania DUENDE - Contemporary Textile Art from Lithuania, Group Exhibition, Casa de Vacas - Retiro Park, Madrid, Spain

2022

  • Contemporary Textile Art from Japan and Lithuania, Group Exhibition, Meno parkas Gallery, Kaunas,
  • Lithuania "Contemporary Textile Art from Japan and Lithuania", Group Exhibition, Meno parkas Gallery, Kaunas Lithuania
  • "Tears", Group Exhibition, Schlossgalerie, Schärding, Austria
  • "Lusatian Sky", Installation at Steinitzhof, Steinitz near Drebkau in Niederlauzsitz

  • "All We Need Is Love", Installation, Atelier Schönstedtstr., Berlin

2021

  • "Wanderlust", Group Exhibition, Kult Art Gallery, Berlin
  • "The Path / Kelias" Installation, Atelier Schönstedtstr., Berlin
  • "Breathe!", interactive landscape installation, together with Greta Kardi, 48 Hours Neukölln Cultural Festival, Berlin
  • "Aria," installation and performance, together with Tiziana Longo, 48 Hours Neukölln Cultural Festival, Berlin
  • "Tears," group exhibition, Alter Kirchturm, Haslach an der Mühl, Austria
  • "Acqua," installation and performance, together with Tiziana Longo, Wildenbruchbrücke, Berlin

2020

  • Solo exhibition, President Valdas Adamkus Library / Prezidento Valdo Adamkaus biblioteka-muziejus, Kaunas, Lithuania
  • "Under the Dome of the Wind," double exhibition with Ute Wennrich, Galerie Bernau, Bernau near Berlin
  • "Poetry of Today," installation, Atelier Schönstedtstr. 13
  • Berlin "On the Run," solo exhibition, Aichhorn Collection, Salzburg, Austria "Sugrįžimas / Homecoming," solo exhibition, National Theater, Kaunas, Lithuania

2019

  • Education Project "A Perfect Christmas Day," a musical Christmas story with German and Polish children, Brandenburg State Orchestra, Frankfurt/Oder
  • "Art Light," Art Festival at Gärtnerhof, Velten near Berlin
  • "Textile Art of Today," group exhibition, Pesti Vigadó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
  • "Progress," solo exhibition, "48 Hours Neukölln," Berlin
  • "New Paintings / Nauji Paveikslai," solo exhibition, Philharmonie / Filharmonija, Kaunas, Lithuania
  • "As Fast as Never Before," solo exhibition, Meno parkas Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • "von wegen weg," group exhibition, Inselgalerie, Berlin

2018

  • "As Fast as Never Before," Meno parkas Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • Neukölln Art Prize, Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin
  • "A Happy Person," solo exhibition, Kult Art Gallery, Berlin
  • "Tradition and Innovation-Identity," 6th Riga International Triennial - Arsenals, Riga Latvia
  • "Textile Art of Today", Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia
  • "(AT)KURTI" - 8th Lithuanian Textile Art Biennale, Arka Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania

2017

  • "Light and Shadow", Arka Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • "In the Shadow of Light", WasserGalerie, Berlin

  • "Secondhand News", solo exhibition, Dahlenburg Art Association

  • "Lithuania Now", group exhibition, D-Contemporary, London, UK

  • "Abhörkanal", installation, Atelierhaus Schön-13, Berlin
  • "OXYMORA", group exhibition, Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig

2016

  • 17th Geldern Tower Scholarship. Water Tower at the train station, Geldern
  • "SOTUS" - Installation and dance performance, opening event "48 Hours Neukölln" with the AURA Dance Theater, Körnerpark, Berlin
  • "Textile Interpretations: Complete", Casa de la Cultura, Maracena - Granada, Spain
  • "Get in the Newspaper!", Solo Exhibition - Installation, Atelierhaus Schön 13, Berlin

2015

  • "Traveling Letters", Group Exhibition, Titanikas Exhibition Space, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • "Traces and Memory", Group Exhibition, KunstRaum Ko, Berlin
  • Group Exhibition, Trofejas Gallery, Berlin
  • "Textile Interpretations", Casa de la Cultura, Maracena - Granada, Spain
  • "Traces and Remembrance", ARKA Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania Group Exhibition, Old Synagogue Görlitz
  • "Newspapers and Other Threads", Lithuanian Embassy, ​​Berlin "Textile Interpretations", Lithuanian Embassy, ​​Madrid, Spain

2014

  • "Absoluti tekstilė / Absolutely Textile", Arsenal, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • "Zenonas Varnauskas and Lithuanian Textile Art", group exhibition, University of Murcia, Spain
  • "Laiko drobulė / Time-Canvas", group exhibition, Kaunas Art Gallery, Lithuania
  • "Kvadrienalė 2014 – dailė ant vėliavos stiebo / Quadriennale 2014 - Art on the Flagpole", Bastėja (Bastion), Vilnius, Lithuania
  • "Art Light", group exhibition, Velten near Berlin
  • "Debesuota su pragiedruliais / Cloudy with Brightenings", solo exhibition, Kaunas Art Gallery and Pamenkalnio Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • "Užslėpto praregimumas / The Transparency of the Hidden", performance with the Aura Dance Theater Lithuania"

2013

  • "Am I who I am?", Project with the Lithuanian dance theater Aura
  • "Textile Art Berlin", Carl von Ossietzky School, Berlin
  • "Role Models", Solo Exhibition, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Riga, Latvia

2012

  • "Light Experiments", International Group Exhibition, Leitzkau Castle
  • "On the Way", Solo Exhibition, Lithuanian Embassy, ​​Berlin "Energheia - Miniature Textiles", Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo, Venice, Italy

2011

  • "Energheia - 2011 Miniature Textiles", Como, Italy 8th International Art Biennale, Kaunas, Lithuania
  • Solo Exhibition, Galeria X, Bratislava, Slovakia
  • "Lithuanian Identity", Group Exhibition, European Commission - Berlaymont Building, Brussels, Belgium

2010

  • Solo exhibition, Galerie mare Liberum, Hamburg "auf + ab", Europe in Dialogue, Seifenfabrik, Lauterach, Austria
  • "Genius loci", group exhibition, Galeria X, Bratislava, Slovakia
  • "Working Girls", solo exhibition, Swarovski Flagship Store, Vienna, Austria

2009

  • "The Passionate Textile of Lithuania", group exhibition, M. Žilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
  • "Via Baltia" - International Textile Design Project, Galerie artifex, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • "Contemporary Art from Lithuania", Aichhorn Collection, Salzburg, Austria

2008

  • "niedenfadenverlieren", group exhibition, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig
  • "Threading Trends Berlin", group exhibition, Alte Post, Berlin
  • "Keliaujančios raidės / Travelling letters", group exhibition, Lithuanian Consulate General, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • "Schürzen", solo exhibition, Münsterland Festival, Burg Vischering Lüdinghausen

2007

  • "Looking Behind-Under-Through the Apron," Solo Exhibition, Galerie Akademija, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • "Global Intrigue," 3rd European Textile Art Triennial, Riga, Latvia
  • Black Light Art Exhibition, Místodržitelský palác (Governor's Palace), Brno, Czech Republic
  • "Textile Art Berlin," Textile Art Fair, Max Taut School, Berlin

2006

  • "The Route," 2nd Biennial of Textile Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • 2nd International Triennial of Textile Art, Szombathely, Hungary
  • "Night and Fog," Open Studios at the "Schön 13" Studio House, Berlin
  • "Lichtgestalten," Exhibition at "Kunstraum t27," Berlin
  • "Werkschau '06," Exhibition at the Schillerpalais, Berlin
  • Black Light Art Exhibition at Kaunas Castle Lithuania

2005

  • "Young Textile Art from Lithuania", Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
  • "Textile 05", International Textile Art Biennale, Kaunas, Lithuania
  • "Blacklight Gallery 2005", Blacklight Art Exhibition, Berlin
  • "Young Textile Art from Lithuania", Riga, Latvia

2003 1st International Triennial of Miniature Textile Art, Szombathely, Hungary

2002 7th International Triennial of Miniature Textile Art, Musée Jean Lurçat, Angers, France

2001 "Tradition and Innovation", International Textile Exhibition, Riga, Latvia

2000 "Textile Connections" Lithuania - Austria, BerchtoldVilla, Salzburg, Austria
 

Awards and Prizes
 

2023, 2013, 2006-2007 Scholarship from the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture

2019 Award of the Golden Badge of the Lithuanian Artists' Association

2018

  • Neukölln Art Prize Shortlist, Neukölln Cultural Office, Berlin
  • Diploma from the Textile Art Biennial “(At)kurti”, Vilnius, Lithuania

2016 17th Geldern Tower Scholarship

2007 Honorary Prize, "Global Intrigue", 3rd European Textile Art Triennial, Riga, Latvia

2006 3rd Prize, Flag Exhibition, 2nd International Textile Art Triennial, Szombathely, Hungary

2002 Two-month residency at the "Cité Internationale des Arts" in Paris based on a scholarship from the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts

1999 Diploma, "Line", Internationale Textile Art Biennale, Kaunas, Lithuania

1993 Follow-up scholarship from the City and State of Salzburg to participate in the "International Summer Academy" in the "Fluxus" class with Prof. Dick Higgins

1992 Scholarship from the City and State of Salzburg to participate in the "International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg" in the "Paradox Paper" class with Prof. Andreas von Weizsäcker