Agne Gintalaite is a contemporary artist, cultural researcher and columnist

Contact

E-mail: agnegintalaite@gmail.com

Education

2024 – present PhD in Ethnology (Cultural Anthropology), Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore

2021 –  2024       MA in Comparative Culture Studies, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania

2009 – 2013        BA in Psychology (not completed), Vilnius University, Lithuania

1997 – 1999        Cultural Sociology, Collegium Invisibile Lituaniae, Lithuania

1995 – 1999        BA in Art History, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania

Awards

2024 Kazys Pakštas Prize for Master’s Thesis
2024 Vytautas Magnus University Honorary Grant

2022 Silver Award in the category of abstract photography for professionals, the International Photography Competition reFocus, NY, USA.

2015 Individual grant, the Lithuanian Council for Culture.

2016 Second Place in the category of abstract photography for professionals, the Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA), London, UK.

2015 Awarded the status of art creator by Lithuanian Ministry of Culture.

Solo exhibitions

2024 Not mine, not a photography. An artistic exploration “Chasing the digital truth“. Vilnius Photography Gallery, Lithuania

2022 Unhidden(Nepa(si)slėpti),workin digital and mixed media, Art Gallery “101,”Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania.

2022 In/Re-Spiration (Žiūrintys/į/kvepiantys), work in oil painting and sound art, Gallery AP, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2021 Čiurlionis. Drive,oil painting and video, The Room Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2019 Without Perspective, photography,Vilnius Photography Gallery, Lithuania.

Selected Group exhibitions

2024 Contemporary Art Festival ,,Reiškinys M“, Klaipėda. Curator Paulina Pukytė, organiser KKKC.
2023 Exhibition “Green“. National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania.
2023 International Contemporary Art Fair “ArtVilnius’23“, together with 7:14 Vilnius Photographic Art Centre.
2023 LATGA House of Authors / Culture Night. Performative Art in Public Space (with Migle Vilčiauskaitė),
Vilnius, Lithuania.2022 Kaunas–Vilnius: Moving Mountains, MO Modern Art Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2022 International Photography Symposium NIDA: Meeting Photography. Project “Shoot the Past: Recreating Memories with the AI,” shortlisted as a finalist of the competition and presented in the public screening, Nida, Lithuania.

2022 The Photography Weekend, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2022 The International Contemporary Art Fair Art Vilnius’22, presented by the 7:14 Vilnius Centre of the Photography Art, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2021 Let Us Not Forget Not to Remember, public art performance in Cvirka Square, Vilnius, Lithuania. With Eglė Grėbliauskaitė.

2020 Garden and Cosmos, The Room Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania. With Alfreda Gintalienė and Birutė Zokaitytė.

Art publication

2015 Beauty Remains, a photography series presented in Lithuanian Photography: Yesterday and Today, the annual publication of the Union of Photography Artists, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Professional membership

Since 2021 Member of the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association

Since 2016 Member of Lithuanian Photographers Association

Selected art projects & publications

2021 A series of interviews with female art creators and thinkers, “Eglės and Art: the Contours of an Ecosystem,” 7 Art Days, www.7md.lt.

2015 Beauty Remains, a photography series.