Agnė Gintalaitė CV
Contact E-mail: agnegintalaite@gmail.com
Personal page – www.gintalaite.eu
Blog - www.agnegintalaite.lt
Education
2024 - 2008 PhD in Ethnology, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021 – 2024 MA in Comparative Culture Studies, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, 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 Individual grant, the Lithuanian Council for Culture. 2022 Silver Award in the category of abstract photography for professionals, the International Photography Competition reFocus, NY, USA. 2019 Individual grant, the Lithuanian Council for Culture. 2017 Individual grant, the Lithuanian Council for Culture. 2015 Second Place in the category of abstract photography for professionals, the Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA). 2015 Awarded the status of art creator by Lithuanian Ministry of Culture.
Solo exhibitions
2024 Not-mine not-photography, Vilnius Photography Gallery, Lithuania. 2022 Unhidden (Nepa(si)slėpti), work in 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, Gallery AP, Vilnius, Lithuania. 2021 Čiurlionis. Drive, oil painting and video, The Room Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania. 2019 Without Perspective, photography, Vilnius Photography Gallery, Lithuania.
Group exhibitions
2025 European young photography festival Circulation(s), Paris, France. 2024 Phenomenon M. Exhibition of site-specific contemporary art. Curator Paulina Pukytė, organiser KKKC, Klaipėda. 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, presented art project "Penguin Planet", Vilnius, Lithuania. 2023 LATGA House of Authors / Culture Night. Performative Art in Public Space (with Miglė 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. 2017 Mandalas, a travelling photography exhibition to raise public awareness about electronic waste, commissioned by the Association of Distributors of Electronic Technology, presented at the Vilnius University of Technology, Lithuania. With Rimas Valeikis. 2016 Contemporary Graphic Art Biennial, Szeklerland, Romania. 2016 Art for Home, Domus Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania. 2016 Textile: For Soul and Body, the 7th Biennial of Lithuanian Textile Art, the ARKA Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania. 2015 Illustration art exhibition, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. 2010 Art in Unexpected Spaces, Modern Art Centre, Literatai St., Vilnius, Lithuania. 2009 From Point to Ellipsis, CAISA Cultural Centre, Helsinki, Finland.
Conferences and talks
2024 NIDA: Meeting Photography. Nida, Lithuania. Artist's speech, presentation of the project "Chasing Digital Truth". 2022 International conference Migration, Art, Museum, the National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania. Paper: “’There's Already a Lot of The Island in Me’: The Influence of Environmental Materialities on the Artist's Habitus, Identity and Work.” 2022 Public talk at the Photography Weekend, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania. Paper: “How Do the AI-Powered Robots ‘Understand’ Photography and How Do Photographers Understand Robots.”
Professional experience
2022 – 2024 Columnist, the Lithuanian National Television and Radio online portal (www.lrt.lt) 2011 – 2014 Lecturer in Fashion Photography, Vilnius College of Design, Lithuania 2007 – 2012 Photographer, lifestyle magazine Moteris, Lithuania 2008 – 2012 Art and Culture Project Manager and Instructor, "Baltas Lapas," Vilnius, Lithuania 2005 – 2007 Art and Photography Editor, magazines Nuo iki and Istorijos, Lithuania 2001-2005 Fashion Editor, magazines Cosmopolitan, FHM, Ieva, Lithuania
Professional membership Since 2021 Member of the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists' Association Since 2016 Member of Lithuanian Photographers Association
Languages Lithuanian (native), Russian (good), English (good), Spanish (basics)