Justina Vilčinskaitė (Vilnius, LT) is an artist working in the field of visual art and design. She works primarily with sculptural installation as well as video and photography. Her main interest lies in mythology, collections/collecting, natural elements, such as rocks and their cultural and symbolic associations.
In her work she researches and plays with oppositions, the mental and physical heaviness and lightness. She explores the dialectics of the myth of Sisyphus, its notions of hopelessness, meaningless repetition, the idea of a burden and superstitious meaning of luck and hope associated with a collection of stones with naturally occurring holes in them. The investigation manifests itself through sculptural correspondence with the mythical character Sisyphus, as an absurd attempt to change and eliminate one’s mental and physical burden. Sculptural letters, shipping crates, and packages emphasize the state of transition and in-betweenness.
2012-2016 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, BA of Arts in Art & Design, in the field of Fine Arts, Amsterdam, NL
2011-2012 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Foundation Year, Amsterdam, NL
2020 AARK artist in residence programme, Korpo, FI
2019-2020 Artist in residence programme, Nida Art Colony, Nida, LT
2020 Educational Grant, Lithuanian Council for Culture, LT
Design prize "GERAS DIZAINAS 2020" - Interior Elements category - II place
2023 I think I’ve been there before, group exhibition, Krupa Gallery, Wrocław, PL
2023 I think I’ve been there before, group exhibition, KCCC, Klaipėda, LT
2021 GERAS DIZAINAS 2020-2021, Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius, LT, (with studio Grey on Grey)
2020 LKI Vitrina, Lithuanian Culture Institute
2020 OPEN STUDIOS, Nida Art Colony, Nida, LT
2017 365, in collaboration with Dovilė Aleksandravičiūte, Tiny Library, exhibited in various locations
2016 Immense Boulder, Graduation show, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL
2016 The Syncopated Dialectics of Words and Things, group exhibition, Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Order #168-10705641-4070218, group exhibition, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL
2019-currently co-founder of design studio Grey on Grey www.studiogreyongrey.com
Lithuanian design prize "Good Design" 2020 catalogue (with studio Grey on Grey), 2020
text for To Constellate For Dispersion exhibition, at7, Amsterdam, NL, 2018