Danutė Vaitekūnaitė (b. 1998, Šiauliai, Lithuania) is an artist and educator whose work seeks to reveal invisible systems that exploit human vulnerability. Her worldbuilding practice combines installation, painting, sculpture, writing, design, video, and performance. Revealing the mundane and the overlooked, she focuses on relationships between objects, human and non-human.
Vaitekūnaitė holds an MFA from New York University Abu Dhabi as a Tarek Al Ghoussein Fellow and a BFA from La Haute École des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg. Her work has been exhibited in the UAE, France and Lithuania, including Jameel Arts Center, 421 Arts Campus, NYUAD Art Gallery, La Chaufferie, Syndicat Potentiel, and Pragiedruliai. She co-wrote and performed a spoken word and music performance at NYUAD Arts Center, participated in an artist residency at Maillon Theater, and worked on theatre and cinema productions in Tunisia, the UAE and France.