SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
object arrives like a bride, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Lithuania
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Šiauliai Art, annual exhibition of Šiauliai artists, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Lithuania
Trialogue, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Lithuania
Kodėl aš kuriu, Pragiedruliai, Lithuania
Unstable Grounds, NYUAD MFA graduation show, 421, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Spoon Spade Shovel, Youth Takeover 2025 at Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, UAE
2024
Pressure Points, Project Space in NYUAD Gallery, UAE
When Music Meets Poetry, spoken word performance, NYUAD Arts Center, UAE
2022
Je ne reviens jamais sur mes pas, La Chaufferie, Strasbourg, France
2021
Je file, bon courage, à bientôt, Syndicat Potentiel, Strasbourg, France
RESIDENCIES
2026
Labas ITALA, Lithuanian season in Italy, Sicily
2021
Narrations du futur residency, Maillon Theatre, Strasbourg, France
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2026
B3: FREEDOM, Jelgava House of Culture, Latvia
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2026
Lithuanian Council for Culture grant for emerging trans-disciplinary artists
Šiauliai municipality young artist grant
2025
Šiauliai UNESCO club grant
2024
Tarek Al Ghoussein Fellowship
New York University Abu Dhabi Research Grant
2019
Horizon Prize
EDUCATION
2025
MFA in Art and Media from New York University Abu Dhabi
2022
BFA from La Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin (HEAR) Strasbourg
2019
Foundation year at Ecole municipale des Beaux-Arts de Sète
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Educator | 07/2025-current
Siauliai Art Gallery, Siauliai, Lithuania
Children’s workshop designer and facilitator | 04/2025
Julius Baer at Art Dubai, UAE
Researcher | 09/2024-05/2025
Abu Dhabi Public Spaces Project, Anthropocene Research Kitchen, NYU Abu Dhabi,
Set Production Assistant | 03-4/2024
PETTEE, directors Karthika Naïr & Deepak Unnikrishnan, NYUAD Arts Center, UAE
Teaching assistant (Art History and Directing) | 02-12/2024
Professors Terri Geis, Faustin Linyekula, and Joana Settle, NYU Abu Dhabi
Cultural officer | 10/2022 – 03/2023
Embassy of France, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Cinema production assistant | 08/2022
Atlas Vision productions, dir. Nacer Khemir, Tunisia
Assistant stage manager | 06/2022
Seppia productions, dir. Mali Arun, France
Video editor | 04/2022
Premiers Actes theater company, dir. Thibaut Wenger, France
PRESS
Šiaulių kraštas (regional newspaper) (10.2025)
J.K.
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 in Art and Media from New York University Abu Dhabi as a Tarek Al Ghoussein Fellow and a BA in Art 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, Šiauliai Art Gallery and Pragiedruliai. She collaborated on spoken word, theatre and cinema productions in Tunisia, the UAE and France. Danutė currently works as an educator at Šiauliai Art Gallery.
danute.vaitek@gmail.com
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PROJECTS