SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 object arrives like a bride, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Lithuania
Funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Šiauliai City Municipality
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 In situ, “Identity” international art and archeology residency exhibition, “Inovatorių slėnis” (Innovators’ Valley), Antalieptė
2026 Realtà, exhibition from the “Labas Itala” residency, Sicily, Italy
Part of the Lithuanian culture season in Italy
2025 Šiauliai Art, annual exhibition of Šiauliai artists, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Lithuania
2025Trialogue, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Lithuania
2025 Kodėl aš kuriu, Pragiedruliai, Lithuania
2025 Unstable Grounds, NYUAD MFA graduation show, 421, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2025 Spoon Spade Shovel, Youth Takeover 2025 at Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, UAE
2024 Pressure Points, Project Space in NYUAD Gallery, UAE
2024 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 Identity, placemaking and archeology residency, Innovators Valley, Antalieptė, Lithuania
2026 Labas ITALA, Northern Lithuania's artists residency, Lithuanian season in Italy, Sicily
2021 Narrations du futur residency, Maillon Theatre, Strasbourg, France
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2026 B3: FREEDOM, Jelgava House of Culture, Latvia
MEMBERSHIPS
2026 Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists Association
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2026 Lithuanian Council for Culture grant for emerging interdisciplinary artists
2026 Šiauliai city municipality emerging artist grant
2025 Šiauliai UNESCO club award
2024 Tarek Al Ghoussein Fellowship, Farjam Foundation, full scholarship for Master's studies at NYU Abu Dhabi
2024 New York University Abu Dhabi Research Grant for a research project about Lithuania and Bosnia's rural museums
2019 Prix Horizon, Dupuy de Parseval bank, grant for undergraduate studies
EDUCATION
2023-2025 MFA in Art and Media from New York University Abu Dhabi
2019-2022 BFA from La Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin (HEAR) Strasbourg
2018-2019 Foundation year at Ecole municipale des Beaux-Arts de Sète
WORKSHOP FAICILITATION
07/2025–present Development and facilitation of creative workshops for children at the Šiauliai Art Gallery. Topics include: "AI: Where Is the Ethics?", "What Is Graphic Art?", "Visual Thinking Strategies"
11/2026 "Stop-Motion Animation." Integrated lessons in History, English, and Lithuanian. Šiauliai Gytariai Progymnasium
07/2026 Creative workshop diptych "paint conceals, text reveals": a painting and color workshop, and a creative writing and embroidery workshop. Part of the exhibition "object arrives like a bride" at the Šiauliai Art Gallery. Funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture
06/2026 "Cyanotype: Herbariums and Chemical Photographic Processes" – integrated chemistry and biology lessons. Šiauliai Gytariai Progymnasium
05/2026 Marbling workshops for the inpatient psychiatric day center at the Šiauliai State Hospital
05/2026 "Linocut and Political Critique: The Brazilian Cordel Literature Tradition and Berlin Wall Graffiti" – an integrated history and German language lesson at the S. Šalkauskis Gymnasium, Šiauliai
01/2026 Creative writing workshop "truth wears different fur-coats," part of slam poetry programming by "Begemotas," Šiauliai
07/2025 - 12/2025 Creation of the "Menosėja" public workshop series, featuring sessions on bookbinding, sketching, linocut, and sashiko (embroidery for garment repair)
05/2025 Marbling workshops for children with artist Hala El Abora, Julius Baer and Art Dubai, UAE
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
07/2025-now
Educational activities coordinator, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai, Lithuania
04/2025
Marbling workshop designer and facilitator, Julius Baer at Art Dubai, UAE
02/2024 – 12/2024
Teaching assistant for Art History and Directing Courses, New York University Abu Dhabi
03/2023 – 04/2023
Set production assistant,PETTEE, directors Karthika Naïr & Deepak Unnikrishnan, NYUAD Arts Center, UAE
09/2023 – 06/2024
Assistant for Graduate and Postgraduate Study Programs, New York University Abu Dhabi
09/2023
Exhibition preparation assistant, Blaine de St. Croix's exhibition at NYUAD Art Gallery
10/2022 – 03/2023
Cultural projects coordinator, Embassy of France in the UAE
08/2022
Film production assistant, Atlas Vision productions, dir. Nacer Khemir, Tunisia
06/2022
Assistant stage manager, Seppia productions, dir. Mali Arun / "Seppia" production, France
04/2022
Video editor, "Premiers Actes" theatre company, dir. Thibaut Wenger, France
08/2021 – 07/2022
Educator, "Gandriukai" Lithuanian School in Strasbourg, France
09/2020 – 06/2022
Library assistant, Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire (BNU), France
PRESS
Etaplius (regional newspaper) (06.2026)
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 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 graduated from New York University Abu Dhabi and La Haute École des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg. Her work has been exhibited in France, Italy, Lithuania, and the UAE, including Jameel Arts Center, 421 Arts Campus, NYUAD Art Gallery, La Chaufferie, Syndicat Potentiel, Šiauliai Art Gallery and Pragiedruliai. Danutė currently works as educational programming coordinator at Šiauliai Art Gallery.
danute.vaitek@gmail.com
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