Agnė Jonkutė was born in Alytus on August 5, 1974. In 1983-90 she studied at Alytus Music School (fortepiano), in 1993-96 – at Kaunas S. Žukas Applied Arts Technical School, in 1997-2003 – at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Kaunas Art Institute, where she obtained the specialty of a painter. From 2005 the artist is a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Union. Since 2006 she has been working as a lecturer at the Department of Visual Arts at Kaunas Art Institute of VAA. She works in the fields of painting and inter-disciplinary arts, organises exhibitions.
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Solo exhibitions
2003 – “Self-conception”, Kaunas Picture Gallery
2005 – “Facts of Inexistence”, gallery Meno Parkas, Kaunas; gallery ARTima, Vilnius
2007 – “Cavities” gallery XX, Panevėžys
2007 – “In the Morning”, Klaipėda Culture Communications Centre
2008 – “Lithuanian Contemporary Art. Part 1 – Agnė Jonkutė", gallery Strenger, Tokyo, Japan.
2011 – “I Thought about it Once Again”, Old Town Artists’ Gallery, Vilnius.
2013 – “Places”, Homo Ludens gallery, Jonava.
2013 – “A Stone to my Garden”, Si:said gallery, Klaipėda.
2014 – “My home is small, who left it once may not return. Glee of contribution”, Post gallery, Kaunas.
Major group exhibitions
1999, 2000 – Art forum “Homo Ludens”, Jonava
2001, 2002, 2003 – “Plain-air of Deer Valley”, gallery AL, Kaunas, gallery Akademija, Vilnius; Arts Printing House, Vilnius (participant and organiser)
2001 – “Mutations”, 8th plain-air in memoriam of A.Samuolis, Kaunas Picture Gallery
2001 – “Mysterium Magnum”, gallery Meno Parkas, Kaunas
2002 – “Erase the Marked Place”, Kaunas Picture Gallery
2002 – “Evolvement”, Šiauliai Art Gallery
2003 – “2 Show”, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
2003 – Action “Insert”, Savanorių Ave. 168, Kaunas
2004 – Video art festival“THEOverkill”, Twente military airport, the Netherlands
2004 – “EURO <26>”, J.Baltrušaitis Home, Moscow, Russia
2004 – “Ecologic Landscape”, 9th plain-air in memoriam of A.Samuolis, gallery Meno Parkas, Kaunas
2004 – “Portraits and Silhouettes of the 21st Century”, gallery Vartai, Vilnius; D.Rostworowski gallery, Krakow, Poland
2004 – “Seven Truths of Painting”, 12th triennial of painting, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania
2004 – “P.s. esp”, Kaunas Picture Gallery (participant and organiser)
2005 – 5th Francophone games, Niamey, Niger, Africa
2005 – Plain-air in memoriam of A.Vaitkūnas, Davatkynas, Prienai district
2005 – “Seven Contemporary Lithuanian Artists”, gallery I‘UFM, Montpellier, France
2005 – “Homo erraticus”, Arts Exhibition House, Klaipėda; gallery Ibid Projects; Old Town Dominium, Vilnius
2005 – “Spermatikos Logos”, Kaunas Picture Gallery (participant and organiser)
2005 – “Salon of European Young Creators”, Montrouge, France
2005 – Cinema festival “Jutro Filmu”, Warsaw, Poland
2006 – “Red line”, cultural centre Ideias Emergentes, Porto, Portugal
2006 – “10 + ”, Kaunas Picture Gallery (participant and organiser)
2006 – “Shoot – You will not Save Yourself”, Arts Printing House, Vilnius
2006 – “101.3 KM: Competition and Cooperation”, CAC, Vilnius
2006 – Humanitarian manoeuvres “Occupation”, former Kaunas meat factory
2006 – Festival of performances, city gallery BWA, Bydgoszsc, Poland
2006 – “Invasion”, Dortmund Kunstlerhaus, Germany
2006 – “Enigma”, gallery Vartai, Vilnius
2007 – Exhibition for the 10th anniversary of the gallery Meno Parkas, gallery Arka, Vilnius
2007 – “Horizons”, TPK art centre, Barcelona, Spain
2007 – “KoViKaVi”, Kaunas Picture Gallery
2007 – “Monologues”, CAC, Vilnius
2007 – “Fresh Paint”, gallery Vaal, Tallinn, Estonia
2007 – “Marcė Katiliūtė and Agnė Jonkutė”, gallery Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen, Norway
2007 – “Red line, Behind Borders”, gallery Meno Parkas, Kaunas
2008 – “From Country of Rain”, Museum of G.Gounar, Athens, Greece
2008 – Jubilee exhibition of TPK Teca Sala and Arts Plàstiques, Barcelona, Spain.
2008 – “From – to 2“, Klaipėda exhibition hall, Lithuania.
2008 – “Kataunas”, gallery Bocs, Catania, Italy; gallery Balta, Kaunas, Lithuania.
2008, 2009 – “Litwa – od nowa”, City gallery BWA, Bydgoszcz; gallery Szyb Wilson, Katowice; Contemporary art gallery, Olsztyn, Poland.
2009 – Exhibition of Young Lithuanian Artists. Gallery 21, Riga, Latvia.
2009 – “Abstraction and Expressionism – Two Vilnius Traditions of Painting”. Gallery Kairė-Dešinė, Vilnius.
2009 – “Millenium”. Gallery Kunstpakhuset, Ikast, Denmark.
2010 – “Landpartie”. Abtei Liesborn Museum, Germany.
2010 – Contemporary Lithuanian art. European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany.
2011 – Lithuanian pavilion in the 54th Venice Biennale, project of D.Mikšys “Behind the White Curtain”. Scuola S. Pasquale, Venice, Italy.
2011 – “Tertium Organum”. St. Donat Church, Zadar, Croatia.
2011 – “Autumn Salon”, gallery Meno Parkas, Kaunas.
2011 – “Imaginary Stories”, Užutrakis Manor, Trakai.
2012 – “Both Sides of Emptiness”, gallery Werkstattgalerie, Berlin, Germany.
2012 – “Lithuania Now!”, Lichtenstein Art Palace, Feldkirche, Austria.
2012 – “Donelaitis. 2012”, Vilnius Town Hall, Vilnius.
2013 – Art fair Art Vilnius’13, Litexpo exhibition centre, Vilnius.
2013 – Art fair “Huntenkunst”, “DRUfabriek Ulft”, the Netherlands.
2013 – “Euro-standards”, Titanikas gallery, Vilnius; VMU gallery 101, Kaunas.
2013 – XV painting triennial “Contexts of Painting”, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.
2013 – Symposium “Minimum / Maximum”, Cannes et Clairan, exhibition “La Filature du Pont Fer”, Lasalle, France.
2013 – “Art Heisst Kunst”, Herne city museum, Germany.
2014 – “Year Opening the Gate”, Titanikas gallery, Vilnius.
2014 – “The Same Method of Seeing(Thinking)”, Vytautas Magnus University gallery 101, Kaunas.
2015 – “Short Story of Wasted Time”, Pamėnkalnio gallery, Vilnius.
2015 – “The Same Method of Seeing(Thinking)”, Artists’ Association Gallery, Vilnius.
2015 – “Before/After/Now”. Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas.
2015 – “Actuality of Reality”, Meno Parkas gallery, Kaunas.
2015 – “Photo Phobia. Imaginary Views”. Art Exhibition Centre, Klaipėda; 38th photographers’ seminar in Nida.
2015 – “More Light”, Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas.
2015 – “Three Roads for one Theme”, along with Z.Hassanabadi, J.Lesur, Meno Parkas gallery, Kaunas.
Awards, achievements
1999, 2001 – The first place in Students’ Art Days.
2003 – Award of Rector of Vilnius Academy of Arts.
2005 – Internship at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.
2005 – Gold medal in the 5th Francophone games, Niamey, Niger.
2006-2008 – State stipend of the Ministry of Culture.
2009 – Diploma of the best young Lithuanian artist in the contemporary art fair Art Vilnius‘09.
2012 – State stipend of the Ministry of Culture.
2012 – Culture and art stipend of Kaunas City Municipality.
