Židrija Janušaitė (b. 1973)

CV
Education
2004–2008 bachelor at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Kaunas Faculty of Arts, Studio of Painting,
2008–2010 Master studios at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Kaunas Faculty of Arts, Studio of Painting.
I take part in art exibitions and projects since 2007.
I am working with painting, video, photography, land art, performance and organize art projects.
Now I live and work in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Solo exhibitions
2021 All Meaningful Sounds Turned Into Silence, Meno Parkas Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2017 About Longing, Touches And Awakenings, Pamėnkalnio gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 Awakenings, ATALAIA, Ourique, Portugal
2016 Forgotten Secrets.Liwa, Abu Dhabi Art HUb, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2015 Solitudes. Touches, gallery „Meno parkas“, Kaunas, Lithuania
2013 Meetings, gallery „Menų natos“, Kaunas, Lithuania
2013 Free Play of Space, gallery “DeCompagnie”, Dordrecht, Netherlands. Opening with performanceLife Consists of these Little Touches of Solitude
2013 Performance Life Consists of these Little Touches of Solitude, gallery „Meno parkas“, Kaunas, Lithuania
2013 Untroubled Mind. Meetings, gallery „Meno parkas“, Kaunas, Lithuania
2013 Forgiven Secrets, Kaunas State Philharmonic, Kaunas, Lithuania
2012 Meetings,gallery „Loreta“, Alytus, Lithuania
2011 Free Play of Space, gallery „101“, Kaunas, Lithuania
2011 Untroubled Mind. Meetings, Vero Cafe, Kaunas, Lithuania
2010 Forgiven Secrets, gallery „Sofa“, with pianist prof. Raminta Lampsatis in Druskininkai Piano Festival „Clara and Robert Schumann in Lithuania“, Druskininkai, Lithuania
2010 Meetings, Krankenhaus Hedwigshohe gallery, Berlin, Germany
2010 Untroubled Mind. Meetings, gallery „101“, Kaunas, Lithuania
2009 Portraits, gallery „Studija“, Kaunas, Lithuania
2009 Portraits, gallery „101“, Kaunas, Lithuania
2009 Forgiven Secrets, gallery „Studija“, Kaunas, Lithuania
2008 Gaze, Kaunas Architects‘ House, Kaunas, Lithuania

Group exhibitions
2020 I Rise, ArtHouze gallery, Bangalore, India
2019 Madurai Short Film Festival, Madurai, India
2019 Alive House, No Name Studio, Kaunas, Lithuania
2019 Caryatids, L’Hospitalet museum, Barcelona, Spain
2019 Zagare Fringe Festival 2019, Žagarė, Lituania
2019 European Museum Night, Janina Monkutė – Marks museum, Kėdainai, Lithuania
2018 Festival Kaunas in Art, gallery “Meno parkas”, Kaunas, Lithuania
2018 Festival Start, Rokiškis, Lithuania
2018 Festival of performance and spatial art Territory. 3, CCA Torun, Poland
2018 ArtVilnius’18, with gallery “Meno parkas”, Lithuanian Exhibition and Convention Centre LITEXPO, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018 Join the Dots, Salone degli Incante, Trieste, Italy
2017 Not Museum, gallery “Meno parkas”, Kaunas, Lithuania
2017 Longing, video installation, Zagare Fringe festival 2017, Žagarė, Lithuania
2017 Choras, exhibition halls “Titanikas”, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 Women in Art, Art Hub Dubai Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2016 Performance Awakenings, Ourique, Portugal and live streaming at Winter CREATurE, gallery Meno parkas, Kaunas, Lithuania
2016 Performance Red, National Blood Center and LAA project, Kaunas, Lithuania
2016 Before, After, Now, gallery of exibitions of Šiauliai, Lithuania
2016 Relevance of Reality, exhibition halls “Titanikas”, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016 Performance Stretched Longing, Performance festival Winter CREATurE Live Art, gallery POST, Kaunas, Lithuania
2015 Performance Knowing, presentation of workshop Poetry of Action with Alexandra Zierle VAA, KF, Kaunas, Lithuania
2015 Performance Another Silence, Zagare Fringe Festival 2015, Žagarė, Lithuania
2015 More Light, Kaunas Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2015 ArtVilnius’2015, Lithuanian Exhibition and Convention Centre LITEXPO, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 Before, After, Now, Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2015 Relevance of Reality gallery “Meno parkas” Kaunas, Lithuania, Pulzus, Odorheiu Secuiesc, Romania
2014 Performance Life Consists of These Little Touches of Solitude 3 (R. Barthes), performance evening The Call, Kaunas, Lithuania
2014 Performance Life Consists of These Little Touches of Solitude (R. Barthes), Festival of Performatives Arts, Ourique, Portugal
2014 Performance Absent Presence, Performance festival CREATurE Live Art, Kaunas, Lithuania
2014 Memory in your pocket , Rolly Days, Genova, Italy
2014 Memory in your pocket, Museum Villa Croce of Genova, Italy
2014 Wide Angle. The Time, gallery „Arka“, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 Performance „Life Consists of These Little Touches of Solitude“ (R. Barthes), Art14 London, London, UK
2013 Autumn Salon, gallery „Meno parkas“, Kaunas, Lithuania
2013 VX Vilnius Painting Triennal Painting in Context, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 ArtVilnius’2013, Lithuanian Exhibition and Convention Centre LITEXPO, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 Performance Conversation with Humberto Diaz(Cuba), gallery „101“, Kaunas, Lithuania
2013 Lithuanian artists exhibition in Galerie bij de Boeken, Ulft, Netherlands
2013 Huntenkunst 2013, Ulft, Netherlands
2012 Performance Another Silence, MPA Berlin, MPA Open, ACUD, Serendipity gallery, Berlin, Germany
2012 Retrospective exhibition of VAA Faculty of Kaunas, Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2012 Performance How Much Does It Take? The 5th International Contemporary Art Festival Kaunas in Art,
2012 Performance Art festival CREATURE, gallery “Meno parkas” Kaunas, Lithuania
2012 Plein-air Žagarė 04, Žagarė, Lithuania
2012 Young painters, Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2011 Remix, painting + music, gallery „Arka“, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011 Performance Another Silence, HFBK and HFMT conference Rhythm and Repetition in the Visual Arts and Music, Hamburg, Germany
2011 Plein-air Žagarė 03, Žagarė, Lithuania
2011 Performance Another Silence, The 4th International Contemporary Art Festival Kaunas in Art, Kaunas, Lithuania
2011 Art+Art to Comunicate. Ecosphere, Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania                                                  
2011 Dependency, Gallery of exibitions of Šiauliai, Lithuania
2010 Signs, gallery Treibhaus, Dresden, Germany
2010 Flicker, Comunication History Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
2010 Eastern Girls: Poland, Lithuania, Embasy of the Republic of Lithuania to Respublic of Poland, Warshaw, Poland
2010 Landart exibition Survival, Vilnius, Lituania
2010 Silence Please, Fluxus Ministery, Vilnius, Lihtuania
2010 Silence Please, LAB club, Kaunas, Lithuania
2009 Painting Exhibition, gallery „Aukso Pjūvis“, Kaunas, Lithuania
2009 Museums at Night, Raudondvaris Castle, Raudondvaris, Lituania
2009 Without Walls, Kaunas Cultural Centre of Various Nations, Kaunas, Lithuania
2009 Regeneration, Kaunas Architects‘ House, Kaunas, Lithuania
2008 All Ways Turn to „101“, gallery „101“, Kaunas, Lithuania
2008 Žagare 02, Kaunas Architects‘ House, Kaunas, Lithuania
2008 Nida, Jurbarkas Regional Museum, Jurbarkas, Lithuania
2008 Landart Exibition, gallery „Studija“, Kaunas, Lithuania
2007 Žagare 01, gallery „Studija“, Kaunas, Lithuania

Organizational activity
2020 Žagarė Land Art Residency
2019 Žagare Fringe Festival 2019 and residency
2017 Žagare Fringe Festival 2017 and residency
2015 Žagare Fringe Festival and residency
2012 Residency and exhibition Žagarė 04
2011 Exhibiting of traveling exhibition Franz Kafka in the Contemporary Arts (www.kafka-gesellschaft.de, www.kafkart.eu), gallery „101“, Kaunas, Lithuania
2011 Residency Žagarė 03
2011 Exhibition of students of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, gallery „101“, Kaunas, Lithuania
2010 Exhibition of Lithuanian young artists Signs, gallery Treibhaus, Dresden, Germany
2008 Residency and exhibition Žagarė 02
2007 Residency and exhibition Žagarė 01

Awards and residencies
2017 Grant of Lithuanian Council for Culture
2017 Workshop You Move Me with Gemma Riggs and Laura Murphy, Zagare Fringe festival 2017, Žagarė, Lithuania
2016 Workshop Share Alike with Sandra Johnston and Alastair MacLennan, CREATurE Live Art performance festival, Kaunas, Lithuania
2016 Free Flow residency, Taši, Liepaja, Latvia
2016 Lithuanian Art month residency, Abu Dhabi Art Hub, Abu Dhabi/Liwa, UAE
2015 ArtCamp PULZUS Odorheiu Secuiesc, Romania
2015 Workshop Poetry of Action with Alexandra Zierle, VAA, KF, Kaunas Lithuania
2015 Grant of Kaunas City Municipality
2014 Workshop Memory in your Pocket with Luca Vitone, Museum Villa Croce of Genova, Italy
2014 ATALAIA Artes Performativas Creative Residency, Ourique, Portugal
2014 workshop Memory in your Pocket with Luca Vitone, Museum Villa Croce of Genova, Italy
2014 ATALAIA Artes Performativas Creative Residency, Ourique, Portugal
2012 Grant of Kaunas City Municipality

Membership
2013 Member of Lithuanian Artist’s Association