Agnė Jonkutė (b. 1974)

CV
Education
2001-2003 Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts Kaunas Faculty of Art, painting. Master degree (MFA).
1997-2001 Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts Kaunas Institute of Art, painting.Bachelor degree (BFA).
1996-1997 Kaunas Art school of A. Martinaitis.
1993-1996 Kaunas Postgraduated Art School (College, J. Vienozinskis Art Faculty), fashion design.
1992-1993 Alytus Handy Craft school, artistic needlework.
1983-1990 Alytus Music school, grand piano specialty.
1980-1992 Alytus 5th secondary school. Mathematically oriented education.

Work experience
2006-2009 Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts Kaunas Faculty of Art, lecturer.

Solo Exhibitions
2022 “Own Land” together with Milda Gailiūtė. TPK Art I Pensament Contemporary, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain.
2021 Judith-Self, Gallery ‘Trivium’, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2021 Grounded Sky, ‘Vilkamirges Gallery’, Ukmergė, Lithuania.
2019 Silver blue,The house of piligrims, Siluva, Lithuania.
2017 Solo presentation (with the POST Gallery), Bolshaja Murta. Mother’s Land, Art Vilnius’17, Litexpo exhibition and congress center, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2018 Waited out Images (together with Remigijus Treigys). Klaipėda Culture Communication Center, Lithuania.
2017 f i e l d (together with Gintautas Trimakas). Gallery "Meno parkas". Kaunas, Lithuania.
2016 Solo exhibition Fairy tail. Part 2. Gallery XX, Panevezys, Lithuania
2016 Solo exhibition Things. Gallery Si:said. Klaipėda, Lithuania
2016 Solo exhibition The Story. Part 2. Gallery XX, Panevezys, Lithuania
2014 Solo exhibition My house is small and what once has gone from it can‘t be regained. Song of Sacrifice, Gallery POST, Kaunas, Lithuania
2013 Solo exhibition The Places, Gallery Homo Ludens, Jonava, Lithuania
2013 Solo exhibition Stone in my backyard, Gallery Si:said Klaipėda, Lithuania
2012 Solo exhibition Images of invisibles, Kaunas Photography Gallery, Lithuania
2011 Exhibition "I Thought again about it", Old Town Art Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2008 Exhibition "Lithuanian Contemporary". Part 1 – Agne Jonkute, Gallery Strenger, Tokyo, Japan.
2007 Exhibition "Cavity", Gallery "XX", Panevežys, Lithuania.
2007 Exhibition "Morning", Klaipeda Cultural Communication Center, Lithuania.
2005 Exhibition "Facts of inexistence", Kaunas Gallery "Meno Parkas"; Gallery ARTima, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2003 Exhibition "Self-concept", Kaunas Picture gallery; Vilnius city municipality, Lithuania.

Group exhibitions
2023 EXPO CHICAGO 2023. Chicago, USA.
2022 "Image is Attached". Hattingen Museum, Germany.
2022 International Contemporary Art Fair "Viennacontemporary 2023". Vienna, Austria.
2021 International Contemporary Art Fair "Artissima", Turin, Italy.
2021 To Paint and to Become’ Siauliai Art Gallery, Lithuania. 2021. White habitation. Three decades, ‘Arka’ Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2021 Painting trienial ‘Indefinite’, Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2021 In Pursuit of Paris: the Stories of the VAA Residence Cite Internacionale des Arts’, V.Kasiulis Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2020 Iceberg, KKKC Klaipeda, Lithuania.
2019 10+10, Gallery ‘Meno parkas’, Lithuania.
2019 Conected by The Sea. Lithuania Sea Museum, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
2019 Imaginarium. (Ex)periences’, Gallery ‘Arka’, Lithuania.
2018 Contemporary art fair POSITIONS BERLIN, Berlin, Germany.
2018 “#” (hashtag). Gallery “SLA 307”. New York, USA.
2018 International Contemporary Art Fair "Art Vilnius'18" (Meno Parkas Gallery), Vilnius, Lithuania.
2018 2017 "Not a Museum", gallery‘s „Meno parkas“ artists exhibition. Klaipėda Culture Communication Center, Lithuania.
2017 Contemporary art fair POSITIONS BERLIN, Berlin, Germany.
2017 "Not a Museum", gallery‘s „Meno parkas“ artists exhibition at gallery "Meno parkas", Kaunas.
2017 CHORUS, gallery‘s „Meno parkas“ artists exhibition at „Titanikas“, Vilnius.
2016 exhibition Kaunas in Art, Gallery POST, Kaunas, Lithuania
2016 Exhibition CEEC meets Asian Artists, Gallery 798 Art Space Guiyang, China
2016 Exhibition Lithuanian art month. Gallery Abu Dhabi Art Hub, Abu Dhabi, JAE
2015 Exhibition Retrospectrum. Gallery Arka, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 Exhibition More Light. Kaunas Photography Gallery, Lithuania
2015 Exhibition Photophobia. Imaginary images. Klaipeda Art Exhibition Hall; 38th International Art Photography Symposium, Lithuania
2015 Exhibition The Urgency of Reality. Gallery Meno Parkas, Lithuania
2015 Exhibition Before/After/ Now. M.K.Ciurlionis National Museum of Art Kaunas Picture Gallery, Lithuania
2015 Exhibition The same way of seeing / thinking. Artists‘ Association Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 Exhibition Modest clan. Pamenkalnio Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 Exhibition The same way of thinking, Vytautas Magnum Univercity Gallery 101, Kaunas, Lithuania
2014 Exhibition Metai (Year) opens the Gate, Gallery Titanikas, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 Exhibition The same way of seeing / thinking. Gallery 101, Kaunas, Lithuania
2013 Exhibition Art Heisst Kunst, Museum der Stadt Herne, Germany
2013 Art fair Art Vilnius’13, Litexpo exhibition and congress center, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 workshop Minimum / Maximum, Cannes et Clairan, exhibition La Filature du Pont Fer, Lasalle, France
2013 XV Vilnius painting triennial Context of painting, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 Exhibitions Eurostandrts, Titanikas, Vilnius; Gallery of Vytautas Magnum University 101, Kaunas, Lithuania
2013 Art fair Huntenkunst, Ulft, The Netherlands
2012 Exhibition Lithuania now!, Kunst Palais Lichtenstein, Feldkirch, Austria
2012 Exhibition Donelaitis. 2012, Vilnius Municipality, Lithuania
2012 Exhibition Both Sides of the Void, Gallery Werkstattgalerie, Berlin, Germany
2011 Exhibition "Salon d'Automn", Gallery "Meno Parkas", Kaunas, Lithuania
2011 Workshop and exhibition "Tertium organum", St.Donat church, Zadar, Croatia
2011 "Lithuanian Pavilion" at the 54th Venice Biennale D.Mikšys’ project Behind the White Curtain.
2011 Exhibition "Imaginary stories", Užutrakis Estate, Lithuania.
2010 Exhibition "Contemporary painting". Postevolution, Klaipeda Art Exhibition Hall, Lithuania.
2010 Exhibition "Fresh painting", Klaipeda Art Exhibition Hall, Lithuania.
2010 Exhibition "Contemporary Art from Lithuania", European Central Bank, Frakfurt, Germany.
2010 Exhibition "Landpartie", Museum Abtei Liesborn, Germany.
2009 Performance festival "Fresh Breath", BWA City Gallery, Bydgoszsc, Poland.
2009 Exhibition "Personal Language", Klaipeda Art Exhibition Hall, Lithuania.
2009 Exhibition "Millenium", Gallery "Kunstpakhuset", Ikast, Denmark.
2009 Art fair "Vilnius‘ 09", Exhibition CenterLITEXPO. Vilnius, Lithuania.
2009 Exhibition "Abstraction and Expressionism – Two Vilnius’ Painting Traditions", Gallery "Kaire-Dešine”, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2009 Exhibition of The Young Lithuanian Artists, "Gallery 21", Riga, Latvia.
2009 Exhibition "The Law of Conservation of the Art", Klaipeda Cultural Communication Center, Lithuania.
2008, 2009 Exhibition "Lithuania – A new", City Gallery BWA, Bydgoszcz; Gallery Szyb Wilson, Katowic; Contemporary Art Gallery Olsztyn, Poland; Klaipeda Art Exhibition Hall, Lithuania.
2008 Exhibition "Kataunas", Gallery Bocs, Catania, Italy; Gallery Balta, Kaunas, Lithuania.
2008 Exhibition "From to 2", Klaipeda Art Exhibition Hall, Lithuania.
2008 Exhibition "From the rain country", Museum of G.Gounar, Athens, Greece.
2008 Exhibition "TPK Art Centre and Arts Plàstiques anniversary", Gallery TPK Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain.
2007 Exhibition dedicated to the 10th anniversary of Gallery "Meno parkas". Gallery "Arka", Vilnius, Lithuania.
2007 Exhibition "Horizon", TPK Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain.
2007 Exhibition "KoViKaVi", Kaunas Picture Gallery, Lithuania.
2007 Exhibition "Monologues", Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2007 Exhibition "Fresh paint", Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia.
2007 Exhibition of Marce Katiliute and Agne Jonkute, Stiftelsen 3.14 Gallery, Norway.
2007 Exhibition "Touches", Arte Fiera 2007, Bologna, Italy.
2007 Exhibition "Red lines", Behind Borders, Kaunas Gallery "Meno Parkas", Lithuania.
2006 Exhibition "Red line", Gallery ,"Ideiasemergentes", Porto. Portugal.
2006 Exhibition "10 + 1", Kaunas Picture Gallery, Lithuania.
2006 Exhibition "Shoot or Shout – No Escape", Art’s Printing house, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2006 Exhibition 101.3 KM competition and Collaboration, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2006 Humanitarian maneuvers Occupation, Kaunas, Lithuania.
2006 Performance festival, BWA City Gallery, Bydgoszsc, Poland.
2006 Exhibition "Invasion", Dortmund Kunstlerhaus, Germany.
2006 Exhibition "Enigma", Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2006 Painting exhibition Tartu Artist association Gallery, Estonia.
2005 5th FrancopfonieGames, Niamey, Niger.
2005 Exhibition "Sept artistes lithuaniens d‘aujourd‘hui", Gallery I’UFM, Montpellier, France.
2005 Lithuania-Ukraine artists’ exhibition Homo eraticus, Klaipeda Art Exhibition Hall; gallery Ibid project; Old town dominion; Vilnius, Lithuania.
2005 Exhibition "Spermatikos logos", Kaunas Picture Gallery, Lithuania.
2005 Exhibition "Salon des Jeunes Createurs", Montrouge, France.
2005 Film festival "Jutrofilmu", cinema Luna, Warsaw, Poland.
2004, 2005 XI symposium and exhibitions, dedicated to A.Samuolis Ecological landscape, Gallery "Meno parkas", Kaunas; Gallery "Arka", Vilnius, Lithuania.
2004 Video festival THEOverkill, Twente airport, The Netherlands.
2004 Exhibition EURO <26>, J.Baltrušaitis house, Moscow, Russia.
2004 Exhibition "Portrait and silhouette of 21st century", Gallery "Vartai", Vilnius, Lithuania; Gallery of D.Rostworowsky, Cracow, Poland.
2004 XII Vilnius painting triennial "Seven rules of painting", Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2004 Exhibition "p.s. esp", Kaunas Picture Gallery, Lithuania.
2003 Exhibition "2 Show", Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2003 Action-exhibition "Insert", Savanoriu pr. 168, Kaunas, Lithuania.
2003, 2002, 2001 Deer valley workshop coordinator and participant; Joniskis Culture House; Kaunas Galleries "Studija"; AL, Vilnius Gallery "Akademija"; Art’s Printing house, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2002 Takako Saito and Lithuania artists project "You+Me Shop", Kaunas Picture Gallery, Lithuania.
2002 Exhibition "Erase selected area", Kaunas Picture Gallery, Lithuania.
2002 Exhibition "Light", Kaunas Gallery "ARTeritorija", Lithuania.
2002 Exhibition "Evolvent", Šiauliai picture Gallery, Lithuania.
2001 VIII A.Samuolis project "Mutation", Kaunas Picture Gallery, Lithuania.
2001 Exhibition "Mysterium Magnum", Kaunas Gallery "Meno Parkas", Lithuania.
2001, 2000 Symposium Origami, business centres: AD Astrum, Hanner, IBC, Vilnius; Kaunas Gallery; Gallery "Akademija", Vilnius; Skontas house, Ryga, Latvia.
2000, 1999 Art forum Homo Ludens, Jonava, Lithuania.

Awards and residencies
2016 Workshop in Guiyang, People‘s Republica of China
2016 Residence Art Hub Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2016 Lithuanian Ministry of Culture, State Scholarship
2012 Lithuanian Ministry of Culture, State Scholarship
2012 Kaunas City Municipality Culture and Art scholarship
2009 The best Lithuanian young artist in the Art fair Vilnius‘ 09.
2006-2008 Lithuanian Culture Ministry Scholarship.
2005 Gold medal 5th Francophonie games Niamey, Niger.
2005 Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.
2003 Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts Rector award.
2000, 1999 Grand prix of Students Art Days.

Papers
2003 A. Jonkute. Challenge new technique in art. In proceedings of the 1st Scientific International Student Conference “Tran-Mech-Art-Chem”, Radom, Poland.
2001 Conference Traditional craft topicality.Contemporary Lithuanian market, Alytus Handy Craft School, Lithuania.

Organizational activities
2015 exhibition together with Z.Hassanabadi, J.Lesur Three ways for one point, Gallery Meno parkas, Kaunas, Lithuania
2008 exhibition Eurostandart together with J.Kyzikaite, J.Jurcikas, K.Gaitanzi, E.Karpaviciute, A.Mulina, Vytautas’ Magnum University Gallery 101, Kaunas, Lithuania
One of the founders and the member of a non-governmental organization "Elniusleniopleneras" ("Deer valley symposium").Coordinator (together with J.Jarulyte, T.Krilavicius, A.Rekštyte) of all ESP exhibitions (in group exhibitions list). More information http://www.surface.lt/esp.
One of the founders of www.surface.lt web portal (together with T.Krilavicius, A.Svedas).
2007 International students exhibition Application (satellite exhibition of Kaunas Art Festival TEXTILE-06).
2006 Exhibition "10 + 1", National M.K.Ciurlionis art museum Kaunas Picture gallery, Lithuania.

Membership
From 2005 Member of Lithuanian Artists‘ Association.

Works in Collections
European Central Bank (Frankfurt, Germany), Modern Art Center (Vilnius, Lithuania), private collectors Lithuania and abroad.