Contact Details
Algirdas Gataveckas
Tel. +370 608 98382
E-mail: algirdas.gataveckas@vda.lt
Education
2004–2008 – BA in Monumental Art (Fresco and Mosaic),
Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2008–2010 – MA in Monumental Art (Fresco and Mosaic),
Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2012–2016 – Doctor of Arts (DA) in Fine Arts, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Education
2004–2008 – BA in Monumental Art (Fresco and Mosaic), Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2008–2010 – MA in Monumental Art (Fresco and Mosaic), Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Solo Exhibitions
2026 – Kodas: aš esu (Code: I Am), Gallery Meno Niša, Vilnius.
2023–2024 – Art, Art ir Art (Art, Art and Art), Alytus Audiovisual Arts Centre, Alytus.
2012–2016 – Poveikis (Impact), touring solo exhibition: Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre Litexpo, Vilnius; Gallery XX, Panevėžys; Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai; Alytus Museum of Ethnography, Alytus;
Akademija Gallery, Vilnius.
2016 – Šeima (Family), Akademija Gallery, Vilnius.
2015–2016 – Menas mylėti katę (The Art of Loving a Cat), Arka Gallery, Vilnius; Banginis Shopping Centre, Kaunas; Panorama Shopping Centre, Vilnius.
2015–2016 – Autoportretai – homonimai (Self-Portraits – Homonyms), Gallery Meno Niša, Vilnius; Grafo Gallery, Vilnius; POST Gallery, Kaunas.
2010 – Situacija (Situation), Gallery Meno Niša, Vilnius.
International Juried Exhibitions
2026 – Genealoginė deformacija (Genealogical Deformation) – Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2026, National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
2025 – the drawing Jūs jau žiūrite į mane ilgiau, nei kažkada žiūrėjo tėvai (You Are Already Looking at Me Longer Than My Parents Ever Did) (from the Poveikis (Impact) project) – Figurativas 2025, Museu Europeu d’Art Modern (MEAM), Barcelona, Spain.
2015 – Autoportretai – homonimai (Self-Portraits – Homonyms) – Young Painter Prize, Pakrantė Creative Industries Centre, Vilnius.
Group Exhibitions
2026 – the drawing Jūs jau žiūrite į mane ilgiau, nei kažkada žiūrėjo tėvai (You Are Already Looking at Me Longer Than My Parents Ever Did) (from the Poveikis (Impact) project) – In the Beginning Was the Line. Drawings from the 18th to the 21st Century from the Collections of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilnius Picture Gallery, Vilnius.
2026 – Kodas: aš esu (Code: I Am) – Daugiabalsė žemė (Polyphonic Earth), Panevėžys Civic Art Gallery, Panevėžys; Panemunė Castle, Panemunė.
2020 – Aš, brolis ir tėvas (Me, My Brother and My Father) – Kodėl taip sunku mylėti? (Why Is It Hard to Love?), MO Museum, Vilnius.
2018–2019 – public presentation of the creative process behind the drawing Jūs jau žiūrite į mane ilgiau, nei kažkada žiūrėjo tėvai (You Are Already Looking at Me Longer Than My Parents Ever Did) (from the Poveikis (Impact) project) – Visas menas – apie mus (All Art Is About Us), MO Museum, Vilnius; ArtVilnius’19, Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre LITEXPO, Vilnius.
2018 – Poveikis (Impact) – Visas menas – apie mus (All Art Is About Us), MO Museum, Vilnius.
2017 – Autoportretai – homonimai (Self-Portraits – Homonyms) – ArtVilnius’17, Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre LITEXPO, Vilnius.
2017 – Poveikis (Impact) – Pusty Dom – XVII Łemkowskie Jeruzalem, Gallery of Art in Legnica, Legnica, Poland.
2017 – Autoportretai – homonimai (Self-Portraits – Homonyms) – Gimiau šalyje, kurios nebėra (I Was Born in a Country That No Longer Exists), Duisburg City Archive, Duisburg, Germany.
2016 – Aš ir brolis (Me and My Brother) – Autoportretai iš Vidmanto Martikonio kolekcijos (Self-Portraits from the Vidmantas Martikonis Collection), Autoportretas Gallery-Museum, Vilnius.
2015 – Žmogaus studija (Human Study) – Piešinys 2015. Nuo formos iki turinio (Drawing 2015. From Form to Content), Arka Gallery, Vilnius.
2015 – Reconstruction of a Composition by Teodoras Kazimieras Valaitis – Teodoras Kazimieras Valaitis 1934–1974, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius.
2015 – Po Damieno Hirsto (After Damien Hirst) – ArtVilnius’15, Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre Litexpo, Vilnius.
2014 – Poveikis (Impact) – doctoral students’ exhibition Skleidimasis (Unfolding), Titanikas Exhibition Hall, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius.
2013 – Tėvas. Ignas (Father. Ignas) (from the Poveikis (Impact) project) – ЦДХ-2013. Процесс (Process), Central
House of Artists, Moscow, Russia.
2012 – the Poveikis (Impact) project – ArtVilnius’12, Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre Litexpo, Vilnius.
2012 – Ramunė (from the Poveikis (Impact) project) – Kaip aš čia patekau. Tapyba Lietuvoje (How Did I Get Here. Painting in Lithuania), Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.
2011–2013 – Situacija (Situation) – JCE / Jeune Création Européenne, travelling biennial of young European art: Montrouge, France; Klaipėda, Lithuania; Hamburg, Germany; Bratislava, Slovakia;
Pécs, Hungary; Salzburg, Austria; Genoa, Italy; L’Hospitalet, Spain; Amarante, Portugal.
2008 – Procese (In Process) – Vilnius Academy of Arts exhibition Meno celės 2008 (Art Cells 2008) (organised to mark the visit of the Queen of the Netherlands to Lithuania), Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius.
2007 – Miestas ir jo gyventojai (The City and Its Inhabitants) – Bitės meno erdvės (Bitė Art Spaces) project, Lithuanian Artists’ Association Gallery, Vilnius.
Public Art Projects
2023 – Nepriklausomybė (Independence), interior mural, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Seoul, Seoul, South Korea.
2023 – Skubėk lėtai (Hurry Slowly), sculpture, Alytus.
2021 – Alytus – myliu (I Love Alytus), the City of Alytus identity mark and city gateway installations based on its design, Alytus.
2015–2017 – Laimingi vaikai – vaikai tarp mūsų (Happy Children – The Children Among Us), neo-frescoes, Alytus, Kaunas, Vilnius and Klaipėda
(voluntary work undertaken as part of the ambassadors’ activities for the Už saugią Lietuvą (For a Safe Lithuania) initiative, contributing to the Country Without Orphanages care system reform).
2015 – Ar pastebi mane? (Do You Notice Me?), performance/street art project, Karaliaus Mindaugo public transport stop, Vilnius.
2012 – Sukasi, sukasi – vejasi, vejasi (Spinning, Spinning – Chasing, Chasing), interior mural, Maria Taferl, Austria.
2012 – Jūra (The Sea), interior mural, Maria Taferl, Austria.
2010 – Situacija (Situation), public-space installation on the wall of the Alytus County Archives, Alytus.
2010 – Medis (Tree), interior mural, Maria Taferl, Austria.
2010 – Akordai (Chords), interior mural, Vilkaviškis.
2009 – Lithuania – Sienų poezija (Wall Poetry) project, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Awards and Honours
2026 – Baltic Awards 2026 for Significant Contribution to the Arts.
2019 – the Cultural Figure of the Year award presented by Žmonės magazine.
2017 – Medal of the Order for Merits to Lithuania – for active civic engagement and a significant contribution to reforming the institutional care system.
2012 – Best Young Lithuanian Artist at ArtVilnius’12 – for the Poveikis (Impact) project.