Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas

Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas (b. 1996, Chicago, USA)
Currently lives and works between Berlin and Vilnius

 

Education

2022
MA in Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

2017
BA in Film, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom

Solo and Two-Person shows

2025
Warsaw 2025, Gunia Nowik, Warsaw, Poland

2024
Lūžti, Meno Niša, Vilnius, Lithuania

2023
Collective Healing Youth Club, Meno Parkas, Kaunas, Lithuania
Soft When Warm, Guts Gallery, London, United Kingdom (two-person show)

Selected Group Shows and Screenings

2025
Begalinis pulsas, Vila Auksa, Palanga, Lithuania
RAVE NATION. Dancing to the Sounds of Freedom 1992–2004, National Museum of Lithuania/Lukiškės Prison, Vilnius, Lithuania
Nachtansichten, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Germany

2024
Artists‘ Film International, Forma, London, United Kingdom
Surface Tension, Des Bains, London, United Kingdom
Shells of the Self, Crash Club, Warsaw, Poland

2023
CIRCA, Piccadilly Lights, London, United Kingdom
Audra, M. Žilinskas Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania

2021
JCDecaux Prize 2021: Spaces, Composers House, Vilnius, Lithuania
​​KINGDOM, Art Hub Studios London, United Kingdom
Everything Forever, Sissi Club, Marseille, France

Selected performance presentations

2025
Warsaw 2025, Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Core as part of Holy Glory, EKKM Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
Core as part of EDEN: Coming of Age, Contemporary Art Centre Kim?, Riga, Latvia
Untitled (Youth) as part of RAVE NATION. Dancing to the Sounds of Freedom 1992–2004, National Museum of Lithuania/Lukiškės Prison, Vilnius, Lithuania
Kalendorius Kalender, Amore, Basel, Switzerland

2024
Renens 2024, Les Urbaines, Renens, Switzerland
Warsaw 2024, Crash Club, U22, Warsaw, Poland
Core, Atletika, Vilnius, Lithuania
Bible Study Group as part of Shifting Temple, Techne Sphere, Leipzig, Germany
Sunday as part of Todestrieb, Generation & Display, London, United Kingdom
Performance as part of Escapismus, Kunstpunkt Berlin, Germany

2023
Collective Healing Youth Club, Meno Parkas, Kaunas, Lithuania

Awards

2023
Finalist for the CIRCA Prize

2021
JCDecaux Prize