Jelena Škulis (1982)
Resides and works in Vilnius, Lithuania
Education:
Doctoral Studies (Fine Arts, in progress)
MA and BA (Vilnius Academy of Arts)
BA (Vilnius University, Psychology)
Selected solo projects:
2023 Map of Marckinonys by HANDWORK | Residency Verpėjos, Marcinkonys, Lithuania
2019 DELIRIUM E MEMORIA | Jardim do lar Emidio Guerreiro, Santa Casa de Misericordia, Guimaraes, Portugal
2018 Add.Dicted | ArtVilnius’18
2016 SIMPLY COMPLICATED | Gallery “Artifex”, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016 BORING ART | Gallery “5 MALŪNAI”, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Selected group exhibitions:
2023 LAA Quadrennial, together with HANDWORK | Vilnius, Lithuania
2023 QUO VADIS, Riga International Triennial of Textile and Fiber Art, together with HANDWORK| Riga, Latvia
2022 Contextile | Guimaraes, Portugal
2022 Magic Carpets Landed | Aveiro, Portugal
2021 Magic Carpets Landed | Kaunas, Lithuania
2021 REborn: 30 years Yound | Brussels, Belgium
2019 ANAMNESIS| Guimaraes, Portugal
2019 DO THE RIGHT THING| Vilnius, Lithuania
2018 HUMANS: Miniartextil’2018| Como, Italy
2018 RE (CREATE): Lithuanian Textile Biennial, | Vilnius, Lithuania
2018 RELATIONS: Land Art Biennial| Vilnius University Botanical Garden, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 MY STORY: Social project and exhibition collaborating with the rehab center “I AM” | “Pamenkalnio Gallery”, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 TRAVELLING LETTERS X, Y, Z |Exhibition space “Titanic”, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016 FACE TO FACE | Gallery “Umelka”, Bratislava, Slovakia
2014 TEXTILE OVER GOLD: International Exhibition of Textile Miniatures |Bratislava, Slovakia
2012 EXPO 2012 | Yeosu, South Korea
Awards, diplomas:
- 2023 together with HANDWORK and collaborating with Halyna Kruk, for the involvement of political context and community into artistic practice| Artwork Stitching a Poem, National Latvian Museum
- 2015 Diploma for creative approach in working process | Artwork Identity Cards (2015). Out of the Box, 9-th International Biennial of Textile Miniatures. Gallery “Arka”, Vilnius, Lithuania.
- 2014 Diploma for social approach in artwork The Shawl (2013) |Textile X, 6-th Lithuanian Textile Biennial. Gallery “Arka”, Vilnius, Lithuania.
- 2014 Diploma for creative combining textile and text in artwork NO CONCEPT. UŽKNISO BALTAI (2014) |Cosmic Odyssey, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania.
- 2012 Honoured professor’s A. Tamošaitis prize for the project Homeland as a Woven Pattern (2012) | Vilnius Academy of Arts.
Grants:
2018 Lithuanian Council for Culture, for the project ADD. DICTION
2016 Lithuanian Council for Culture, for the project BORINGART
Recent residencies, conferences:
2022 KUVA Research days | Helsinki, Finland
2022 Research Methods in Visual Arts, The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design | Wroclaw
2019 Magic Carpets, Ideias Emergentas | Guimaraes, Portugal.
2019 University of Bergen, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design | Bergen, Norway