Neringa Vasiliauskaitė Lithuanian, b. 1984

ARTISTIC PRACTICE 

Neringa Vasiliauskaitė constructs sculptures from forms that seem to have been removed from an interior and separated from their original setting. Architectural details, decorative surfaces and everyday objects provide points of departure, but their familiar functions are suspended. What remains is a resemblance that cannot be fully identified.

Working primarily in glass and ceramics, Vasiliauskaitė uses the physical properties of each material to alter the apparent weight and presence of an object. Forms that recall furnishings or ornament become difficult to classify as transparency, reflection and surface disrupt expectations of scale, function and permanence. Material is never incidental. It shapes how the sculpture occupies space and how long it resists being fully understood.

Repetition is equally important to her practice. Shapes return with slight variations, producing relationships based on rhythm and recognition rather than narrative. Installed together, the sculptures resemble fragments of an interior whose organising logic remains just out of reach.

Memory enters through this partial familiarity. Rather than reconstructing a particular place or time, Vasiliauskaitė works with the moment in which recognition begins but remains incomplete.

EDUCATION

2018 – Diploma in Sculpture, Glass and Ceramics, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Munich (Germany), under Prof. Nicole Wermers and Thierry Boissel

2008 – MA, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2006 – BA, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2004–2005 – Erasmus Scholarship, Glass and Ceramics Class, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Munich (Germany)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 – Bodies of Water, solo presentation with Galerija VARTAI, Riga Contemporary, Riga (Latvia)

2024 – Repetitions & Rituals / Kartotės ir ritualai, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2024 – Catch, apiece Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2024 – Repetitions & Rituals, Kunstraum München, Munich (Germany)

2023 – I Swear, I Was There, Vent Gallery, Hohenbrunn (Germany)

2020 – Haut Muster, Editorial, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2019 – Synthetic Pleasure, Vent Gallery, Vienna Art Week, Vienna (Austria)

2019 – Debutantinnen 2019, Galerie der Künstler, Munich (Germany)

2019 – Those Who Are Transformed, Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia, Bamberg (Germany)

2018 – Repeat and Remain Again and Again, Städtische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen, Villingen-Schwenningen (Germany)

2018 – Waving and Swaying, Miranda Kuo Gallery, New York (USA)

2016 – Parallelräume, Smudajescheck Galerie, Ulm (Germany)

2016 – Image Is a Space. Space Is an Image., Kunst Raum Van Treeck and Smudajescheck Galerie, Munich (Germany)

2015 – DE#LIGHT, Kunst Raum Van Treeck and Smudajescheck Galerie, Munich (Germany)

2015 – Visible Light, Smudajescheck Galerie, Ulm (Germany)

DUO EXHIBITIONS

2025 – Past Pavilion, with Antonia Low, ICA Contemporary, Cologne (Germany)

2023 – Blind Date, with Anna Lena Keller, Project154, Munich (Germany)

2018 – Hold the Line, with Garance Arcadias, Neue Galerie Landshut, Landshut (Germany)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 – Jahresgaben 2025, Kunstverein München, Munich (Germany)

2025 – Future Horizons, Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich (Germany)

2025 – Palanga Art Weekend, Villa Auska, Palanga (Lithuania)

2024 – Jahresgaben 2024, Kunstverein München, Munich (Germany)

2024 – Intersections, nouveaux deuxdeux, Munich (Germany)

2023 – Think Before You Print, Empfangshalle, Munich (Germany)

2023 – Emotional Landscapes, Arka Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2023 – Beyond the Matter: Impressions of Eva Hesse, Galerie der Künstler, Munich (Germany)

2022 – Sternenbeutel, Braun-Falco Galerie, Munich (Germany)

2021 – L'Étreinte – Embracement – Glamonė, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2020 – Under One's Breath, Editorial, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2020 – Jewellery, Not Jewellery, Empfangshalle and t156, Munich (Germany)

2019 – New Kids on the Block, Halle 50, Domagkateliertage, Munich (Germany)

2019 – XVII amžius, Autarkia, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2018 – Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München, Munich (Germany)

2018 – Four Rooms with a View, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2018 – Perfect Simulation, Sotheby's, Munich (Germany)

2018 – Tacker, Galerie der Künstler, Munich (Germany)

2018 – Me, Myself and the Possibility of You, Westwerk, Hamburg (Germany)

2018 – To Be the Product, Diploma Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Munich (Germany)

2017 – Licht wird Farbe, Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz (Germany)

2017 – Imaginarium, Pamenkalnio Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2017 – Erwarten Sie Wunder, Museum Ulm, Ulm (Germany)

2016 – Die Dunkle Seite / Spekulatives Terrain, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Munich (Germany)

2016 – International Glass Biennale 2D→, Vilnius (Lithuania) and Tallinn (Estonia)

2016 – Kunstkreis Gräfelfing, Altes Rathaus Gräfelfing, Gräfelfing (Germany)

2016 – Roter Kunstsalon, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden (Germany)

2016 – Bender / Schwinn Project, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich (Germany)

2015 – Nichts, Hephaistos, PunktPunktKommaKunst, Munich (Germany)

2015 – Nightmare | Daydream, Kunstraum Artsquare, Munich (Germany)

2015 – Münchner Freiheit, Glass Museum Ernsting Stiftung, Coesfeld-Lette (Germany)

2014 – Schein, Hans-Rudolf-Haus, Pfarrkirchen (Germany)

2014 – 2D→, travelling exhibition, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia

2014 – Unsichtbar, Wasserturm der Beamtenfachhochschule, Herrsching (Germany)

2014 – Manifestus Lucis, Kunstarkaden, Munich (Germany)

2013 – Biennale du Verre, Strasbourg (France)

2013 – Halo!, Applied Arts Gallery, Munich (Germany)

ART FAIRS & SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

2024 – Viennacontemporary, with Galerija VARTAI, Vienna (Austria)

2024 – Hotel Warszawa Art Fair, with Galerija VARTAI, Warsaw (Poland)

2017 – One-artist presentation, art KARLSRUHE, with Smudajescheck Galerie, Karlsruhe (Germany)

2016 – art KARLSRUHE, with Smudajescheck Galerie, Karlsruhe (Germany)

AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

2024 – Project Grant, Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Stiftung (Germany)

2023 – Female Artist and Child Scholarship, Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung (Germany)

2022 – Scholarship, Lithuanian Council for Culture (Lithuania)

2022 – Neustart Kultur II Scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds (Germany)

2022 – Nominated for the Werkstatt Grant, Erich Hauser Foundation (Germany)

2022 – Neustart Kultur Scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds (Germany)

2021 – Junge Kunst und neue Wege Project Grant, Free State of Bavaria (Germany)

2021 – Project Grant, Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Stiftung (Germany)

2019 – Scholarship, Lithuanian Council for Culture (Lithuania)

2019 – Debutantinnen Award, BBK Munich (Germany)

2019 – Artist-in-Residence Scholarship, Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia, Bamberg (Germany)

2019 – Catalogue Grant, LfA Förderbank Bayern (Germany)

2017 – Project Funding, Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung (Germany)

2017 – art KARLSRUHE Prize (Germany)

2017 – Hans-Rudolf-Stiftung Scholarship (Germany)

2016 – Second Prize, Danner Class Competition, Academy of Fine Arts Munich (Germany)

2016 – Nominated for the Karl & Faber Prize, Stiftung Kunstakademie München (Germany)

2016 – Hans-Rudolf-Stiftung Scholarship (Germany)

2016 – Project Funding, Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung (Germany)

2015 – Prize, Danner Class Competition, Academy of Fine Arts Munich (Germany)

2015 – Project Funding, Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung (Germany)

2015 – Hans-Rudolf-Stiftung Scholarship (Germany)

2014 – First Prize, Bavarian Award for Applied Arts, Munich (Germany)

2014 – Second Prize, International TGK Competition 100% Glass

2014 – Hans-Rudolf-Stiftung Scholarship (Germany)

2012 – First Prize, Danner Class Competition, Academy of Fine Arts Munich (Germany)

2004–2005 – Erasmus Scholarship, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Munich (Germany)

COLLECTIONS

AMA Collection, Venice (Italy)

MO Museum, Vilnius (Lithuania)

Städtische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen, Villingen-Schwenningen (Germany)

Kunstmuseum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe (Germany)

FER Collection

Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich (Germany)

Glass Museum Ernsting Stiftung, Coesfeld-Lette (Germany)