Geistė Kinčinaitytė Lithuanian, b. 1991
Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė (b. 1991, Lithuania) is an artist and researcher. She holds a PhD in Film and Screen Studies from the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include contemporary philosophy, photography and moving image installations.
Geistė Kinčinaitytė calls herself an alien anthropologist. Her image-making practice is defined by encounters with the eerie – something that can be described both as stepping out of the comfort zone — whether of the self, human, habit, habitat, or milieu — and alertness to a yet-to-be-identified presence. Kinčinaitytė’s visual practice is based on self-perception, exploring different environments and reflecting upon the concept of humanity. The artist’s sensitive approach usually induces an uncanny feeling hidden in dim lighting. In her installations, Kinčinaitytė likes to use deep-coloured lights, thus giving the works a mystical atmosphere. Her creative content is based on comprehensive artistic research. Mainly working in the fields of photography and video, she is always open to collaborations with writers, composers and other artists sharing similar interests in the exploration of the unknown.
Geistė Kinčinaitytė has presented her works in solo exhibitions in Lithuania, the UK and Norway. She is also an active participant in group shows, and her works have been included in various collections, such as the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, MO Museum, the Noewe Foundation (Lithuania) and some private collections.
EDUCATION/RESIDENCIES
2023 - SÍM Residency, Reykjavík (Iceland)
2023 - Oberhausen Seminar, 69th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen (Germany)
2022 - Photography workshop with Jim Goldberg, H - The Notion of Humanist Photography, Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2019-2023 – PhD Film and Screen Studies, University of Cambridge
2014-2015 – MA Film and Screen Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London (Distinction)
2010-2013 – BA Media and Communications (with Photography), Goldsmiths, University of London (1st Class)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 – smooth space, pleated, VARTAI Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2018 – The Flesh is Sad, Hackney Showroom, London (United Kingdom)
2018 – Depths, cuts and grains (with Louise Oates), Prospekto Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2017 – The eyes are most sensitive to red, Sodų 4 project space, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2017 – You Belong to Me, Fotogalleriet, Oslo (Norway)
2017 – The Flesh is Sad, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai (Lithuania)
2016 – You Belong to Me, Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 - Uncoverings. The Search for Identity in Lithuanian Photography, National Center of Photography and Images, Taipei (Taiwan)
2022 - Uncoverings. The Search for Identity in Lithuanian Photography, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung (Taiwan)
2022 - we are made of star stuff, 253 Hoxton, London (UK)
2021 - Uncoverings. The Search for Identity in Lithuanian Photography, The Museum of Photography, Seoul (South Korea)
2020-2021 – Homo Absentia, Lewben Art Foundation, Nida, Vilnius, Šiauliai (Lithuania)
2020 – Heterotopia, Online exhibition, EPP Berlin platform
2019 – Showroom, VARTAI Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2019 – Starting Point, MO Museum, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2017 – Body and Darkness, VARTAI Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2016 – Kiti7, KKKC, Klaipeda (Lithuania)
2016 – Taken Territories, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing (China)
2016 – Fotobalt3, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai (Lithuania)
2016 – The Body of the Letter, Sodų 4 project space, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2016 – Taken Territories, Nida Art Colony, Nida (Lithuania)
2014 - The Dark Side of The Story, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai (Lithuania)
2014 – FreshFaced+WildEyed, The Photographers' Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
2014 – (De)Tour, Media Arts Festival ENTER'12, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai (Lithuania)
2014 – The Dark Side of The Story, KKKC, Klaipėda (Lithuania)
2014 – The Curated Ego: What Makes a Good Selfie?, National Portrait Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
AWARDS/GRANTS
2023 - DYCP Arts Council England
2021 - Artist grant awarded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture
2020 – Nominated for Leica Oskar Barnack Award
2020 – Artist grant awarded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture
2019 – Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP Studentship
2018 – Nominated for Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography
2018 – Artist grant awarded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture
2017 – Educational grant awarded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture
2017 – Nominated for Prix Pictet
2015 – Artist grant awarded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture
2014 – MA scholarship awarded by Goldsmiths, University of London (United Kingdom)
2014 – FreshFaced+WildEyed finalist, The Photographers’ Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
COMMISSIONS
2018 – The Flesh is Sad (installation), Boiler Room x Tinder event, 13th September, Bush Hall, London (United Kingdom), 21th August, SWG3, Glasgow (Scotland), 19th July, The Loco Klub, Bristol (United Kingdom)
COLLECTIONS
MO Museum, Vilnius
The Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilnius
Lewben Art Foundation (Lithuania)
Private Collection (Austria)
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Spectrum 2
Summer Group Show 2 Jun - 30 Sep 2024Artists and designers featured in the group show SPECTRUM 2: Gytis Arošius / Kotryna Butautytė / Daydreaming Objects / Vilius Dringelis / Kiki van Eijk / Faktura / Govert Flint...Read more -
STAND WITH UKRAINE
Auction exhibition 26 Apr - 31 May 2022Photos by Audrius SolominasRead more -
Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė
“smooth space, pleated” 6 Feb - 13 Mar 2020Curator of the exhibition Elaine Tam “smooth space, pleated”is a solo-presentation of new work by Geistė Kinčinaitytė which revolves around the artist's debut film — a video essay entitled “The...Read more
PUBLICATIONS
2023 - Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė, 'The Pool (2020)', in: Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies (Issue 10.1, ‘Posthumanism at the Margins: On Film, Media, and New Ways of Being’)
2022 - Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė, 'Touch, Movement and Photograms in Tom Lovelace’s ‘Repetition Room’ at Atletika Gallery, Vilnius', in: echogonewrong.com & artnews.lt
2021 - Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė, Dr Isabelle McNeill, Dr EstherTeichmann, 'Overflow', self-published, 2021
2021 - Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė, Book review, Reflections on Silvia Casini's Giving Bodies Back to Data, in: MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture
2021 - Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė, 'Essay, Notes on the Unfolding Flesh' , in: https://constellations.world/
2020 – Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė, “In love with the ____“, in: Sodų 4. Project Space: 2016-2019, ed.: Gabrielė Radzevičiūtė, Lina Rukevičiūtė, Vilnius: Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association, 2020
2017 – Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė, Bodies Inside Out, self-published, 2017
2016 – Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė, You Belong to Me, self-published, 2016
2016 – Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė, “Notes on Movement and Image“, in: Lithuanian Photography: Yesterday and Today '16, ed.: Virginijus Kinčinaitis, Vilnius: Lietuvos fotomenininkų sąjunga, 2016
2015 – Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė, “Essay on Ina Jang”, in: Tjejland, Winter, 2015
2015 – Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė, “Essay on Marianne Bjornmyr”, in: Tjejland, Spring, 2015
BOOKS/CATALOGUES
2022 - H - The Notion of Humanist Photography, published by Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA), Dudelange (Luxembourg), Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2022 - Uncoverings. The Search for Identity in Lithuanian Photography, ed.: Justina Augustytė, Ugnė Marija Makauskaitė, published by The Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilnius
2021 - Spills (performance lecture with Elaine Tam), Deleuzine Vol. 1, ed.: Lilly Marks
2020 – Sodų 4. Project Space: 2016-2019, ed.: Gabrielė Radzevičiūtė, Lina Rukevičiūtė, Vilnius: Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association, 2020
2018 – Lithuanian Photography’18, ed.: Valentinas Klimašauskas, Vilnius: Lietuvos fotomenininkų sąjunga, 2018
2016 – Lithuanian Photography: Yesterday and Today '16, ed.: Virginijus Kinčinaitis, Vilnius: Lietuvos fotomenininkų sąjunga, 2016
2015 – Lithuanian Photography: Yesterday and Today’15, Vilnius: Lietuvos fotomenininkų sąjunga, 2015
2014 – The Dark Side of the Story, catalogue, Klaipėda: Klaipėdos kultūrų komunikacijų centras, 2014
ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS
2022 - Alan Knox, 'In pictures: a snapshot of Lithuanian photography', in: Financial Times (Special Report: Lithuania)
2021 - Marius Armonas, 'Homo Absentia exhibition review', in: 7md.lt
2020 – Katažyna Jankovska, “(In)human Feelings in (In)human Places”, in: Krantai, no. 2, 2020
2020 – Monika Krikštopaitytė, “Gaivalo jėga”, in: 7 meno dienos, no. 9 (1330), 2020-03-06
2020 – Rūta Mikšionienė, “Londone gyvenanti lietuvė kuria išvirkščius peizažus“, in: lrytas.lt, 2020-02-11
2019 – Katažyna Jankovska and Maya Hristova, “New Generation of Lithuanian Artists”, in: EEP Berlin Mag, Vol. 1, 2019
2018 – Agnė Narušytė, “Visureigė fotografija”, in: 7 meno dienos, 2018-03-23
2017 – Paulius Andriuškevičius, “Extraterritorial Landscaping”, in: artandaustralia.com, 2017
2013 – “Graduate Projects”, in: British Journal of Photography, 2013-07, Vol. 160
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Geistė Kinčinaitytė at Atletika gallery
Subsuns (with Lidija Kononenko) / 6 April – 11 May 2024 May 9, 2024More informationRead more -
Charity auction Stand With Ukraine
May 2, 2022On May 5, Galerija Vartai and National volunteer support coordination center 'Strong Together' will hold a charity auction of contemporary art and design - STAND...Read more -
Geistė Kinčinaitytė and Laura Garbštienė in The Museum of Photography in Seoul, South Korea
Group exhibition "Uncoverings. The Search for Identity in Lithuanian Photography" October 1, 2021We are very happy to announce that two of the artists represented by gallery VARTAI Geistė Kinčinaitytė and Laura Garbštienė are a part of group...Read more
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Spectrum 2
Summer Group Show 2 Jun - 30 Sep 2024Artists and designers featured in the group show SPECTRUM 2: Gytis Arošius / Kotryna Butautytė / Daydreaming Objects / Vilius Dringelis / Kiki van Eijk...Read more -
Geistė Kinčinaitytė at Atletika gallery
Subsuns (with Lidija Kononenko) / 6 April – 11 May 2024 May 9, 2024More informationRead more -
Charity auction Stand With Ukraine
May 2, 2022On May 5, Galerija Vartai and National volunteer support coordination center 'Strong Together' will hold a charity auction of contemporary art and design - STAND...Read more -
Geistė Kinčinaitytė and Laura Garbštienė in The Museum of Photography in Seoul, South Korea
Group exhibition "Uncoverings. The Search for Identity in Lithuanian Photography" Oct 1, 2021We are very happy to announce that two of the artists represented by gallery VARTAI Geistė Kinčinaitytė and Laura Garbštienė are a part of group...Read more -
IGTV: Vartai UNEARTHED with Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė
Gallery VARTAI presents new IGTV series of artists and collectors' interviews, studio visits and special edition videos Nov 13, 2020We are excited to present a new branch of interview series Vartai UNEARTHED, this time featuring our favorite alien anthropologist Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė. Geistė told...Read more
