Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė Lithuanian, b. 1991

ARTISTIC PRACTICE

Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė works at the edge of what photography can make familiar. Across photography, moving image, and installation, she creates images that resist immediate orientation, allowing bodies, landscapes, and planetary environments to shift gradually into one another. Research forms the foundation of her practice, but it is never separated from the image itself. Philosophy and fieldwork inform works that remain grounded in atmosphere rather than illustration. Photography becomes less a means of recording the world than of questioning how the world is perceived. Many of Kinčinaitytė's projects begin in places that exist at the limits of human experience — volcanic landscapes, deserts, or planetary imagery. Rather than presenting these environments as distant or spectacular, she draws them into intimate proximity, revealing unexpected connections between geological formations, technological vision, and the human body. Across her installations, image, colour, darkness, and sound are composed as a single environment. The works invite viewers to linger in states of uncertainty, where distinctions between the terrestrial and the extraterrestrial, the organic and the technological, remain deliberately unresolved.

EDUCATIONRESIDENCIES

2023 – Film and Screen Studies (PhD), University of Cambridge, Cambridge (United Kingdom)
2015 – Film and Screen Studies (MA, Distinction), Goldsmiths, University of London, London (United Kingdom)
2013 – Media and Communications with Photography (BA, First Class Honours), Goldsmiths, University of London, London (United Kingdom)

RESIDENCIES/SEMINARS

2025 – Užupis Art Incubator, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2023 – SÍM Residency, Reykjavík (Iceland)
2023 – Oberhausen Seminar, 69th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen (Germany)
2022 – H – The Notion of Humanist Photography, Photography Workshop with Jim Goldberg, Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 – Sunless Seas of Ice, Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall, Schwäbisch Hall (Germany)
2025 – Littered with Black Dust, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2025 – The Rocks Are Slippery, The Photography Museum, Šiauliai (Lithuania)
2024 – Subsuns (with Lidija Kononenko), Atletika Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2020 – smooth space, pleated, Galerija VARTAI, 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, 12 Star Gallery, European Commission, London (United Kingdom)
2016 – You Belong to Me, Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)

2026 – Ethereal Robes of Vulnerability, Žeimiai Manor House, Žeimiai (Lithuania)
2025–2026 – Even if It's the End of the World, Pranas Domšaitis Gallery, Klaipėda (Lithuania)
2025 – Everything You Are Not Supposed to Do, Radvila Palace Museum of Art, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2024 – Nektaras, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai (Lithuania)
2024 – SPECTRUM 2, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2023–2024 – Uncoverings: The Search for Identity in Lithuanian Photography, Pranas Domšaitis Gallery, Klaipėda (Lithuania)
2023 – Imagining Ourselves: Self-Portraits of Lithuanian Artists from the 19th Century to the Present Day, Vilnius Picture Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
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 (United Kingdom)
2021 – Uncoverings: The Search for Identity in Lithuanian Photography, The Museum of Photography, Seoul (South Korea)
2020–2021 – Homo Absentia, Lewben Art Foundation, Vilnius, Nida and Šiauliai (Lithuania)
2020 – Heterotopia, EEP Berlin (online)
2019 – Showroom, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2019 – Starting Point, MO Museum, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2017 – Body and Darkness, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2016 – Taken Territories, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing (China)
2016 – Taken Territories, Nida Art Colony, Nida (Lithuania)
2016 – The Body of the Letter, Sodų 4 Project Space, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2016 – Fotobalt3, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai (Lithuania)
2016 – Kiti7, Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre (KKKC), Klaipėda (Lithuania)
2014 – FreshFaced+WildEyed, The Photographers' Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
2014 – The Curated Ego: What Makes a Good Selfie?, National Portrait Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
2014 – (De)Tour, Media Arts Festival ENTER'12, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai (Lithuania)
2014–2015 – The Dark Side of the Story, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai (Lithuania); Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre (KKKC), Klaipėda (Lithuania)

AWARDS/GRANTS

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