Marija Puipaitė Lithuanian, b. 1987
MARIJA PUIPAITĖ
Born 1987 in Vilnius, Lithuania
Lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania
EDUCATION/RESIDENCIES
2018 – Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris (France)
2013 – Contextual Design (MA) at the Design Academy Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
2006-2010 – Product Design (BA) at Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2010
EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Collectible fair with, Galerija Vartai, Brussels (Belgium)
2022 - The Invisibles. Historic Furniture from a Contemporary Design Perspective, the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilnius (Lithuania). Curator together with Vytautas Gečas and Monika Lipšic
2021 - Personal Scale, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius (Lithuania). Curator together with Vytautas Gečas
2020 – Collectible Design fair, with Galerija Vartai, Brussels (Belgium)
2020 – Spectrum, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2019 – Alert objects, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius (Lithuania). Participant and curator together with Vytautas Gečas
2019 – Budapest Design Week festival, Budapest (Hungary)
2019 – Designsalon 2019, Europe’s Designing Women, Landesgalerien, Linz (Austria)
2019 – Envisioned Comfort, A-piece gallery, Do the Right Thing, Titanikas, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2018 – Abstract Expressions – Explorations in Jewellery Designs, Zaha Hadid Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
2018 – Le Off, Paris Design Week, Ground Control - 81 rue du Charolais, Paris (France)
2018 – Design Lithuania 2018, Palais Ducal, Caen (France)
2018 – now! le off, Paris design week, Paris (France)
2018 – Stories of Things Lithuanian Design 1918 - 2018, National Art Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2018 – 4 a change, Vilnius design week 2018, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2018 – Selected 2018, Out of the Frame, Neue Galerie Graz at Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz (Austria)
2018 – Ventura Future, Milan design week, Milan (Italy)
2018 – Applied Arts and Design 1918-2018, Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2017 – Fantasy, Vol. 4, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, (The Netherlands)
2017 – London Design Fair, Old Truman Brewery Hall S5, London (United Kingdom)
2017 – Mint design gallery, London Design Festival, 2 North Terrace, London (United Kingdom)
2017 – Age of Man, Milan Design Week, Ventura Lambrate, Milan (Italy)
2017 – Central Textile Museum in Lodz (Poland)
2017 – Muzeum Miasta Gdyni (Poland)
2017 – Museum of Applied Art and Design, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2017 – Nordic House, Reykjavík (Iceland)
2017 – Latvian National Museum of Art / Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Riga (Latvia)
2017 – Estonian Museum of Applied Arts and Design (Tallinn)
2016 – Form/Design Center, Malmö (Sweden)
2016 – Embracing Touch (solo), ARgenTum Jewellery Art gallery of Vilnius Art Academy, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2016 – Dutch Design Week, Sectie C, Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
2015 – January, Generation 2015, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
2014 – Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius (Lithuania)
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Domestic Visions
Group design exhibition 25 Apr - 7 Jun 2025We are excited to present Domestic Visions — a new group design exhibition at VARTAI Showroom that explores how everyday objects of today can reflect and shape our visions of...Read more -
'Anatomy of the Fetish' by Goda Palekaitė & Marija Puipaitė
Duo exhibition 9 Nov 2023 - 13 Jan 2024The mysterious Sphinx, half-woman, half-lion, arouses desire. Fetish is where the secret joins the strange, and their encounter becomes ambivalent - the sphinx we nourish secretly at our core. Karl Marx...Read more -
STAND WITH UKRAINE
Auction exhibition 26 Apr - 31 May 2022Photos by Audrius SolominasRead more -
L’ÉTREINTE - EMBRACEMENT – GLAMONĖ
Group exhibition dedicated to the centenary of the birth of the famous Lithuanian modernist Antanas Mončys. 9 Sep - 5 Nov 2021Opening on 9 Septembe, 2021 at 6 PM 9 September – 5 November, 2021 Curators: Linas Bliškevičius and Yates Norton. Artists: Antanas Mončys and Arturas Bumšteinas, Viltė Bražiūnaitė & Tomas...Read more -
Personal Scale
Contemporary design exhibition 17 Jun - 5 Aug 2021Curators: Marija Puipaitė & Vytautas Gečas Participants: Agnė Kučerenkaitė (LT), Charlotte Jonckheer (BE), Corradino Garofalo (IT), Destroyers and Builders (BE), Joan Vellvé Rafecas (SP), Kiki & Joost (NL), Kotryna Butautytė...Read more -
Alert Objects
Group exhibition 13 Dec 2019 - 24 Jan 2020Curators: Vytautas Gečas and Marija Puipaitė Vartai gallery launches a new series of annual exhibitions dedicated to contemporary design. The aim of the project, realized in collaboration with Lithuanian and...Read more
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Galerija VARTAI at COLLECTIBLE 2024
Brussels, Belgium 6 - 10 Mar 2024Galerija VARTAI and VARTAI SHOWROOM, the platform for contemporary design, will participate in COLLECTIBLE - the only fair dedicated exclusively to presenting contemporary collectible design....Read more -
VARTAI at COLLECTIBLE
Brussels, Belgium 9 - 12 Mar 2023From 9 to 12 March, we will be attending COLLECTIBLE, the prestigious fair dedicated exclusively to 21st century contemporary design, which will take place for...Read more -
Galerija VARTAI at COLLECTIBLE SALON
28 - 30 May 2021Galerija VARTAI at the virtual contemporary design fair COLLECTIBLE! From May 28 -30, 2021, we will represent design projects by 9 individual and collaborative designers...Read more -
GRASSIMESSE 2020 International forum and a fair for applied arts and design
Leipzig, Germany 23 - 25 Oct 2020Gallery VARTAI on 23rd - 25th of October will be participating at Grassimesse 2020 design fair in Leipzig, Germany! Between 23 Lithuanian designers represented together...Read more -
Collectible, The Fair for 21st Century Design 2020
Brussels, Belgium 5 - 9 Mar 2020Presented designers Marija Puipaitė and Vytautas Gečas. Vartai gallery is pleased to have participated in the third edition contemporary design fair Collectible in Brussels. This...Read more
ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS
2017 – „Kuriu žmogui, kuris ieško“, in: Created in Lithuania, no.1, 2017
2017 – “Marija, jos objektai ir intymumas”, in: Namas ir aš, 2017-01
2013 – Emilija Švobaitė, “Pokalbis su Marija Puipaite”, in: Ore.lt, 2013-02-28
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Talk 7: Paul Coenen, Tijs Gilde, Tim Teven
In conversation with Paul Coenen, Tijs Gilde, Tim Teven. Moderated by Marija Puipaitė December 15, 2023A conversation featuring Dutch designers Paul Coenen, Tijs Gilde, and Tim Teven, in conjunction with the exhibition “Monumental Mass.” The conversation was moderated by designer...Read more -
IGTV: Vartai UNLOCKED with Marija Puipaitė and Vytautas Gečas
Gallery VARTAI presents new IGTV series of artists and collectors' interviews, studio visits and special edition videos November 13, 2020This time gallery VARTAI visited two young emerging contemporary designers, Marija Puipaitė and Vytautas Gečas! Marija and Vytautas talked about their favourite design objects, their...Read more -
Koen Kleijn, art historian and writer shares his thoughts on contemporary design exhibition "Alert Objects" at Galerija VARTAI.
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Talk 5: What contemporary design can do?
Conversation with Koen Kleijn, Vytautas Gečas and Marija Puipaitė, moderated by Mantas Lesauskas December 12, 2019Galerija VARTAI presents: TALK Nr. 5 with designers Vytautas Gečas and Marija Puipaitė, art historian and writer Koen Kleijn, moderated by assoc. Prof. in Vilnius...Read more