Kristijonas Gurčinas Lithuanian, b. 2001

Overview
Kristijonas Gurčinas (b. 2001, Kaunas, Lithuania) is a Vilnius-based artist who recently completed his BA in Painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. He has already made a name for himself with a solo exhibition at Vartai Gallery in 2024 and participation in numerous group shows, including "Žarija" and the Zabolis Art Prize finalists exhibitions, where he secured second place in 2024.
 
The artist's work emerges from analysing both personal and universal relationships with images that symbolise death, spirituality, and the beyond. Gurčinas is interested in how visual representations of death, spirituality, and the sacred circulate in contemporary visual culture.
 
Today, images of the beyond are commonly encountered in popular culture, in the iconography of certain cultures, and more broadly in secular aesthetics. This prompts reflection on how such imagery is increasingly commodified and demystified, thereby losing its original meaning and purpose. Skulls, bats, blood, crosses, religious icons, and many other symbols of death and spirituality can now be found on T-shirt prints, jewellery, tattoos, films, and video games. Such commercial applications may suggest that their function has shifted. Symbols that once stood for philosophical, spiritual, and existential contemplation have become objects of fashion, entertainment, and pop culture. In the artist's view, this transformation of the imagery of the beyond into a product reflects the cultural background of contemporary society, in which people increasingly seek to avoid confronting existential questions.
 
Gurčinas explores these themes through painting as a form of visual research. He collects and systematises images from various sources: internet archives, books, films, museum collections, family funeral albums, and video games. These motifs live in his personal visual archive, where they are constantly reviewed, edited, and deconstructed. The artist searches for tensions - points of intersection between an image’s original meaning and its reinterpretation, between the sacred and its imitation, between authenticity and surface. He creates images that are transformed fragments - places where the old and the new, the sacred and the everyday, collide. Gurčinas is interested in how, through the continuity of the image, one can speak about the state of contemporary spirituality - often ironic, unbelieving, yet still searching for symbols that might fill the sense of transcendental emptiness.
Works
  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, Pjūvis / The reap, 2025
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    Pjūvis / The reap, 2025
    100 x 80 cm
    € 2,000.00
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    Kristijonas Gurčinas, Pjūvis / The reap, 2025
    € 2,000.00
  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, Ektoplazminis palikimas / Ectoplasmic heritage, 2025
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    Ektoplazminis palikimas / Ectoplasmic heritage, 2025
    150 x 100 cm
    € 1,800.00
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    Kristijonas Gurčinas, Ektoplazminis palikimas / Ectoplasmic heritage, 2025
    € 1,800.00
  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, 64 bitų šventykla / 64 bit sanctuary, 2025
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    64 bitų šventykla / 64 bit sanctuary, 2025
    60 x 40 cm
    € 700.00
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    Kristijonas Gurčinas, 64 bitų šventykla / 64 bit sanctuary, 2025
    € 700.00
  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, Blyškiai melsva akis / Pale blue eye, 2025
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    Blyškiai melsva akis / Pale blue eye, 2025
    50 x 40 cm
    € 700.00
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    Kristijonas Gurčinas, Blyškiai melsva akis / Pale blue eye, 2025
    € 700.00
  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, Tavyje teka upė / River flows in you, 2024
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    Tavyje teka upė / River flows in you, 2024
    100 x 100 cm
    € 2,200.00
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    Kristijonas Gurčinas, Tavyje teka upė / River flows in you, 2024
    € 2,200.00
  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, The Count, 2024
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    The Count, 2024
    156 x 114 cm
    € 2,000.00
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  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, Portal to deathly bloom, 2024
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    Portal to deathly bloom, 2024
    138 x 74 cm
    € 1,600.00
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  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, Iškilmingai prisiekiu / Solemnly swear, 2024
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    Iškilmingai prisiekiu / Solemnly swear, 2024
    80 x 100 cm
    € 1,300.00
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  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, Naktinė rauda / Nocturnal weep, 2024
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    Naktinė rauda / Nocturnal weep, 2024
    50 x 70 cm
    € 900.00
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    Kristijonas Gurčinas, Naktinė rauda / Nocturnal weep, 2024
    € 900.00
  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, Dullard, 2024
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    Dullard, 2024
    63 x 45 cm
    € 800.00
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  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, Great-grandfather Jonas, 2024
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    Great-grandfather Jonas, 2024
    40 x 30 cm
    € 550.00
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  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, Living room ;D, 2023
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    Living room ;D, 2023
    185 x 250 cm
    € 3,200.00
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  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, Sundew, 2023
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    Sundew, 2023
    185 x 250 cm
    € 3,200.00
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  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, Apie mirtį ir pop / About death and pop, 2023
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    Apie mirtį ir pop / About death and pop, 2023
    115 x 175 cm
    € 2,100.00
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  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, We all get frustrated, 2023
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    We all get frustrated, 2023
    150 x 91 cm
    € 1,900.00
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  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, Scorched procession, 2023
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    Scorched procession, 2023
    80 x 100 cm
    € 1,200.00
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  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, Great-grandmother laughing, 2023
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    Great-grandmother laughing, 2023
    50 x 50 cm
    € 700.00
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  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, Maria of Pašalotas, 2023
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    Maria of Pašalotas, 2023
    40 x 30 cm
    € 600.00
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  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, Teahouse forever, 2024
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    Teahouse forever, 2024
    180 x 220 cm
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  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, Great-grandma Felicja, 2022
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    Great-grandma Felicja, 2022
    40 x 30 cm
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  • Kristijonas Gurčinas, For you, not for me, 2024
    Kristijonas Gurčinas
    For you, not for me, 2024
    65 x 50 cm
    € 850.00 Sold
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Biography
 

Born 2001 in Kaunas, Lithuania

Lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania

 

EDUCATION

 2012 –2020    Kaunas Art Gymnasium, Kaunas, Lithuania

2020 – 2024   Vilnius Academy of Arts, Painting department BA, Vilnius, Lithuania

 

(SELECTED) SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 2024    Saulašarė/Sundew, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania;

 

(SELECTED) GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024   Žarija, LDS Pamėnkalnio galerija, Vilnius,Lithuania;

2024  Zabolis Art Prize finalists exhibition, VAA Gallery Titanikas, Vilnius, Lithuania;

2023  Zabolis Art Prize finalists exhibition, VAA Gallery Baltasis koridorius, Vilnius, Lithuania;

2023  Ruja, VAA Gallery Titanikas Vilnius, Lithuania;

2023  Cukrus, LDS galerija, Vilnius, Lithuania;

2023  Ofšorinės Akys: KOMISAS, Tech Zity, Vilnius. Lithuania;

2022  Dabar, VAA Gallery Tapybos koridorius, Vilnius, Lithuania;

2022  PPP1, VAA Gallery Tapybos koridorius, Vilnius, Lithuania;

2021  Po vieną, VAA Gallery Tapybos koridorius, Vilnius, Lithuania;

2021  +37.5, VAA Gallery Tapybos koridorius, Vilnius, Lithuania;

 

AWARDS

 2024    Second place winner, Zabolis Art Prize, VAA Gallery Titanikas, Vilnius;Lithuania

 

CURATORIAL PRACTICE

2023  Ruja, VAA Gallery Titanikas Vilnius, Lithuania;

2024  Žarija, LDS Pamėnkalnis Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania;

 

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