Kristijonas Gurčinas Lithuanian, b. 2001

Overview

Kristijonas Gurčinas explores the changing life of sacred images as they move between ritual, memory, and contemporary visual culture.

Kristijonas Gurčinas is a Lithuanian painter whose work explores the continued life of sacred images within contemporary visual culture. Drawing on religious iconography, museum collections, films, video games, internet archives, and family photographs, he investigates how symbols rooted in ritual continue to circulate long after their original contexts have disappeared.

Rather than treating these images as historical documents, Gurčinas approaches them as living forms, reshaped every time they're reproduced or simply lived alongside. His paintings bring the devotional into dialogue with the ordinary, allowing familiar symbols to feel intimate and strangely unfamiliar at once. In doing so, they ask what a sacred image still retains once it has become separated from the world that first gave it meaning.

Based in Vilnius, Kristijonas Gurčinas completed both his BA and MA in Painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. His recent exhibitions include Fantasmagorija (2026) and Saulašarė / Sundew (2024), both presented at Galerija VARTAI. Alongside his artistic practice, he has also developed a curatorial practice, organising exhibitions including Ruja (2023) and Žarija (2024).

Kristijonas Gurčinas is represented by Galerija VARTAI.

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Kristijonas Gurčinas
NightMare, 2026
186 x 250 cm
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Kristijonas Gurčinas, NightMare, 2026

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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Nightclubbing, 2026
51 x 65.5 cm
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Kristijonas Gurčinas, Nightclubbing, 2026

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Kristijonas Gurčinas
64 bitų šventykla / 64 bit sanctuary, 2025
60 x 40 cm
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Kristijonas Gurčinas, 64 bitų šventykla / 64 bit sanctuary, 2025

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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Blyškiai melsva akis / Pale blue eye, 2025
50 x 40 cm
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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Pjūvis / The reap, 2025
100 x 80 cm
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Kristijonas Gurčinas, Pjūvis / The reap, 2025

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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Ektoplazminis palikimas / Ectoplasmic heritage, 2025
150 x 100 cm
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Kristijonas Gurčinas, Ektoplazminis palikimas / Ectoplasmic heritage, 2025

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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Velniava / Witching Hour, 2025
130 x 170 cm
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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Music on, World off / Lyja vandens lašais, sekundę, gal milijoną metų..., 2025
116 x 178 cm
€ 2,800.00 Sold
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Kristijonas Gurčinas, Music on, World off / Lyja vandens lašais, sekundę, gal milijoną metų..., 2025

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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Shadow word, 2025
40 x 30 cm
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Kristijonas Gurčinas, Shadow word, 2025

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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Invocation, 2025
65 x 166 cm
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Kristijonas Gurčinas, Invocation, 2025

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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Iškilmingai prisiekiu / Solemnly swear, 2024
80 x 100 cm

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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Great-grandfather Jonas, 2024
40 x 30 cm
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Kristijonas Gurčinas
The Count, 2024
156 x 114 cm
€ 2,550.00
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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Portal to deathly bloom, 2024
138 x 74 cm
€ 2,000.00
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Kristijonas Gurčinas
For you, not for me, 2024
65 x 50 cm
€ 850.00 Sold
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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Teahouse forever, 2024
180 x 220 cm

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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Dullard, 2024
63 x 45 cm
€ 1,000.00
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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Naktinė rauda / Nocturnal weep, 2024
50 x 70 cm
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Kristijonas Gurčinas, Naktinė rauda / Nocturnal weep, 2024

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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Tavyje teka upė / River flows in you, 2024
100 x 100 cm
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Kristijonas Gurčinas
We all get frustrated, 2023
150 x 91 cm
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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Apie mirtį ir pop / About death and pop, 2023
115 x 175 cm
€ 2,750.00
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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Salionas ;D / Living room ;D, 2023
185 x 250 cm
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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Sundew, 2023
185 x 250 cm
€ 4,100.00
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Kristijonas Gurčinas
St. Mary of Pušalotas, 2023
40 x 30 cm
€ 650.00
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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Scorched procession, 2023
80 x 100 cm
€ 1,700.00
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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Great-grandmother laughing, 2023
50 x 50 cm
€ 950.00
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Kristijonas Gurčinas
Great-grandmother Felicija, 2022
40 x 30 cm

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Biography

ARTISTIC PRACTICE

Kristijonas Gurčinas begins with images that have already lived many lives. Religious iconography, museum collections, films, video games, internet archives, and family funeral photographs enter his paintings not as historical references to be recovered, but as visual forms that have drifted away from the conditions that first produced them.

His practice centres on the changing function of these images. Once removed from ritual and absorbed into contemporary visual culture, symbols of death, sanctity, and the supernatural no longer communicate in fixed ways. Instead, they accumulate new associations while retaining traces of older ones. Gurčinas is interested in this moment of uncertainty, where an image exists between inherited belief and contemporary experience without fully belonging to either.

Painting becomes a way of bringing these different histories into contact. Working from a personal archive, the artist reworks visual fragments into new combinations, revealing the distance between what an image once signified and what it has come to mean. Rather than restoring an original message, the paintings allow meanings to remain unsettled, inviting viewers to encounter familiar symbols as though they were being seen for the first time.

EDUCATION

2024–2026 – Painting (MA), Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2020–2024 – Painting (BA), Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2012–2020 – Kaunas Art Gymnasium, Kaunas (Lithuania)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 – Fantasmagorija, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2024 – Saulašarė / Sundew, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 – Žarija, LDS Pamėnkalnio Gallery, 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, Lithuanian Artists' Association Gallery, 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)