Donata Minderytė Lithuanian, b. 1991
Donata Minderytė (b. 1991, Lithuania) is an artist currently living and working in Vilnius. She graduated from the Painting Department of the Vilnius Academy of Arts obtaining an MA in 2016. Using the concept of visual translation, Minderytė analyses significant changes of an image as it is transferred from one medium to another.
In her work, Donata Minderytė focuses on what is to be avoided in linguistic translation - moving away from the original, fading the initial meaning and altering the message. Minderytė uses photography or stills from daily life videos as a tool of memory. She translates these images into the medium of painting by creating a representation of visual entropy. Captured in paint, the images lose detail, intensity and contrast, thus leaving an interpretive space for translation. The finished painting is hardly an accurate representation of the moment that it was inspired by: deliberate translational error becomes a generalised substitute of a past event, but not its representation. The narrative of the past is replaced by new visual information that pops up, transforms, fades and dwindles to such a degree that it can become unrecognisable. A bleached painting style for Minderytė becomes an artistic method to speak about herself, one’s memory and the latter’s inevitability to become faded past.
Donata Minderytė has held solo exhibitions at the Vartai Gallery and Gallery Meno Niša in Vilnius and participated in multiple group shows in Lithuania, Austria and the UK. She is currently also enrolled in an Art PhD programme at the Vilnius Academy of Arts.
Born 1991 in Vilnius, Lithuania
Lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania
EDUCATION/RESIDENCIES
2016 – Enrolled in Art PhD program since 2016, Vilnius Academy of Arts
2014-2016 – Vilnius Academy of Arts, Department of Painting, Master of Fine Arts
2010-2014 – Vilnius Academy of Arts, Department of Painting, Bachelor of Fine Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 – Translation Error, VARTAI Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2016 – Memory Gene, VARTAI Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2016 – Suitable Circumstances, Gallery Meno Niša, Vilnius (Lithuania)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 – Spectrum, VARTAI Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2020 – Menas be stogo, Vilnius city (Lithuania)
2020 – Kontr-argumentas III, Gallery Meno parkas, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2019 – Carnival, Pamėnkalnio Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2018 – Mokslas ir gyvenimas, Titanikas, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2018 – Tapybos maršrutizatoriai, Vilnius public transport (Lithuania)
2017 – Viennacontemporary Art Fair, Marx Halle, Vienna (Austria)
2017 – Summer Show, Gallery VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2017 – Imago Mundi, Project "10 x 12, Gallery Meno parkas, Kaunas, (Lithuania)
2016 – Laiko vaizdų gaudytojai. (Trys scenarijai), Gallery Meno parkas, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2016 – Wundercameraden, Gallery Meno forma, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2016 – Parallel Vienna, Vienna Contemporary Art Exhibition, Vienna (Austria)
2016 – 38. Duisburger Akzente, Culture festival, Duisburg (Germany)
2016 – Belvedere, Gallery Meno forma, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2016 – Videofest/Terrortory, Studium P Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2015 – Kartos (nesi)kartoja (antrą kartą), Gallery Meno forma, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2015 – Šventė, Šv. Jono Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2015 – International Contemporary Art Fair ArtVilnius'15, LITEXPO, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2014 – Kartos (nesi)kartoja, Gallery Meno forma, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2014 – Kosminė odisėja/Performanso labaratorija, Titanikas, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2014 – Meno celės, Titanikas, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2014 – Screenings weekend: Points of You, Gallery Centrala, Birmingham (United Kingdom)
2013 – Jaunieji. Žalia sąmonė - 3 arba kaip nesikartoja istorija, Gallery Meno parkas, Kaunas (Lithuania)
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA (Finland)
Museum of Contemporary Art MOCAK (Poland)
Private collections
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STAND WITH UKRAINE
Auction exhibition 26 Apr - 31 May 2022Photos by Audrius SolominasRead more -
Spectrum
Group exhibition 14 Jul - 26 Aug 2020Curator Linas Bliškevičius Artists and designers: Gabrielė Adomaitytė, Jānis Avotiņš, Ray Bartkus, Kazimieras Brazdžiūnas, Jokūbas Čižikas, Adomas Danusevičius, Marija Puipaitė & Vytautas Gečas, Vytenis Jankūnas, Linas Jusionis, Žilvinas Kempinas, Mindaugas...Read more -
Donata Minderytė
"Translation Error" 24 Oct - 29 Nov 2019Vartai gallery is pleased to present the exhibition “Translation Error” / “Vaizdinis vertimas” by a painter of the young generation Donata Minderytė. The error in translation evident in the bilingual...Read more -
Summer Exposition
Group exhibition 18 Jul - 31 Aug 2017Our gallery’s spaces have once again been filled with new works. We invite you to be our guest and join us on Tuesday at 6:00 pm to look around our...Read more -
Margarita Božkaitė ir Donata Minderytė
Duo exhibition 7 - 11 Jun 2016The exhibitions of paintings by Donata Minderytė and Margarita Božkaitė, both Master’s students at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, open at Galerija VARTAI on 7 June. Their creative work will...Read more
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Viennacontemporary 2022
Representing Donata Minderytė and Dominykas Sidorovas 8 - 11 Sep 2022Galerija VARTAI at viennacontemporary - Stand: B 09 8 - 11 September 2022 Represented artists: Donata Minderytė and Dominykas Sidorovas. Donata Minderytė (b. 1991, Lithuania)...Read more -
viennacontemporary Art Fair 2017
Vienna, Austria 21 - 23 Sep 2017Presented artists: DONATA MINDERYTĖ IEVA ROJŪTĖ Architect: IEVA CICĖNAITĖRead more -
Parallel Vienna 2016
Vienna, Austria 21 - 25 Sep 2016Presented artist: DONATA MINDERYTĖ MINDAUGAS LUKOŠAITISRead more
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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 -
A work of art for your donation
We stand with Ukraine! March 7, 2022Meno kūrinys už paramą ( look below for English) Galerija VARTAI vienijasi su savo pristatomais autoriais ir pradeda iniciatyvą, kurios metu už suteiktą paramą Ukrainos...Read more