Donata Minderytė Lithuanian, b. 1991

ARTISTIC PRACTICE 

At the centre of Donata Minderytė's practice is the idea of visual translation. She is interested in what happens when an image moves from one medium to another and how meaning shifts during this process.

Working with photographs and video stills taken from everyday life, the artist uses painting as a method of transformation rather than reproduction. Details disappear, contrasts soften, and visual information becomes fragmented. What remains is not a precise record of an event but a new image shaped by distance, interpretation, and time.

Minderytė often describes this process through the concept of translational error. In linguistic translation, inaccuracies are usually avoided; in her work, they become the subject itself. The gap between the original image and its painted counterpart reveals how memories are continually rewritten and reshaped.

Her characteristic bleached palette and softened imagery function as visual metaphors for recollection. Rather than documenting the past, the paintings examine how experiences persist, fade, and transform within memory. Through this approach, Minderytė explores broader questions about perception, temporality, and the fragile nature of personal narratives.

EDUCATION/RESIDENCIES

2024 - Doctorate (Ph.D.), Vilnius Academy of Arts

2016 – Enrolled in Art PhD programme 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

2024 - Jump Cut, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2019 – Translation Error, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2016 – Memory Gene, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2016 – Suitable Circumstances, Gallery Meno Niša, Vilnius (Lithuania)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 - Adhezijos, Šiaulių dailės galerija, Šiauliai (Lithuania)

2026 - SMS. WIFI. OK., Viscosa Culture Factory, Kõrgessaare (Estonia)

2025  - Begalinis pulsas, Palangos meno savaitgalis, vila „Auska“, Palanga (Lithuania)

2024 - Spectrum 2, galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2024 - Disciplines, Atletika Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2024 - XVIII International Vilnius Painting Triennial, Kaunas (Lithuania)

2020 – Spectrum, Galerija VARTAI, 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, Galerija 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, Krakow (Poland)

Mo Museum, Vilnius (Lithuania)

Private collections