Mindaugas Lukošaitis Lithuanian, b. 1980

Overview
 
Mindaugas Lukošaitis (b. 1980, Lithuania) is an artist primarily known for his drawings, but his works also include sculptures and objects. He graduated from the Sculpture Department at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2003. Despite a sketch-like manner, free and swift strokes, Lukošaitis’s drawings are acutely precise, vibrant and energetic. His work can be distinguished for a notable craftsmanship and profound understanding of anatomy.
Without employing archival material or photographs that would illustrate the topic of his work, Lukošaitis substitutes documentary history with products of his own imagination. His artworks demonstrate the power of vision and imagination that enables a sharper look at topics such as history, the relevance of post-war resistance, the search for identity, and the spirit of patriotism - both in history as well as in everyday life. The artist tends to rely on the classical, academic drawing technique, where a pencil is used for shading and outlining. However, his approach to academic drawing is unique: Lukošaitis draws “his own realism”, without using models or pictures.
Another important aspect of Lukošaitis’s work is its non-historical quality. The artist draws strange uncanny pictures of isolated objects and nature-like forms, or depicts imagery of unrealised ideas. These drawings are created not to be contextualised outside themselves but to be understood as free products of creative inspiration or realisations of the sketching practice in drawing.
Mindaugas Lukošaitis regularly takes part in international group exhibitions and holds solo exhibitions in Lithuania as well as abroad. He represented Lithuania at the 26th São Paulo Biennial and participated in the Populism exhibition curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen at the Frankfurter Kunstverein in 2004. Lukošaitis’s works have been exhibited at institutions such as VOLTA NY, Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre, and Galerie Fons Walters in Amsterdam. His drawings have also been included in Phaidon’s encyclopaedia Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing and featured in collections of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark), Lewben Art Foundation (Lithuania), MO Museum (Lithuania), as well as those of private collectors in Lithuania and abroad.
Works
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Vilnius , 2023
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Vilnius , 2023
    21 x 21 cm
    27 x 27 cm with frame
    € 450.00
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Vilnius , 2023
    € 450.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Vilnius , 2023
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Vilnius , 2023
    21 x 21 cm
    27 x 27 cm with frame
    € 450.00
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Vilnius , 2023
    € 450.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Vilnius , 2023
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Vilnius , 2023
    21 x 21 cm
    27 x 27 cm with frame
    € 450.00
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Vilnius , 2023
    € 450.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Vilnius , 2023
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Vilnius , 2023
    21 x 21 cm
    27 x 27 cm with frame
    € 450.00
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Vilnius , 2023
    € 450.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Vilnius , 2023
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Vilnius , 2023
    21 x 21 cm
    27 x 27 cm with frame
    € 450.00
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Vilnius , 2023
    € 450.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Valley, 2018
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Valley, 2018
    50 x 60 x 2 cm
    € 670.00
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Valley, 2018
    € 670.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition, 2018
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Composition, 2018
    40 x 60 x 0.5 cm
    42.5 x 62.5 x 5 cm Framed
    € 650.00
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition, 2018
    € 650.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Night 2, 2018
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Night 2, 2018
    24 x 30 x 0.5 cm
    27 x 33 x 5 cm Framed
    € 330.00
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Night 2, 2018
    € 330.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Night , 2018
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Night , 2018
    24 x 30 x 2 cm
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Sky, 2018
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Sky, 2018
    35 x 45 x 2 cm
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Machu Picchu I, 2018
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Machu Picchu I, 2018
    88 x 63 cm
    104 x 79 x 3.5 cm Framed
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Holy Mountain , 2017
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Holy Mountain , 2017
    40 x 40 x 0.5 cm
    48 x 48 x 2 cm Framed
    € 550.00
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Holy Mountain , 2017
    € 550.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Sapnavau Japoniją: scena VII / I dreamt of Japan: scene VII, 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Sapnavau Japoniją: scena VII / I dreamt of Japan: scene VII, 2016
    90 x 64 cm
    € 2,100.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Global War II, 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Global War II, 2016
    21 x 29.5 cm
    43 x 50.5 x 2.5 cm Framed
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 5, 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Composition 5, 2016
    21 x 29.5 cm
    28.5 x 37.5 x 2.5 cm Framed
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 16, 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Composition 16, 2016
    21 x 29.5 cm
    28.5 x 37.5 x 2.5 cm Framed
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 3 , 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Composition 3 , 2016
    21 x 29 cm
    28.5 x 37.5 x 2.5 cm Framed
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 6, 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Composition 6, 2016
    21 x 29.5 cm
    28.5 x 37.5 x 2.5 cm Framed
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 7, 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Composition 7, 2016
    21 x 29.5 cm
    28.5 x 37.5 x 2.5 cm Framed
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 8, 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Composition 8, 2016
    21 x 29.5 cm
    28.5 x 37.5 x 2.5 cm Framed
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 9, 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Composition 9, 2016
    21 x 29.5 cm
    28.5 x 37.5 x 2.5 cm Framed
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 18, 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Composition 18, 2016
    21 x 29.5 cm
    28.5 x 37.5 x 2.5 cm Framed
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Talvisota, 2013
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Talvisota, 2013
    30 x 21 cm each
    € 22,100.00
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Talvisota, 2013
    € 22,100.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Object of Modern Art, 2013
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Object of Modern Art, 2013
    41 x 59 cm
    49 x 66 x 4 cm Framed
    € 1,440.00
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Object of Modern Art, 2013
    € 1,440.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Object of Modern Art - Clay, 2012
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Object of Modern Art - Clay, 2012
    29.5 x 42 cm
    € 1,220.00
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Object of Modern Art - Clay, 2012
    € 1,220.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Object of Modern Art, 2012
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Object of Modern Art, 2012
    31.5 x 43.5 cm
    Not framed
    € 60.00
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Object of Modern Art, 2012
    € 60.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Modernaus meno objektas-Geltona koplyčia. Ribotas tiražas / Limited edition, Object of Modern Art - Yellow Chapel, 2011
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Modernaus meno objektas-Geltona koplyčia. Ribotas tiražas / Limited edition, Object of Modern Art - Yellow Chapel, 2011
    56 x 28 cm
    € 90.00
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Modernaus meno objektas-Geltona koplyčia. Ribotas tiražas / Limited edition, Object of Modern Art - Yellow Chapel, 2011
    € 90.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Modernaus meno objektas - Bažnyčia / Object of Modern Art - Church, 2011
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Modernaus meno objektas - Bažnyčia / Object of Modern Art - Church, 2011
    32 x 45 cm
    Not framed
    € 80.00
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Modernaus meno objektas - Bažnyčia / Object of Modern Art - Church, 2011
    € 80.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Drawing, 2011
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Drawing, 2011
    Publisher: Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius
    Language: English
    € 5.00
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Drawing, 2011
    € 5.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Dūla ir trupa / Wearing Away and Crumbling, 2009
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Dūla ir trupa / Wearing Away and Crumbling, 2009
    43 x 61 cm
    Not framed
    € 80.00
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Dūla ir trupa / Wearing Away and Crumbling, 2009
    € 80.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Gyvulys / Animal, 2007
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Gyvulys / Animal, 2007
    61 x 43 cm
    76 x 58 x 3 cm Framed
    € 2,200.00
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Gyvulys / Animal, 2007
    € 2,200.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Dūla ir trupa / Wearing Away and Crumbling, 2007
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Dūla ir trupa / Wearing Away and Crumbling, 2007
    30 x 42 cm
    Not framed
    € 60.00
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Dūla ir trupa / Wearing Away and Crumbling, 2007
    € 60.00
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Gyvulys / Animal, 2007
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Gyvulys / Animal, 2007
    60 x 42 cm
    Framed 76 x 58.6 x 3 cm
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 13, 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Composition 13, 2016
    21 x 29.5 cm
    28.5 x 37.5 x 2.5 cm Framed
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 14, 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Composition 14, 2016
    21 x 29.5 cm
    28.5 x 37.5 x 2.5 cm Framed
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 1, 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Composition 1, 2016
    21 x 29.5 cm
    28.5 x 37.5 x 2.5 cm Framed
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 2, 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Composition 2, 2016
    21 x 29.5 cm
    28.5 x 37.5 x 2.5 cm Framed
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 10, 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Composition 10, 2016
    21 x 29.5 cm
    28.5 x 37.5 x 2.5 cm Framed
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 11, 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Composition 11, 2016
    21 x 29.5 cm
    28.5 x 37.5 x 2.5 cm Framed
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 21, 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Composition 21, 2016
    21 x 29.5 cm
    28.5 x 37.5 x 2.5 cm Framed
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 22, 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Composition 22, 2016
    21 x 29.5 cm
    28.5 x 37.5 x 2.5 cm Framed
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Sapnavau Japoniją: scena V / I dreamt of Japan: scene V, 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Sapnavau Japoniją: scena V / I dreamt of Japan: scene V, 2016
    90 x 64 cm
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Desert , 2018
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Desert , 2018
    40 x 40 cm
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Long Night, 2018
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Long Night, 2018
    24 x 30 x 2 cm
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 17, 2016
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Composition 17, 2016
    21 x 29.7 cm
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Windy night, 2013
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Windy night, 2013
    90 x 64 cm
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Tarpeklis / Canyon, 2019
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Rezistencija 2 (17 dalių serija) / Resistance 2 (series of 17 parts), 2019
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Evening, 2018
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Machu Picchu II, 2018
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Malonė iš dangaus / Grace from Heaven, 2018
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 4, 2016
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 12, 2016
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Sapnavau Japoniją: scena I / I dreamt of Japan: scene I, 2016
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Sapnavau Japoniją: scena IV / I dreamt of Japan: scene IV, 2016
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Sapnavau Japoniją: scena VI / I dreamt of Japan: scene VI, 2016
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Composition 19, 2016
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Modernaus meno objektas - Geltona koplyčia / Object of Modern Art - Yellow Chapel, 2011
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Rezistencija 2 (100 dalių serija) / Resistance 2 (series of 100 parts), 2019
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Rezistencija 2 (100 dalių serija) / Resistance 2 (series of 100 parts), 2019
    29,7 x 21 cm
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Rezistencija 2 (100 dalių serija) / Resistance 2 (series of 100 parts), 2019
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Rezistencija 2 (100 dalių serija) / Resistance 2 (series of 100 parts), 2019
    29,7 x 21 cm
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Rezistencija 2 (100 dalių serija) / Resistance 2 (series of 100 parts), 2019
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Rezistencija 2 (100 dalių serija) / Resistance 2 (series of 100 parts), 2019
    29,7 x 21 cm
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Rezistencija 2 (100 dalių serija) / Resistance 2 (series of 100 parts), 2019
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Rezistencija 2 (100 dalių serija) / Resistance 2 (series of 100 parts), 2019
    29,7 x 21 cm
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Rezistencija 2 (100 dalių serija) / Resistance 2 (series of 100 parts), 2019
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Rezistencija 2 (100 dalių serija) / Resistance 2 (series of 100 parts), 2019
    29,7 x 21 cm
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Rezistencija 2 (100 dalių serija) / Resistance 2 (series of 100 parts), 2019
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Rezistencija 2 (100 dalių serija) / Resistance 2 (series of 100 parts), 2019
    29,7 x 21 cm
  • Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Rezistencija 2 (100 dalių serija) / Resistance 2 (series of 100 parts), 2019
    Mindaugas Lukošaitis
    Rezistencija 2 (100 dalių serija) / Resistance 2 (series of 100 parts), 2019
    29,7 x 21 cm
Biography

Born 1980 in Šiauliai, Lithuania

Lives and works in Šiauliai, Lithuania

EDUCATION/RESIDENCIES

1999-2003 – BA in Sculpture from Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius (Lithuania)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 – Mindaugas Lukošaitis, One Artwork Gallery ‘1KG’, Plungė (Lithuania)

2017 – Imagination. Composition. Dream., Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2015 – Jews. My History 2“ / „Jesus Christ“, Šiaulių Dailės Galerija, Šiauliai (Lithuania)

2013 – Talvisota / Winter war. ARTscape: Slovakia, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2012 – Mindaugas Lukošaitis, VOLTA NY, New York (USA)

2012 – Jews. My History, Modern Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2005 – IBID Projects, Vilnius (Lithuania)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 – GOViT-20, Narvaišiai (Lithuania)

2020 – Spectrum, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2018 – All Art Is About Us. MO Museum’s inaugural exhibition, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2017 – Body and Darkness, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2016 – Parallel, Alte Post, Vienna (Austria)

2013 – ViennaFair, Galerija VARTAI, Vienna (Austria)

2013 – Summertime Readings. Selected works from Cēsis Art Festival exhibition, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2013 – Summertime Readings. Cēsis Art Festival exhibition, Cēsis Brewery (Latvia)

2013 – Part of a Larger Whole, Lithuanian Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2013 – Art13 London, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (London)

2013 – Interaction, AQB, Budapest (Hungary)

2012 – Slick Brussels, Galerija VARTAI, Brussels (Belgium)

2012 – Viennafair, Galerija VARTAI, Vienna (Austria)

2012 – Contemporary Istanbul, Galerija VARTAI, Istanbul (Turkey)

2011 – ViennaFair, with Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2011 – Resistance, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (Denmark)

2010 – Lithuanian Art 2000-2010: Ten Years, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius                  (Lithuania)

2010 – Baltic Art Factor‘10, Šiaulai Art Gallery, Šiauliai (Lithuania)

2009 – Urban Stories, The X Baltic Triennial of International Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2008 – Eurasia: Geographic Crossovers in Art, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto (Italy)

2007 – Black & White - IBID Projects, London (United Kingdom)

2007 – Baltikum part II, Kalmar konstmuseum, Kalmar (Sweden)

2006 – Robert Barta, Ross Chisholm, Mindaugas Lukošaitis, Djordje Ozbolt, Jakub Julian, Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery, Munich (Germany)

2005 – Populism - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Stedelijk Museum, Frankfurt/Main (Germany)

2005 – BMW - The Baltic Triennial of International Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2005 – Playstation - IBID Projects presents: Milena Dragicevic and Mindaugas Lukosaitis, Fons Welters Gallery, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

2005 – On Line, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (Denmark)

2005 – Enthusiasts - Young Lithuanian Artists Show, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2004 – Virus, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai (Lithuania)

2004 – Somewhere Near Europe, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Brussels (Belgium)

2004 – Who if not we…?, BAK, Utracht and Centraal Museum, Utracht (The Netherlands)

2004 – In My Own Juice, Rotermanni Soolaladu, Talin (Estonia)

2004 – Sao Paulo 26th Biennial, Sao Paulo (Brazil)

2003 – Qui vive?, Biennial for Young Art, Moscow (Russia)

2003 – 2 show, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2000 – Exit Festival, Helsinki (Finland)

2000 – Projects in private spaces, Goldap (Poland)

COLLECTIONS

Lithuanian Art Museum (Lithuania)

MO Museum collection (Lithuania)

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art collection (Denmark)

 

Exhibitions
Art Fairs
Bibliography
BOOKS/CATALOGUES
2011 – Mindaugas Lukošaitis. Drawing, catalogue, ed. Virginijus Kinčinaitis, Vilnius: Galerija VARTAI, 2011
2010 – Lithuanian Art 2000–2010: Ten Years, catalogue, ed.: Linara Dovydaitytė, Renata Dubinskaitė, Asta Vaičiulytė, Vilnius: Contemporary Art Centre, 2010
2009 – Urban Stories. The X Baltic Triennial of International Art, catalogue, Vilnius: Contemporary Art Centre, 2009
2005 – VITAMIN D - New Perspectives in Drawing, ed. Emma Dexter, London: Phaidon Press, 2005
2005 – The POPULISM, Lars Bang Larsen, Cristina Ricupero, Nicolaus Schafhausen, catalogue, ed.: Lars Bang Larsen, Cristina Ricupero, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Berlin: Sternberg press, 2005
2004 – Hajo Schiff: 26. Biennale von Sao Paulo, Geschichte der Ausstellung und Thesen des Kurators, Kunstforum, 2004
2003 – 2 Show. Young Artsist from Latvia and Lithuania, catalogue, ed.: Helena Demankova, Vilnius: Contemporary Art Centre, 2003
ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS
2014 – Virginijus Kinčinaitis, “Tamsios graffito anglies istorijos”, in: Krantai, no. 4, 2014

 

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