Ignas Krunglevičius Lithuanian, b. 1979

ARTISTIC PRACTICE

Ignas Krunglevičius approaches sound as a material capable of reorganising the experience of space. Across installations, video works, sculptures, performances, and musical compositions, he constructs environments in which listening becomes inseparable from questions of perception, behaviour, and control.

His projects often begin with documentary material - police interrogations, therapeutic manuals, institutional language, and systems of technical communication - yet these sources are never presented as evidence alone. Through carefully composed relationships between sound, text, moving image, and architecture, Krunglevičius transforms them into psychological situations that invite viewers to inhabit rather than simply observe.

Whether working within a museum gallery, a disused industrial building, or an entire architectural space, Krunglevičius treats sound as an architectural force. His works do not illustrate ideas; they alter the conditions through which ideas are perceived.

EDUCATION/RESIDENCIES

2020 – ARTICA Residency, Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Norway)
2008–2010 – Composition (MA), Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo (Norway)
2003–2007 – Composition (BA), Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo (Norway)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 – Acid Rain Echo, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2022 – POSSESSOR, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (Norway)
2021 – Hard Body Dyspraxia, ARTICA Listens, Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Norway)
2018 – Thermo Bay, Lydgalleriet, Bergen (Norway)
2017 – Soft Screen Alien, Kunsthall Oslo (Norway)
2015 – Private Syntax Virus, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2015 – Interrogation, Te Tuhi Art Gallery, Auckland (New Zealand)
2015 – Transparent, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo (Norway)
2013 – Derivatives, Møllebyen Litteraturfestival, Moss (Norway)
2011 – Attribution, Oslo Kunstforening (Norway)
2010 – Dissonance, Aando Fine Art, Berlin (Germany)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 – National Gallery of Art, film screening, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2025 – INΦOPSIN, MUNCH Triennale, Oslo (Norway)
2023 – Dizzy Spell, MELK Gallery, Oslo (Norway)
2023 – A Collection for the 21st Century, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin (Germany)
2023 – Spawn, Just About in the Round, KAJE, New York (USA)
2021 – INΦOPSIN – Opera Echopraxia, Gallery 1986, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2021 – INΦOPSIN – AWWWD, Kunsthall Oslo (Norway)
2020 – Splitting the Atom, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2020 – I Can't Breathe, Nasjonalmuseet (online commission), Oslo (Norway)
2020 – 24 from 84, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund (Germany)
2020 – Indivizijos, film screening, Lithuanian National Television (LRT), Lithuania
2019 – Struer Tracks, Urban Sound Festival, Struer (Denmark)
2019 – I Hear Your Dream, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai (China)
2019 – Suddenly Gave the Effect of Sunlight, MELK Gallery, Oslo (Norway)
2018 – Edge of the Wonderland, Thailand Biennale, Krabi (Thailand)
2018 – Rivers of Emotion, Bodies of Ore, Trondheim Kunsthall, Trondheim (Norway)
2018 – 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow (Russia)
2018 – Common Front, Affectively, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin (South Korea)
2018 – Le Murate, Progetti Arte Contemporanea, Florence (Italy)
2017 – The World Without Us, ICA Ljubljana (Slovenia)
2017 – Alien Matter, transmediale / HKW, Berlin (Germany)
2017 – Innland, CCCOD, Tours (France)
2017 – Myths of the Marble, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Norway); Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (USA)
2016 – The World Without Us, Dortmunder U, Dortmund (Germany)
2016 – Aichi Triennale, Nagoya (Japan)
2016 – Rauma Biennale, Rauma (Finland)
2016 – Let's Be Open About... Conceptualism, Dazibao, Montréal (Canada)
2015 – Between the Idea and Experience, 12th Havana Biennale, Havana (Cuba)
2015 – Soft City Malmö, Inter Arts Centre, Malmö (Sweden)
2015 – His Master's Voice, La Panacée, Montpellier (France)
2015 – New Acquisitions, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (Australia)
2014 – Soft City, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (Norway)
2014 – Forms of Freedom, 14th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Nordic Pavilion, Venice (Italy)
2014 – Crime in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kraków (Poland)
2014 – You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney (Australia)
2013 – NWUO, Høstutstillingen, Oslo (Norway)
2013 – Authority Killing, Norwegian Sculpture Biennale, Vigeland Museum, Oslo (Norway)
2013 – Young, Exquisite Corpse, Turku Biennale, Turku (Finland)
2013 – His Master's Voice, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund (Germany)
2011 – The Savage Transparency, Young Projects at Art Platform LA, Los Angeles (USA)
2011 – Wilno w Gdańsku, Centre for Contemporary Art Łaźnia, Gdańsk (Poland)
2011 – More or Less, A Few Pocket Universes, Gallery Augusta, Helsinki (Finland)
2010 – Nam June Paik Award Exhibition, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (Germany)
2010 – Lithuanian Art 2000–2010: Ten Years, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2009 – DnB NOR Stipend Exhibition, Oslo Kunstforening (Norway)
2009 – 26th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel (Germany)
2009 – Saison Vidéo, Lille (France)
2009 – Space Oddity, Lille 3000 Festival, Lille (France)
2008 – TV-Love, Høstutstillingen, Oslo (Norway)
2008 – Listen, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2007 – CAC TV, TV1 Vilnius, Lithuania
2007 – VIDEONALE.11, Kunstmuseum Bonn (Germany)
2007 – SHIFT, outdoor exhibition, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2007 – Tempo, Skien (Norway)
2006 – 101.3 KM, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2006 – Botschaften + Bring a Friend, ATOPIA, Oslo (Norway)
2003 – 2SHOW: Young Art from Latvia and Lithuania, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2002 – ArtGENDA, Hamburg (Germany)
2001 – Mind Loop, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)

CURATORIAL / ORGANISATIONAL PRACTICE

2012–2021 – Founder and Director, Podium, artist-run exhibition space, Oslo (Norway)

AWARDS/GRANTS

2021 – Statens Kunstnerstipend, 10-year Working Grant
2019 – Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Two-year Artist Grant
2018 – Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, One-year Artist Grant
2017 – TONO Scholarship
2015 – Statens Kunstnerstipend, Three-year Working Grant
2015 – TONO Scholarship
2014 – Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, One-year Artist Grant
2012 – TONO Scholarship
2012 – Komponistenes Vederlagsfond Equipment Grant
2011 – Statens Kunstnerstipend, Three-year Working Grant
2010 – Statens Kunstnerstipend Scholarship
2010 – Sparebankstiftelsen DnB NOR Scholarship
2010 – Nominee, Nam June Paik Award
2009 – Main Prize, DnB NOR Stipend Exhibition
2009 – Special Mention, Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
2005 – Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, One-year Artist Grant

COLLECTIONS

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin (Germany)
Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim (Norway)
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (Australia)
Private collections