Laura Garbštienė Lithuanian, b. 1973

Overview
Laura Garbštienė, Laikino meno fondas / Foundation for Temporary Art, 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Gamtos pažinimo kambarys (77 vnt.) / Room of nature studies (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Iš ciklo "Gamtos pažinimo kambarys" (77 vnt.) / From cycle "Room of nature studies" (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Iš ciklo "Gamtos pažinimo kambarys" (77 vnt.) / From cycle "Room of nature studies" (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Iš ciklo "Gamtos pažinimo kambarys" (77 vnt.) / From cycle "Room of nature studies" (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Iš ciklo "Gamtos pažinimo kambarys" (77 vnt.) / From cycle "Room of nature studies" (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Iš ciklo "Gamtos pažinimo kambarys" (77 vnt.) / From cycle "Room of nature studies" (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Iš ciklo "Gamtos pažinimo kambarys" (77 vnt.) / From cycle "Room of nature studies" (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Frames from a film about an unknown artist. Hill of Crosses, 2010
Laura Garbštienė, From the series Tundra, 2010
Laura Garbštienė, From the series Tundra, 2010
Laura Garbštienė, From the series Tundra, 2010
Laura Garbštienė, From the series Tundra, 2010
Laura Garbštienė, Film about unknown artist, 2009
Laura Garbštienė, Shelf, 2008
Laura Garbštienė, This is a Love Song. The End, 2008
Laura Garbštienė, Bremen town musicians, 2008
Laura Garbštienė, Skalovaara, 2008
Laura Garbštienė, Home version. Circles with melody to let a squirrel wander, 2007
Laura Garbštienė, Three of us, 2007
Laura Garbštienė, What should I do so that the unicorn would come and lay it's head on my lap?, 2006
Laura Garbštienė, Ką turėčiau daryti, kad vienaragis ateitų ir padėtų galvą man ant kelių? / What should I do so...
Laura Garbštienė, Ką turėčiau daryti, kad vienaragis ateitų ir padėtų galvą man ant kelių? / What should I do so...
Laura Garbštienė, Ką turėčiau daryti, kad vienaragis ateitų ir padėtų galvą man ant kelių? / What should I do so...
Laura Garbštienė, What should I do so that the unicorn would come and lay it's head on my lap?, 2006
Laura Garbštienė, What should I do so that the unicorn would come and lay it's head on my lap?, 2006
Laura Garbštienė, Love is, 2006
Laura Garbštienė, Aklos žinutės / Blind messages, 2005
Laura Garbštienė
Laikino meno fondas / Foundation for Temporary Art, 2012
Instaliacija / Installation
Išmatavimai kinta / Dimensions variable
Laura Garbštienė (b. 1973, Lithuania) is a textile and interdisciplinary artist whose work includes video, sound art, installation, photography, and performance. She completed her MA in Textile Arts at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2000.  
Starting her career in the field of textile, between 2002-2005 Garbštienė collaborated with the well-known Lithuanian artist and composer Arturas Bumšteinas (part of the artist duo G-Lab) creating video and sound installations. Since then Garbštienė has also participated in numerous art residency programmes. A characteristic feature of her creative practice is turning herself into the object of her own works: immersing herself in various situations, she becomes an integral part of them and provokes the viewer with her performance. Another important aspect of the artist’s work-style is experimenting with language, chance, provocative naiveté, subjective emotional experiences and multicultural contexts. Garbštienė’s most recent works operate within the discourse of institutional critique, which, in her case, is characterised by humour, nihilism, and a soft attitude towards staged humility. The artist has recently moved to the countryside where she is researching the essence of the process of creation and its relation to the most natural state of human living. This allows the artist to create ephemeral works of art from routine experiences, rural objects and materials. Living in a remote village has complemented her works with ecological, naturalist and even animalistic themes, offering a critical outlook on consumerism and (mis)communication in the art field. 
Laura Garbštienė works and lives between the countryside and the art scene. In her conceptual and interdisciplinary works, the artist seeks to explore the traditional and rural way of life, nature conservation, local change, and global processes, combining various experiences with the flow and change of nature. The artist’s works have been presented at numerous contemporary art exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad.

 

Works
Biography
Laura Garbštienė, Laikino meno fondas / Foundation for Temporary Art, 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Gamtos pažinimo kambarys (77 vnt.) / Room of nature studies (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Iš ciklo "Gamtos pažinimo kambarys" (77 vnt.) / From cycle "Room of nature studies" (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Iš ciklo "Gamtos pažinimo kambarys" (77 vnt.) / From cycle "Room of nature studies" (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Iš ciklo "Gamtos pažinimo kambarys" (77 vnt.) / From cycle "Room of nature studies" (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Iš ciklo "Gamtos pažinimo kambarys" (77 vnt.) / From cycle "Room of nature studies" (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Iš ciklo "Gamtos pažinimo kambarys" (77 vnt.) / From cycle "Room of nature studies" (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Iš ciklo "Gamtos pažinimo kambarys" (77 vnt.) / From cycle "Room of nature studies" (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Frames from a film about an unknown artist. Hill of Crosses, 2010
Laura Garbštienė, From the series Tundra, 2010
Laura Garbštienė, From the series Tundra, 2010
Laura Garbštienė, From the series Tundra, 2010
Laura Garbštienė, From the series Tundra, 2010
Laura Garbštienė, Film about unknown artist, 2009
Laura Garbštienė, Shelf, 2008
Laura Garbštienė, This is a Love Song. The End, 2008
Laura Garbštienė, Bremen town musicians, 2008
Laura Garbštienė, Skalovaara, 2008
Laura Garbštienė, Home version. Circles with melody to let a squirrel wander, 2007
Laura Garbštienė, Three of us, 2007
Laura Garbštienė, What should I do so that the unicorn would come and lay it's head on my lap?, 2006
Laura Garbštienė, Ką turėčiau daryti, kad vienaragis ateitų ir padėtų galvą man ant kelių? / What should I do so...
Laura Garbštienė, Ką turėčiau daryti, kad vienaragis ateitų ir padėtų galvą man ant kelių? / What should I do so...
Laura Garbštienė, Ką turėčiau daryti, kad vienaragis ateitų ir padėtų galvą man ant kelių? / What should I do so...
Laura Garbštienė, What should I do so that the unicorn would come and lay it's head on my lap?, 2006
Laura Garbštienė, What should I do so that the unicorn would come and lay it's head on my lap?, 2006
Laura Garbštienė, Love is, 2006
Laura Garbštienė, Aklos žinutės / Blind messages, 2005
Laura Garbštienė
Laikino meno fondas / Foundation for Temporary Art, 2012
Instaliacija / Installation
Išmatavimai kinta / Dimensions variable

Born 1973 in Vilkija, Lithuania

Lives and works in Lithuania

 

EDUCATION/RESIDENCIES

2020 – Nida Art Colony residencies, Nida (Lithuania)

2008 – Residency at Cité des Arts, Paris (France)

2008 – Residency at Künstlerhäuser Worpswede (Germany) 

2006 – Residency at the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) studio, Düsseldorf (Germany) 

2006 – Residency at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck (Austria) 

2005 – Nordic AiR residency at Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen (Norway)

1996-2000 – MA in Textile at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius (Lithuania)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 – Ašmenys pamažu sinchronizuojasi, Atletika, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2012 – Foundation for Temporary Art, VARTAI Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2010 – Laura Garbštienė, Antje Wachs gallery, Berlin (Germany)

2010 – Berries, VDU gallery 101, Kaunas (Lithuania) 

2009 – Artscape: Portugal, gallery VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania) 

2009 – Ladyfest Vilnius, VDA gallery ‘Akademija’, Vilnius (Lithuania) 

2008 – Tundra, gallery Meno parkas, Kaunas (Lithuania) 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 – The Sweet Sweat of the Future, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2017 – M/A\G/M\A, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2016 – Žilvitis, VARTAI Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2014 – Close stranger, Kaipėda Culture Communication Centre, Klaipėda (Lithuania)

2013 – VARTAI Gallery at ViennaFair, Vienna (Austria) 

2013 – Postidea. Restorative works II, Kaunas picture gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania) 

2013 – Part of a larger whole. Lithuanian contemporary art, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania) 

2013 – Postidea. Restorative works, VAA exhibition space ‘Titanikas’, Vilnius (Lithuania) 

2012 – Lithuanian art 2012: 18 Exhibitions, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)

2012 – In The Presence Of Multiple Possibilities, French Riviera, London (United Kingdom) 

2010 – Lucca film festival (Italy)

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

2010 – CRAZY CURATORS Biennial, Bratislava (Slovakia)

2010 – City without Walls. International Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (United Kingdom) 

2010 – International film festival “Kinoshock”, Anapa (Russia) 

2010 – Keine Angst! Tapetenwerk, Leipzig (Germany)

2010 – Oberhausen short film festival, Germany 

2009 – DOPUST, performance art festival, Aquarium Bacvice, Split (Croatia) 

2009 – URBAN STORIES, The X Baltic Triennial of International Art, Vilnius (Lithuania) 

2008 – It Happens To Be This, Künstlerhauser Worpswede (Germany) 

2008 – Foreign to Familiar, Cité Des Arts, Paris (France) 

2007 – 2420 Čiurlionis, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania) 

2007 – Prague Biennale 3, Prague (Czech Republic)

2006 – Selfobjects, Lithuania Art Museum, Vilnius (Lithuania)

AWARDS/GRANTS

2010 – Special Mention of the international Jury, The International Critics’ Prize (FIPRESCI Prize), Oberhausen Film Festival (Germany)

2010 – An Award for the Best Emerging Filmmaker at Lucca film festival (Italy_ 

2008 – Lithuanian Ministry of Culture grant, Vilnius (Lithuania) 

2008 – Stipendium des Landes Niedersachsen (Germany)

2006 – North-Rhine-Westphalia state grant, Düsseldorf (Germany) 

2006 – A grant from KulturKontakt, Vienna (Austria)

2005 – NIFCA grant, Helsinki (Finland)

COLLECTIONS

Mo Museum collection

Exhibitions
Art Fairs
Bibliography
Laura Garbštienė, Laikino meno fondas / Foundation for Temporary Art, 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Gamtos pažinimo kambarys (77 vnt.) / Room of nature studies (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Iš ciklo "Gamtos pažinimo kambarys" (77 vnt.) / From cycle "Room of nature studies" (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Iš ciklo "Gamtos pažinimo kambarys" (77 vnt.) / From cycle "Room of nature studies" (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Iš ciklo "Gamtos pažinimo kambarys" (77 vnt.) / From cycle "Room of nature studies" (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Iš ciklo "Gamtos pažinimo kambarys" (77 vnt.) / From cycle "Room of nature studies" (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Iš ciklo "Gamtos pažinimo kambarys" (77 vnt.) / From cycle "Room of nature studies" (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Iš ciklo "Gamtos pažinimo kambarys" (77 vnt.) / From cycle "Room of nature studies" (77 pieces), 2012
Laura Garbštienė, Frames from a film about an unknown artist. Hill of Crosses, 2010
Laura Garbštienė, From the series Tundra, 2010
Laura Garbštienė, From the series Tundra, 2010
Laura Garbštienė, From the series Tundra, 2010
Laura Garbštienė, From the series Tundra, 2010
Laura Garbštienė, Film about unknown artist, 2009
Laura Garbštienė, Shelf, 2008
Laura Garbštienė, This is a Love Song. The End, 2008
Laura Garbštienė, Bremen town musicians, 2008
Laura Garbštienė, Skalovaara, 2008
Laura Garbštienė, Home version. Circles with melody to let a squirrel wander, 2007
Laura Garbštienė, Three of us, 2007
Laura Garbštienė, What should I do so that the unicorn would come and lay it's head on my lap?, 2006
Laura Garbštienė, Ką turėčiau daryti, kad vienaragis ateitų ir padėtų galvą man ant kelių? / What should I do so...
Laura Garbštienė, Ką turėčiau daryti, kad vienaragis ateitų ir padėtų galvą man ant kelių? / What should I do so...
Laura Garbštienė, Ką turėčiau daryti, kad vienaragis ateitų ir padėtų galvą man ant kelių? / What should I do so...
Laura Garbštienė, What should I do so that the unicorn would come and lay it's head on my lap?, 2006
Laura Garbštienė, What should I do so that the unicorn would come and lay it's head on my lap?, 2006
Laura Garbštienė, Love is, 2006
Laura Garbštienė, Aklos žinutės / Blind messages, 2005
Laura Garbštienė
Laikino meno fondas / Foundation for Temporary Art, 2012
Instaliacija / Installation
Išmatavimai kinta / Dimensions variable
ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS
2006 – Dovilė Tumpytė, “Aklos žinutės: Lauros Garbštienės personalinė paroda ‘ARTima’ galerijoje”, in: 7 meno dienos, no. 704, 2006.
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