Donata Minderytė Lithuanian, b. 1991
Aš, vidurnakčio kaubojus / Me as Joe Buck, 2023
drobė, aliejus / oil on canvas
170 x 130 x 2 cm
Donata Minderytė (b. 1991, Lithuania) is an artist who graduated from the Painting Department of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, earning an MA degree in 2016. In 2024, Minderytė successfully defended her PhD thesis at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, further enriching her academic achievements.
Her works have been acquired by various museum collections, including Kiasma (Helsinki), MOCAK (Kraków), the Noewe Foundation (Vilnius), and Mo Museum (Vilnius).
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. 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.
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 analyzes significant changes in an image as it is transferred from one medium to another. 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 also enrolled in an Art PhD programme at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Her works have been included in various museum collections, such as Kiasma (Helsinki), MOCAK (Kraków), the Noewe Foundation (Vilnius), and Mo Museum (Vilnius).
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