Egle Kuckaite (24 09 1969)
Professional skills: etchings and engravings; paintings on canvas and panel; book illustrations and stagedesign; artistic photography; object, installation.
Artistic activity: 6 personal exhibitions, more than 57 group exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. Artist's creatures are exposed in museums, galleries and private collections in France, Norway, USA, Japan, Italy, Poland, Russia, Kanada, Turky, etc.
Bachelor of arts: 1991-1995 Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts.
Member of Lithuanian Artist's Association.
Giedre Mickunaite
'Save me from my desires', an artist said almost two decades ago. 'Embrace what you are and are not and what you want to be', has just answered another. Enjoy openly your secret desires. Place your hands on the softest needles of a hedgehog. Get to feel the strength of the long hair and take the roads covered by it. High in the mountains, enjoy a sexy sunset. Persuade still undiscovered creatures that they should love themselves the way they are. Let the exhausted horses leave the town, as everything has its own goal. Say, pictures exist to make intentions and dreams true and let them flourish in the thoughts and prints. Because the lines lead to the long-awaited fairy tale that has never been told. Since fairy-tales pleasantly reveal their meaning in our subconscious. Let love last for long.
Onia Baliukonyte
Incredible inner harmony. Natural accord of nature and soul. There is no feeling of aggression, no intention of self-imposing or egocentricity. What one can feel is existential human loneliness hidden deep inside … it is tragic, but not in a depressing or a destructive way. The solitude of things and souls seems to emerge without anybody's interference from a multitude of tiny graceful lines. The view is mundane and material, but also full of a different, mystical reality.
Julia Siurkute
The works by Egle is like a hymn to small things, things seemingly mundane, unimportant, dull. Her plots have something surrealist and fabulous, her prints have unexpected and extremely deft elements, but all this is never emphasized: as if happening by itself. Her attitude seems to be not unlike of a medieval artisan who says 'My Lord, I am just a tool in your hands'. There are no striking contrasts, no white-and -black conflict, but intentionally achieved grayness. These prints also lack breathtaking secrets, which might strike as very important. No doubt, all these poor creatures would like to tell their story, but the artist keeps her distance. She seems more impressed by Oriental way of structuring a view, where the image of the thing, its history, function and archetype become inconsequential, opening instead huge vistas of longing, sadness or philosophy.

Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
1992 - Etchings and drawings, Vilnius Youth Theatre, Lithuania
1998 - Etchings "For Myself - For Yourself", Gallery Kaire-Dešine, Vilnius, Lithuania
1999 - Etchings, Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
2002 - Etchings Exhibition, The Parliament of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania
2002 - Kali-Jantra. Gallery "Kaire-desine", Vilnius, Lithuania
2002 - Instalation ''Wishful Wish'', gallery ''Kaire-dešine'',Vilnius, Lithuania

Group Exhibitions
1996:
Exhibitio n of Miniature Art, Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania

1997:
"Erotica", Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
Exhibition of Miniature Art, Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania

1998:
"Erotica: Signs, Shapes", Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania Exhibition of Miniature Art, Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania

1999:
The Eighth Anniversary of the Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
"Erotica", Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
Prints 1999, Gallery Kaire-Dešine, Vilnius, Lithuania
Exhibition of Miniature Art, Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
Competition Mondiale Ex libris "L'uomo Del Nuovo Millenio", Gallarate, Italy
The Fifth International Biennial of Print, Sapporo, Japan

2000:
The Second International Exhibition of Book Art, Gallery Arka, Vilnius, Lithuania
7th Book Illustrators Biennial, Gallery Arka, Vilnius, Lithuania
Gallery "Kaire-Dešine" Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
Exhibition at Savickas Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
The Second Austrotel Art Fair, by gallery Vartai, Vien, Austria
"Erotica: photography by the artists", Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
Exhibition of Miniature Art, Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania

2001:
Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Advertising' Stands, curator A. Lankelis, Vilnius, Lithuania
The Tenth Anniversary of the Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
Exhibition of Manciagire workshop, Gallery "Kaire - dešine", Vilnius, Lithuania
"Erotica: photography by the artists", Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
International Biennale of Graphic Art Art, Varna, Bulgaria
The Third International Small Graphic W orks Exhibition, Karbunari, Romania
The Fourth International Small Graphic Works Triennial, Gallery Arka, Vilnius
Project-exhibition "Floor, Wall, Ceiling", Vartai Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
Contemporary Lithuanian Graphic Art Exhibition, Ankara, Turkey
European Graphic Art Biennial, Ex libris exhibition "Fruit of Bacchus", Ovada, Italy
"Lithuanian Art", by gallery Vartai, Gallery at the Gildenburg, Peterborough, England
"Episodes", by gallery Vartai Oscar Wild Museum, Dublin, Ireland
"Erotica: photography by the artists", by gallery Vartai, Nitra Gallery, Slovakia
"Erotica: photography by the artists", by gallery Vartai , Town Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
"Lithuanian artists miniature", exhibition by Gallery Vartai, Herning Museum, Denmark
"Print 2001", Gallery Kaire-Dešine, Vilnius, Lithuania
"Lithuanian Art", by gallery Vartai, David S. Gordon & Margaret M. Gorgon Gallery, London, England
Exhibition of Miniature Art, Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania

2002:
"Re/form", Contemporary Lithuanian Art by Gallery Vartai, United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland
"Scale", International Exhibition of Gallery Vartai, Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
"Graphic. Jazzy print", Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
Arts Fair, Central Artists house, Moscow, Russia
Lithuanian Graphic Art, House of J.Baltrusaitis, Moscow, Russia
"Pages", Exhibition of Books art, Art hall Litexpo Vilnius, Lithuania
Sculpture Installation "Threshold" 1838, "Europe Park, Vilnius, Lithuania
"Table-napkin", Gallery Kaire -Desine, Vilnius

2003:
"Re/forms II", Lithuanian graphic artists exhibition by Gallery Vartai, Alliance Francaise, Vancouver, Canada
"12", religious art exhibition from the cycle "Pax Vobiscum", Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
"Episodes", by Gallery Vartai, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow, Russia
Lithuanian Graphic Art 2003, Contemporary Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

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