Gabrielius Mackevicius

I consider my creative process elemental – as if natural forces act through me in their own rhythm, offering sources of inspiration that are unpredictable and arrive unexpectedly. It could be a real or imagined everyday situation, an overheard conversation, a passage I’ve read, or simply a thought that drifts in. It begins to ask for a physical form, and I try to embody it through curious, almost magical process.

My works are often connected to an inner feeling that, I hope, the viewer might recognize in themselves. The scenes resemble fragments of daily life – simple, domestic moments that, when felt attentively, become significant. I’m moved by seemingly unremarkable situations that, when experienced inwardly, can feel intense, even dramatic.

I work with mixed media: various paints, pencils, graphite, varnish, markers, textiles or poetic text. I enjoy blending genres, and visually my works often balance between abstraction, sketch-like gestures, fauvism, illustration, or a naïve style. I create relief pieces using a personal technique: surfaces of plywood or plastic, cut into specific shapes, are layered with paint or textile and assembled into irregular, textured wall-mounted objects.

For me, creating is a way to discover, fe...

1997- 2000, 2003 - 2004: graphic design at Vilnius college of construction and design in Lithuania.

2025: group art exhibition "Neo pop art now" at Kunstkamera in Vilnius, Lithuania

2023: Solo painting exhibition at Central Library of Vilnius City Municipality, Lithuania

2020: Group art exhibition “Art Needs No Roof” in GO VILNIUS online gallery

2019: Poem for a city literature project “Vilniaus kontekstai”

2018: Group photo exhibition “Faces of diversity“ at Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania

2017: Comix “Conscience” in an exhibition FRAGMENT DECONSTRUCTION at Kaunas Artists’ House in Kaunas, Lithuania

2016: An exhibition of mosaics ROMB BOMB at creative workshop place - Beepart, Vilnius, Lithuania;
An exhibition of drawings and mosaics at H. Šojus conference hall in Šilutė, Lithuania

2015: An exhibition of mosaics ROMB BOMB at Artifex gallery in Vilnius, Lithuania

2014: An exhibition of drawings at Oslo house art space in Vilnius, Lithuania

2010: An exhibition of drawings at ILOKIVI, Jyväskylä, Finland

2006: Group exhibition of collage and graphics at Petro Kriauciuno library in Marijampole, Lithuania