Ara Radvilė

Ara Radvilė (b. 1995) – a visual artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania.

At the age of nine she skipped school for the first time in her life and began her very own exploration of stars and colours. Eventually, that led to the discovery of painting as a way of understanding herself and the relative reality around her.

Radvilė graduated from Šiauliai Art School in 2013, and enrolled into the national Vilnius Art Academy where she completed both her graduate and post-graduate studies in scenography. Her work has been exhibited in over a dozen exhibitions.

In her practice, Radvilė utilises various different mediums, such as painting, photography, collage and installation.

Her latest work focuses on the search of different spiritual states through a yet unrecognised and, thus far, unlabelled pain. It seeks to transform the pain into a concrete, material, and vibrant shape. The process of creation for her is a form of therapy, a ritual, an opening up, and the following act of cleansing.

Large canvases, vivid hues, layers of paint, and free-spirited strokes serve to create images of breakthrough, of freedom, of an intangible force. The force which, she believes, primarily stems from her spirit. The spirit of the eternal child,...

- MA in Scenography from Vilnius Art Academy (Lithuania)
- BA in Scenography from Vilnius Art Academy (Lithuania)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 - 'Volver' at Trakų Vokės dvaras, Vilnius, Lithuania
2022 - 'Volver' at Galerija MOrka, Vilnius, Lithuania

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 - 'Iškrovos 2022' at Iškrovos festival, Panevežys, Lithuania
2020 - 'DOKUMENTACIJA: LAIKAS' at Titanikas, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018 - 'BA 10' at Białostocki Teatr Lalek, Białystok, Poland
2018 - 'Šokis dykumoje' at Menų spaustuvė, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 - 'Laboratorium teatru' at Białostocki Teatr Lalek, Białystok, Poland
2014 - 'Matymai' at Šiaulių dailės galerija, Šiauliai, Lithuania

WORKSHOPS
2018 - scenography at theatre professionals' workshop 'Jauno teatro dienos', Klaipėda, Lithuania
2017 - 'EŽK 117', theatre workshop at Nidos meno kolonija, Nida, Lithuania
2017 - scenography at theatre professionals' workshop 'Jauno teatro dienos', Klaipėda, Lithuania
2016 - creative theatre workshop with Anna Ivanona at Nidos meno kolononija, Nida, Lithuania