Dainius Trumpis

My field of research covers topics such as — the state of extreme reality, the opposition of nature and emptiness to human-controlled chaos of objects, the feeling of repetition of various senses and the emotional state of impending reality.

An access to the personal stories of the past delusions is also through the exploration of a collective subconsciousness. I often get ideas and create works from my memories of a childhood, travel experiences, different cultural and geographical contexts. I still cherish the feeling from childhood that I enjoyed creating my own imaginary place in a large enigmatic structure.

I am interested in both physical and psychological responses to form, space and surface. In my artistic practice I search for the undefined boundaries between materials, dimensions, and high art versus low art. I find it very fascinating to create a one-off phenomenon with materials that are available to anyone. I move back and forth between the two extremes of organic and artificial things, and two and three dimensions — static and dynamic, light and shadow. In other words, my artistic field is meeting point between sculpture, painting, installation, and ready-made. It is an improvised process, something purely intui...

2008 MA Fine Arts in TAIK University of Helsinki, Finland
2007-2009 MA Fine Arts, Šiauliai University, Faculty of Arts, Lithuania

One-man exhibitions:
2021 "Tin", "Contour art gallery" and "Pamenkalnio gallery", Vilnius, Lithuania.
2021 "And the grass will cover it all", Gallery KKKC, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
2018 "Premonition", Gallery "Riga Art Space", Riga, Latvia.
"Possibility of the incompleteness". Gallery "AV17", Vilnius, Lithuania.
2017."The State of Marginal Reality". Gallery of Artists' Association. Vilnius., Lithuania.
"Premonition", Gallery "Titanikas", Vilnius, Lithuania.
"Clash point", Gallery "Kaire – Desine", Vilnius. Lithuania.
2016. "Light. Tension. Object", Gallery "Kabinetas", Kaunas, Lithuania.
"Fragments in Connection", Gallery "Studio 55", New Delhi, India.
2015. Symposium and Exhibition "Assemblage", City gallery Artists house, Parnu, Estonia.
"Windows","Pamėnkalnio" Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2014 "Identity", "Art Park" Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania.
2012. "La Castel" Dinan, France.
"12A", Contemporary Art Gallery "Tengri Umay", Alma Ata, Kazakhstan.
2009. "Glamour portraits", Art museum "Umay", Alma Ata, Kazakhstan.
2008. "Slowly", Sielun Peili gallery, Helsinki, Finland.

Group exhibitions:
2020 "Position Berlin", Berlin, Germany.
2019 "Zukunftsvision...