Aukse Miliukaite

Aukse Miliukaite (b. 1990) studied at the University of the Arts in London and now continues her painting studies at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. She has held several solo shows and is an active participant of group exhibitions, artistic projects, workshops and plein-air sessions. The artist draws inspiration for her expressive multi-coloured canvases from painting and its history. In her work, Aukse Miliukaite includes several layers of historical painting production – works by Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin and other artists. She adds elements of contemporary visual culture to historical compositions and constructs new narratives from details belonging to different periods, gives so-far-unknown meanings to famous classical works and provides them with new contexts. Manipulating the material of art history and faking it in a certain way, Miliukaite explores the life of a work of art since the moment of its creation and analyses how a work becomes encrusted with legends and myths and how its meaning changes in the course of time.

Analysing the changes in the semantic field of painting, the artist emphasises the role of the users – viewers – of the work and asserts that it i...

2015 – (2017) Vilnius Academy of Art, Master program of Painting studies
2011 – 2015 Vilnius Academy of Art, Bachelor program of Painting studies
2009 – 2010 London University of Arts
2005 – 2009 Kaunas Antanas Martinaitis Art School

Solo exhibitions

2016 July. Duality, The Rooster gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 ‘8½. Dream’, VDU gallery ‘101’, Kaunas, Lithuania
2008 Personal exhibition of photography, Kaunas city museum, Lithuania
Exhibitions

2016 June. International art fair ArtVilnius’16, The Rooster gallery, Litexpo, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016 May. International art fair ART LUCCA, The Rooster gallery, Lucca, Italy
2016 April. Wunderkameraden, Meno forma gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2015 June. International art fair ArtVilnius’15, The Rooster gallery Vilnius, Litexpo, Lithuania
2015 Group show ‘Thursday review’, ‘Vartai’ gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 ‘One and more: local stories’, Nida art colony, Nida, Lithuania
2014 February. ’10 plain-airs of Silavotas’, gallery ‘Meno parkas’ Kaunas, Lithuania