Birute Nomeda Stankuniene

Birutė Nomeda Stankūnienė was born in 1963. In 2009 she has graduated Vilnius Art Academy and lives in Vilnius.

The artist is free in choosing her unique way of artistic expression notwithstanding what popular, fashioned, commercially successful art styles are dominating in Lithuania. Style of Birutė’s Nomeda’s abstract paintings is noble, having many meanings and at the same time summarising and concluding essential existential themes. The artist is impulsive and free. In her art, it is possible to recognise interpretation of many topics and episodic images, carrying in their selves’ sensation of transience and unsustainability. Often, pictures of Birutė Nomeda are like looking through the wet glass. Such impression is strengthened not only by suggestive paint leaks, but also by the gesture type strokes, thinness and transparency of paint layer, and of course by the fragility of the surface’s texture. The mysterious and bizarre shapes, intermittently appearing or disappearing on canvases are playing the equally unpredictable role. However, the key here is not the story but tension, created by strokes, drips and total composition.

The artist says: „ My creative motto could be best expressed in the words of Claude Monet: “Colo...

2019 - UCL (University College Of London) Slade School of Art Summer Course “Expended Field Of Drawing”, course lead by Jim Hobb. London, United Kingdom.
2018, Slade Art Summer School Residency,UCL ( University College London)
2017, UCL ( University College London) Slade Summer School. ‘Painting In Contemporary Practice’. The tutor – PhD, artist Hephzibah Rendle-Short.
2017 Emily Ball course at Seawhite. Course – ‘Contemporary Abstract Painting’. The tutor – painter Helen Turner

2009 – BA in Art and Design, Vilnius Art Academy.
1987 – Kaunas Technology University, MA in engineering technology and design

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2023 - 'Fragments Of The Spring', Gallery of the Adam Mickevich Library, Vilnius.
2021 - 'Death in the Age of Social Networking', 'GODO' Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2021 - International group exhibition dedicated to the 700th anniversary of Dante's death, Immaginaria Gallery, Florence, Italy. selected work - "Souls travel to the purgatory". A catalog has been issued for the event
• 2021 - International Group Exhibition "30x30", Gallery "Art Deposit Gallery", Florence, Italy. Work "The Cellar Of Emotions".
2020 - International group exhibition project “Portrait of a Woman”, Florence Art Deposit Gallery Florence, Italy. Installation "Another History of Eve", painting "Sensuality" .Untitled.

• 2019 - Death in the Age of Social Networking, Deptfordoesart Gallery, London, UK.


2020 - International Art Fair ARTVILNIUS20, the artist
Birute Nomeda Stankunienere was presented by the galleries Immaginaria and Florence Art Deposit Gallery Florence, Italy. 16 paintings have been exhibited

• 2019 - International Art Fair “ARTVILNIUS’19”, the artist Birute Nomeda Stankuninewas represented by the gallery “Immaginaria”, Florence, Italy. Two painting-collage works were selected. “Mourning soc. networks "
2015 - National...