Valdas Kurklietis

Valdas Kurklietis is a ceramic artist. Born 1975 in Kaunas, Lithuania. In 2002, he received a master's degree in ceramic art from the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts in Lithuania. Since 1999, he has participated in exhibitions and projects in Lithuania and abroad. Seven separate exhibitions were exhibited in Lithuania and Sweden. Valdas participated in 48 group exhibitions and 10 group projects in different countries. Since 2015, he lives and works in a studio in Stockholm, Sweden.

Valdas works with a series of ceramic sculptures and experiments with various stoneware. Through his conceptual and often fun and sometimes disturbing ceramic sculptures, he reflects on social and existential themes such as meaningless consumption or global warming.

2002 Kaunas Art Faculty of Vilnius Academy of Arts. Master’s Degree on Art of Ceramics, Lithuania
2000 Kaunas Art Faculty of Vilnius Academy of Arts. Bachelor Degree on Art of Ceramics, Lithuania

More important group exhibitions
2022 “Safe Horizons: Baltic Contemporary Ceramics“, Gyeonggi Museum of Ceramic Design (GMCD) in Yeoju, South Korea
2021 The XV International Biennial of Artistic Ceramics of Aveiro 2021, Aveiro, Portugal
2019 5th Vilnius Ceramics Art Biennial ‘’Fresh’’ , Gallery „Arka“, Vilnius, Lithuania
2019 Cluj International Ceramics Biennale, Cluj, Romania
2017 2nd Latvia International Ceramics Biennal, Daugavpils, Latvia
2017 15th International Prize of Contemporary Ceramics, Zaragoza, Spain
2017 39th International ceramic artwork competition “Water, wonder of the earth”, Gualdo Tadino, Italy
Awards
2017 2nd International Silver Prize in 39th International ceramic artwork competition “Water, wonder of the earth”, Gualdo Tadino, Italy
2014 Mention Europe. Diploma. Elit-Tile: International Ceramic Tile Triennial, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2011 1st place winner in the exhibition - competition “Colour-Mood-Symbol”, Kaunas Gallery Balta