Vita Opolskyte

Vita Opolskyte (b. 1992) is an up-and-coming painter who studies painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and Karel de Grote University College in Belgium. She is an active participant of group exhibitions, artistic projects and workshops.

The basic point of reference in Vita Opolskyte’s creative pursuits is the interior. Inspired by the so-called Alice in Wonderland syndrome, which is characterised by distortions of perception of the size and distance of visible objects, the painter combines different scales of the represented interior objects (pieces of furniture, rugs, windows, doors and pictures), directions of perspective and vantage points. In this way, visually misleading, alogical and irrational spaces are created, in which fragments of real interiors and surrealistic elements are combined, customary and strange objects lie around, and small figures of children and animals appear as if from old photographs. Using decorative flattened forms, a calm rhythm of strokes and a subdued range of colours, the painter creates canvases imbued with a kind of mystical cosiness. Her paintings look like something in between an antique doll house and a horror film set, and are filled with a strange secret: one can almost hear the doors s...

2015 – 2017 Vilnius Academy of Art, Master program of Painting studies
2011 – 2015 Vilnius Academy of Art, Bachelor program of Painting studies
2013 – 2014 Antwerpen Karel de Grote University College
2005 – 2010 Vilnius Justinas Vienozinskis Art School

Solo exhibitions

2014 ‘Medications for Reality’, gallery ‘LIIIm3 artspace’, Antwerp, Belgium
Exhibitions

2016 June. International art fair ArtVilnius’16, The Rooster gallery Vilnius, Litexpo, 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 ‘Monday review’, ‘Vartai’ gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 ‘Am I wrong’, St. Lucas Congress gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2014 ‘BA 3’, Karel de Grote University College, Antwerpen, Belgium