Artudio is pleased to introduce the artists and curator behind Textile Scripts, a contemporary Lithuanian textile art exhibition that brings together diverse yet interconnected practices within the expanded field of textile.
The exhibition features works by Laima Oržekauskienė-Ore, Monika Žaltauskaitė Grašienė-Žaltė, Lina Jonikė, and Gerda Liudvinavičiūtė, whose approaches engage textile as both material and language—exploring themes of identity, memory, structure, and transformation. Moving beyond traditional boundaries, their works intersect with installation, object-making, and conceptual inquiry, reflecting the evolving nature of textile in contemporary art.
Curated by Odeta Žukauskienė, the exhibition is grounded in a critical and research-driven perspective that situates these practices within broader cultural and theoretical contexts. Her curatorial approach frames textile not merely as craft, but as a dynamic and thinking medium capable of articulating complex narratives.
Exhibition Details
Venue
Artudio — Patan Wing
Nakabahil, Lalitpur–16
Opening
April 16, 2026 | 6:00 PM
Exhibition Dates
April 17 – April 23, 2026
Visiting Hours
Daily, 11:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Artists
Laima Oržekauskienė-Ore
Laima Oržekauskienė-Ore is a leading figure in contemporary textile art, celebrated for her innovative fusion of ancient weaving techniques with modern media. Building on her deep understanding of traditional Lithuanian patterns – especially national sashes, which she considers the weavers’ “sacred patterns” – she fuses handwoven tapestries with photography, video, text, and other media.
In her practice, she often transfers digital photographic images onto handmade fabric, creating works in which permanence and impermanence, the material and the ephemeral exist in subtle dialogue. Her tapestries draw on abstract archaic motifs, evoking cosmic structures that dissolve into the translucent virtuality of ornament. She “illuminates” everyday textiles – a belt, a shawl, a garment, a cover, a bedspread – linking individual objects and lives to a larger totality of being.
A professor at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, she has played a significant role in shaping contemporary Lithuanian textile art. She was awarded the Lithuanian National Culture and Art Prize in 2005 and continues to contribute through exhibitions and international projects.
Monika Žaltauskaitė Grašienė (Žaltė)
Monika Žaltauskaitė Grašienė is an internationally acclaimed contemporary artist known for her large-scale Jacquard-woven tapestries and installations. Working at the intersection of textile and photography, her practice explores relationships among skin, memory, identity, technology, everyday life, and nature.
Challenging binaries such as subject/object and nature/culture, she expands textile into a space of networked existence. Drapery folds act as central motifs—unfolding meanings and revealing what lies in between. Through a transmedial approach, she creates dialogue between textiles, photography, and new technologies.
Her work reflects on the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the convergence of archaic and contemporary elements. She received the Golden Muse award in 2021 and actively contributes to international textile discourse.
Lina Jonikė
Lina Jonikė is one of the most prominent contemporary textile artists in Lithuania and a master of conceptual embroidery. Drawing on quilting techniques, she alludes to ancient embroidered textiles while weaving narratives of contemporary life.
Her work reflects on living in the present moment, closely tied to identity and place. The human body is central to her practice, serving as a site of symbolic inscription through embroidered forms layered onto photographic surfaces.
Her compositions create a dialogue between image and thread, where fleeting moments appear suspended in time. Alongside larger works, her miniature pieces stand out for their narrative precision and intimacy. She received the Lithuanian Government’s Culture and Arts Prize in 2018.
Gerda Liudvinavičiūtė
Gerda Liudvinavičiūtė is an emerging artist whose practice explores the textile nature of the body and its relationship with the environment. A PhD candidate at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, her work is grounded in a post-anthropocentric approach that considers both human and non-human agencies.
Her research engages ontological pluralism, rethinking perspectives beyond the human. The concept of wandering shapes her practice—both as physical movement and as an inward journey within the body.
Working across jewelry-textile installations, video, sound, and performance, she creates participatory scenarios that connect internal and external landscapes. She has exhibited internationally and received awards for innovation in design and creativity.
Curator
Odeta Žukauskienė
Odeta Žukauskienė is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities at the Kaunas Faculty of the Vilnius Academy of Arts. She received her PhD in 2005 with a dissertation focusing on the work of Henri Focillon and Jurgis Baltrušaitis, engaging comparative cultural studies.
Since 2010, she has taught courses on aesthetics, visual culture, cultural anthropology, and Eastern cultures and arts. She is also a chief researcher at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. Her work is grounded in comparative art history and contemporary visual culture.