About
Jurgita Gerlikaitė is a visual fine artist, art historian, and author.
For information about me and my family, please see blog posts on my grandmother painter and textile artist Petronėlė Gerlikienė, father, painter and portraitist Pranciškus Gerlikas, and brother, jewellery designer and educator Darijus Gerlikas.
Education & memberships
Art History & Theory, (BA, 1998) – Vilnius Academy of Arts.
Printmaking & Visual Fine Arts – Lithuania, Iceland (Nordic Council of Ministers Scholarship), Denmark.
UNESCO Cultural Management & Cultural Policy, (MBA, 2009) – Vilnius Academy of Arts.
Started to participate in exhibitions as an art student;
independent artist since 2003, member of Lithuanian Artists' Association since 2006;
member of Factory for Art & Design, printmaking studio in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2003-2006;
member of Association LATGA (Lithuanian Copyright Protection Association) since 2018.
Publications
Petronėlė Gerlikienė, Vilnius, LTS, 2005. Compilers Jurgita Gerlikaitė, Darijus Gerlikas; text: Jurgita Gerlikaitė. 154 p.: in English and Lithuanian., illust. – ISBN 9986-9189-6-0
Jurgita Gerlikaitė, Vilnius, 2009. – 59 p.: in English and Lithuanian., illust. – ISBN 978-609-95040-0-1
Gerlikaitė J., A Gift from Fate // Lithuania in the World, 2007, Vol. 15, Nr. 6, p. 48–53.
Gerlikaitė J., Petronėlė Gerlikienė ‒ gyvenimas ir kūryba // Liaudies kultūra. 2018, Nr. 3.
Gerlikaitė J., Petronėlė Gerlikienė: savos tiesos žinojimas // Šiaurės Atėnai, 2005, Nr. 22, p. 3.
Gerlikaitė J., Septyneri metai Danijoje // Krantai, 2006, Nr. 2, p. 48–55.
Gerlikaitė J., Skaitmeninės grafikos galimybes riboja tik fantazija // Kultūros barai, 2007, Nr. 12, p. 45–47.
Curated Exhibitions
2011–2013 Creative Solutions Art Gallery, London, UK
2008 Embroidered Myths and Everyday Stories, Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago, USA
2008 The Sun Altar, paintings by Norwegian artist Torild Rødland, Darijus Gallery, Vilnius
2006 Deadly Sins, Danish Intaglio, Gallery ArtShare, Copenhagen & Darijus Gallery, Vilnius
Selected Personal and Group Exhibitions, Collections
2024 Value/s of Printmaking, LAA (Lithuanian Artists’ Association) project space, Vilnius
2023 Vilnius – my city, 700th birthday (solo show), Gallery Vilnensis, Vilnius
2022 Art Needs No Roof, Municipality of Vilnius, Vilnius
2021 Art Needs No Roof, Municipality of Vilnius, Vilnius
2021 Jurgita Gerlikaitė (solo show), V. Statkevičius’ Museum, Šilalė, Lithuania
2018 Contemporary Art Quadrennial: Memorabilia, The Artillery Bastion, Vilnius
2017 Selected works (solo show), EG, West Sussex, UK
2015 Spring again (solo show), Darijus’ Gallery, Vilnius
2014 Contemporary Art Quadrennial: Art on the Flagpole, The Artillery Bastion, Vilnius
2013 Jurgita Gerlikaitė (solo show), Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, London, UK
2013 London Series. Parliamentary Art Collection, UK Parliament. London, UK
2012 Cityscapes (solo show), Creative Solutions Gallery, London, UK
2011 Jurgita Gerlikaitė (solo show), Svanekegaarden Arts Centre, Bornholm, Denmark
2011 About it, Vilnius’ City Hall, Vilnius
2010 Jurgita Gerlikaitė (solo show), WAFI, Dubai, UAE
2010 Time and space (solo show), Darijus’ Gallery, Vilnius
2010 Lithuanian Season, Alex Gallery, Washington DC, USA
2010 Reflective Mirror, UN Headquarters, New York, USA
2009 Lithuanian Millennium, Radvila Palace Museum of Art, Vilnius
2009 Generations, Panevėžys’ Civic Art Gallery, Panevėžys, Lithuania
2009 Art Vilnius’09, LITEXPO, Vilnius
2009 Female Fantasy, Gallery View, Oslo, Norway
2009 Metaphysical Reconstruction (solo show), Darijus’ Gallery, Vilnius
2009 Intaglio 2008, Gallery Kairė-dešinė, Vilnius
2008 Secret Worlds (solo show), Something Unexpected Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Lithuanian Art 2008, Panevėžys, Birštonas, Lithuanian House, Seinai, Poland
2008 Embassy of the Republic of Latvia to the United States of America, Washington, DC, USA
2008 The Other Side, Lithuanian Printmaking, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Russian Federation, Jurgis Baltrušaitis’ House, Moscow, Russia
2008 Generations, (Petronėlė Gerlikienė, Pranciškus Gerlikas, Jurgita Gerlikaitė), Lithuanian Čiurlionis Art Gallery, Chicago, USA
2008 Art-line, Minsk International Printmaking Exhibition, National Library of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
2008 Meetings in Time (solo show), Darijus’ Gallery, Vilnius
2008 Across – Lithuanian Printmaking in Oslo, Norwegian Printmakers’ Gallery, Oslo, Norway
2007 Parallel Spaces (solo show), Darijus’ Gallery, Vilnius
2007 Spring Equinox (solo show), Darijus’ Gallery, Vilnius
2007 Intaglio 2006, Gallery Kairė-dešinė, Vilnius
2006 Seven Years in Denmark (solo show), Darijus’ Gallery, Vilnius
2006 Deadly Sins, Art Share Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark & Darijus’ Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2006 Space, Plane, Body. Lithuanian Printmaking & Sculpture 2006, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2006 Intaglio 2005, Gallery Kairė-dešinė, Vilnius
2005 Games (solo show), Darijus’ Gallery, Vilnius
2004 Wave-length (solo show), Darijus’ Gallery, Vilnius
2003 Woman's World (solo show), Gallery Meno niša, Vilnius