Erika GRIGORAVIČIENĖ

PhD, senior researcher
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7306-2509
E-mail: erika.grigoraviciene@gmx.net

Art historian and critic, exhibition curator. Born in 1965. Studied art history at the Lithuanian Art Institute (now the Vilnius Academy of Arts (VAA)) from 1983 to 1989. Visiting scholar at the University of Vienna in 1995-1996. PhD thesis in art history, titled “Anthropological Dimensions of Lithuanian Art in the 1960s–1990s” defended at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2001. Researcher at the Art History Department of the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute (LCRI) since 2004; senior researcher at the Department of Art History and Visual Culture since 2011; head of the said department since 2025. Head of the long-term LCRI research program “Studies on the (Non)Autonomy of Art”; member of the joint LCRI, LAMT (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre), and VAA doctoral committee in Art Studies. Member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), the Lithuanian Artists’ Union, and the Lithuanian Society of Art Historians. Taught at VAA from 2002 to 2007; taught courses in art history and visual theory at Vilnius University from 2013 to 2018. Organized academic conferences (“Art and Science: Aspects of Hybridization”, LCRI, 2024 and others) and edited ongoing academic publications (Menas ir politika. Meno istorijos studijos, vol. 16, 2024 and others). Curated exhibitions, prepared exhibition catalogs and art albums with in-depth texts; published approximately 250 exhibition reviews and other texts in the cultural press. Awarded the Lithuanian Government’s Culture and Arts Prize (2024).

Key areas of research: contemporary art, the posthumanist approach in art history, aspects of (non)autonomy of art.

Books

Bioįvairovė ir hibridinė raiška šiuolaikinėje dailėje [Intermediality and Biodiversity in Lithuanian Contemporary Fine Art], Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2024. ISBN 978-609-8231-77-9.

Kęstutis Grigaliūnas: dramblys gabaliukais [Kęstutis Grigaliūnas: an Elephant in Pieces], Vilnius: Dailininkų sąjungos galerija, 2022. ISBN 978-609-95448-6-1.

Lietuvos dailininkų piešiniai nuo 1957 metų iš MO muziejaus kolekcijos [Lithuanian Artists’ Drawings from 1957 in the MO Museum Collection], Vilnius: MO muziejus, 2020. ISBN 9786098136234.

Lietuvos grafika nuo 1960 metų iš MO muziejaus rinkinio [Lithuanian Graphic Art since 1960 in MO museum], Vilnius: MO muziejus, 2018. ISBN 978-609-8136-14-2.

Ar tai menas, arba Paveikslo (ne)laisvė [How to Look it, or the (Un)freedom of a Picture], Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, Interse, 2017. ISBN 978–9955–548–57–7.

Vaizdinis posūkis: vaizdai – žodžiai – kūnai – žvilgsniai [Pictorial turn/ Iconic turn: verbal, mediatic and perceptual aspects of images], Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2011. ISBN 978-9955-868-43-9.

Selected publications

Perskaityti iš naujo: Ingridos Korsakaitės Gyvybinga grafikos tradicija [Rereading The Vibrant Graphic Tradition by Ingrida Korsakaitė (1970)], Ingrida Korsakaitė (1938–2024): „Įdomiausia man yra grafika“. Gedenkschrift, G. Jankevičiūtė, L. Laučkaitė (ed.), Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, Lietuvos dailės istorikų draugija, 2025, 315–336.

Šių dienų mirties šokis: Mindaugo Lukošaičio piešinių serija Z (2022) [Danse macabre Now: Z (2022), a Series of Drawings by Mindaugas Lukošaitis], Meno istorijos studijos/Art History Studies, vol. 16, Vilnius, 2024, 29–54.

From a Critique of the Soviet Systems to a Critique of Anthropocentrism: Strategies of Transgression and Subversion in the Paintings of The Five, Kunstiteaduslikke/ Studies on Art and Architekture, vol. 32/ 1–2, Tallinn, 2023, 94–121.

Thinking with Pictures: On the (Political) Relevance of the Lithuanian Art of the Late Soviet Period, Proceedings of the Art Museum og Estonia, vol. 13 [18], Tallinn, 2023, 137–152.

Kartu mąstyti ir pasakoti istorijas: dailės kūrinys kaip bendrininkas [Thinking-with and Telling Stories: Artwork as a Companion], Acta academiae artium vilnensis, vol. 107, 2022, 156–178.

Intermedialumas ir bioįvairovė XX a. 9–10-ojo dešimtmečio Lietuvos dailėje, arba Dviejų kengūrų pasakojimas [Intermediality and Biodiversity in Lithuanian Art of the 1980s and 1990s, or A Tale of Two Kangaroos], Acta academiae artium vilnensis, vol. 99, 2020, 206–241.

Modernizacija, (post)modernizmai, naujasis modernizmas: Lietuvos dailės  nuo XX a. 6-ojo dešimtmečio pabaigos istorijos sąvokos [Modernisation, (Post)modernities, and New Modernism: The Concepts of Lithuanian Art History Starting from the Late 1950s], Acta academiae artium vilnensis, vol. 95, 2019, 55–87.

Texts in the publication: Gyvūnas – žmogus – robotas [Animal – Human – Robot], exibition catalogue, Erika Grigoravičienė, Ugnė Paberžytė (ed.), Vilnius: MO muziejus, 2019.

Vaizdas, žodis ir vaizdinys šiuolaikiniame mene [Image, Picture and Word in Contemporary Art], Dailės istorijos studijos, vol. 7, Vilnius, 2016, 235–267.

Vaizdas ir žodis šiuolaikinėje dailėje [Image and Word in Contemporary Art], Dailės istorijos studijos, vol. 6, Vilnius, 2014, 266–288.

Brutali erotika ir reikšminga forma: Vinco Kisarausko kūrybos epizodas [Brutal eroticism and significant form: an episode in the creative work of Vincas Kisarauskas], Menotyra, vol. 20, 2013, 342–358. 

Vaizdinis posūkis dailėtyroje [Pictorial turn in art criticism], Acta academiae artium vilnensis, vol. 64, 2012, 11–19.

Leviatano išlikimas: politinė ikonografija ir bjaurasties estetika vėlyvojo sovietmečio Lietuvos tapyboje [Survival of Leviathan: Political iconography and aestheticism of ugliness in the late Soviet Lithuanian painting], Acta academiae artium vilnensis, vol. 65–66, 2012, 435–455. 

Art and Politics in Lithuania from the Late 1950s to the Early 1970s, Art and Politics: Case-studies from Eastern Europe, MIK, Kaunas: Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas, 2007, 71–78.

The Others Are Me, Or the Emergence and the Distinctiveness of Lithuanian Contemporary Art, The Others Are Me. The Social Instinct in Lithuanian Art, Krakow: Bunkier Sztuki, 2004, 6–13.