Giedrė JANKEVIČIŪTĖ

Prof., Dr. habil
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4827-6407

Field of research – art, design, and visual culture of Central and Eastern Europe, especially Lithuania and the surrounding region, from the late “ong nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Since 2010, she has been a leading research fellow at the Department of Art History and Visual Culture at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. She analyzes issues related to the social status of the artist, the relationship between art and politics, and the functioning of artifacts in society, and researches the historiography of Lithuanian art history. Currently, she is examining artistic life in Lithuania during the years of the Second World War, as well as the impact of war and occupation on artists’ lives and creative work, addressing among others themes such as art and the Holocaust, war trauma, and refugees. She regularly publishes the results of her research in scholarly articles in Lithuanian and international academic journals, as well as in curated exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad, conference presentations, interviews, and articles in cultural media. She supervises doctoral dissertations and postdoctoral research. She is a member of various committees and works as an expert. She is a member of the Lithuanian Society of Art Historians, the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM), the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS), and the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS). For her professional work, she has been awarded the Lithuanian Government Prize for Culture and Art (2014), the Knight’s Cross of the Order for Merits to Lithuania (2019), the “Drėma’s Loupe” Prize of the Lithuanian Society of Art Historians (2020), the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Art (2023), and the “Long Form” Art Criticism Prize (2024; with Andrzej Szczerski).

Academic publications since 2020

Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, Nerijus Šepetys, Visual Representations of the Holocaust Reality. The Problem of the Authenticity, Beyond Irrepresentability. Exploring Images from Nazi Camps, Ghettos, and the Holocaust, V. Krieger, E. Falldorf (eds.), Köln: Böhlau, 2026, 63–78.

Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, Nerijus Šepetys, Art Creation in the Kaunas Ghetto. Issues of the Representation of Reality, cat., Kaunas: Nacionalinis M. K. Čiurlionio muziejus, 2025.

The Integration of Vilnius Contemporary Art into the Lithuanian Artistic Heritage in 1939–1944: Museum Acquisitions, The Museum as a Place of Tension, Arena of Conflict and Space of Dialogue in Central Europe. Objects–Actors–Space, M. Omilanowska (ed.), Das gemeinsame Kulturerbe–Wspólne dziedzictwo, vol. 15, Warszawa: Instytut Sztuki PAN, 2025, 131–148.

Grafikas per prievartą: Jokūbas Lipšicas / Jacob Lipschitz (1903–1945) [Forced into Printmaking: Jokūbas Lipšicas / Jacob Lipschitz (1903–1945)], Ingrida Korsakaitė (1938–2024): „Įdomiausia man yra grafika“. Gedenkschrift, G. Jankevičiūtė, L. Laučkaitė (eds.), Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, Lietuvos dailės istorikų draugija, 165–198.

State Strategy of International Art Exhibitions in Interwar Lithuania 1918–1940, Arts, vol. 13, 2024. DOI: 10.3390/arts13010019

About Two Gems in the Stadtkrone of Kaunas, the Provisional Capital of Interwar Lithuania, State Construction and Art in East Central Europe, 1918–2018, A. Chmielewska a. o. (eds.), Routledge, 2023. www.routledge.com/State-Construction-and-Art-in-East-Central-Europe-1918-2018/Chmielewska-Kossowska-Lachowski/p/book/9781032195872#

A refugee of war on the crossroad of civilisations. Un réfugié de guerre à la croisée des civilisations, Žibuntas Mikšys. Hoping for Homecoming. Pour qu’on revienne, cat., I. Mažeikienė, R. Urbonienė (eds.), Vilnius: Lietuvos nacionalinis dailės muziejus, 2023, 30–49.

Juozas Mikėnas: palikimo kontroversijos, arba kaip atgauti modernizmo klasiką? [Juozas Mikėnas: Controversies of Legacy, or How to Reclaim a Classic of Modernism?], Dailė, vol. 87, Vilnius, 2022, 71–79; www.artseria.lt/post/giedre-jankeviciute?fbclid=IwAR19a6j-ntGjpBannrtlp7SUkDrKaBSHOT7WKJ2tYFaN4QX-IVNgg7W7uRc

Spalvos samprata ir reikšmė Vlado Drėmos meninėje kūryboje [The Concept and Significance of Color in Vladas Drėma’s Artistic Work], Meno istorijos studijos/ Art History Studies, vol, 11, Vilnius, 2022, 9–44.

How to Give a Voice to the Silenced Women Artist of Interwar Vilnius? Women Artists in Interwar Vilnius: Between Expectations and Possibilities, cat., A. Andriulytė, I. Mažeikienė (eds.), Vilnius: Lietuvos nacionalinis dailės muziejus, Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla, 2022, 16–35.

Šv. Hiacinto koplyčia Šv. Pilypo ir Jokūbo bažnyčioje ir jos kūrėjas [The Chapel of St. Hyacinth in the Church of Sts. Philip and James and Its Creator], Šv. Dominykas ir šv. Hiacintas Lietuvoje: Aštuoni atminties šimtmečiai, B. Valečkaitė (ed.), Vilnius: Bažnytinio paveldo muziejus, 2022, 288–299.

Antonietta Raphaël-Mafai: Sono lituana, Antonietta Raphaël. Attraverso lo specchio. Through the Looking Glass, cat., G. Calò, A. Troncone (eds.), Roma: La Galleria Nazionale–Tlon, 2022, 47–61.

„Kaunas“, „Viena“, „Vokietija“, Kazys Varnelis, D. Vaišnienė (ed.), Vilnius: Lietuvos nacionalinis muziejus, 2022, 19–43.  

Modernizmas Lietuvos bažnytinėje dailėje: Kazio Varnelio (1917–2010) atvejis [Modernism in Lithuanian Church Art: the Case of Kazys Varnelis (1917–2010)], Lietuvių katalikų mokslo akademijos metraštis, vol. 44, Vilnius, 2021, 117–158. www.lkma.lt/site/archive/metrastis//lkma-metrastis_t44_p117-160_Jankeviciute.pdf

Antrojo pasaulinio karo mėsmalėje: Jaroslavlis–Balachna–Pereslavlis–Zaleskis–Maskva [In the Meat Grinder of World War II: Yaroslavl-Balakhna-Pereslavl-Zalessky-Moscow], Vytautas Jurkūnas (1910–1993). Grafikas su fotokamera, cat., G. Radzevičiūtė (ed.), Vilnius: Vilniaus grafikos meno centras, 2021, 123–136.

“I feel like a genuine twentieth-century product”: Kaunas (Bremen) – New York, Shaping the future. Environments by Aleksandra Kasuba, cat., E. Lubytė (ed.), Vilnius: Lietuvos nacionalinis dailės muziejus, 2020, 110–128.

Reconstruction of Contested History: Vilnius, 1939–1949, Baltic Worlds, vol. 13, Stockholm: Södertörn University, 2020, 67–78. balticworlds.com/reconstruction-of-contested-history/

Modern and National at the Same Time: The Dilemma of Lithuanian Architecture of the Interwar Period, Nicht nur Bauhaus. Netzwerke der Moderne in Mitteleuropa. Not just Bauhaus. Networks of Modernity in Central Europe, B. Störtkuhl & R. Makała (eds.), Schriften des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa, vol. 77, Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter/Oldenburg, 2020, 235–259; www.degruyter.com/view/title/557834

Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, Osvaldas Daugelis, Collecting Art in the Turmoil of War: Lithuania in 1939–1944, Art History & Criticism vol. 16, 2020, 35–63. DOI: 10.2478/mik-2020-000

Dujokaukės įvaizdis Lietuvos XX a. 4 dešimtmečio vizualinėje kultūroje: karo nuojautos ženklai [The Image of the Gas Mask in Lithuania’s Visual Culture of the 1930s: Signs of Anticipated War], Acta academia artium vilnensis, vol. 96, 2020, 260–285. DOI: 10.37522/aaav.96.2020.53

Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, Laima Laučkaitė, Expressionism in Lithuania: from German Artistic Import to National Art, The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context, I. Wünsche (ed.), New York, London: Taylor and Francis, 2019, 134–157. www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Expressionism-in-a-Transnational-Context/Wunsche/p/book/9781138712553

Edited publications

Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, Sigutė Clebinskaitė, 7 diena. Petras Repšys. Metalo raižiniai [7th Day. Petras Repšys. Etchings] cat. Vilnius: Vilniaus grafikos meno centras, 2026.

Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, Laima Laučkaitė, Ingrida Korsakaitė (1938–2024): „Įdomiausia man yra grafika.“ Gedenkschrift [Ingrida Korsakaitė (1938–2024): “Most Interesting for me is Art of Print.“ Gedenkschrift]. Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, Lietuvos dailės istorikų draugija, 2025.

The Voice of Lithuania during the Cold War, cat. Vilnius: Bažnytinio paveldo muziejus, 2024.

Modernism and Migration: The Movement of Artists and Ideas, Meno istorijos studijos/ Art History Studies, vol. 14, Vilnius, 2023.

Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, Andrzej Szczerski, Wilno, Vilnius, Vilne 1918–1948: jedno miasto – wiele opowieści. Wilno, Vilnius, Vilne 1918–1948: One city – many stories, cat., Kraków: Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, 2023.

Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, Andrzej Szczerski, Vilnius, Wilno, Vilne 1918–1948: One city – many stories, cat., Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2023.

Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, Daina Kamarauskienė, Žalia. The Green, cat., Kaunas: Nacionalinis M. K. Čiurlionio dailės muziejus, 2023.

Nepatogus paveldas. Uncomfortable heritage, Meno istorijos studijos/ Art history studies, vol. 9, Vilnius, 2021.

Difficult Age, cat. Vilnius: MO muziejus, 2021.

Petras Repšys: darbai [Petras Repšys: Works], cat. Vilnius: Lietuvos nacionalinis muziejus, 2020.

Research Projects

„Daugiakalbio Lietuvos avangardo kultūriniai tinklai: žurnalų MUBA ir Yung Vilne tyrimai“ [Multilingual Cultural Networks of the Lithuanian Avant-Garde: Studies of the Journals MUBA and Yung Vilne], funded under the Lithuanian Research Council program ‘Research of Scientific Groups’, 2024–2026 (researcher).

„Meninė kūryba Kauno gete: tikrovės reprezentacijos klausimai“ [Art Creation in the Kaunas Ghetto: Issues of the Representation of Reality], funded under the Lithuanian Research Council program ‘Lithuanian Studies and Dissemination 2016–2024’, 2022–2024 (researcher).

„Vilnius, Wilno, Vilne 1918–1948: vienas miestas – daug pasakojimų“ [Vilnius, Wilno, Vilne 1918–1948: One City – Many Stories], funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture, the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, the National Museum in Krakow, and the Lithuanian Institute for Cultural Research, 2022–2023 (researcher).

„Nutildytų menininkų kūryba okupaciniais laikotarpiais“ [The Art of Silenced Artists During Occupation Periods], funded under the Vilnius Municipality’s Vilnius History Research Program, 2021 (individual project).

„Lietuvos balsas Šaltojo karo metais: lietuvių koplyčios Vašingtono National Shrine ir Šv. Petro bazilikoje Vatikane“ [“The Voice of Lithuania During the Cold War: The Lithuanian Chapels at the National Shrine in Washington and St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican”], funded under the Lithuanian Research Council program ‘Research of Scientific Groups’, 2020–2022 (researcher and head of the project).