Indrė URBELYTĖ

E-mail: indre.urbelyte@gmail.com

At the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute since January, 2023.

Research interests – Lithuanian art and visual culture of the mid-20th century, official art and propaganda in Soviet Lithuania.

2016–2020 – Studied Art History and Curating at the Vilnius Academy of Arts,

and obtained a Master's degree in Art History and Theory at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2022.

2021–2022 ­– studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles.

2018–2019 studied at the Université Paris Nanterre

In 2021 she was awarded Antanas Smetona Presidential Scholarship for academic merits and public engagement, in 2022 – the best Master's thesis in the field of humanities by the Lithuanian Young Scientists' Union (thesis topic – "The Visual Narrative of the Second World War in the Art of Occupied Lithuania in the 1940–1990", supervised by dr. (hp.) Giedrė Jankevičiūtė)

Publications

Indrė Urbelytė, "Alsėdžiai", in: Kazys Varnelis, Vilnius: Lietuvos nacionalinis muziejus, ed. Daiva Vaišnienė, 2022, pp. 9–19 (in Lithuanian and English). – ISBN 9786094780677.

Etnografinis opartas: tekstilės tradicija [Ethnographic Op Art: tradition of textile], ed. Živilė Paipulaitė, Indrė Urbelytė, Vilnius: Lietuvos nacionalinis muziejus, 2022 (in Lithuanian and English). – ISBN 978-609-478-063-9

Indrė Urbelytė, "Soviet War Memorials: the Case of the Monument for Victory in Kaliningrad", in: Meno istorijos studijos/ Art History Studies, vol. 9 : Nepatogus paveldas, ed. Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2021, pp. 179–203. – ISSN 2783-6193.