Junior Researcher
Email: indre.urbelyte@gmail.com
From 2016 to 2022, she pursued studies in art history and curatorial practice at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, where she obtained a Master’s degree in Art History and Theory. Between 2018 and 2019, she spent an exchange year at Université Paris Nanterre, followed by a further exchange period from 2021 to 2022 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels (Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles). Since 2 January 2023, she has been affiliated with the Department of Art History and Visual Culture at the Lithuanian Institute of Cultural Research (LKTI). In 2024, she commenced a joint doctoral program in art history at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, the Lithuanian Institute for Cultural Research, and the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. She actively participates in international academic conferences and curates exhibitions and cultural projects in Lithuania and across Europe. In recognition of her academic and public engagement, she was awarded the Antanas Smetona Scholarship in 2021. In 2022, she received an award from the Lithuanian Union of Young Scientists for the best master’s thesis in the humanities, titled The Visual Narrative of World War II in the Art of Occupied Lithuania, 1940–1990 (supervised by Prof. Dr. (hp.) Giedrė Jankevičiūtė). In 2024, she was further recognized for her curatorial work by the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania.
Her research focuses on mid-twentieth-century Lithuanian art and visual culture, with particular emphasis on official art and propaganda in Soviet Lithuania.
Publications
Tik saulė gyvens amžinai. Dangiškasis žvėrynas Indrės Svirplytės kūryboje [Only the sun will live forever. The Celestial Menagerie in the Works of Indrė Svirplytė], Ingrida Korsakaitė (1938–2024): „Įdomiausia man yra grafika“ Gedenkschrift, G. Jankevičiūtė, L. Laučkaitė (eds.), Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, Lietuvos dailės istorikų draugija, 2025, 365–381.
Vasiotas-Lituanus. Dialogues of the Life and Work of Kazys Varnelis, Kazys Varnelis. Le classiciste op de Lituanie, I. Urbelytė (ed.), Vilnius: Lietuvos nacionalinis muziejus, 2024, 30–41.
Neišspręsta kompozicija. Antrasis pasaulinis karas sovietų Lietuvos dailėje [Unresolved Composition. The Second World War in Soviet Lithuanian Art], Vilnius: Lietuvos nacionalinis muziejus, 2023. ISBN 9786094780806.
Alsėdžiai, Kazys Varnelis, D. Vaišnienė (ed.), Vilnius: Lietuvos nacionalinis muziejus, 2022, 9–19.
Soviet War Memorials: the Case of the Monument for Victory in Kaliningrad, Uncomfortable Heritage, G. Jankevičiūtė (ed.), Meno istorijos studijos/ Art History Studies, vol. 9, 2021, 179–203.
