Laima SURGAILIENĖ (LAUČKAITĖ)

PhD, leading researcher
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0291-8934
E–mail: lauckal@yahoo.com

Studied art history at the Lithuanian Art Institute, Vilnius in 1974-1979. At Mikhail Lomonosov University of Moscow in 1988 defended Ph.D. dissertation Critical Analysis of Esthetical Views of Alois Riegl. 1991-1992 postdoctoral grant in Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (Munich). Habilitation proceeding at the Institute of Culture, Philosophy and Art Research in 2008 in Vilnius.

1988–1990 worked at the Department of Art History of the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, 1990-2002 at the Institute of Culture and Art, 2002–2010 at the Institute of Culture, Philosophy and Art, since 2010 at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute (1988-1997 research associate, 1997-2004 senior research associate, since 2004 leading researcher).  2008-2018 the Head of the Department of Art History and Visual Culture of the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. 1993-1996 lecturer of the Department of Art History, Vilnius Academy of Art. Since 2022 editor-in-chief of the journal Meno istorijos studijos [Art History Studies].

Member of the Lithuanian Artists Association since 1986, member of Lithuanian Section of AICA (1995-1998 President), member of the Lithuanian Society of Art Historians (since 1994), founder and member of the Marianne von Werefkin Society (since 2014). Curates exhibitions. Her book Art in Vilnius 1900-1915 got the Biennial Book Prize of 2008–2009 from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, USA. Awarded with the Lithuanian Republic Government Prize for an outstanding achievements in culture and art (2015).

Fields of scholarly interests: art and multinational artistic life of Vilnius at early 20th century, interconections between Lithuanian, Russian, and German artists at the turn ot the 20th century, art in Lithuania during World War One, iconography of Vilnius, historigraphy of art, Lithuanian art in exile, art of the Soviet era.

Selected publications

Books

Aspazija. Etnomodernizmas [Aspazija. Etnomodernism], Vilniaus grafikos meno centras, 2025. ISBN 978-9955-796-23-7.

Leopoldas Surgailis. Tapyba/ Painting, Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla, 2022. ISBN 978-609-447-365-4.

Hommage donatoriams. Vilniaus paveikslų galerijos pradžia [Hommage to the Donors. The Beginning of the Vilnius Picture Gallery], Vilnius: Lietuvos nacionalinis dailės muziejus, 2021. ISBN 978-609-426-158-9.

Vilniaus dailė Didžiojo karo metais [Art in Vilnius during the First World War], Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2018.  ISBN 978-609-8231-03-8.

Rafael Chwoles. The Search for Jerusalem, Vilnius: Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2013. ISBN 978–9955–767–20–6/ Rafaël Chwoles. La recherche de Jérusalem, Vilnius: Musée National Juifs de Gaon de Vilna, 2013. ISBN 978–9955–767–21–3.

Ekspresionizmo raitelė Mariana Veriovkina [Expresionist Rider Marianne Werefkin], Vilnius: Kultūros, filosofijos ir meno meno institutas, 2007. ISBN 978-9986-638-95-7.

Art in Vilnius 1900–1915, Vilnius: Baltos lankos, 2008. ISBN 978-9955-23-183-7.

Vilniaus dailė XX amžiaus pradžioje [Art of Vilnius in Early Twentieth Century], Vilnius: Baltos lankos, 2002. ISBN 9955-429-71-2.

Main scholary articles

Ikoninė vaikų knyga „Pasakų skrynelė“ [The Iconic Children‘s Book The Chest of Fairy Tales], Ingrida Korsakaitė (1938–2024): „Įdomiausia man yra grafika“. Gedenkschrift, G. Jankevičiūtė, L. Laučkaitė (ed.), Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2025, 293-314.

Pilies bokštas: nuo Vilniaus miesto ikonos iki suvenyrų motyvo [Gediminas Tower: from a Symbol of Vilnius to a Souvenir Motif], Vilkas, bokštas ir bažnyčia. Vilniaus suvenyrai, R. Miškinytė (ed.), Vilnius: Lapas, 2023, 54-73.

„Zwiedzaj Wilno – miasto zabytków”. Plakaty turystyczne i przewodniki po mieście/‘Visit Vilnius – the City of Monuments‘. Tourist Posters and Guidebooks to the City, Wilno Vilnius Vilne 1918-1948. Jedno miasto – wiele opowieści /One City – Many Stories, G. Jankevičiūtė, A. Szczerski (ed.), Kraków: Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, 2023, 255-268.

Sztuka żydowska w międzywojennym Wilnie. Wykluczenie i rozkwit /The Jewish Art of Interwar Vilnius. Exclusion and Thriving, Wilno Vilnius Vilne 1918-1948. Jedno miasto – wiele opowieści /One City – Many Stories, G. Jankevičiūtė, A. Szczerski (ed.), Kraków: Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie,  2023, 359-378.

Zagadka obrazu Stanisława Bohusza-Siestrzeńcewicza „Głód w Wilnie“ lub „Dzieci przedmieść wileńskich” [The Riddle of the Painting by Stanisław Bohusz-Siestrzeńcewicz "Hunger in Vilnius" or "Children of Vilnius Suburbs"], Stanisław Bohusz-Siestrzeńcewicz: twórczość, konteksty, przyczynki,  E. Ptaszyńska (ed.), Suwałki: Muzeum Okręgowe w Suwałkach, 2022, 123-131.

Paroda „Hommage donatoriams. Vilniaus paveikslų galerijos pradžia” [Exhibition „Hommage to the Donors. The Beggining of the Vilnius Picture Gallery“], Lietuvos dailės muziejaus metraštis, vol. 23, Vilnius, 2022, 245-249.

The Iconography of Jewish Vilna during the First World War, Colloquia, vol. 48, Vilnius, 2021, 113-137. https://doi.org/10.51554/Coll.21.48.08

Stanisław Bohusz-Siestrzeńcewicz w Wilnie [Stanisław Bohusz-Siestrzeńcewicz in Vilnius], Stanisław Bohusz-Siestrzeńcewicz 1869-1927, E. Ptaszyńska (ed.), Suwałki: Muzeum Okręgowe w Suwałkach, 2021, 26-44.

Moï Ver: Vilnius Bauhauzo žvilgsniu [Moï Ver: Vilnius in Bauhaus view], Naujasis židinys (Vilnius), 2020/1, 59-61.

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. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Expressionism-in-a-Transnational-Context/Wunsche/p/book/9781138712553

The Paradoxes of Lithuanian National Romanticism, Muzeja raksti, vol. 7, Riga: Latvijas Nacionãlais mãkslas muzejs, 2019, 84-97.

Der Briefwechsel zwischen Manja und Lulu in der Martynas-Mažvydas-Nationalbibliothek in Wilna, Lebensmenschen. Alexej von Jawlensky und Marianne von Werefkin, R. Zieglgänsberger, A. Hoberg, A. Klar, M. Mühling (ed.), München, London, New York: Prestel, 2019, 300-304.

Conference papers abroad

German Artists in Kaunas during the First World War, ”Kulturbeziehungen zwischen Deutschland und den Baltischen Ländern 1850–1950. Medien – Institutionen – Akteure“, Eutin:

Forschungsstelle zur historischen Reisekultur an der Eutiner Landesbibliothek, 2024 10 12. https://lb-eutin.kreis-oh.de/fileadmin/Tagungsprogramm_Baltikum.pdf

Moshè Vorobeichic in the Context of Jewish Art of Vilnius in 1920s, ”Moshe Vorobeichic, Moï Ver, Moshe Raviv. Colloque proposé à l’occasion de la rétrospective de l’artiste Moï Ver au Centre Pompidou“, Paris: Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, 2023 06 15. https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/programme/agenda/evenement/s2jNAx2\ https://www.mahj.org/fr/programme/moshe-vorobeichic-moi-ver-moshe-raviv-30054

German War Memorials in Vilnius: Two Cases with Different Fate, ”Commemoration and Heritage: First World War Memorials and Cemeteries“, Kraków: Uniwersytet Jagielloński, 2023 06 02. https://crihestu.id.uj.edu.pl/documents/151796497/151796657/Program.pdf/9b92f428-3415-411d-9080-a78fb541bffa

Heritage of Lithuanian National Museum of Art: Disruptive Metamorphoses, „The Museum as a Place of Tension, Arena of Conflict and Space of Dialogue in Central Europe. Objects – Actors – Spaces”, 29th Conference of the Working Group of Polish and German Art Historians and Restorers), Muzeum Narodowe Szczecin, 2022 09 29. https://muzeum.szczecin.pl/116-aktualnosci/1713-program-pl-de-eng-29-konferencji-polskich-i-niemieckich-historykow-sztuki-i-konserwatorow-wspolne-dziedzictwo.html?fbclid=IwAR1KIjsL2vRg5zdTiH4SoOgOoj6j8q0Y7X-wjQKX1GZV3FI-9bIzbDowuMk

Marianne von Werefkin: Transnational Figure of the Avant-garde, “Globalising the Avant-Garde. The 8th Conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies”, Faculdade de Ciências Socias e Humanas, Universidade NOVA, Lisbon, 2022 09 01. https://bitok.datastore.pt/scimeet-prod/cms/eam2022lisbon.sci-meet.net/7a8b66e7-80df-4dc1-a916-ff55b9b41e8d/Programme-updated30.08.2022.pdf

 Zagadka obrazu Stanisława Bohusz-Siestrzeńcewicza „Głód w Wilnie“ lub „Dzieci przedmieść wileńskich“, ”Stanisław Bohusz-Siestrzeńcewicz 1869–1927. Twórczość – Konteksty – Przyczynki“, Suwalki: Muzeum Okręgowe w Suwałkach, 2021 06 28. https://www.facebook.com/370668909678966/photos/pb.370668909678966.-2207520000../4119215791490907/?type=3&eid=ARCUygq2Q9citZEJyriOvWP6-PUAgiJ2cqtvC0qCfLP87KBKvmTpE6nLwdph1g0vglJFgzuwxk42KhPV

Activities of German Artists in Oberost: case of Vilnius, ”Wars in Intellectual and Artistic Reflection: Media and Production of Knowledge in Eastern Europe“, 1900–1939”, Marburg: Herder Institute for Historical Research on Eastern Europe, 2019 10 10. https://www.herder-institut.de/veranstaltungen/tagungen/2019/wars-in-intellectual-and-artistic-reflection-media-and-the-production-of-knowledge-in-eastern-europe-1900-1939.html