Gabriele Adomaityte

Gabrielė Adomaitytė (1994) is a Lithuanian painter who graduated from Sculpture Studies at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2017, and is currently living and working in Amsterdam. Adomaitytė was an artist in residence at De Ateliers, Amsterdam from 2017 to 2019. Her work is based on researching painterly representation and its intersection with digitization. Through investigating mnemonic devices, Adomaitytė’s paintings draw on alternative systems for archiving information. By transposing this information into the slower, analogue realm of painting, these collections of imagery function as mental aids or enhancers of cultural memory. Lifting from an encyclopedia of natural history, the data manifests as multi-dimensional figures of painterly actions, colours and shapes that create a rhizome like system of meaning. By constantly questioning the possibilities of painting and the problems of visual representation, the artist investigates information systems and the collision points of the digital and actual matter in various archives.

Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Traversing Discrete Loci’, Annet Gellink Gallery, Amsterdam (2020), ‘Documentary Exactness’, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius (2019). Selected group exhibitions include ‘Titele’, Tilde, Amsterdam (2021), ‘Question Mark’, PARK, Tilburg (2021), ‘Palydos’, Swallow, Vilnius (2020), ‘Faint light feeds the main spring’, Kunstkapel, Amsterdam (2020), ‘What’s Up 2020’, Lawrence Van Hagen, Online (2020), ‘What’s Up : London Minimal | Maximal’, Lawrence Van Hagen, London (2019), ‘Pride & Innocence’, Oosterkerk, Amsterdam (2019), ‘XVII a.’, Autarkija, Vilnius (2019), ‘Offspring 2019: Once a Closely Guarded Secret’, De Ateliers, Amsterdam (2019), ‘DJ Bipolar Magician’, Amsterdamse Bos, Amsterdam (2019), ‘JCDecaux Prize: Dignity’, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (2018). Adomaitytė won the Buning Bongers Art Prize in 2020, the largest private art prize in The Netherlands.

Selected Work