Inga Galinyte (Lithuania) is an interdisciplinary and performing artist. She holds a bachelor's and a master's degree from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. By looking interdisciplinary, the artist creates her unique performative language that explores the disciplines of performance art, contemporary dance, theater, combining them with the knowledge and practices of visual art. In the artistic process, Inga often plays around with the daily collected data of images, sounds, movements, and texts, where their connections and variations become scripts for her works that focus on topics of memory, empathy, and immortality. In developing her artistic tools, next to academic education, Inga participated in profesional acting training course organised by the Fontainebleau School of Acting, took a training of physical theatre, dance, performance in the Paris Summer Academy organized by Oriantheatre dance company, did research in a movement language called Gaga in Tel Aviv developed by choreographer Ohad Naharin, was selected to participate in several international performing arts programs at The Watermill Center in New York, founded by theater director Robert Wilson and other various workshops and daily training classes. Her works were presented across the world, including the Lithuanian Swamp Pavilion during the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, the 12th Kaunas Biennial in Lithuania, the Watermill Center in New York, The exhibition 'Le Loup de Fer' in Paris, and other exhibitions and events. In addition to personal creations, the artist also participated as a performer in the works of artists, among others, such as Alexandra Pirici, Robert Wilson, Monika Jagusinskyte, Eye Gymnastics, Willi Dorner, Cocorosie, Pere Faura.
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2013 09 - 2016 05
Master degree in Textile
Vilnius Academy of Arts
Kaunas, Lithuania
2007 09 - 2011 05
Bachelor degree in Design
Vilnius Academy of Arts
Kaunas, Lithuania
2010 01 – 2010 05
Academic exchange in École Estienne
Paris, France
RESIDENCIES/PROGRAMS
The Fontainebleau School of Acting (Fonact), Three months intensive course of acting/performing training (2025)
Watermill Center, International Summer Program, New York (2018, 2024)
Watermill Center, Artists-in-residence Program, New York (2023)
Cité internationale des Arts, Artists-in-residence Program, Paris (2021, 2024)
Amaneï, Artists-in-residence Program, Aeolian Islands, Sicily (2023)
One plus One, Artistic process exchange residency program ir partnership with Independent organisation of contemporary dance Be Company, Vilnius (2022)
Akee, Artist-in-residence Program in partnership with Lithuanian Contemporary Dance Association, Aleknaiciai (2021)
Bites. Dance Exploration Platform, Research Program, Vilnius (2021)
5 minutes, Participation in residence project by Davide D'antonio and Carlo Massari, Art Printing House, Vilnius (2018)
Paris Summer Academy, International Program for performing Arts, Paris (2017)
Apprentice/Master Exhibition, Research Program, Kaunas-Tilburg (2016)
GRANTS
Byrd Hoffman Foundation (2023, 2024)
Lithuanian council for culture, Mobility Grant (2017, 2018, 2019, 2023)
Lithuanian council for culture, Individual Grant (2020)
Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Art Association, New Production Prize (2022)
PERFORMANCES (selection)
Memory Islands (What sleeps inside you)
Presented at: The Watermill Center, Annual Summer Benefit, New York (2024),
The Watermill Center, Artist Residency Program, Open studio, New York (2023)
Cité internationale des Arts, Artist Residency Program, Open studio, Paris (2021)
Empathetic Body (in collaboration with artist Anna Papathanasiou)
Presented at: Touching Faultlines, ALL OF GREECE ON CULTURE, Crete, (2024)
12th Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas (2019), SKG Bridges Uprising Art & Culture Festival, Thessaloniki (2019),
THE SWAMP PAVILION, Lithuanian representation in the 16th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia (2018)
Bad Dream (I thought I will finish, but it started all over again)
Presented at: Open SODAS2123, Vilnius (2023), Le Loup de Fer, Exhibition dedicated to 700th anniversary of Vilnius, Paris (2023), Baltic Art@Big Apple, Baltic Art Festival, Grace Exhibition Space, New York (2022), MAS. Artistic Action Week, Vilnius (2022),
Cité internationale des Arts, Paris (2021)
Failing at my best (in collaboration with artist Denisas Kolomyckis)
Presented at: MAS. Artistic Action Week, Vilnius (2023)
Fluqus Wedding. The Birth of Centaurus (in collaboration with artists Laima Kreivyte and Denisas Kolomyckis)
Presented at: Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (2020)
Fluqus New Year
Presented at: Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre, Vilnius (2021)
8 hours a day
Presented at: Watermill Center, TIME BOMB’18, New York (2018), ArtVilnius (2018), Young Painter Prize, Vilnius (2018)
Dying For Life. 24 hours live performance (co-creation with creative agency autoriai)
Presented at: Vilnius Railway Station, Kaunas Bus Station, (2017)
PERFORMING FOR OTHER ARTISTS
Solo Ansamblis & Ged Sia, music video for the song Oda (Skin), (2025)
Monika Jagusinskyte, Eating Rite, Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, (2024)
Eye Gymnastics, What Are the Dreams of Concrete?, Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art (2023)
Alexandra Pirici, Pulse, Enlivenment of the Kaunas Ninth Fort Monument, (2020)
Pere Faura, Sweet fever, New Baltic Dance, (2018)
Robert Wilson, Otello, (staging workshop), Watermill Center (2018)
Willi Dorner, Bodies in Urban Spaces, Open House Vilnius, (2018)
CocoRosie, Lying Awake: Our Lady of the Flowers, Discover Watermill Day, (2018)
CONFERENCES & GATHERINGS
TedxKaunas’18, Terra Incognita, (Performative walk), Kaunas (2018)
Lithuanian Videospritz, (Presentation), Trieste Contemporanea art centre, (2021)
Dwelling on the Threshold, (Participation), Nida Art Colony, (2020)
Let’s Talk about Dance, baby? (Performative brunch), Arts Printing House (2021)
European Outdoor Arts Academy, EU School of Spectacle, Kaunas (2017)
The Body: Out of Time and Without a Place (Reperforming), CAC, Vilnius (2015)
CREATurE, International Performance Festival (Performing), (2014, 2015, 2016)
The Art Way of Thinking, Palanga, 2013