JUSTINA NEKRASAITE
born in Vilnius, 1987
justina.nekrasaite@gmail.com
+31617481879
www.nekrasaite.com
www.thebookphotographer.com
EDUCATION:
2019
The Autumn School of Curating. (Cluj & Timisoara, Romania)
2014 April 28 - May 2
Radboud University (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Masterclasses
“Waves” Blikwisseling.
2008 - 2012
Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilnius), Bachelors of Photography and Media Arts
2011 February - June
Miguel Hernandez Faculty of Fine Arts of Altea (Altea, Spain), Fine Art department
GRANDS:
2019
Gementee Amsterdam
2018
Stokroos Foundation
2014
Ans&Wouters-Hellebrekers Fonds, Netherlands
CURATORIAL:
17 September 2022
Sound experiments: mainly electronic
Tolstraat 160
Project Supported by Tempel Amsterdam
2016 - 2020
October 2017 - 2020
Founder and curator ‘There is a wall to be crossed, And I am the wall’
Project Supported by Gementee Amsterdam and Stokroos Foundation
3,4,5,6 September 2020
Nina Glockner
Side - specific performance
‘Building as Opera’ Tolstraat 160,
Amsterdam
Project Supported by Gementee Amsterdam
12 - 21 April 2019
Isabel Cordeiro
Group exhibition
‘Life without negativity’
At7, Schipluidenlaan 12,
Amsterdam
March 2019
‘There is wall to be crossed, and I am the wall’
Gallery residency
Vytautas Magnus University Gallery 101,
Muitines g. 7, Kaunas,
Lithuania
3 November 2018
Alina Lupu ‘Fieldwork’
Side-specific gesture
Betondorp, Amsterdam
27 October 2018
Nina Glockner Studio visit and discussion
Jan Van Eyck Academy, Academieplein 1,
Maastricht
2018 - 2019
Wildlife, a platform for performance art and meetings,
Goleb, Amsterdam
(In collaboration with Sema Bekirovic)
October 2014 – June 2017
Artist - curator and head floor manager at Bookstore Space Amsterdam
September 2016 – May 2017
Founder of Eighteen 29, a platform for visual artist and music
Amsterdam
September 2016 – November 2017
Co-organizer Open Doors and Special guest
De Monsterkamer
Amsterdam
September 2016 – April 2017
Breaking for knowledge, Program manager
Amsterdam
2015
Wrong Tited Films, various locations, Amsterdam – Vilnius
(In collaboration with Anastasija Pirozenko)
Project Supported by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania
25 April - 6 May
Bringsurface
Group Exhibition
Vilte Braziunaite, Marija Jociute, Justina Nekrasaite,
Marjolijn Rijks, Tomas Sinkevicius, Naomi Souwen
(In collaboration with Vaida Stepanovaite, Arts management platform ARTHESIS)
Malonioji 6, Vilnius
2014
Wrong Titled Cinema project. Lithuanian Students Films screenings
(In collaboration with Anastasija Pirozenko)
various locations, Amsterdam
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2016
‘Orange is hot, red is extreme, green is mean, yellow is advancing and purple is retiring. But I want only to talk of blue’
Kabinetas project space, Kaunas, Lithuania
2014
‘Future / Perfect’
Bookstore Projectspace,
Amsterdam
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected):
2023
Promisses Salon Hang
Kunstverein
Amsterdam
2021
24/7 Salon Hang
Kunstverein
Amsterdam
2016
LockBox#3
Amsterdam
2015
‘Bringsurface’
Malonioji 6, Vilnius
‘lines’
Meno forma gallery,
Kaunas, Lithuania
2014
‘9 lives of an artist’
Uzupis Art Incubator,
Vilnius
LECTURES:
Forthcoming:
June 16, 2024
“How to look at books from a photographer’s perspective”
Stichting Handboekbinden
February 2018
‘Self initiatives and Why (knowledge) sharing is important?’,
Vilnius Academy of Arts, Photography and Media art Department,
Vilnius
November 2016
‘Making off Wrong Tited Films. DIY and other Strategies.’
Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius
PUBLICATIONS:
‘Building as Opera project publication,
nkg publications, edition of 300
BOOK FAIRS:
Forthcoming:
11-12 May, 2024
Gent Art Book Fair,
Belgium
October 2023
Apples and Oranges
Genk
Belgium
Since 2016 - The Book Photographer
2014 - 2017 Artist in residence at The Bookstore Foundation.
2014 - 2016 part of collaboration duo BS21.