Inner Rooms

From 17 February to 28 March 2026, the Vilnius Graphic Art Centre gallery “Kairė-dešinė” will host a joint exhibition by four artists titled “Inner Rooms” (curated by Monika Krikštopaitytė). The opening will take place on 17 February 2026 at 6 p.m.

Hatching, juxtaposition, engagement with structure, immersion in rhythm, experimentation, and similar (artistic) practices – expansion of reality into the inner space – always provide balance in difficult times and the joy of discovery in good ones. We retreat to our “inner rooms” when we want to restore our integrity and find significant nuances or meaning.

Bringing together four prominent authors of different generations and creative strategies – graphic artists Lida Dubauskienė and Elena Grudzinskaitė, as well as painters Eglė Gineitytė and Aurelija Zaburaitė, the exhibition offers an exploration of the creative process as a meaningful retreat, perhaps even a form of resilience. With close attention to the creative process, its reflection comes to resemble a separate inner room, where one retreats to reflect and choose a perspective on the world.

Lida Dubauskienė has recently been working with thinned ink nib hatching, combining hand-drawn details with print elements. The entirety of the work reveals itself only at the very end, after long, consistent work. The body of days, hours, minutes, and seconds, as well as the murmur of structure, are captured on paper, as if the artist was trying to depict existence itself.

Eglė Gineitytė drew a lot particularly during the Covid pandemic, as she suddenly became interested in the various possibilities and nuances of lines touching, intertwining, and repeating. However, the practice of drawing as a kind of diary, as an encounter with the unexpected and an exercise in observation is a consistent part of the painter’s work. In the series of drawings, one can observe an idea developing, before it is transferred to a larger work.

Elena Grudzinskaitė usually finds the key to meaning through nuances in her work. Currently, the artist is interested in artifacts that directly and indirectly participate in her creative processes, such as the structure of paper (newspaper, brown wrap, Munken, rice (Chinese), silk), its aesthetic and dialogic potential. According to Elena, she examines “the parameters of time, their fragility and continuity, as well as indirect landscapes created by monotonous actions”, observes and records “the repetition of routine practices”, which all constitute her “field of interests and internal discussions, and raw material for creative experiments”.

Aurelija Zaburaitė’s works are characterized by an almost architectural insight into the structure of all things, but they do not come to resemble technical drawings – an emerging story is always at hand. The objects she observes acquire a unique rhythm or even a combination of them; one sees them overlapping, triggering micro-events, and even spawning poetic rhyme and a dizzying sense of wholeness. All this seems like an effort to understand the world, to find connections between seemingly unrelated things. Some of her works encode a sense of movement in space, the possibility of travel. A broad horizon and a far-reaching gaze not only expand the inner rooms to the distant stretches, but also offer an opportunity for mental travel.

These authors share a keen attention to detail and the whole, and their work resembles slow rooting or the flow of water: slowly penetrating, moisture finds the best path and creates systems that are not easily discernible yet shelter life.

Monika Krikštopaitytė

* The exhibition is part of the cultural route SUMENĖK.

Accompanying program: February 21, 1 p.m., meeting and tour at the exhibition Inner Rooms with curator Monika Krikštopaitytė (no registration required).