Emilija Škarnulytė (b.1987)–Lithuanian visual artist and filmmaker based in Tromsø. My work consists of a series of politically active visions, in which I investigate reality with a political and poetic approach. My films look into the cross sections of invisible structures and geological ungrounding processes. I am interested in the dialogue between art and science. My films look into a relation between art and science, storytelling, truth and poetics of language created by science.
My films have been screened in various International Art events and Film festivals such as La Biennale di Venezia – 15th International Architecture Exhibition (2016, Italy); International Rotterdam Film Festival (The Netherlands, 2015); Manifesta 10 (Russia, 2014), 31st Sao Paulo Biennial (Brazil, 2014); Pompidou Film Festival Hors Pistes (France, 2014); and International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany, 2013).
My films explore geological temporality to human temporality and the event of the Anthropocene aiming to prolong and heighten the disturbing care for the invisible, the unspeakable, the silent vastness of the geological realm. I am aiming to investigate the concepts such as loss, void and concealed structures. These themes relate to the projects I have completed last years in international and local contemporary art scene.
I am also a founder of Polar Film Lab for analogue film practice located in Tromsø. Polar Film Lab has working facilities, film screenings, master classes and workshops for everyone interested in working with film material. The lab is a space for exchange and engagement of ideas around analogue and experimental film. The collective works independently and in collaboration with other local & international collectives, institutions, and film festivals.
Education
2012-2013 MA in Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art, Tromsø, Norway
2007-2010 BA in Sculpture in The Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Italy
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Solo Exhibitions
2017 (Upcoming) Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, NOR
2015 ØSO LENS, CAC Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LT
2014 Hollow Earth: Prospecting For Speculative Pleasure, Sortlandand and Bodø Kunstforening, NO
2013 Kaiku gallery, Kuva, Helsinki, FI
2013 The Geology of Morals, MACK brewery factory, Tromsø, NO
2013 Hollow Earth (w. Tanya Busse), Festspillene i NordNorge, Harstad, NO
2012 Aldona, MACK brewery factory, Tromsø, NO
2011 The Valley of a Missing City, Galery Vartai, LT
2011 Silent Metamorphosis, Milano, Francesco Zanuso space, Milano, IT
2011 Limbic system, Studio 56 invites The Film gallery, Paris, FR
2009 I love Pakistan and Pakistan loves me, Leonidu 15, Athens, GR
2007 Lithuanian National UNESCO Exhibition Hall, Vilnius, LT
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 (Upcoming) Marfa Contemporary, Texas, US
2016 (Upcoming) Kunsthalle Tallinn, ES
2016 Baltic Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, IT
2016 Part of Heterotropics, Museum Perron Oost, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Joy and Mirror. Port City, Riga, LV
2016 Göteborgs Konsthall,Göteborg, SE
2015 Høstutstillingen, Oslo, NO
2015 Olavsvern Royal Norwegian Navy Base, Kurant, Tromsø, NO
2015 Artists’ Film International Season 7, organized by Whitechapel Gallery, London
2015 Sámi Contemporary, Latent River, Berlin, DE
2015 Notes on Orientalism | Video Practices at the Age of Radical Difference, Viafarini, Milan, IT
2015 Hollow Earth, Avtryyk, Svolvær Kunstforening, NO
2014 Universe in Universes, w. Como Clube, 31st São Paulo Biennial , São Paulo, BR
2014 Manifesta 10, Saint Petersburg, RU
2014 Gimme Shelter, Tromsø Kunstforening, NO
2014 Galerie NoD Mini, I Don’t Remember,Prague, CZ
2013 Import/Export, Magneetti Foundation, Tornio, Rovaniemi FI
2013 Melancholy lover of a vanished space, Silverlens gallery, SG
2013 Trip and Travelling. Introduction / What is missing? KCCC, Klaipėda, LT
2012 Coordinalate Ellittiche, Careof Docva, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, IT
2012 Sharp Edges Have Been Blunted, Sami Center for Contemporary Art Center, Karasjok, NO
2012 Heracleum Troemensis, Kurant, Tromsø, NO
2012 What a Mess,Independent Art Fair 2012,Fredrikstad, NO
2012 Timeout, MA exhibition, Kurant, Tromsø, NO
2012 Consequence / Sequence, Small projects, Tromsø, NO
2011 PLUGIN videoart, Brescia, IT
2011 Space Beam, Baedari, Incheon, KR
2010 RM gallery, Auckland, NZ
2010 Gunsan art in residence, Gunsan, KR
2010 Space Beam, Baedari, Incheon, KR
2010 Invisibile, Ciocca Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
2009 Salon 1, Milano, IT
2008 Villa Lita, Linate, Milano, IT
2007 JFK photography exhibition, Prospectus gallery, Vilnius, LT
2007 United photography exhibition, City library, Druskininkai, LT
2007 El Circolo, Valencia, Spain
2007 Calvino, Lodz, Patio Centrum Sztuki, PL
2007 Calvino, Poznan, Akademia Sztuk Pieknych, PL
2007 Calvino Urbino, Museo dell´Citta´, IT
2007 Calvino Granada, Museo Casa de los Tiros, ES
Festivals and Screenings
2016 Close Encounters of No Kind II, Cinémathèque Leipzig, DE
2015 IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2015 LIAF International Art Festival, Latent River, Svolvær, NO
2015 Cesis Art Festival, Latvia
2015 FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival, Espinho, Portugal
2015 International Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, UK
2015 Short Waves, Poznan, PL
2015 Cinémathèque Leipzig, Close Encounters of No Kind II, DE
2015 Montenegro Film Festival, ME
2015 TIFF, Beyond horizons programme, produced by Atelier Nord, NO
2015 Cyberfest, Luda Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2015 NNKS,Obsession and Duty, Svolvær, Norway
2015 Cyberfest, NY Media Center, New York, US
2015 Artists’ Film International Season 7, organized by Whitechapel Gallery, invited by TKF:
2015 (Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, TUR
2015 CCAA / Centre for Contemporary Art Afghanistan
2015 Ballroom Marfa, USA
2015 BelgradCultural Centre, Serbia
2015 Cinémathèque de Tanger, Morocco
2015 City Gallery Kfar Saba, Israel
2015 City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
2015 Fundación PRóA, Argentina
2015 GAMeC / Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy
2015 Hanoi DOCLAB, Vietnam
2015 KINOKINO Centre for Art and Film, Norway
2015 Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k), Germany
2015 Para/Site, China
2015 Project 88, India
2015 Tromsø Kunstforening, Norway
2015 NCCA / National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Russia
2015 Whitechapel Gallery, UK)
2014 31st São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, BR
2014 Manifesta 10, Saint Petersburg, RU
2014 31st Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, DE
2014 21st Barcelona Independent Film Festival l’Alternativa, Barcelona, ES
2014 Scala Film Festival, North Wales, UK
2014 Reihe Experimentalfilm Minifestival, Leipzig, DE
2014 EIFF Edinburgh International Film Festival, Black Box, Commodification-Appropriation, Scotland, UK
2014 European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, DE
2014 Festival of Central and Eastern European Film «Go East», Wiesbaden, DE
2014 Hors Pistes 2014, The Window and The Film Gallery, Paris, FR
2014 Vilnius International Film Festival «Kino pavasaris», LT
2014 Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival «Kratkimetar», RS
2014 Dhaka International Film Festival, BD
2014 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax NS, CA
2013 International Short Film Festival OBERHAUSEN, International Competition, DE
2013 LUMEN 2013, video and performance art festival, Staten Island Art, NY
2013 International Film Festival Hannover, DE
2013 International Festival Signes du Nuit Paris, FR
2013 International Short Film Festival Vilnius Films Shorts, LT
2013 Kaunas International Film Festival, CAC Vilnius, LT
2013 Kaunas International Film Festival, M. Zilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas, LT
2013 Message to Man International Film Festival, Saint-Petersburg, RU
2013 Kinoshock Film Festival 2013, Anapa, RU
2013 Lithuanian cinema day, Cinematek Oslo, NO
2013 Curitiba Film Festival, Parana State, BR
2013 Sorocaba and Votorantim Film Festival, Sao Paulo State, BR
2013 Ribeirao Preto Film Festival, Sao Paulo State, BR
2013 Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, BR
2013 EIFF Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland, UK
2013 Verdensteatret cinema, Tromsø, NO
2013 NUFF, Tromsø, NO
2013 CAMP1 festival, Halle, DE
2013 OFF & FREE International Film Festival, Seoul Museum of Art (SEMA), KR
2013 Walzenlager Cinema, Oberhausen, DE
2012 Lithuanian Art 2012, CAC Vilnius, LT
2011 International Short Film Festival Vilnius Films Shorts, Vilnius, Lithuania
2010 Pastrami Recordings and Others, Union Docks, Brooklyn, NYC
Concerts and sound performances
2015 LIAF International Art Festival, artist talk with Tanya Busse, NO
2014 Tromsø Dollz Arkestra, 31st São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, BR
2014 Volcanic Winter, Kunstforening, NO
2014 Fervo, Small Projects, Tromsø, NO
2014 Tromsø Dollz Arkestra, PAF, NO
2014 Tromsø Dollz Arkestra, ComoClube, Sao Paolo. BR
2013 Cryptoexplosion, No Place Rising, Insomnia festival, Kurant, Norway
2013 Tromsø Dollz Arkestra, MACK brewery factory, Tromsø, NO
2013 LIAF International Art Festival, with Tromsø Dollz Arkestra, Kabelvåg, NO
2012 Music for The Stairs, (Composer: Simon Daniel Tegnander) Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art, NO
2012 No Place Rising (w Hans Christian van Nijkerk),Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art, NO
2012 No Place Rising, (w Hans Christian van Nijkerk), Careof Docva, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, IT
2012 HAARP Sci-Fi opera, (w Lisa Helstrøm Jørgensen) Kurant, Tromsø, NO
Publications
2014 Superficial issue, 2014 edition of 200
2014 Prospecting For Speculative Pleasure, Newspaper, NO edition of 8000
2013 Hollow Earth, artist publication, NO edition of 75
2011 Satisfiction Art, art magazine, Fondazione Gianfranco Ferre´, IT edition 10 000
2010 Space Beam, catalogue, KOR edition 1000
2010 Wave length, artist publication, KOR edition 300
Book fairs
2014 The New York Art Book Fair, Hollow Earth publication selected by Printed Matter
Awards
2014 Nominated for the best documentary, 13th Dhaka International Film Festival
2013 Nominated for the best short film, EIFF Edinburgh International Film Festival
2013 Special Jury Mention in Vilnius International Short Film Festival
Grants
2016 -2018 Artist working grant, Kulturrådet, Norway
2015 Anne og Jakob Weidemanns stipend, Høstutstillingen, Norway
2015 Artist working grant, diversestipend, Kulturrådet, Norway
2014 Artist working grant, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, NBK
2013 Travel Grant, Nordnorsk Filmsenter, Norway
2014 Kulturrådet, Arts Council support Geology of Morals, Norway
2014 Travel Grant – Office of Contemporary Art Norway, Latent River, 31st São Paulo Biennial
2013 Artist work grant, Troms fylkeskommune, Tromsø, Norway
2013 Travel Grant, Nordnorsk Filmsenter, Norway
2013 Northern Norway Public Art Commission (Festspillene I Nord Norge)
2013 Kulturrådet, Arts Council support for Hollow Earth project, Norway
2013 Troms fylkeskommune support for Hollow Earth project, Norway
2012 Lo schermo dell´arte 2012 grant for workshop, Italy
2009 National premium of MIUR for video art, Italy
Membership
2014 UKS, NNBK and NBK
Residencies
2016 (OCA) Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2015 Joy and Mirror, Athens, Greece
2015 ABH/ AiR Helgeland-Berlin in ZK/U, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik in Berlin
2015 Kunstnerhytta i Ny-Ålesund, NBK, Norway
2015 Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale, Norway
2014 Krems Air, Austria
2014 AIR Barents, Arkhangelsk, Russia
2014 ComoKlubbe artist-in-residence program, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2013 AIR Svalbard, Svalbard, Norway
2012 Kaman Art Foundation Artist-in-Residence, Jetpur Village, Rajasthan, India
2011 Space Beam, Incheon, South Korea
2010 Tutok space, Manila, Philippines
2010 Artists-in-Residence Programme, Gunsan, South Korea
2010 Space Beam, Incheon, South Korea
Workshops:
2015 Feature Expanded- European intensive training program for visual artists producing their first feature film
2012 International Film Festival Lo schermo dell´arte workshop, Florence, Italy
2012 Unigrow project, Prinzessinnengarten, Berlin, Germany
2012 Jooap, Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, Tromsø, Norway
2012 Gallery D.O.R., Tromsø, Norway
2012 Sattaoutside 16mm film workshop with LaborBerlin, Sventoji, Lithuania
2011 8mm film workshop, Nida Art Colony, Lithuania
2011 16mm film workshop in Filmkoop Wein, Austria
2008 Sculpture workshop in Grancona, Italy
2008 Sculpture workshop in Delfi, Greece
