monika dubinkaite

Monika Dubinkaite is an artist, photographer, and art director working in the genre of still life. Her practice is shaped by a fascination with structure, balance, and the subtle tension between order and chaos. Drawing inspiration from the principles of the Bauhaus movement, she strives to find harmony through precise compositions, bold color relationships, and a meticulous attention to form.

Having moved frequently throughout her life, her work naturally reflects themes of memory, identity, and belonging. Each composition is a meditation on the fleeting sense of stability and the visual language we create to anchor ourselves in ever-changing surroundings.

For Monika, photography is a way of constructing moments of quiet clarity — scenes that feel poised yet fragile, like they could dissolve at any second. She approaches each image as if building a structure: balancing shapes, light, and shadow to create a sense of order within the unpredictable.

Her long-term projects have been showcased at national and international exhibitions and festivals.

Beyond her personal practice, she collaborates with fashion brands and magazines as an artist and art director, developing distinctive concepts and meticulously crafted visual narratives.

Education:

2023-2024 DocDocDoc “Experience of contemporary photography”, online

2022 Fotofilmic, Short course with Thomas Albdorf,  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

2011-2014  FotoDepartament, Contemporary photography, St. Petersburg, RU

Personal shows:

2020- Options are possible, cube.moscow, Moscow, RU

Group shows:

2025 (upcoming)- Jeonju International Photo Festival, KR

2024- International Photography Symposium NIDA.Meeting Photography, Nida, LT

2023- Awagami AIMPE, Tokushima, JP

2023- Rotterdam Photo, Rotterdam, NL

2022- Restart, Prospekto Gallery, Vilnius, LT

2021- United team, Nagornaya gallery, Moscow, RU

2019 - A collective whole. Axis mundi, Presence festival. Saint-Petersburg, RU

Lectures and workshops

2020- Visual changes in still life photography through architecture, fashion, motion and product design. Photoplay, photography school, Moscow, RU
2020- Bad images workshop. FotoDepartament, Saint Petersburg, RU
2020- Think hard. Do not think is harder. Workshop. FotoDepartament, Saint Petersburg, RU

Artist Talks:

2024- ADC Lietuva, Vilnius, LT

2023- Rotterdam Photo, Rotterdam, NL

2021- National Research University Higher School of Economics, Faculty of Photography, Moscow, RU 

2020 -British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow, RU 

2020- Rodchenko Art School, Moscow, RU

Grants and residencies:

2022- V-A-C Foundation, GES-2, Moscow, RU

2019 - Descubrimientos, portfolio review, PhotoEspaña, Madrid, ES

Publications & Press:

2023- Surrealism in an everyday objects, Interview. Lamų Slėnis Magazine, Vilnius, LT

2022- Monika Dubinkaite. Artist hand book, Untishold, Tokyo, JP 

2020- The New Now, TLP Project, Dublin, IRE 

2020- Cloud Atlas, Wonderzine Mag, Moscow, RU 

2020 - Upakara, Sindroms mag, Green issue, Copenhagen, DK 

2019- Bittersweetness of Naivety, Sindroms mag, Pink issue, Copenhagen, DK