monika dubinkaite

Monika Dubinkaite is an artist, photographer, and art director working in the genre of still life. Lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania. 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.

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

Her work reflects themes of memory, identity, and belonging, born from her experiences of frequently moving throughout her life. Each composition becomes a meditation on the fleeting sense of stability, a visual language we create to anchor ourselves in ever-changing surroundings.

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

In addition to her personal practice, Monika 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- Nothing but gold, Jeonju International Photo Festival, KR

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

2023- Long term diary, Awagami AIMPE, Tokushima, JP

2023- Nothing but gold,  Rotterdam Photo, Rotterdam, NL

2022- Nothing but gold, Restart, Prospekto Gallery, Vilnius, LT

2021- Cloud Atlas, United team, Nagornaya gallery, Moscow, RU

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

Lectures and workshops

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 Lithuania, 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

Nominations:

2025- I wish the stones were growing again, Shortlisted, Belfast Photo Festival, NIR

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