monika dubinkaite

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

Monika's conceptual approach to her work is both deliberate and intuitive. She takes objects out of their regular context and creates unique worlds and narratives using them. The main topics of her research based practice are mundane occurrences of daily life, non-physical manifestations of the world, сity-human connection, coincidence.

Her long-term projects were exhibited at national and international events and festivals such as ReStart(Lithuania), Rotterdam Photo (The Netherlands). She’s got mentions and publications in photography internationally.

Monika Dubinkaite graduated from FotoDepartment in St. Petersburg. She collaborates with fashion brands and magazines as an artist and art director, bringing her own perspective and creative vision to every project she undertakes.

Education:

2023-2024 DocDocDoc “Experience of contemporary photography”

2022 Fotofilmic, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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

Personal shows:

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

Group shows:

2024- International Photography Symposium NIDA.Meeting Photography, LT

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, commercial 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:

2023- Rotterdam Photo, Rotterdam, NL

2022- Surat Studio, Dagestan, RU

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