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Mykolas Valantinas

B. 1996, Vilnius, Lithuania

Trained as a photographer, Mykolas Valantinas (b. 1996, Vilnius, Lithuania) approaches his interdisciplinary practice through the photographic act of "being there" – at the intersection of daily life, fashion, music, art, and culture at large. This instinct for a direct encounter pervades other media employed by Valantinas – sculpture, installation, video, film, and printmaking – to which equally central is the associative, mythological thinking, where images and motifs continuously repeat and mutate across disparate disciplines, each pointing to the next and the previous.

Whether the docufictional short film "Lullaby's Fault" (2025) – a metamorphic fairy tale alternating between the grounded first person POV and the distorted third person perspective – or the recent solo show "Father" – where the artistic archive of Valantinas' father is transformed into training data for an AI model to generate counterfeits – the resulting imagery reflects how knowledge systems, inherited narratives, and memory are interlinked within the increasingly algorithmic structure of the present time. Amidst this hyper-mediation and attempts at faking the real, Valantinas' practice is driven by a paradoxical, but nonetheless sincere yearning for the authentic – the outdated belief in photography's "decisive moment" that arrests the fleeting truth.

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EDUCATION

Philosophy Bachelor (2017-2021)
Vilnius University (VU)
Photography Master (2021-2023)
École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL)
Destinction Excellence

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 (Upcoming) "Loop Hole", MMCA residency, Seoul, South Korea. Curated by Žanete Liekite
2026 (Upcoming) "CREAM", Mueve gallery, Lima, Peru. Curated by Elia-Rose Guirous-Amasse
2026 "Dream States" Artist's Films International 25 (AFI), FOMA, London, UK, as well as 17 different institutions)
2025 "Pavienia", group exhibition, KKKC, Klaipėda, Lithuania. Curated by Žygimantas Berontas
2024 "Two-Dimensional Man", Vrij Paleis, group exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2024 "Outsiders", Radvila Palace museum, group exhibition, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2024 "Flashbang", Intervention in ex finance school, group exhibition, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2023 "In Exchange to Ages", National Art Gallery, (Public favorite "JCDecaux" prize), group exhibition, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2023 "Obsessions", Nida Art Colony, group exhibition, Nida, Lithuania. Curated by Anastasia Sosunova.
2022 "Won Syat", Platform L, group exhibition, Seoul, South
Korea.

RESIDENCIES

2026 (Upcoming) De Al Lado, Lima, Peru.
2024 Trust, Berlin Germany.
2024 Sodas1312, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2023 Nida Art Colony, Nida, Lithuania.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 "Father II", CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2025 "Father", CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Curated by Povilas Gumbis.