Emilija Globytė ^{Emerging artist}

Artist is based in: Lithuania

Emilija Globytė is a creator, designer and exhibition curator. During her Master’s degree at the Vilnius Academy of Arts’ Telšiai Faculty, she was awarded the Antanas Smetona Presidential Scholarship for the 2024–2025 academic year. She actively develops her professional and creative activities within the academic, exhibition and design fields. Since 2022, she has held the position of exhibition curator at the Vilnius Academy of Arts Telšiai Gallery, and since June 2023, she has also been working as a gallerist. Her active involvement has contributed to the gallery’s international visibility. During the ArtVilnius’23 contemporary art fair, the gallery was recognised as one of the seven best Lithuanian galleries for its acclaimed project, “Objects”, by Donatas Repeika, a lecturer at the VAA Telšiai Faculty. In spring 2024, she completed an Erasmus+ internship at the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in Riga, assisting a project manager. She engages with the academic community, having served as a student representative in the VAA Senate (2021–2023) and as a member of the Telšiai Faculty’s student council (2019–2022). In her creative practice, she participates in exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. Highlights include participating in Dutch Design Week 2023 in Eindhoven at the Klokgebouw space within the VAA exhibition, and the group design exhibition Domestic Visions at the Vartai Showroom in Vilnius (2025). She has also participated in other group exhibitions in Telšiai, Alytus, Šiauliai and Vilnius in Lithuania. In 2024, she held her solo design exhibition, ‘Between’, at the Klaipėda Gallery, and presented the ‘Change’ project at the KKKC Exhibition Hall during Lithuanian Design Week 2024. As a curator, she promotes the work of young artists. She has curated the ongoing open exhibition series Open and the “Beams” exhibition (2025) at the VAA Telšiai Gallery, as well as the “It Takes Time to Feel exhibition”, featuring L. Matukonytė and E. Višinskaitė, at the Meno Parkas Gallery in Kaunas. She also curates research-based exhibitions, such as “PRESERVED: Adelė G. Zinkevičiūtė’s Studies of Samogitian Blacksmithing”, which was funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture. Her creative practice is complemented by her MA project, “Closeness of Design Process: Intermediate Forms”, which was featured on the international design platform Dezeen and in the Lithuanian magazine Veranda ID.