Rėda Brandišauskienė ^{Emerging artist}

Artist is based in: Lithuania

Rėda Brandišauskienė is a Vilnius-born artist, lawyer, and cultural heritage activist whose practice interweaves critical inquiry and poetic gesture to explore urban transformation, memory, and spatial justice. With a multidisciplinary background in law, education, public administration, and the arts, she situates artistic practice as both civic engagement and critical reflection.

In 2025, Brandišauskienė completes her Master of Arts in Site-Specific Art at the Vilnius Academy of Arts with the research project White Darkness. Developed as a fog installation on Savior’s Hill in Vilnius Old Town, White Darknessaddresses cultural landscape loss caused by real estate development. The intervention was also transformed into a short poetic film with original score, presented at Titanikas gallery (VAA) as part of the group exhibition Blades, alongside her digital collage Fog of Signatures.

Her recent solo exhibition A Square of Mind (2025, apiece gallery, Vilnius) examined the commodification of urban space through a sculptural intervention and was featured in the official programme of Vilnius Culture Night Festival. Other projects include Sodai (2025, VAA Library, Vilnius), Nidos Utopijos (2024, Kreatoriumas gallery, Vilnius), the virtual presentation of Body by the Water in Art without a Roof (2023), and the urban performance Concrete Tsunami (2016, Republic of Užupis Independence Day Carnival).

Supported by the Research Council of Lithuania, Brandišauskienė’s practice increasingly merges poetics, protest, and research, generating new forms of visibility and public dialogue about the future of the city.