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PAULIUS ŠLIAUPA
Born 1990 in Vilnius.
Contacts
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@p.sliaupa
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/sliaupa
Instagram portfolio: https://www.instagram.com/p.sliaupa/?hl=en
Instagram sketchbook of ideas: https://www.instagram.com/paulius_sliaupa/?hl=en
email: p.sliaupa@gmail.com
Academic qualifications
2020 – 2021 postgraduate residency HISK/Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium
2020 – exchange MFA, Konsthögskolan i Malmö/Malmö Art Academy, Malmö, Sweden
2018 – 2019 MFA (Media Arts, diploma with distinction), KASK/De Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium
2016 – 2019 MFA (contemporary sculpture), VDA/Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 – 2018 exchange MFA, RUFA/Rome University of Fine Arts, Rome, Italy
2009 – 2013 BFA of painting, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania
Residencies
Upcoming
2026 MONTE, Chaco, Argentina
Past
2024-2025 Fondation Fiminco, Paris, France
2024 M.A.P Heritage space, Hanoi, Vietnam
2024 Centre Intermondes, La Rochelle, France
2024, 2021 La Cour des Arts, Saint Remy de Provence, France
2023 SÍM, Reykjavík, Iceland
2023 ARE, Enschede, Netherlands
2023 RAVI, Liege, Belgium
Personal exhibitions
Upcoming
2026 Marcinkoniu station gallery, Marcinkonys, Lithuania
2026 Meno Nisa gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2026 Galerie Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
2025 ‘Winterteller‘, Bogardenkapel, Brugge, Belgium
Past
2024 ‘A snowfall of salt‘, Centre Intermondes, La Rochelle, France
2024 ‘After nature‘, Michèle Schoonjans, Brussels, Belgium
2024 ‘As if the night was dreaming of day‘, Meno Niša and the Vilnius Town Hall, Lithuania
2023 ‘BEYOND MANUAL‘, B93, Enschede, The Netherlands
2023 ‘Backgrounds and players‘, duo exhibition with Laima Matuzonyte, Menu Skalbykla, Valkininkai, Lithuania
2022 ‘Night watch‘, HuidenClub, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2022 ‘Earth Drama‘ Meno Niša, Vilnius, Lithuania
2022 ‘Moonpieces‘, Maanstraat, Antwerp, Belgium
2021 ‘Neon Poems‘, Casinot XXH, Malmö, Sweden
2021 ‘Whitefields‘, Embassy of Lithuania, Brussels, Belgium
2019 ‘Dès Vu‘, Meno Nisa, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 ‘Regardless of Delusion‘, Meno Nisa, Vilnius, Lithuania,
2015 ‘Rituals of a white day‘ gallery Meno Nisa, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 ‘Reflections of light‘ („Šviesos refleksijos“), St. Jonas gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
Selected group exhibitions
Upcoming
2025 ‘Habiter la faille‘, Fondation Fiminco, Chaufferie, Paris, France
2025 ‘And the Wind Will Take Us Away‘, Stasys Museum, Panevezys, Lithuania
2025 ‘Magical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order‘, ARGOS, Brussels, Belgium
2025 ArtBrussels, Brussels, Belgium
2025 XXVIIIth Traverse International Meetings, ENSAV Toulouse, France
2025 Protonwerk No. 14: Screen & Sound, Dampfzentrale Bern ir Videoex Festival Zurich, Switzerland
2025 Festival of Experimental Art 'Event Horizon', Yerevan, Armenia
Past
2025 Falling Rhythm, 043, Barcelona, Spain
2025 ADAF 2025: Simulacra, Technopolis (Gazi), Athens, Greece
2024 ‘GOING PLACES, MOVING THINGS‘ Mipec Longbien, Hanoi, Vietnam
2024 Cairo Video Festival by Medrar, Cairo, Egypt
2022 ‘ECHO1‘, K.L.8, Brussels, Belgium
2024 9th Open Nights festival, Larissa, Greece
2024 MT60#024, Diest, Belgium
2024 Lichtkunstfestival, Schiedam, The Netherlands
2024 La Nature festival, Belgium
2024 ‘Aritmija‘ festival, Merkine, Lithuania
2024 ‘MELTING WALLS‘, murmurcontemporary, Montreux, Switzerland
2024 PRESS RECORD 2024, Antwerp, Belgium
2024 EXPO LEUVEN, Leuven, Belgium
2024 Ulysse revient a Saint-Remy, La Cour des Arts, Saint Remy de Provence, France
2023 Via Carpatia‘, IMO GALERIA, Stary Sącz, Poland
2023 Input/Output Exporuimte in de Poortersloge, Brugge, Belgium
2023 European Film Festival of Houlgate, France
2023 ‘BA&DF 2023‘ Arsenaal, Gentbrugge, Belgium
2023 ‘Lavender snows‘ La Traverse, Marseille, France
2023 ‘Au loin le reflet du vacarme‘, OODAAQ FESTIVAL N°12, Nantes, France
2023 AiR Biekorf 7.0, Exporuimte in de Poortersloge, Brugge, Belgium
2023 ‘□‘, Titanikas, Vilnius, Lithuania
2023 AiR Beehive 7.0, in de Poortersloge, Brugge, Belgium
2022 KURZstummfilmfestival, Zeche Carl, Essen, Germany
2022 TIMELINE:BH #7 - BELO HORIZONTE INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL, Cine Santa Tereza in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2022 KIN, LT.art Vienna, Viena, Austria
2022 PASA festival, South Korea
2022 Coctelito de Videodanza, Mexico
2022 ArtVilnius22 ‘The sculpture path‘ in collaboration with Laima Matuzonyte, Vilnius, Lithuania
2022 ‘Klimaatfestival Antwerpen‘Antwerp, Belgium
2022 ‘ArtContest 2022‘, Vanderborght Building, Brussels, Belgium
2022 ‘Calculations: units of measurement‘, Thüringer Landesmuseum, Rudolstadt, HAUNT, Berlin, Germany
2022 ‘In My Room‘ Studio LUX, Berlin, Germany
2022 ‘Lacuna Festivals Clash 2022‘, Madrid, Spain
2022 ‘START‘ festival, Rokiškis, Lithuania
2022 ‘Lockdown documents‘, Ecoraume, Vienna, Austria
2022 ‘M-idzomer‘, M Leuven, Belgium
2022 ‘Fay-Art Pop Up Kunsthuis‘, Brugge, Belgium
2022 ‘Demolution‘, K.L.8, Brussels, Belgium
2022 ‘x organization‘, Domatio, Athens, Greece
2022 ‘Via Carpatia‘, IMO GALERIA, Stary Sącz, Poland
2022 ‘XXVe International Encounters Traverse, (Almost) Unlimited Capacity‘, Toulouse, France
2021 ArtVilnius21 ‘The sculpture path‘, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021 ‘Various positions‘, Gosset site, Brussels, Belgium
2021 ‘Beursschouwburg‘Meggy‘s Rustamova‘s film programme, Brussels, Belgium
2021 ‘COMMUNITAS III: Digitale Gemeinschaft‘ Kunsthaus Steffisburg, Steffisburg, Switzerland
2021 ‘KIKK Festival 2021‘ in collaboration with Pepa Ivanova, Namur, Belgium
2021 ‘Input/Output‘ 2021 Exporuimte in de Poortersloge, Brugge, Belgium
2021 ‘MYKOLAIV ART WEEK: CHANGE‘, Mykolaiv, Ukraine
2021 ‘Simultan‘ video festival, Timisoara, Romania
2021 ‘ADAF‘ Athens, Greece
2021 ‘Now&After’20‘, video festival, Red Hall, Moscow, Russia
2021 ‘LAHTI FRINGE FESTIVAL‘, Lahti, Finland
2021 ‘Building Beyond‘, Brussels Architecture Film Festival, Recyclart, Brussels, Belgium
2021‘Unreal Bonfires‘, One night public gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2021 ‘Entfernte erkundungen‘ (distant explorations), Symposion Lindabrunn, Vienna, Austria
2021 ‘Loop naar de Maan‘, Heerlen, Netherlands
2021 ‘The Sun Song Imagined‘, Museum DE MINDERE, Sint-Truiden, Belgium
2021 ‘Stockholm Fringe Festival 2021‘, Stockholm, Sweden
2021 ‘Sustainable views‘, Espronceda, Barcelona, Spain
2021 ‘The Faraway Nearby‘ ARGOS, Brussels, Belgium
2021 ‘The HISK affair‘, Gosset site, Brussels, Belgium
2021 ‘VIDEOFENSTER 2021‘, Cologne, Germany
2021 Sonsbeek´s Conjunctions programme, Arnhem, Netherlands
2021 ‘Care Infrastructures‘ One Night Public Gallery, Sopot, Poland
2021 ‘Internationales Digitalkunst Festival‘, Stuttgart, Germany
2021 ‘Streetlight‘, Roman Susan, Chicago, USA
2021 ‘Beyond the skin, folds‘, Studio K, Kvernaland, Norway
2021 ‘New Songs for Old Cities‘, Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium
2020-2021 ‘BEESTIG? ‘ Stadsfestival Damme, Damme, Belgium
2020 ‘Opyum‘ Video Performance Festival, Le Consulat, Paris, France
2020-2021 ‘Oooh‘, Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium
2020 ‘GREEN IDEAL‘, Artiglieria Center, Torino, Italy
2020 ‘Super‘, Espronceda, Barcelona, Spain
2020 ‘Simultan“ video festival, Timisoara, Romania
2020 ‘Punk cinema Festival‘, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2020 ‘Hoe was jouw lockdown? ‘, Cultuurcentrum Zwaneberg, Heist-op-den-berg, Belgium
2020 ‘In connection‘, Δωμάτιο/Domatio, Athens, Greece
2020 ‘Shinano Primitive Sense Art Festival‘, Shinano, Nagano prefecture, Japan
2020 ‘The upper hand‘, IKOB, Eupen, Belgium
2020 ‘Perception games‘, Pärnu Linnagaleriis Raekojas (Uus 4), Pärnu, Estonia
2020 ‘OF STREETS AND MONSTERS‘, OKNA, Porto, Portugal
2019 ‘Back to the Future‘, gallery Meno Nisa, Vilnius, Lithuania
2019 ‘SCRPR x MONTAGE‘, LaVallée, Brussels, Belgium
2019 ‘Videofest 2: So Humor Is Actually Fluid? ‘, Studium P, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018 ‘What are the artists doing all day long? ‘ Vilnius, Lithuania
2018 ‘Media Art Festival‘ MAXXI, Rome, Italy
2017 Advertising intervention ‘Ocho Por Très‘, Valladolid, Spain
2016 – 2017 ‘Art Meets Camera – Closer than Ever‘, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 ArtVilnius ‘The sculpture path‘ collaboration with Migle Grigutyte, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 ‘Space Odyssey‘ („Kosminė odisėja‘), Maironio str. 6, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 ‘Cycle‘, Stained Glass manufacture gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 ‘VIEWS‘, POST gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
Art fairs as part as Meno Niša display
Past
2024 Antwerp Art Fair, Antwerp, Belgium
2024 Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark
2024, 2023, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 ArtVilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania
2024, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 Positions Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2017, 2016 YIA Paris, Paris, France
2016 Cologne, Germany
2015 Art Market Budapest, Hungary, Budapest
Other achievements
2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 Lithuanian state scholarship for the creators of art
2024 prize at Simultan Festival, Timisoara, Romania
2024 SOFAM mini grant
2023 distinction in the bienalle Via Carpatia‘, IMO GALERIA, Stary Sącz, Poland
2023 main prize of Input/Output 2023, Brugge, Belgium
2023 member of Inland Ocean https://www.inlandocean.org/
2023 Culture Moves Europe grant to participate in ARE residency
2022 SOFAM grantee and joined the association
2022 grand prize in ‘ArtContest 2022‘, Espace Vanderborght, Brussels, Belgium
2022 Theater TRASPARANT ‘L’acte de respirer‘, collaboration with Siebe Thijs, Antwerp, Belgium
2021-2022 Video documentation of exhibitions in KIOSK and of performances in KASK, Ghent;
FOMU, TICK TACK Antwerp; BOZAR, IMAL, Harlan Levey Projects Brussels
2021 Sound engineer and assistant for the film ‘Becoming Plant‘ by Grace Ndritu, Brussels, Belgium
2021 la Cour des Arts residency main prize, Saint Remy de Provence, France
2021 Nordic Culture Point grant
2020 M HKA Antwerp; Mu.ZEE Ostende; IKOB - Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst Eupen and Vrienden v/h SMAK, Ghent, Belgium acquired my works
2018 – 2019 internship with Nicolas Provost, Belgium
2019 internship with Berlinde de Bruyckere
2018 assistant of Miltos Manetas in MAXXI, Rome, Italy
2016 Žabolis Art Project 3rd place, photo exhibition, Umiatovskių palace, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 Guide in the 56th Venice Bienalle in the Lithuanian, Venice, Italy