Kinčinaitytė Geistė Marija
Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė (b. 1991) is the author of various artistic investigations that use photography and the moving image to explore the concepts of belonging, alienation and the unknown. Her work is characterised by an aesthetic of the uncomfortable and anxious, which combines the categories of the strange and the familiar, the distant and the close. Since 2014, her work has been actively presented in solo and group exhibitions in the United Kingdom (The Photographers’ Gallery), Norway (Fotogalleriet), Lithuania (Sodų 4, Vartai, Atletika, Prospektas Gallery, Vilnius Picture Gallery, Petras Domšaitis Gallery, Kaunas Photography Gallery, MO Museum), photography and art museums in South Korea, Taiwan and China. Her work has been published in The British Journal of Photography, The Financial Times, Fotografija and Krantai magazines, NYX: a noctournal, S.KIN, A+A, H – The Notion of Humanist Photography, EEP Berlin Mag Vol. Yesterday and Today in.
Kinčinaitytė has been studying at Goldsmiths College, University of London, since 2010, where she obtained her BA and MA degrees in Media Studies and Film and Screen Theory. In 2023, she defended her PhD in Film and Screen Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Untitled (Burning), 2014.
Installation view of The Pool (2020), Vartai Gallery, Vilnius, 2020. Photo Geistė M. Kinčinaitytė
Subsuns, Atletika gallery, 2024.
Subsuns, Atletika gallery, 2024.