{"id":11523,"date":"2026-07-21T13:43:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T11:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/?page_id=11523"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:35:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:35:55","slug":"petraitis-paulius","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/en\/artists\/petraitis-paulius\/","title":{"rendered":"Petraitis Paulius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paulius Petraitis is an artist-theorist and curator based in Vilnius. His work explores the evolving conditions of contemporary photography and visual culture, focusing on how subjectivity is encoded into technologies and broader sociopolitical systems. He received a PhD from the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute and has presented artistic research at venues such as The Photographers&#8217; Gallery in London, the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, and the Riga Photography Biennial. His curatorial practice spans from early networked experiments like <em>This Is It\/Now<\/em> (2015) to institutional exhibitions such as <em>On Photographic Beings<\/em> (2020) at the Latvian National Museum of Art, and recent gallery shows like <em>a vocabulary for ghosts<\/em> (2026). Also active in publishing, he recently co-edited the volume <em>And Then It Fades (Away)<\/em> (2024).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pauliuspetraitis.com\/\">http:\/\/www.pauliuspetraitis.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Oasis_hr_LaurynasSkeisgiela_@elaiela.archive-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Oasis_hr_LaurynasSkeisgiela_@elaiela.archive-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Oasis_hr_LaurynasSkeisgiela_@elaiela.archive-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Oasis_hr_LaurynasSkeisgiela_@elaiela.archive-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Oasis_hr_LaurynasSkeisgiela_@elaiela.archive-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Oasis_hr_LaurynasSkeisgiela_@elaiela.archive-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Oasis_hr_LaurynasSkeisgiela_@elaiela.archive-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Oasis_hr_LaurynasSkeisgiela_@elaiela.archive-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Oasis_hr_LaurynasSkeisgiela_@elaiela.archive-2-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Oasis_hr_LaurynasSkeisgiela_@elaiela.archive-2-770x578.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Oasis<\/em>, Evy Jokhova&#8217;s curated exhibition, Med\u016bza, Vilnius, 2025. Photograph by Laurynas Skeisgiela.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Paulius_Petraitis_Enjoy_the_Now_Circulations_Paris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Paulius_Petraitis_Enjoy_the_Now_Circulations_Paris.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Paulius_Petraitis_Enjoy_the_Now_Circulations_Paris.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Paulius_Petraitis_Enjoy_the_Now_Circulations_Paris-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Paulius_Petraitis_Enjoy_the_Now_Circulations_Paris-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Paulius_Petraitis_Enjoy_the_Now_Circulations_Paris-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Paulius_Petraitis_Enjoy_the_Now_Circulations_Paris-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Paulius_Petraitis_Enjoy_the_Now_Circulations_Paris-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Paulius_Petraitis_Enjoy_the_Now_Circulations_Paris-770x578.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Enjoy the Now<\/em>, Circulation(s) Festival, Paris, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Skin-deep_fotoMadaraKupla_2021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Skin-deep_fotoMadaraKupla_2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1360\" height=\"1768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Skin-deep_fotoMadaraKupla_2021.jpg 1360w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Skin-deep_fotoMadaraKupla_2021-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Skin-deep_fotoMadaraKupla_2021-788x1024.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Skin-deep_fotoMadaraKupla_2021-768x998.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Skin-deep_fotoMadaraKupla_2021-1182x1536.jpg 1182w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Skin-deep_fotoMadaraKupla_2021-250x325.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Skin-deep_fotoMadaraKupla_2021-770x1001.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1360px) 100vw, 1360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Skin-deep<\/em>, 2021. Photograph by Madara Kupla.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a-vocabulary-for-ghosts-ASNI-2026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a-vocabulary-for-ghosts-ASNI-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a-vocabulary-for-ghosts-ASNI-2026.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a-vocabulary-for-ghosts-ASNI-2026-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a-vocabulary-for-ghosts-ASNI-2026-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a-vocabulary-for-ghosts-ASNI-2026-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a-vocabulary-for-ghosts-ASNI-2026-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a-vocabulary-for-ghosts-ASNI-2026-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a-vocabulary-for-ghosts-ASNI-2026-770x514.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>a vocabulary for ghosts<\/em>, an exhibition curated for the Riga Photography Biennial, 2026. Photograph by Dasha Trofimova.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/artists\/petraitis-paulius\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Petraitis Paulius - Lietuvos tarpdisciplininio meno k\u016br\u0117j\u0173 s\u0105junga\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/artists\/petraitis-paulius\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lietuvos tarpdisciplininio meno k\u016br\u0117j\u0173 s\u0105junga\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-07-29T10:35:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Oasis_hr_LaurynasSkeisgiela_@elaiela.archive-2-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Julija\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/\",\"name\":\"Lietuvos tarpdisciplininio meno k\\u016br\\u0117j\\u0173 s\\u0105junga\",\"description\":\"Lithuanian Inter&shy;disciplinary Artists&rsquo; Association\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/artists\/petraitis-paulius\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Oasis_hr_LaurynasSkeisgiela_@elaiela.archive-2-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1920},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/artists\/petraitis-paulius\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/artists\/petraitis-paulius\/\",\"name\":\"Petraitis Paulius - Lietuvos tarpdisciplininio meno k\\u016br\\u0117j\\u0173 s\\u0105junga\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/artists\/petraitis-paulius\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-21T11:43:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-07-29T10:35:55+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/artists\/petraitis-paulius\/\"]}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11528,"href":"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11523\/revisions\/11528"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}