Dr. Auridas Gajauskas
Affiliated Researcher
VITA
Academic career
- 2011 Dr. phil. in Humanities, Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas, Lithuania
- 2006 Master of Religious studies, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Work experience
- since 2023 Expert at the Lithuanian Council for Culture. (Area: Cultural Education and Strategic Funding for Organizations Creating and/or Providing Cultural and/or Artistic Products and/or Services)
- 2021 - 2023 Die Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe, Dresden, Germany
- 2018 Curator at Antanas Mončys house-muzeum in Palanga
- 2012 - 2018 Lecturer at Vilnius Academy of Arts
- 2013 - 2014 Curator of exhibitions at Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
- 2011 - 2013 Curator of a Reading Room at Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
- 2006 - 2009 Lecturer at Vilnius University, Šiauliai Academy (formerly Šiauliai University)
Linguistic proficiency
- German
- English
- Russian
- Lithuanian (mother language)
Research and teaching focus
- Ethnography of social and cultural exclusion
- Artistic and curatorial research
- History of art and culture
- History of philosophy in the twentieth century
Scholarships and Awards
- 11/2025 - 01/2026 DAAD scholarship for academic research. Dresden University of Technology, Hannah Arendt Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism
- 04/2025 - 09/2025 KAAD scholarship for academic research. Justus Liebig University Giessen, Institute for Applied Theater Studies
- 01/2025 - 06/2025 LKT (Lithuanian Council for Culture) Individual research scholarship
- 01/2024 - 02/2024 KKKC (Klaipėda Cultural Communication Center) Residency Program for artistic research. Scholarship Awarded
- 05/2019 LKT (Lithuanian Council for Culture) scholarship awarded. CRIPTA 747 (Turin, Italy) Residency Program for artistic research
- 02/2018 Erasmus exchange program for academics. University of Edinburgh College of Arts, Great Britain
- 2012 LKT (Lithuanian Council for Culture) Individual research scholarship
- 12/2009 - 02/2010 Erasmus scholarship for doctoral research at the University of Tallinn
- 03/2008 - 09/2008 KAAD scholarship for doctoral research. Philosophisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg
- 2008 Šiauliai City Scholarship for Cultural Research
Expert activities
- since 2023 Expert at the Lithuanian Council for Culture. (Area: Cultural Education and Strategic Funding for Organizations Creating and/or Providing Cultural and/or Artistic Products and/or Services)
- 2015 - 2016 Expert at the Lithuanian Council of Culture. (Area: interdisciplinary art and humanities publishing)
- 2014 Jury member at Vilnius Art Fair
Functions and memberships
- since 2023 Member of Alumni Club at Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas
- since 2020 Member of The Institute for Scene Experiments (Norway)
- 2018 - 2023 Member of the Lithuanian Artists' Association (LDS)
- since 2016 Member of the Performing Arts Forum (PAF) (France)
- since 2008 Member of Alumni Club at Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg (Germany)
PUBLICATIONS
Editorships
A DICTIONARY FOR A CIRCUS WORKER WITH AN ACCIDENTAL EDUCATION FROM SPAIN. (International exhibition publication)
Antanas Mončys house-museum in Palanga, Printed by Petro Ofsetas: Vilnius 2018.
VIDEO MASKS - MASKS FOR THE INVISIBLE MAN'S CINÉMATHÈQUE
Manor house in Žeimiai, Printed by Petro Ofsetas: Vilnius 2018.
DOG MUSIC (Group exhibition publication)
Šiauliai Art Gallery, Printed by Gorila reklama UAB: Šiauliai 2016.
UNANSWERED Q. EXHIBITION CATALOGUE OF YOUNG ARTISTS
Ed. Auridas Gajauskas, Monika Kalinauskaitė, Audrius Pocius (Ed.)
CAC, Printed by Petro ofsetas: Vilnius 2014.
Articles in journals
Idiorythmy and experimentation with forms of sociality in an alternative artist community at the monastery of Saint Erme
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Religion and culture (2025),
On Social and Cultural Exclusion in the Southern Part of Klaipėda: An Essay in Symmetrical Anthropology
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Sociology. Thought and Action. (2025), Vol. 54 No. 1
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About the Ukrainian War Refugee Arrival Centre situated on the premises of the main exhibition venue and the refugees themselves from the staff perspective
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Deeds and days, Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (2024), Nr. 81
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About COVID-19 testing centre at a Culture Palace, its visitors and testing from the perspective of the staff conducting the testing
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Deeds and days, Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (2023), Nr. 80
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Life and labor of the base of traditional circus: the "American circus" of italian Faggioni family
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: A Dictionary for a Circus Worker with an Accidental Education from Spain (2018),
Reflection of quantum aesthetics in the philosophy of the cosmos of Algis Mickūnas
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius (Ed.)Santalka. Philosophy, Communication (2011), Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 17-27.
Criticism of “ethnographic authority”. Notes on the research of James Clifford and Eric Wolf
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Inter-studia humanitatis. Postmodern anthropology (2008), No. 6, pp. 42-67.
Edmund Husserl's transcendental phenomenology: overcoming negative thinking.
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Man and word: philosophy. Scientific works, i.e. (2008), 10, No. 4, pp. 39-49.
Cinema about Christ. A look from the perspective of the philosophy of belief
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Inter-studia humanitatis. Guilt as a cultural phenomenon (2007), No. 4, pp. 118-129.
Martin Heidegger's Passive Nihilism. In search of the new thinking
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Acta Humanitarica Universitatis Saulensis (2006), , pp. 446-460.
The concept of civic existentialism of A. Šliogeris and A. Juozaitis
Gajauskas, Auridas; Mažeikis, G.
In: Works of Young Scientists (2004), No. 2, pp. 80-86.
God beyond his need
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Baltos lankos (2004), No. 18/19, pp. 185-199.
Articles in Anthologies
Who thinks abstractly?
In: Klimašauskas, Valentinas (Ed.): Words, words, words or texts of Lithuanian artists.
artbooks.lt, Vilnius 2022.. (Gajauskas, Auridas)
Invitation to create sculpture
In: Gambickaitė, Danutė (Ed.): Choreography: Art Writing in Contemporary Art Criticism.
artbooks.lt, Vilnius 2020.. (Gajauskas, Auridas)
Reviews
IXth World Samogitian Art Exhibition at the Plungė Samogitian Art Museum
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Lithuanian Artists Union magazine Dailė/Art (2024) , p. No. 97.
The brakes of the knight of faith are the Maddestmaxs speed box
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Choreography: Art Writing in Contemporary Art Criticism (2020)
With the same grammatical mistake. Juozas Laivis exhibition at the Mykolas Kleopas Oginskis art school in Rietavas
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: 7 Art Days (2018) No. 13 (1250), 9
Elena Narbutaitė's "Prosperity" at the CAC
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: letmekoo.lt (2017)
Games of forms or When and how i visited Gabriel Lester’s exhibition at the De Appel art center
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Artnews.It, 2016 (2016)
Gintautas Trimakas exhibition at the project space “Malonioji 6”
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Artnews.lt (2015)
The birthright to be wrong. Valdas Ozarinskas' "Filters" and Dainius Trumpis "Windows"
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Kultūros barai (2015) No. 4
Liudvikas Buklys exhibition “Tongues Alike” at the CAC
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Artnews.lt (2015)
Justinas Vaitiekūnas painting exhibition at the gallery "Akademija"
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Artnews.lt (2015)
A look at the XII Baltic Triennale from the perspective of a cockroach
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Letmekoo.lt (2015)
Algimantas Kunčius exhibition “Paintings” at the National Art Gallery
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Artnews.lt (2015)
New perspectivism in the XII Baltic triennial
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Dailė/Art (2015) 2015/2
Ariel Soule and Simon Toparovsky “Pillar of shame” at the Jonas mekas visual arts center or Never stand behind the back of the angel of history
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Artnews.lt (2014)
Event no. 556. Georgia in the tempo of the diaphragm
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: Literature and Art (2009) No. 71
Autumn calendar: own observations, Jalal Toufic and Will Holder
Gajauskas, Auridas
In: The Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt (2009) In: www.blunt.cc
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further publishments
Interview: “What do you do to ease your mind? (Meeting Laurent David Garnier)” (let me bake zine - 2nd Issue, 2017)
Interview: "A conversation with Jokūbas Čižikas about the exhibition 'Reptile eye', palinopsia and other creative practices" (letmekoo.lt, 2017)
"The protocols of the kūlgrinda", Dog Music, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Press: UAB Gorila reklama, 2016
Interview: "The spirit of experimental engineering and reformation in contemporary art and cultural policy. A conversation with Robertas Narkus" (Dog Music, 2016)
Interview: "Exploded artwork. Auridas Gajauskas conversation with Jurga Barilaite" (Dailė/Art Magazine, 2015/1)
Interview: “Jurga Barilaitė – hell is invented” (Artnews.lt, 2015)
Interview: “One cloth. Interview with Antanas Gerlikas.” (Unanswered Q. Young Artists Exhibition Catalogue, 2014)
Interview: “Tunaroll or a nut? Interview with artists Robertas Narkus, Rūtene Merkliopaite and Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson.” (Unanswered Q. Young Artists Exhibition Catalogue, 2014)
Interview: “Mustache of self-defense. Interview with Gediminas G. Akstinas.” (Unanswered Q. Young Artists Exhibition Catalogue, 2014)
Interview: “Under the eyes and between the hands. An interview with Juste Venslovaite.” (Unanswered Q. Young Artists Exhibition Catalogue, 2014)
Interview: "Lightning. An interview with Arnas Anskaitis." (Unanswered Q. Young Artists Exhibition Catalogue, 2014)
"Thomas Wilson is Indian Gustavus Vassa African Audit" (Contemporary Art Center Vilnius at Independent Curators International, 2013)
Interview: “Auridas Gajauskas in conversation with artist Elena Narbutaitė about writing, limits and infinity” (CAC Interview, No. 22/23, 2013)
Interview: "Interview with Algis Lankelis about site-specific art, intuition dominating in all areas of life, and the past" (Artnews.lt, 2012)
Interview: "What does it feel like to live an extended life? Interview with Darius Mikšys on the occasion of his representation of lithuania at the Venice Biennale" (370 magazine for the curious mind, 2010)
Interview: "A conversation between Auridas Gajauskas and Jonas Žakaitis about a corner that doesn't exist yet" (CAC Interview, No. 16/17, 2010)
“On the civic value of the amphitheatre of Šiauliai” Literature and Art. "Park". February 28, 2008.