ABOUT
Laura Matukonytė is a Lithuanian interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture and installation. Combining her background in fashion design with contemporary sculptural practice, she explores paper as a material for constructing spatial systems that emerge through dialogue with gravity, light, moisture and time.
Her practice is rooted in making as a way of thinking. Rather than treating material as passive matter, she approaches the studio as a site of observation where form emerges through an ongoing dialogue between material, gravity, moisture, light and time. Working primarily with paper, she investigates how seemingly fragile materials can develop structural presence and occupy architectural space without concealing their inherent vulnerability.
Construction is central to her practice. Drawing on methods of pattern cutting, folding, joining and assembling, she develops sculptural systems in which surfaces become volumes and individual elements form interconnected spatial structures. Rather than imposing predetermined forms, she works through processes that allow materials to participate in shaping the outcome. Through minimal gestures and material precision, her installations invite a slower way of looking, revealing sculpture as a temporary balance of forces rather than a static form.
In 2025, she created ∞D (Multiple Dimensions), a 9-metre suspended paper sculpture for the staircase of the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius. Her works has been presented in solo and group exhibitions across Lithuania and internationally, including Interplay at Haus des Papiers, Berlin.
EDUCATION
2023 – 2025 Master's in Sculpture, Vilnius Academy of Arts (Cum Laude)
2002 – 2006 Bachelor's in Fashion Design, Vilnius Academy of Arts
RESIDENCIES
July 2026 – Aluminium Casting Practice with sculptor Petras Mazūras (Mizarai, Lithuania)
July 2025 – Paper Residency at Kunst Ort Lehnin, organized by the Haus des Papiers Museum (Berlin, Germany)
July 2025 – Aluminium Casting Practice with sculptor Petras Mazūras (Mizarai, Lithuania)
August 2024 – Creative Residency at the Telšiai Gallery, Vilnius Academy of Arts (Telšiai, Lithuania)
July 2024 – Aluminium Casting Practice with sculptor Petras Mazūras (Mizarai, Lithuania)
WORKSHOPS / ART PROJECTS
April 2025 – Scanned Collage Workshop: “Sensing Takes Time” by Laura Matukonytė and Emilija Višinskaitė.
The session offered space for both creative expression and quiet emotional observation.
Meno Parkas Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania.
EXHIBITIONS
2026
June - July - Solo Exhibition "How to Rent a Room in a Dollhouse?" at "Bala" Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
March - April - Trio Exhibition "orónys" at "Muitinė" Gallery, (Artists: Laura Matukonytė, Kornelijus Pelkys and Živilė Aleknavičiūtė) Kaunas, Lithuania
March - April - Group Exhibition "Doorways" at "Telšiai Gallery", Telšiai, Lithuania
December 2025 / June 2026 - Group Exhibition "Wechselwirkung - Interplay” at paper museum "Haus des Papiers", Berlin, Germany
December 2025 / Janury 2026 - Duo Exhibition "It Takes Time" (Artists: Laura Matukonytė and Emilija Višinskaitė, Curator: Emilija Globytė) at the Exhibition Hall of the Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre (KKKC).
2025
September - Solo Exhibition "white ◌ instead of diaries” at Namukas Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
July - Solo Exhibition: “(NON-) FUNCTIONAL PAUSE”, "Galerie am Kunst", Kunst Ort Lehnin institute, Germany.
June - Final Master’s Degree Exhibition „GRADUATION SHOW‘25”, Nacional Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
March – April - Duo Exhibition: "SENSING TAKES TIME" (Artists: Laura Matukonytė and Emilija Višinskaitė, Curator: Emilija Globytė). Lithuanian Artists' Association, “Meno Parkas Gallery”, Kaunas, Lithuania.
2024
December - Group Exhibition: “WINTER EXHIBITION‘24”, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania.
December - Group Exhibition: “BLACK/WHITE”, Lithuanian Artists' Association, “Drobė” Gallery, Kaunas,
November - Group Exhibition: “THE ASSEMBLY”, M. K. Čiurlionis National Muzeum of Arts, “Galaunė house-museum”, Lithuania.
2023
October - International Group Exhibition “CONVERSATION”, "Camberwell Space" Gallery, University of the Arts, London, UK.
November 2024 – Paper Workshop: “It’s Not Just It”
Exploring how women’s practices can serve as a source of artistic creativity.
National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania.
February 2024 – Publication “Dokumentai”
Involved as co-author, designer, event organizer, and contributor to the exhibition at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania.
September 2023 – Scanned Collage Workshop: “What Does Art Tell Us?” by Laura Matukonytė and Ilona Kačerauskienė.
Participant in the workshop program of the 14th Kaunas Biennial: “Long-distance Friendships”
Kaunas, Lithuania.
PUBLICATIONS
2026
JULY
- about the exhibition "How to Rent a Room in a Dollhouse?" at 7MD
- photo reportage from the exhibition "How to Rent a Room in a Dollhouse?" at ARTNEWS.LT
- photo reportage from the exhibition "How to Rent a Room in a Dollhouse?" at ECHO GONE WRONG
APRIL
- photo reportage from the exhibition "Orónys" at SALIVA.LIVE
- photo reportage from the exhibition "Orónys" at ECHO GONE WRONG
- photo reportage from the exhibition "Orónys" at ARTNEWS.LT
MARCH
- interview at LAMŲ SLĖNIS
- photo reportage from the exhibition "Doorways" at ARTNEWS.LT
- photo reportage from the exhibition "Doorways" at ECHO GONE WRONG
- photo reportage from the exhibition "Doorways" at SALIVA.LIVE
DECEMBER
- photo reportage from the exhibition "Takes Time" at ARTNEWS.LT
- photo reportage from the exhibition "Takes Time" at ECHO GONE WRONG
- interview at Bernardinai.lt
2025
SEPTEMBER
- photo reportage from the solo exhibition "white ◌ instead of diaries” at ARTNEWS.LT
- photo reportage from the solo exhibition "white ◌ instead of diaries” at ECHO GONE WRONG
MARCH
- about the duo exhibition: "SENSING TAKES TIME" at ARTNEWS.LT
- about the duo exhibition: "SENSING TAKES TIME" at ECHO GONE WRONG
2024
DECEMBER
- about the group exhibition: “BLACK/WHITE” at ARTNEWS.LT
- about the group exhibition: “THE ASSEMBLY” at ARTNEWS.LT