Birutà Stulgaitė

Born on 08 08 1952 in Dryžai near Šilalė, Lithuania.

Education

1972–1977 m. Metal Art diploma studies, the Estonian State Art Institute in Tallinn.

Membership

1981 m. became a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association.

Grants

2012 Lithuanian State Grant for Culture and Arts.

2004–2005 Lithuanian State Grant for Culture and Arts.

1998–1999 Lithuanian State Grant for Culture and Arts.

1997 Soros Contemporary Art Centre Grant.

1993 Swedish Institute Grant in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Awards

2012  Lithuanian Government Prize for Culture and Arts.

1981  Bronze medal, International Jablonec Costume Jewellery Exhibition, Czechoslovakia

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2012  Changing Space. Titanikas Gallery, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania

2005  White. Lietuvos aidas Gallery–M, Vilnius, Lithuania

2002  Adornments. Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania

2000   Birutė Stulgaitė. Amber. Amber Museum–Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1997  Small-Scale Metal Artwork. Lietuvos Aidas Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1995  Amber Works. Amber Gallery, Nida, Lithuania.

1994  Adornments. Lietuvos Aidas Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1992  Creation. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Selected group exhibitions

2014 Metallophone: Personally. The Second International Metal Art Biennial, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2011 Metallophone. 1st international Metal Art Biennial, Lithuanian Artists’ Association Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2008 A Window on the Past. Amber Museum-Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2008 Escape. International conceptual jewellery exhibition, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2004–2007 Jewellery in a Suitcase. Italy ( 2004 ); Sweden ( 2005 ); France ( 2006 ); Georgia ( 2006 ); Spain ( 2006 ); Russia ( 2005, 2006 ); Portugal ( 2007 ); Germany ( 2007 ).

2004 Contemporary Jewellery from the Baltics. National Decorative Art Museum, Madrid, Spain.

2002–2003 Baltic Amber. History and Design. Town Hall, Reykjavík, Island; Mont Calm Gallery, Canada; Old Post Office, Washington D.C. USA; Il Museo Centrale del Risorgimento al Vittoriano, Rome, Italy.

Mont Calm galerija, Kanada; Old Post Office, Vašingtonas, JAV; Il Museo Centrale del Risorgimento al Vittoriano, Roma, Italija.

2001 Virtual Exhibition of Contemporary Lithuanian Art. Art Exhibition Palace, Klaipėda.

2001 New: Contemporary Lithuanian Jewellery. The Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Ghent, Belgium.

2000 Tradition and the Future. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2000 Contemporary Lithuanian Jewellery. Japanese Culture Centre Mangha, Cracow, Poland.

1999 Silver’99. Legnica Art Gallery, Legnica, Poland.

1999 Lithuanian Art. Yan Chuang Museum, Beijing, China.

1999 Modern Amber Art. German Amber Museum, Ribnitz–Damgarten, Germany.

1997 Lithuanian Art’97. Galleries Present. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1996 Applied Art’96. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1995 Soft Form. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1995  3rd International Enamel Exhibition. Coburg, Germany.

1994 International Enamel Exhibition. Arts Museum, Toulouse, France.

1994 6th Baltic Countries Applied Arts and Crafts Triennial. Arts Exhibition Hall, Tallinn, Estonia.

1994 The Baltic Countries Art Exhibition, Germany.

1993–1994 „From Dreams to Reality“. Baltic-Scandinavian Design and Craft Exhibition. The White Pavilion, Tallinn; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; Exhibition Hall Latvia, Riga; Röhsska Museum, Goteborg, Sweden; Cabel Factory, Helsinki, Finland.

1992 Discoveries. Applied Art and Design from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Crafts Fair of Northern Europe, Hamburg; Lower Saxony Art, Crafts and Design Union Exhibition Hall Handwerksform, Hanover; Schleswig-Holstein Land Palace, Kiel, Germany.

1991 The Art of Enamelling. The Baltic – Nordic Countries. Denmark, Sweden, Finland.

1991 The Baltic Countries Applied Arts Triennial. Pirita Exhibition Pavilion, Tallinn, Estonia.

1991 The Baltic Countries Applied Arts Exhibition. Coburg, Germany.

1991 1st Untraditional Amber Exhibition. Applied Arts Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1990 Metal Artwork. Applied Arts Museum, Moscow, Russia.

1990 Enamel. Coburg, Germany.

1990 Adornments. Stuttgart, Germany.

1989 New Art Forms. Chicago, USA.

1988 International Jewellery Exhibition. Kolor. Czarna Galeria, Legnica, Poland.

1988 9th International Contemporary Enamel Biennial. Chapelle du Lycee Gay-Lusac, Municipal Museum, Limoges, France.

1988 The Baltic Countries Decorative Arts Triennial. Pirita Exhibition Pavilion, Tallinn, Estonia.

1988 1st Vilnius Jewellery Exhibition. Applied Arts Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1987 All-Union Enamelling Artwork Exhibition. Arts Museum, Riga; Summer Garden Pavilion, Leningrad ( Saint Petersburg ), Russia.

1986 8th International Contemporary Enamel Biennial. Chapelle du Lycee Gay-Lusac, Municipal Museum, Limoges, France.

1985 The 3rd Baltic Countries Decorative Arts Triennial. Pirita Exhibition Pavilion, Tallinn, Estonia.

1985 Exhibition: The 45-years of Soviet Lithuania. Central Artist’s Home, Moscow, Russia.

1984 7th International Contemporary Enamel Biennial. Chapelle du Lycee Gay-Lusac, Municipal Museum, Limoges, France.

1983 International Jablonec Jewellery Exhibition. International Jewellery Exhibition Centre, Jablonec nad Nisou, Czechoslovakia.

1983 Applied Decorative Arts Triennial of the Baltic Countries. Tallinn, Estonia.

1982 Jubilee Lithuanian Applied Arts Exhibition. Arts Exhibition Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1981 International Jablonec Costume Jewellery Exhibition. International Jewellery Exhibition Centre, Jablonec nad Nisou, Czechoslovakia.

1981 All-Union Metal Artwork Exhibition. Applied Arts Museum, Moscow, Russia.

1980 Jubilee Lithuanian Applied Arts Exhibition. Arts Exhibition Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1976 Lithuanian Young Artists’ Exhibition. Arts Exhibition Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Catalogues of solo exhibitions

|  Birutė Stulgaitė, sudarė Birutė Stulgaitė, Vilnius: Solidarity, 2000.

|  Birutė Stulgaitė, sudarė Birutė Stulgaitė, Vilnius: Solidarity, 1997.

Catalogues of selected exhibitions

|  Metalofonas: asmeniškai. Antroji tarptautinė | metalo meno bienalė. The Second International
Biennial of Contemporary Metal Art Metallophone: | Personally. Vilnius, 2014.

|  Metalofonas. 1-oji tarptautinė metalo meno | bienalė. The First International Biennial of
Metal Art. Vilnius, 2011.

7th Biennale Internationale Limoges l’art de l’email, Limoges, 1984, ill. 272.

Jablonec’83 International Exhibition, Jablonec nad Nisou, 1983.

Jubiliejinė respublikinė taikomosios dekoratyvinės dailės paroda, Vilnius: Lietuvos dailės muziejus, 1982.

|  Pabėgimas. Escape. Tarptautinė konceptualiosios juvelyrikos paroda. International Exhibition of Contemporary Jewellery. Vilnius, 2008, p. 36.

|  Sortint de la Maleta. Joiers i Esmaltadors Lituans, Vilnius, 2006.

|  La Joya del Baltico. Lituania, Letonia, Estonia, Vilnius, 2004.

|  Lithuanian Jewellery on the Move, Vilnius, 2004.

|  New: Contemporary Lithuanian Jewellery, Ghent: The Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, 2001, p. 28–31.

|  Srebro’99, Legnica: Galeria sztuki w Legnicy, 2000.

|  Tradicija ir ateitis. Tradition and Future, Apžvalginė vaizduojamosios ir taikomosios dailės paroda, Vilnius: Šiuolaikinio meno centras, 2000, p. 53.

|  Šiuolaikiniai lietuvių dailininkai gintaro galerijo- je-muziejuje, Vilnius, 1998, p. 5, 22–23, 48–50.

|  Taikomoji dailė 96, Vilnius:
Šiuolaikinio meno centras, 1996, p. 142–143.

|  Email international 3. Ausstellung, Coburg: Kunstverein Coburg, 1995, s. 119, ill. 305.

|   Balti Tarbekunstitriennaal. 6th Baltic Art and Crafts Triennial, Tallinn, 1994.

|  From Dreams to Reality: Baltic/Scandinavian Design and Craft Exhibition, The White Pavilion, Tallinn May 21 – June 20, 1993; The Contemporary Art Centre of Vilnius July 8 – August 9, 1993; Latvia Exhibition Hall Riga August 27 – September 27, 1993; Röhsska Museet Gothenburg February 27 – May 15, 1994, p. 41.

|   Kunsthandwerk aus Estland, Lettland und Litauen, Hamburg, 1992.

|  L’art de l’email, 10th biennale internationale, Limoges, 1990, p. 6.

|  Kolor, Legnica, 1988.

|  III Pabaltijo taikomosios dailės trienalė, Tallinn, 1985.

|  Jubiliejinė respublikinė taikomosios dailės paroda, 1980 m., Vilnius: Lietuvos dailės muziejus, 1980.

|  1976 m. Lietuvos respublikinė jaunųjų dailininkų paroda, Vilnius: Lietuvos Dailės muziejus, 1978. 

Articles

|  Asmenybės, Birutė Stulgaitė, 1990-2015, Lietuvos pasiekimai, I dalis p. 228 ir II dalis, p. 1011, Kaunas, 2015.

|  Jurgita Ludavičienė, Birutė Stulgaitė: metalo val- dovė, Dailė, 2013, Nr. 1, p. 78–85.

|  Rūta Šetikaitė, Gamtos įkvėptos variacijos metalu, Atgimimas, 2013 03 15.

|  Jurgita Ludavičienė, Reikli erdvė, Šiaurės Atėnai, 2012 09 21.

|  Aleksandra Aleksandravičiūtė,
Objektai tik buvimui, 7 meno dienos, 2012 09 14.

|  Birutė Stulgaitė, Visuotinė Lietuvių enciklopedija, Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos centras, 2012 t. XXII, p. 62.

|  Rūta Pileckaitė, XX a. Lietuvos juvelyrika:
nuo aksesuaro iki priekūnio, Vilnius: Dailininkų sąjungos leidykla, 2008, p. 7, 10–11, 16, 58, 66–68, 72–74, 76–77, 79–83, 89, 93, 95–96, 100, 105, 108–109, 111, 122, 125, 127–130.

|  Birutė Stulgaitė, Lietuvos dailininkų sąjunga. An- troji knyga, Vilnius: Artserija, 2004, p. 125.

|  Aleksandra Aleksandravičiūtė, Balta, Literatūra ir menas, 2005 11 11.

|  Neringa Černiauskaitė, Tuštumos pilnatvė, 7 meno dienos, 2005 11 04.

|  Laima Kreivytė, Šiaurės alchemija arba sidabras – elegantiška juvelyrika, Verslo žinios, 2005 11 04.

|  Rūta Pileckaitė, Birutės Stulgaitės kūrybos doku- mentacija. Vilnius, 2002, Lietuvos dailės muziejus, Dailės informacijos centras, byla nr. 63. Rankraštis.

|  Jurgita Videikaitė, Moterys nešiotojos pagal Stulgaitę, 7 meno dienos, 2002 10 08.

|  Aleksandra Aleksandravičiūtė, Keturi sausi klausimai apie Birutės Stulgaitės kūrybą, Kultūros barai, 2002, Nr. 10, p. 33–35.

|  Rūta Mikšionienė, Originalūs papuošalai pavergia jų savininkes, Lietuvos rytas, 2002 11 05.

|  Savo papuošalais juvelyrė niekada nesipuošia, Lietuvos rytas, 2002 11 05.

|  Jurgita Ludavičienė, Papuošalai, Literatūra ir menas, 2002 10 08.

| Jurgita Ludavičienė, Kontempliacija, kuriai nereikalingi komentarai, arba Šviesa ateina ir pasilieka, Literatūra ir menas, 2000 08 18.

| Jurgita Ludavičienė, Bernstein museum-Galerie in Nida und Vilnius, Baltic Amber, ed. by Adomas Butrimas, Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Fine
Arts Press, 2001, p. 279, il. p. 278.

| Aleksandra Aleksandravičiūtė,
Gintaras kaip tiesa, 7 meno dienos, 2000 06 16.

| Pillė Veljataga, Birutė Stulgaitė:
erdvė ir kaita, Dailė, 1999, Nr. 1, p. 52–53.

| Pillė Veljataga, Įvadinis straipsnis,

Šiuolaikiniai lietuvių dailininkai gintaro galerijoje-muziejuje [Katalogas], Vilnius, 1998, p. 3–10.

| Laima Kanopkienė,
Aukštasis pilotažas sąmoningai apribotoje erdvėje, Kultūros barai, 1997, No. 11, p. 38–39.

| Laima Kanopkienė, Maximal minimalism, Lithuania in the World, 1997, Nr. 6, p. 46–51.

| Daiva Jonuškienė, Metalas plastiškose moters rankose, Dienovidis, 1997 10 16.

| Ramutė Rachlevičiūtė, Stalgūs Birutės Stulgaitės papuošalai,
Kultūros barai, 1992, Nr. 9/10, p. 38–40.

| Aleksandra Aleksandravičiūtė, Birutės Stulgaitės mažoji plastika „Lietuvos aido“ galerijoje, Lietuvos aidas, 1997 10 10.

| Algė Andriulytė, Formos apoteozė, 7 meno dienos, 1997 10 10.

| Aleksandra Aleksandravičiūtė, [Katalogo įvadas], Birutė Stulgaitė, sudarė Birutė Stulgaitė,
Vilnius: Solidarity, 1997.

| Ieva Antanavičiūtė, Skulptūriški papuošalai ir juvelyriškos skulptūros, Lietuvos rytas, 1994 04 15.

| Pillė Veljataga, Maža yra daug, Literatūra ir menas, 1992 07 04.

| Alfonsas Andriuškevičius, Papuošalai tobulam kaklui, Šiaurės Atėnai, 1992 06 12.

| The 10th Limoges Biennial of Enamel, Metalsmith, 1991 Winter, p. 23.