Valentyn Odnoviun, artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania.
During the last few years, research has been mainly linked to historical or socially engaged events and problems through the "abstract"-looking image, working with the viewer's imagination to create more concrete communication through interpretation and conceptual thinking.
Photographs in the latest projects question the relation between what we see and perceive in advance of the act of recognition. These photographs, as patterns and traces, emphasise the borders not only of human perception but the border where the consequences of human action meet reason.
Currently working on PhD dissertation: "Intersections among Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish and Czechoslovak Art Photographers from 1960s to early 1990s."
Member of the Association of Lithuanian Art Photographers since 2018
"Artist Creator" status granted by the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania.
CURRENT POSITIONS
2025-till present - Curator - Šiauliai Photography Museum, Lithuania
2024-2026 - Expert - Lithuanian Council for Culture
2020.09 - till present - Photography, History of Photography, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania
EDUCATION
2019-till present - Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, PhD in Theory and History of Arts (Lithuania)
2016-2019 - Vilnius Academy of Arts, MA in Theory and History of Arts (Lithuania)
2017-2018 - Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Visual Arts (Germany)
2015-2016 - Academy of Fine Arts, Lodz, Visual Arts (Poland)
2014-2016 - Vilnius Academy of Arts, MA in Photography and Media Arts (Lithuania)
2005-2010 - H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, BA, MA, Teacher of Literature and English Language (Ukraine)
2004-2005 - Kharkiv Polygraphy School N26, Pre-press Operator (Ukraine)
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
- Designing a Collaborative Connected Liberal Arts Classroom, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
- Academic Writing and Presentation Skills, Atlantic Language School, Galway, Ireland
- Teaching Strategies in Photography, Forum Fotografii i Multimediów, Białystok, Poland
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020.09 - till present - Photography, History of Photography, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021.03 - 2024.03 - Visual Arts, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
2023.10.27 - Co-organiser, 3rd section Moderator - International Academic Conference: To Prevent the Enemy from Winning: Art in the Information War, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania
2023.10.26 - Scholar Conference: "A Foreigner Turned Native: The Multifaceted Artistic Vilnius," paper: "Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Ukrainian and American Contributions to Lithuanian Photographic Heritage," Vilnius, Lithuania
2023 - Scientific publication - Odnoviun, Valentyn, Dissemination of Baltic Art Photography in Specialised Magazines in The 1960s - 1980s: "Sovetskoe Foto," "Revue Fotografie," "Fotografia" and "Foto," Menotyra, Vol 30 No 2 (2023), ISSN 1392-1002, Vilnius, Lithuania
2022 - Scientific publication - Odnoviun, Valentyn, Performance Art and Lithuanian Photography of the Late 1960s: Vitas Luckus and the Kaunas Pantomime Troupe, ed, Rita Repšienė, Vilnius: Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, 2022, ISSN 2029-8560, eISSN 2783-5529 - Sphairos: Cultural and Media Studies, 13, pp. 187-205, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021.10.28 - Participation in the Scientific Conference: Vizualinės medijos: Teorija it realybė, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021.06.16-17 - Participation in the International Scientific Conference: Ideas and Materials: Cultural Hybridity of the Baltic and Other Regions, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
AUTHOR'S BOOKS
2021.10 - Author's Book "PW44," published by NoRoutine Books, ISBN 978-609-8216-11-0, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020.04 - Author's book: "Surveillance. A Typology of Oppression," publishers: artprint.lt, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, ISBN 978-609-95181-9-0, Vilnius, Lithuania
ARTWORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Lithuanian National Art Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
The Tatra Museum, Zakopane, Poland
NOMUS New Art Museum, Gdańsk, Poland
AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Menų Zona, Klaipėda, Lithuania
Lithuanian Art Photographers' Association, Vilnius, Lithuania
AWARDS
2024.12 - Nominee - Prix Pictet, nominated by Anastasia Chaguidouline, Geneve, Switzerland
2021.08 - Finalist - Kranj Foto Fest, Kranj, Slovenia
2021.03 - Nominee - FOAM Paul Huf Award, nominated by Adam Mazur, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019.09 - Winner - Photolux Award, nominated by Lydia Dorner (Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne), Lucca, Italy
2018.12 - Laureate - Lithuanian Art Photographers Association Award, Lithuania
2018.11 - Winner - Panasonic Reader's Choice Award. Bird in Flight Prize, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018.10 - Nominee - Photography Grant, London, Great Britain
2018.06 - Winner - Krakow Photomonth Portfolio Review, Krakow, Poland
2018.06 - Public Choice Award - "MyEstonia?" competition by NOAR, Tallinn, Estonia
2018.05 - Finalist - Kolga Photo Award 2018, Tbilisi, Georgia
2018.04 - Laureate - DEBUTS 2018, Warsaw, Poland
2018.04 - Finalist - Riga Photography Biennial Awards 2018, Riga, Latvia
2018.02 - Honorary Mention - PIC Förderpreis SELECTED 2018, Neuss, Germany
2017.12 - Winner - World Biennial of Student Photography, Novi Sad, Serbia
2017.11 - Finalist - Warsaw Photo Days Grand Prix, Warsaw, Poland
2017.11 - Finalist - Different Worlds 2017, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017.10 - Nominee - Photography Grant, London, Great Britain
2017.09 - Grand Prix Award - INTERPHOTO GRAND PRIX 2017, Bialystok, Poland
2017.05 - Finalist - Walter Koschatzky Art Award 2017, Vienna, Austria
2016.12 - Winner - Debiutas Award for Emerging Art Photographers, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016.10 - Shortlist - Baltic Young Artist Award 2016, Riga, Latvia
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2024.09.17-2025.02.28 - Echoes of the Unseen, PALACE Museum, Zakopane, Poland
2024.02.24 - Surveillance, Lentvaris Culture Centre, Lentvaris, Lithuania
2023.09.08-2024.03.10 - Echoes of the Unseen, NOMUS New Art Museum, Gdańsk, Poland
2022.11 - Surveillance, Plungė Photography Biennial. Plungė, Lithuania
2022.07 - PW44, Thomas Mann Festival, Nida, Lithuania
2022.03 - Consecutive Fixation, in frames of the ENTER'20 Media Festival, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai, Lithuania
2022.03 - Surveillance, PW44, Architecture of Evidence, The Notice Board United Gallery, Great Brittain
2022.02 - Action Signs of Solidarity with Ukraine, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius and Kaunas Departments, Raudondvaris mansion, Lithuania
2021.12 - Consecutive Fixation, KCCC Exhibition Hall, Klaipėda, Lithuania
2021.08 - Surveillance, Kranj Foto Fest, Kranj, Slovenia
2020.10 - PW44, Prospekto Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2019.09 - Horizons, INTERPHOTO 2019 Festival, Bialystok, Poland
2019.09 - Architecture of Evidence, Fotografie Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic
2019.04 - Surveillance, SRO Art Gallery of TTU, Lubbock, Texas, USA
2019.02 - In the Dark, Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia
2018.05 - The Process, Flandernbunker Museum, Kiel, Germany
2017.12 - Surveillance, Cesis New Castle Exhibition Hall, Cesis, Latvia
2017.09 - Surveillance, gallery for art photography Stikliu, 4, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016.09 - Traces of Memory, Art gallery Akademija, Vilnius, Lithuania
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2024.02 - War(N), WL4 Art Space, Gdansk, Poland
2023.12 - (Un)told. What Lies at the Basis of Photography and Memory, Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk, Poland
2023.11 - Para Bellum II, ART39 gallery, Gdynia, Poland
2023.06 - Two Centuries of Lithuanian Photography, MCK (International Cultural Centre), Cracow, Poland
2022.11 - Tracing the Outlines of Ukrainian History: Louder, Radvila Palace Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
2022.06 - Photography projections, Eyes-On Festival, Vienna, Austria
2022.05 - Photography projections, Circulations Festival, Paris, France
2022.03 - UKRAINA, Titanikas Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021.06 - Panoptikon, Långholmen Prison, Stockholm, Sweden
2021.05 - Lost Time, Odesa Photo Days Festival, Odesa, Ukraine
2021.04 - Ästhetik der Überwachung, Kunsthaus Raskolnikow, Dresden, Germany
2020.09 - Lost Time, Month of Lithuanian Photography in Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020.09 - Photography Festival W Ramach Sopotu, curated by Adam Mazur, Sopot, Poland
2020.08 - Heterotopia, Experimental Visual Practices from Lithuania, EEP Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2019.10 - Museum of Now, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
2019.09 - Unseen Photography Fair, by Martin van Zomeren Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019.09 - Second Biennial of Young Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2019.06 - Dub Toasted Time, Martin van Zomeren Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019.05 - Final exhibition of the DEBUTS 2018 laureates, Krakow Photo Fringe 2019, Cracow, Poland
2019.02 - NUIT de la PHOTO, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
2018.10 - MONUMENTA. The Intelligence of Many, Leipzig, Germany
2018.10 - Exhibition of the DEBUTS 2018 laureates, Vintage Photo Festival, Bydgoszcz, Poland
2018.09 - Chronometers, Klaipėda Culture Communication Center, Klaipeda, Lithuania
2018.09 - Exhibition of the DEBUTS 2018 laureates, Festival W Ramach Sopotu, Sopot, Poland
2018.07 - Tam Gdzie Teraz, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland
2018.06 - MyEstonia?, ArtVilnius'18 Contemporary Art Fair, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018.06 - Exhibition of the DEBUTS 2018 laureates, Fotofestiwal, Lodz, Poland
2018.06 - The Vivid Unknown, - Refugee Week Berlin, Germany
2018.05 - Kolga Tbilisi Photo 2018, Tbilisi, Georgia
2018.05 - Different Worlds, Photon Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2017.11 - World Biennial of Student Photography, Museum of Contemporary Arts of Vojvodina, Serbia
2017.11 - Warsaw Photo Days, Warsaw, Poland
2017.11 - Different Worlds, Young Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017.09 - INTERPHOTO 2017 Festival, Bialystok, Poland
2017.06 - Auckland Festival of Photography, Auckland, New Zealand
2017.05 - Walter Koschatzky Kunstpreis. HOFSTALLUNGEN, by Rotary Club Albertina, Vienna, Austria
2017.05 - Kaunas Gallery Weekend 2017, Kaunas, Lithuania
2016.12 - Debiutas 2016, photo gallery Prospekto, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016.06 - Meno Celės, Art gallery Titanikas, Vilnius, Lithuania
GRANTS
2021.05; 2020.10; 2020.06; 2018.12 - Artist Scholarship - Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018.02 - Artist Scholarship Gaude Polonia - National Centre for Culture, Warsaw, Poland
2014.09 - Scholarship - Education Exchanges Support Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania
CURATORSHIP
2025.05 - Curator, Fotografija, Ričardas Dailidė, Prospekto Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2025.04 - Curator, Mokykla - mano namai, Virgilijus Šonta, Šiauliai Photography Museum, Lithuania
2025.03 - Curator, Fotografija, Ričardas Dailidė, Šiauliai Photography Museum, Lithuania
2024.11 - Curator, VISIONS, Lithuanian art photographers from the 1930s to 1980s, Šiauliai Photography Museum, Lithuania
2024.09 - Curator, Maksim Sarychau. Blind Spot, INTERPHOTO 2024 Festival, Białystok, Poland
2024.09 - Curator, VISIONS, the exhibition of Lithuanian art photographers from the 1930s to 1980s, in cooperation with the Šiauliai Photography Museum. INTERPHOTO 2024 Festival, Białystok, Poland
2024.03.06 - Curator, Evgeniy Pavlov. Total Photography, 1990-1994, Photo gallery at Stikliu, 4, Vilnius, Lithuania
2022.04 - Co-curator, Outsiders' Views on Vilnius, National Art Gallery (NDG), Vilnius, Lithuania
2021.09 - Curator, Evgeniy Pavlov. Total Photography, 1990-1994, INTERPHOTO Festival, Bialystok, Poland
2018.10.30 - Organiser, Curator: Night of Photo Projections, TSEKH Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
RESIDENCIES
2024.07 - PALACE Museum, Zakopane, Poland
2020.09 - W Ramach Sopotu Photography Residency, Sopot, Poland
2020.08 - ISSP Riga Residency, Riga, Latvia
2018.11 - Docking Station, Photography Residency, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016 - 2017 - RUCKA Artist Residency, Cesis, Latvia
PUBLIC PERFORMING
2023.05 - Participation in Conference "Others" as Creators of New Understandings of Heritage, with Inclusive and Diverse Understanding of History and Cultural Identity and The Cross-Cultural Experiences of Outsiders and Their Contribution to the Re-evaluation and Re-interpretation of Lithuanian Heritage, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania
2023.04 - Lecture for the students of PhD. Hubert Humka, Film School in Łódź, Poland
2023.01 - Lecture for the students of Prof. Grzegorz Jarmocewicz, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland
2022.11 - Open Lecture in frames of the Plungės fotobienalė. Plungė District Municipal Library. Plungė, Lithuania
2022.01.11 - Guest Lecture - KABK NetworkWeek, the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague
2021.09.30-10.01 - Presentation of the paper Correlation Between the Image and Its Reason at the International Symposium: A System Among Others? Power, Balance, Self-reflection on and with the Photographic Image. Organized by Landskrona Foto, Hasselblad Foundation and Lund University, Landskrona, Sweden
2020.09.11 - Artist Talk - Nida Photography Symposium 2020, Nida, Lithuania
2020.08.20 - "Surveillance. A Typology of Oppression" book presentation, Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia
2020.08.18-21 - Moderator, Speaker - Kharkiv Photo Forum, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2020.08.13 - Artist Talk - ISSP Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2019.12.14 - Artist Talk - Seminar "Art and Holocaust," Kaunas, Lithuania
2019.11.17 - Open Lecture - Kaunas Art Book Fair, Kaunas, Lithuania
2019.10.31 - Open Lecture - Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2019.10.26 - Open Lecture - Seminar "Path of Egons Spuris," Ogre, Latvia
2019.03 - Artist Talk - Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia
2018.05 - Artist Talk - Pix.House Photography Gallery, Poznan, Poland
2018.05 - Artist Talk - Department of Photography, University of Arts, Poznan, Poland
2017.11 - Artist Talk - Warsaw Photo Days, Warsaw, Poland
2017.11 - Artist Talk - Nida Photography Symposium 2017, 40th Anniversary, Lithuania
2017.03 - Open Lecture Post-Documentary - National Academy of Arts, Lviv, Ukraine
PERSONAL PUBLICATIONS
2021.09 - Dichotomy: East and West, Bialystok Interphoto 2021, catalogue of the 5th International Photography Festival, "Evgeniy Pavlov, Total Photography, 1990-1994," page not specified, ISBN 978-83-934184-3-5 Bialystok, Poland
2020.12 - Literatūra ir menas magazine, 3715/21 "Fotografija sovietmečiu: Lietuva-Charkovas" Vilnius, Lithuania
2020.11 - 7md art newspaper, article: "MOLPIK. Lietuvos fotografijos mėnuo Kijeve” Nr. 41 (1362), Vilnius, Lithuania
2020.08 - Kharkiv Photo Forum 2020 catalogue, p122-125, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020.01 - 7md art newspaper, article: "Ukrainiečių įniršis Klaipėdoje" Nr. 2 (1323), Vilnius, Lithuania
ARTWORKS IN CATALOGUES/MAGAZINES
2024 - Krantai art magazine, 2024(4), ISSN 0235-6384, Lithuania
2024 - The War in Ukraine. Understanding Western Tools Short of War, editor Egle Murauskaite, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2024, cover image, p181, ISBN 9783111338941
2023 - Fotografija magazine, No1 (41), p. 28-35, Vilnius, Lithuania
2023 - Litwa. Dwa stulecia fotografii. Lithuania. Two Centuries of Photography, MCK, 2023, p.222-227, ISBN 987-83-66419-51-3, Cracow, Poland
2022 - Plungė Photography Biennial catalogue, Ukraina: vilties šviesoraštis, p. 14-15
2022 - Politologija academic magazine, vol. 2, special issue: State Visuality, Justinas Lingevičius, article: Ką girdėjo ir matė šios sienos? Represinių struktūrų pėdsakų rekonstrukcijos. Review of the PW44 and Surveillance. A Typology of Oppression books. Vilnius University Press, p. 165-173, ISSN 1392-1681, Lithuania
2022.05 - Dailė Magazine, article by Agnė Narušytė, "Įrodymai," Nr.87, p. 5-11, ISBN 9-770130-662003, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021.09 - Chronometrai. Įsivaizduoti laiką, arba chronopolitika, heterochronija ir greitėjančio pasaulio patirtys Lietuvos mene, book by Agnė Narušytė, Vilnius Academy of Arts Press, p. 61; 188-189; 525, ISBN 9-786094473135, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021.06 - Photographies magazine (by Routledge). Research Article. The Architecture of Lingering War In Everyday Life: Photography at the Double Time of Military Apparatus. Agnė Narušytė. p. 241-242, Volume 14, Issue 2 (2021)
2021.04 - Ästhetik der Überwachung, exhibition catalogue, Tomasz Lewandowski, Kunsthaus Raskolnikow e. V., Gedenkstätte Bautzner Strasse Dresden und Autoren, p. 5-31; 62-63, ISBN 978-3-9816421-5-5, Dresden, Germany
2020.09 - Nuožmi taika: žlugusių režimų fotografija dokumentiniame kine, book by Natalija Arlauskaitė, Vilnius University Press, p37; 130-133, ISBN 978-609-07-0421-9, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020.09 - Fotograf magazine, #37/2020, Volume 19, p. 88, ISBN 771213-961006, Prague, Czechia
2020.09 - Frames of Sopot Photography Festival catalogue, Sopot, Poland
2020.08 - Kharkiv Photo Forum 2020 catalogue, p. 42, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020.06 - Literatūra ir menas magazine, 3706/12 Aistė Grajaustkaitė, interview, “Valentyn Odnoviun: „Didžiausią įtaką darė Lukys, Flusseris, Pollockas ir kriminalistikos ekspertai,“” Vilnius, Lithuania
2020.06 - 7md art newspaper, "Surveillance. A Typology of Oppression" book review, "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Apie Valentyno Odnoviuno knygą „Stebėjimas. Priežasties tipologija,”” Nr. 24 (1345), Vilnius, Lithuania
2020.03 - Outlaws and Spies, book by Conor McCarthy, Edinburgh University Press, cover photo, ISBN 978-14-744559-3-0, Edinburgh, Scotland
2019.11 - European Photography, magazine, No106, p72, ISBN 9-770172-702002, Berlin, Germany
2019.11 - Opera national de Paris, catalogue for the 2019-2020 season, p53, Paris, France
2019.11 - Photolux 2019, "New Worlds," magazine, p136-137; 156-157, Lucca, Italy
2019.10 - Museum of Now catalogue, p46-49, ISBN 9-783000-640001 Berlin, Germany
2019.10 - Second Biennial of Young Art catalogue, p70-73, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2019.09 - INTERPHOTO 2019 catalogue, ISBN 978-83-934184-2-8 Bialystok, Poland
2019.02 - NUIT de la PHOTO catalogue, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
2018.11 - OSMOS Magazine, No16, November 2018, p54-59, New York, USA
2018.11 - HANT Magazine, November 2018, Erfurt, Germany
2018.09 - MONUMENTA. Intelligence of Many catalog, p32-33, September 2018, Leipzig, Germany
2018.06 - DEBUTS 2018 photo book, Project: "Surveillance," Publisher: "Blow Up Press," Warsaw, Poland
2018.05 - Kolga Tbilisi Photo 2018 photo book, p 294-295, ISBN 978-9941-27-9164, Tbilisi, Georgia
2018.03 - DOC! Magazine, No8 (43), March 19, 2018, Warsaw, Poland
2017.12 - Fotografija magazine, No2 (34), p. 16-17, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017.12 - Lithuanian Photography'17 – Part II, Lithuanian Art Photographers Association Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017.11 - Different Worlds, fifth edition catalogue, p26-27, Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017.05 - Literatūra ir Menas, magazine No23 (3619), Back cover, p. 3, 20, 22, 31
2017.05 - 7md art newspaper, article "Prievaros observatorija, "Nr. 20 (1214), Vilnius, Lithuania
2017.05 - Walter Koschatzky Art Award 2017 catalogue, p. 39-41 Vienna, Austria
2016.12 - Debiutas 2016 catalogue, Publisher: Lithuanian Art Photographers Association, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016.06 - Meno Celės catalogue, p. 66-67, Vilnius Academy of Arts Publishing, Vilnius, Lithuania
ONLINE ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS (selected)
2023.12.20 - BLOK Magazine, An Image is an Image is an Image. Interview by Ewa Borysiewicz
2022.11.28 - FINANCIAL TIMES, In Pictures: A Snapshot on Lithuanian Photography by Alan Knox
2022.04.14 - Homo cultus. Iš balkono. Valentyno Odnoviuno fotografinės patirtys (in Lithuanian)
2022.03.08 - OSMOS magazine, Valentyn Odnoviun: Surveillance, by Ksenia Nouril, originally published in the fall of 2018
2021.04 - Museum of Now, MON Studio Sessions. Interview by Jan Gustav Fiedler, Vienna/Vilnius 2021
2020.09.04 - Contemporary LYNX, Vera Zborovska, interview "INSIDE VIEW In conversation with Valentyn Odnoviun"
2020.08 - EEP Berlin Gallery, Katažyna Jankovska, reflection, "Surveillance"
2019.03.06 - Wired Magazine, Laura Mallonee, article, "Think These Are Planets? They're Something Far More Sinister"
2019.02.28 - FK Magazine, Arnis Balčus - interview, "Seeking scars of the past. Interview with Valentyn Odnoviun"
2017.05.19 - 7md.lt, Agnė Narušytė, article, “Prievartos observatorija”