Kristijonas Gurčinas
2001, Lithuania
Kristijonas Gurčinas is a Vilnius-based artist who recently completed his BA in Painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. He has already made a name for himself with a solo exhibition at Vartai Gallery in 2024 and participation in numerous group shows, including “Žarija” and the Zabolis Art Prize finalists exhibitions, where he secured second place in 2024.
The artist’s work emerges from analysing both personal and universal relationships with images that symbolise death, spirituality, and the beyond. Gurčinas is interested in how visual representations of death, spirituality, and the sacred circulate in contemporary visual culture. He explores these themes through painting as a form of visual research. The artist collects and systematises images from various sources: internet archives, books, films, museum collections, family funeral albums, and video games. These motifs live in his personal visual archive, where they are constantly reviewed, edited, and deconstructed.
