Eglė Norkutė
1993, Lithuania
Eglė Norkutė (b. 1993, Kaunas, Lithuania) is a visual artist working across painting and ceramics, based in Porto, Portugal. Her practice explores curiosity, memory and perception, bringing scientific inquiry into dialogue with pseudoscientific speculation. Drawing on art history, mythology and popular culture, she examines the relationship between the visible and the invisible through intricate imagery and unfamiliar forms.
Norkutė received an MA in Painting from the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2019. Since 2016, she has participated in exhibitions in Lithuania and internationally, including Latvia, Spain, Portugal, Slovakia, South Korea, Switzerland, Denmark and Argentina. Her solo exhibitions include Before Resuming | Thoughts on Happiness at Kaunas Artists’ House (2016) and Art and Collectibles at Galera Gallery, Užupis Art Incubator, Vilnius (2019). She has undertaken residencies at A.I.R.GENTUM Hoja de Ruta in Spain and De Liceiras 18 in Portugal.
Norkutė was a finalist for the Young Painter Prize in 2018 and received The Rooster Gallery Prize in the competition in 2019. She was awarded educational grants from the Lithuanian Council for Culture in 2018 and 2019 and has been a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Union since 2019. She is represented by The Rooster Gallery.
