julija.fomina[@]vda.lt 
Art critic, exhibition curator
Research interests: contemporary art, exhibition history šiuolaikinis menas, parodų kūrimo istorija ir teorija
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Graduated from Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas with a Bachelor's degree in Art History, and later studied at the UNESCO Department of Cultural Policy and Management at Vilnius Academy of Arts.
In 2015, defended her doctoral dissertation “Curatorship of Art Exhibitions in Lithuania: Concepts and Evolution” at the joint doctoral programme of the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute and Vilnius Academy of Arts.
2004-2023 – curator at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC). From September 2023 – Head of Doctoral Programme in Art History and Theory at Vilnius Academy of Arts, from June 2024 – Senior Lecturer at the Department of Art History and Theory at Vilnius Academy of Arts.
SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
- „From Past to Present: Curating Lithuanian Art in the Late 19802s and Early 1990s“, in: KUMU: Proceedings of the Art Museum of Estonia, Art Museum of Estonia, 2019, Nr. 9 (14), ed. by Anu Allas, p. 181-197.
- „How to Represent a Present? Constructing the Notion of ‘the Contemporary’ in the Lithuanian Art Exhibitions of the Last Decade of the XX Century”, in: Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi (Studies on Art and Architecture), Tallinn: Estonian Society of Art Historians and Curators, 2018, Nr.27/ 1-3, ed. by Virve Serapik, p. 250-265.
- „Kuratorystė kaip vaizdų tvarkos praktika: Alfonso Andriuškevičiaus parodos „Mitas dabarties tapyboje“ (1988) ir „Nakties ir dienos tapyba“ (1990)“, in: Dailės istorijos studijos, 2014, Nr. 6: Vaizdo kontrolė, ed. by dr. Erika Grigoravičienė
- „Šiuolaikybės kuravimas: Raimundo Malašausko veikla“, in: Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, 2014, t. 74 : Menas ir publika, ed. by dr. Linara Dovydaitytė, Julija Fomina.
- „Šiuolaikinis menas ir jo publika: Soroso Šiuolaikinio meno centro metinės parodos“, in: Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts, 2012, T. 64, Vizualinė kultūra: problemos ir interpretacijos, ed. by Monika Saukaitė, p. 153-167
- „Parodų katalogai“, in: Dailės istorijos šaltiniai: nuo seniausių laikų iki šių dienų. Antologija, Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts, 2012, ed. by prof. dr. Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, p. 100-122
- „Lietuvos šiuolaikinės dailės parodų kuratoriaus identitetas: nuo sudarytojo iki dailės lauko aktyvisto“, in: Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts, 2008, T. 50, Kultūra. Rinka. Visuomenė, ed. by prof. dr. Ieva Kuizinienė, p. 95-119
PAPERS IN CONFERENCES
- „Everyone is an Artist but Only Artists Know That. Narratives of Lithuanian Contemporary Art in Exhibitions Curated by Artists and Art Critics“. International scientific confrence „The Art-Labour relationship in Contemporary Art in Central and Eastern Europe, 1991 – present“. (October 9-10, 2024; Vilnius Academy of Arts, Institute of Art Research, Vilnius).
- „From Soviet to the Contemporary: Curating Lithuanian Art in the 1990s“. 6th KUMU Art Museum fall conference „Lost and Found Spaces: Displacements in Eastern European Art and Society in the 1990s“. (November 1-3, 2018, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia.)
- „How to Represent a Present? Constructing the Notion of “the Contemporary” in the Lithuanian Art Exhibitions of the Last Decade of the XX Century“. The 3d Conference of Baltic Art Historians „Representing Art History in the Baltic Countries: Experiences and Prospects“. (October 6-8, 2016, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia.)
- „Globalization And Its Discontents in the Field of Contemporary Art: a Case of Post-Soviet Lithuania“. 10th International conference on art in Society „The Work of Art in the Age of Networked Society“. (July 22-24, 2015, Imperial College London, London, UK).
- „Paveikslų paskirtis kuruojamose parodose: Alfonso Andriuškevičiaus „Mitas dabarties tapyboje“ (1988) ir „Dienos ir nakties tapyba“ (1990). Interdisciplinary scientific „Image control“ (October 24-25, 2013, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Vilnius).
SELECTED EDITED VOLUMES
- JCDecaux Award 2016-2020 : exhibition catalogue, Vilnius: Contemporary Art Centre, 2020.
- The thematic issue of the Lithuanian contemporary art magazine "Artnews" – Šiuolaikybės pavidalai, December 2016. http://artnews.lt/rubrikos/zurnalas/siuolaikybes-pavidalai
- Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, 2014, t. 74 : Art and its’ publics, ed. by dr. Linara Dovydaitytė, Julija Fomina, Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts Press, 2014.
- Vilnius Pavilion: Exhibition catalogue, ed. by Julija Fomina, Inesa Pavlovskaitė. Vilnius: Contemporary Art Centre, 2013.
- Opening the Door? Belarusian art today: Exhibition catalogue, ed. by Julija Fomina, Kęstutis Kuizinas, Vilnius: Contemporary Art Centre, 2010.
- CAC – 15 years: Exhibition catalogue, ed. by Julija Fomina, Kęstutis Kuizinas, Vilnius: Contemporary Art Centre, 2007.
SELECTED CURATED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
- 2020 – „Head with Many Thoughts“ (with Neringa Bumblienė, Virginija Januškevičiūte, Ūla Tornau, Asta Vaičiulytė), CAC, Vilnius
- 2019 – „Blood and Soil. Dark arts for the dark times (with Anders Kreuger), CAC, Vilnius
- 2013 – „Vilnius Pavilion “, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow
- 2013 – „Illusionists. On scenography and contemporary art” (with Virginija Januškevičiūtė), CAC, Vilnius
- 2012 – Goethe’s Instituto project „Going Public. On the possiblity of a public statement“, project coordinator, Vilnius, Klaipėda, Minsk, Kaliningrad
- 2012 – „Auction“. Marija Olšauskaitė solo exhibition, CAC, Vilnius
- 2011 – Carsten Nicolai „Pionier“, CAC, Vilnius
- 2010 – „Lithuanian art 2000-2010: ten years” (co-curator), CAC, Vilnius
- 2009 – Summer school “Documentary cinema theory and practice”, European Humanities University, Vilnius
- 2007 – Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas “Villa Lituania”, Lithuanian Pavilion at the 52th Biennale di Venezia, assistant curator
