lolita.jablonskiene[at]vda.lt
Art historian, exhibition curator, museum professional
Research interests: history and theory of art and design of the 2nd half of the 20th c.–21st c., curatorship
In 1985, graduated from the Lithuanian State Art Institute (now –Vilnius Academy of Arts), Department of Art History and Theory. In 1985–2003, worked as a researcher in the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute (actual title), Department of Art Research. In 1995, defended a doctoral dissertation (Art History) “Renovation of Old Town Interiors in Lithuania: Cultural and Stylistic Aspects of Material Environment” at the Institute of Culture and Art (now – Lithuanian Culture Research Institute) in Vilnius and the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Since 1993 lectures at the Vilnius Academy of Arts (since 2008 Associate Professor); teaches contemporary art and design history and theory, supervises graduation works and dissertations of all academic levels. Has published research, art criticism and other articles, compiled publications, made presentations at Lithuanian and international conferences, curated art exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad.
In 1993–1999, worked as a deputy director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts-Lithuania, since 2002 – chief curator of the Lithuanian National Gallery of Art, a division of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art.
Since 1994, member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), since 1995 – member of the Association of Lithuanian Art Historians.
Research projects
Project leader – Monograph Naujoji Lietuvos dailė [New Lithuanian Art]. Institution: Vilnius Academy of Arts. Supported by Lithuanian Research Council (2019).
Edited books, catalogues and other publications
Ground Control. Technology and Utopia, D. McCorquodale, L. Jablonskienė (Eds), London: Black Dog Publishers, 1997.
Po tapybos [After Painting], cat., L. Jablonskienė (Ed), Vilnius: Contemporary Art Center, 1998.
Nekaltas gyvenimas [Innocent Life], cat., E. Grigoravičienė, L. Jablonskienė (Eds), Vilnius: Contemporary Art Center, 2000.
Changing Society: Lithuania, L. Jablonskienė, N. Schafhausen (Eds), New York: Lukas&Sternberg, 2002.
Pažymėtos teritorijos [Mapping New Territories], L. Jablonskienė, R. Goštautienė (Eds), Vilnius: Tyto alba, 2005.
XX–XXI a. Lietuvos dailės paroda „Eksperimentas“ [Experiment. Exhibition of the 20th–21st-century Lithuanian Art], cat., L. Jablonskienė, E. Grigoravičienė, J. Mulevičiūtė (Eds), Vilnius: Lithuanian Art Museum, 2007.
Printed Project 10, The Art of Living with Strangers, L. Jablonskienė (Ed), Visual Artists Ireland, 2009.
Jonas Mekas / The Fluxus Wall, cat., L. Jablonskienė, L. Psibilskis (Eds), Vilnius: International Cultural Programme Centre, Lithuanian Art Museum, 2013.
Scientific research articles
„Kūrėjo identiteto problema ir šiuolaikinė Lietuvos dailė“ [Discourse of Artist’s Identity in Lithuanian Contemporary Art], Menotyra, Vilnius: Academia, 1999, Nr. 4, p. 56-61.
„Kitos šiuolaikinių meninių vaizdų interpretavimo galimybės“ [Other Possibilities of Interpreting Images of Contemporary Art], Menotyra, Vilnius: Academia, 2000, Nr. 1, p. 36-39.
„Muziejinės 10 dešimtmečio Lietuvos dailės parodų tendencijos“ [Tendencies of Musealization in Lithuanian Art Exhibitions of the 1990s], Menotyra, Vilnius: Academia, 2001, Nr. 4, p. 35-39.
„Naujausiųjų laikų Lietuvos dailės istorijos klausimu“ [On the Recent History of Lithuanian Art], Menotyra, Vilnius: Academia, 2002, Nr. 2, p. 9-12.
„Paribių problema šiuolaikinėje dailėje“ [Borders and Margins in Contemporary Lithuanian Art], Menotyra, Vilnius: Academia, 2003, Nr. 2, p. 93-96.
„Wins and/or Losses in Recent Eastern European Art History“, in After the event, New perspectives on art history, Ch. Merewether, J. Potts (Eds), Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2010, p. 71-79.
„Just and Artist?“, in Feminisms is Still Our Name. Seven Essays on Historiography and Curatorial Practices, M. H. Hayden, J. Sjöholm Skrubbe (Eds), Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, p. 141-155.
„XX a. pabaigos Lietuvos šiuolaikinės dailės greitkeliai“ [The Speedways of Late 20th Century Lithuanian Contemporary Art], Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, t. 58, Menas kaip socialinis diskursas [Art as Social Discourse], A. Narušytė (Ed), Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts Press, 2010, p. 167-181.
L. Jablonskienė, L. Kreivytė, „Istorijos (per)rašymai: feministinės kuravimo ir kritikos strategijos“ [(Re)-Writings of History: Feministic Strategies of Curatorship and Criticism], Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, t. 62, Moters savastis dailėje [The Female Self in Art], R. Rachlevičiūtė (Ed), Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts Press, 2011, p. 195-204.
„Navigating Through Chaos with Artūras Raila“, Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry 40, (Autumn/Winter), 2015, p. 42-51.
„Atminties slinktys Nacionalinės dailės galerijos ekspozicijose: nuo paveikslų monologo prie pasakojimų polilogo“ [The Shifts of Memory in the Expositions of the National Gallery of Art:
from the Monologue of Paintings to the Polylogue of Narratives], in: Lietuvos muziejų rinkiniai, S. Bagužaitė-Talačkienė (Ed), Vilnius: Lithuanian Museum Association, 2020, p. 16-22.
„The National Gallery of Art: Curatorial Philosophy and Practice“, in Research: Practitioner, Curator, Educator, M. Smith (Ed), Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts Press, 2020, p. 54-66.
„Lietuvos dizaino istorijos kuravimas“ [Curating the History of Lithuanian Design], Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, t. 107, Kaip pasakoti apie meną? Dailės istorija, kritika, tekstai ir pasakojimai Lietuvoje [How to Tell about Art? Art History, Criticism, Texts, and Narratives in Lithuania], L. Michelkevičė, L. Petrauskaitė, A. Trakšelytė (Eds), Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts Press, 2022, p. 57-80.
Articles in catalogues, textbooks, and dictionaries
„After Emancipation. Late 90s in Lithuanian Art“, in The Baltic Times. Contemporary Art from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, cat., T, Milovac, B. Stipančić (Eds), Zagreb, 2001, p. 35-39.
„Šiuolaikinė sienų tapyba ir vitražas“ [Contemporary Lithuanian Wall Painting and Stained Glass]; „Šiuolaikinė keramika“ [Contemporary Ceramics], in Lietuvos dailės istorija [History of Lithuanian Art], Vilnius: Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla, 2002, p. 366-369, 374-369.
„Procesas 2“ [Process 2], in Emisija 2004 – ŠMC [Emission 2004 – CAC], cat., L. Dovydaitytė (Ed), Vilnius: Contemporary Art Center, 2005, p. 9-14.
„Postmodernioji dailė“ [Postmodern Art], in Įdomioji Lietuvos istorija. Meno istorija [Exciting History of Lithuania. History of Art], E. Jovaiša (Ed), Vilnius: Elektroninės leidybos centras (CD-ROM), 2006.
„Meną į buitį“ [Art into Everyday Life], in David Mabb: Menas kasdienybei [David Mabb. Art into Everyday Life], kat., sudaryt. S. Rees, Vilnius: Šiuolaikinio meno centras, 2006, p. 12-18.
„Nehm Euch in Acht...“, in Mit Allem Rechnen. Medienkunst aus Estland, Lettland und Litauen, Kat., I. Arns, K. Wettengl (Hrsg.), Frankfurt/Main: Revolver, 2006, S. 122-135.
„All at Sea Together: the Baltic Art Scene of the 1990s“, in Nineties. Contemporary Art in Latvia, I. Astakhovska (Ed), Riga: Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, 2010, p. 191-199.
„Diskurso teorija“ [Discourse Theory], in Dailėtyra: teorijos, metodai, praktikos [Art Research: Theories, Methods, Practices], G. Mickūnaitė (Ed), Vilnius: Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla, 2012, p. 367-383.
Lietuvos dailininkų biogramos [Biographies of Lithuanian artists], in Lietuvos dailininkų žodynas [Dictionary of Lithuanian Artists]. T. 4: 1945–1990, M. Žvirblytė (Ed), Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2016 (bendraautorė).
„Visuelle Aufbrüche und Anblicke“, in Forsetzung volgt: Im Zuge der Moderne, N. Šepetys, G. Jankevičiūtė (Hrsgb), Vilnius: Lithuanian Culture Institute, 2017, S. 341–349.
Conferences
Scientific conference “The Art of Showing Art”. Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius. 2001.
Scientific conference “Margins: Another History of Lithuanian Culture”. Institute of Culture, Philosophy and Art, Vilnius. 2002.
International conference “ARS 06”. Contemporary Art Museum “Kiasma”, Helsinki. 2006.
International conference “After the Event: Rewriting Art History”. Contemporary Art Museum, Sydney. 2006.
International scientific conference “Museums and the Plurality of Art Histories”. Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius. 2006.
International conference “Feminisms, Historiography and Curatorial Practice”. Moderna museet, Stockholm. 2008.
International seminar of Clark Art Institute “Thinking Art History in East and Central Europe”. Estonian Art Academy, Institute of Art History, Tallinn. 2010.
College Art Association (US) Annual Conference. Presentations in the sections: “Fostering a Global Community: A Dialogue with Scholars from Parts of the World where Art History is an Emerging Discipline” and “Art Margins: Forum on Curatorship in Eastern Europe Twenty Years After the Wall”, New York, 2011.
International workshop “(De)constructing Utopia: Design in Eastern Europe from Thaw to Perestroika”. Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield (UK), 2014.
International conference “Museums and Their Publics at Sites of Conflicted History”, POLIN Museum, Warsaw, 2017.
Scientific conference of the Section of Collections’ Research of the Lithuanian Museums’ Association “Lithuania of March 11 in Museums”. The National Museum of Lithuania, Vilnius, 2020.
International scientific conference “Migration–Art–Museum”, Lithuanian National Museum of Art / National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, 2022.
Curated exhibitions
Mindaugas Navakas and Eglė Rakauskaitė. Lithuanian pavilion at the 48th Venice Biennial. 1999
tvvv. plotas archive in “Duchamp’s suitcase”, Arnolfini, Bristol. 2000
Innocent life (co-curated with E. Grigoravičienė), Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius. 2000
What is Important. 3rd Ars Baltica triennial of photographic art (co-curated with D. Bienert and L. Grambye). 2003. Exhibition tour 2003-2005: Stadtgalerie Kiel; Mecklenburg Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Plueschow (Germany); Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; Former Building of the Riga City Council, Riga; Tallinn Art Hall; Pori Art Museum, Malmö Konsthall
Jonas Mekas. Celebration of the Small and Personal in the Times of Bigness. Lithuanian pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale (co-curated with L. Pšibilskis), 2005. Exhibition tour in 2006: Vilnius CAC; BAC, Visby; MONASH University Museum of Art, Melbourne; CCA “Ujazdowski Castle”, Warsaw
Antanas Gudaitis. Liberation (co-curated with J. Mulevičiūtė). Lithuanian Art Museum, Radvilų rūmai. 2004
Monuments of our Discontent: Expiration of Place. 2nd Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art, Art Center “Winzavod”, Moscow. 2007
Experiment. Exhibition of the 20th–21st-century Lithuanian Art (co-curated with E. Grigoravičienė and J. Mulevičiūtė). National Art Museum of Lithuania, The Radvila Palace, Vilnius. 2007
20th -century Lithuanian Art Collection Display. National Gallery of Art, Vilnius. 2009
Modernisation. Baltic Art, Architecture and Design in the 1960s–1970s (co-curated with K. Lobjakas and I. Veinberga). National Gallery of Art, Vilnius; Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn. 2011–2012
Artūras Raila. Libretto for Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller. Synopsis. National Gallery of Art, Vilnius. 2016
Deimantas Narkevičius. Stains and Scratches. National Gallery of Art, Vilnius. 2017
New Display of Lithuanian Art of the 2nd half of the 20th c.–21st c. (co-curated with J. Jurašienė, L. Kreivytė and A. Narušytė). National Gallery of Art, Vilnius. 2020.
