odeta.zukauskiene[at]vda.lt
Art historian, art theorist
Research interests: comparative perspectives in art history, visual culture and its relationship to art, aesthetics, art theory, contemporary art.
Odeta Žukauskienė is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities at Kaunas faculty, Vilnius Academy of Arts. She received her PhD degree in 2005 from Vilnius Academy of Arts with a dissertation, focusing on the scholarly work of art historians Henri Focillon and Jurgis Baltrušaitis and comparative cultural studies. Since 2010 she teaches courses on aesthetics, visual culture, cultural anthropology, Eastern cultures and arts. She is also a chief researcher at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. Her teaching is informed by scholarship in comparative art history and contemporary visual culture.
Research projects
2017–2022, COST action CA16213 New Exploratory Phase in Research on East European Cultures of Dissent. International research project, the Programme of the European Cooperation in Science and Tehchnoology. https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA16213/
2018–2019, The Museum as a Polylogue of Dominant and Alternative Narratives: from Theory to Practice, Lithuanian–Ukrainian Cooperation Programme in the Fields of Research and Technologies. Research Council of Lithuania, No. P-LU-18-66.
2018, Atminties ir žvilgsnio trajektorijos: vizualinės kultūros refleksija [The Trajectories of Memory and Glance: A Reflection on Visual Culture]. Research Council of Lithuania, No. S-LIP-18-5.
Culture and curatorial projects
Vaizd(ini)ai ir įvaizdžiai: kas ir kaip mus kuria? [Image(ry) and Visibility: What Creates Us and How?], project of the Lithuanian Council for Culture, No. S/HUM-22(6.44), 2021-2022.
Between Two / Contemplation(s), Lithuanian and Japanese contemporary textile art exhibition. Curatorial project funded by Eu-Japan Fest Japan committee, 26 Apr. 2022 - 26 May 2022.
Pauliaus Normanto kelionė į tolumas ir į save [Paulius Normantas’ journey to the faraway and into himself], project of the Lithuanian Council for Culture in the field of Photography, No. LKT-36(1.2), 2018–2019.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
O., Žukauskienė et al. Vaizd(ini)ai ir įvaizdžiai: kas ir kaip mus kuria? [Image(ry) and Visibility: What Creates Us and How?]. Vilnius: LKTI, 2021. – 280 p. ISBN 978-609-8231-366
O., Žukauskienė, Ž. Gaižutytė-Filipavičienė, Atminties ir žvilgsnio trajektorijos: vaizdo kultūros refleksija [Trajectories of Memory and Glance: A Reflection on Visual Culture]. Vilnius: LKTI, 2018. – 304 p. ISBN 978-609-8231-05-2
O. Žukauskienė et al. Naratyvų labirintuose: Lietuvos ir Ukrainos muziejų patirtys [In the Labyrinth of Narratives: Lithuanian and Ukrainian Museum Experiences]. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2019, – 216 p. ISBN978-609-07-0285-7
O., Žukauskienė, Meno formų metamorfozės: komparatyvistinė Focillono ir Baltrušaičio menotyra [Metamorphoses of Art Forms: Comparative Art History by Focillon and Baltrušaitis]. Vilnius: KFMI, 2006, p. 288. ISBN 978-9986-638-83-4
Edited books
Paulius Normantas: kelionė į tolumas, ėjimas į save [Paulius Normantas. Journey to Faraway and into Self], ed. O. Žukauskienė. Vilnius: LKTI, 2019. – 287 p. ISBN 978-609-8231-11-3
Kultūra tinklaveikos visuomenėje: tapatybės industrija [Culture in the Network Society: Identity Industry], eds. O. Žukauskienė, R. Repšienė. Vilnius: LKTI, 2017. – 199 p. ISBN 978-9955-868-99-6
Atmintis, vaizdas, kultūra. Lietuvos kultūros tyrimai 6 [Memory, Image, Culture. Lithuanian Culture Studies 6], eds. R. Repšienė O. Žukauskienė. Vilnius: LKTI, 2015. – 183 p. ISBN 978995586774, ISSN 2029-8560
Algis Uždavinys. Kūrybinė vaizduotė: dailės kritika ir publicistika [Creative Imagination: Art Criticism and Publisicm], ed. O. Žukauskienė. Vilnius: LKTI, 2013. – 352 p. ISBN 978-9955-868-62-0
Scholarly peer-reviewed articles
Žukauskienė, O. Tapybos ontologija Arūno Vaitkūno kūryboje ? [The Ontology of Painting in the Work of Arūnas Vaitkūnas], Logos, Nr. 112, 2022, p. 126–136. https://doi.org/10.24101/logos.2022.57
Žukauskienė, O. Transhistorical Dialogue Concerning Images: Baltrušaitis and Kircher, Art History & Criticism, Nr. 16, 2020. p. 6–17. https://doi.org/10.2478/mik-2020-0001
Žukauskienė, O. Comparative History of Images and Transcultural Imaginary: Jurgis Baltrušaitis’ Legacy, Dialogue and Universalim, Comparative Culture Studies in Philosophy and Aesthetics, Vol. 30, Nr. 3, 2020, p. 281–300. https://doi.org/10.5840/du202030330
Žukauskienė, O. Ankstyvasis modernizmas ir teosofija: kultūrinis Vydūno pasaulėžiūros kontekstas [Early Modernism and Theosophy: The Cultural Context of Vydūnas Worldview], Sphairos: kultūros ir medijų studijos 12. Vilnius: LKTI, 2020, p. 96–108. ISSN 2669-2988, eISSN 2789-5529
Žukauskenė, O. Jurgis Baltrušaitis: Search for the Rules of Imagination, Lituanus. The Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 64:4, 2018, p. 41–63. ISSN 0024-5089
Žukauskienė, O. Šiuolaikinio vizualinio meno tekstiškumas kintančių paradigmų kontekstuose [Textuality of contemporary visual art in contexts of changing paradigms], Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, Menininkas ir tekstas, Nr. 91, 2018 p. 37–54. ISBN: 9786094472954
Žukauskienė, O. A Philosophical Topography of Place and Non-place: Lithuanian Context, Coactivity: Philosophy, Communication, T. 24, Nr. 2, 2016, p. 108–118. https://doi:10.3846/CPC.2016.244
Žukauskienė, O. Repšienė, R. The Song Celebration as Power of Cultural Memory and a Mission of Modernity, Culture Crossroads, Vol. 9, 2016, p. 20–35. https://doi.org/10.55877/cc.vol9.148
Žukauskienė, O. Vizualumas, regimasis kapitalas ir vertybių hierarchijų kaita [Visuality, Capital of Visibility and Changes in Value Hierarchy], Logos, Nr. 82, 2015, p. 33–44. ISSN 0868-7692
Žukauskienė, Odeta. Dialogues with the art of the past in the imaginary museum of modernity and postmodernity, The inspiration from the past in the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Eds. M. Geron, J. Malinowski. Cracow: Libron, 2013, p. 229–241. ISBN 978-83-924110-9-3
Žukauskienė, O. Orderly Ugliness Anamorphosis and Visionary Worlds. Jurgis Baltrušaitis’ Contribution to Art History Jurgis Baltrušaitis’ Contribution to Art History, in Ugliness: The Non-Beautiful in Art and Theory. Eds. Andrei Pop, Mechtild Widrich. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013, p. 190–215. ISBN 9781784533557
Art Criticism, Catalogs, and Other
Tarp dviejų: į(si)žiūrėjimai. Japonijos ir Lietuvos šiuolaikinės tekstilės menas / Between Two: Contemplation(s). Contemporary Textile Art of Japan and Lithuania. Exhibition catalogue, ed. by O. Žukauskienė. Kaunas: Kauno bienalė, 2022, 72 p. ISBN 978-609-8265-02-6.
Žukauskienė, Odeta. Psichofizinė Arūno Vaitkūno tapyba [“Psychophysical painting by Arūnas Vaitkūnas“], Kultūros barai, 8 / 2022, p. 31– 36. ISSN 0134-3106
Žukauskienė, O. An Aberrant Poser. Mikutis, Nep4dissent, 2022, https://nep4dissent.eu/odeta-zukauskiene-an-aberrant-poser-mikutis/
Tekstilė ateičiai / Textile for Future [international conference papers and catalogue], ed. by O. Žukauskienė. Vilnius: Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla, 2020. –160 p. ISBN 978-9955-687-19-1
Žukauskienė, O. Perspektyvos magija [The magic of perspective], in Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Anamorfozės: iškreiptos perspektyvos, trans. by D. Habdankaitė. Vilnius: Six Chairs Books, 2019, p. 6–11. ISBN 978-609-96058-2-1
Jurgio Baltrušaičio rankraščiai. Visiem ir niekam / Jurgis Baltrušaitis' Manuscripts: For All and None [exposition catalogue], eds. O. Žukauskienė, G. Didžiapetris. Vilnius: Lietuvos dailės muziejus, 2016. ISBN 978-609-455-337-0
