Doctoral studies | Vilnius Academy of Arts

Admission to Doctoral Studies 2025

Application documents must be submitted:

- Fine Arts / Design / Architecture Doctoral Studies: 19-21 March

- History and Theory of Arts Doctoral Studies: 25 August - 4 September

LANDING | Call for Contributions to Issue 2 of Landing: Twenty Second Reverb

Express interest in contributing by 26th March 2025

Defence | From Performance to Transperformance: The Role of the Artist in the Posthumanist Era

11 April 2025, 2 p.m. defence of art project of MONIKA DIRSYTĖ, doctoral student in Fine Arts

Launch of ‘Edge of the Glacier’ the first issue of LANDING 24.02.2025

The Vilnius Academy of Art’s Doctoral Department’s Artistic Research Program invites you to join us in celebrating the launch of ‘Edge of the Glacier’ the first issue of LANDING, VAA’s new artistic research journal.
Time: 6 pm, 27th of February
Location: Chess Hall Auditorium (VAA, Malūnų st. 5, Vilnius)

Defence | How to get to Venice biennale?

28 February, 2 p.m. defence of art project of ROBERTAS NARKUS, doctoral student in Fine Arts

Call for applications to funded practice-based doctoral programmes at Vilnius Academy of Arts 05.02.2025

Application documents must be submitted between 19th to 21st of March 2025 in one pdf file by e-mail (doktorantura@vda.lt).

Vitamins PhD and DA: why should I (not) do a PhD in Art? 31.01.2025

It will take place on Thursday February 27th at 16:00 Vilnius time (UTC+02).

Prof. Dr. Claudia Mareis | Design as a Third Culture of Knowledge

10-12 February 2025, VAA 102 auditorium (Malūnų str. 3, Vilnius)

Defence | Lichen Grammar

13 December, 2 p.m. defence of art project of AISTĖ AMBRAZEVIČIŪTĖ, doctoral student in Design

Defence | Sentient Machines in Art: Relationship With Digital Beings and New Kinds of Intimacy

5 December. 2 p.m. defence of art project of IGNAS PAVLIUKEVIČIUS, doctoral student in Fine Arts

Open Day at REBARBIO (Research Base for Artistic Biotechnology) on November 12th 05.11.2024

On 12 November, from 16:00 to 19:00, you will be able to stop by and ask questions of Jan Georg Glöckner

Defence | The Surface and the Inwards of an Object: Towards Sensual Design

18 October, 2 p.m. defence of art project of MARIJA PUIPAITĖ, doctoral student in Design

Additional admission to doctoral studies in History and Theory of Arts (1 place at LMTA)

Applications will be accepted until 23 September, 8:00 AM

Additional admission to doctoral studies in Architecture (1 place at KTU)

Applications will be accepted until 23 September 2024

L a n d i n g | Call for Contributions to the first publication of the international artistic research platform

Send your expression of interest by July 11th.