Doctoral studies | Vilnius Academy of Arts

Why Are Artist-Researchers Better Storytellers? From Textbook to Artist’s Book to Performative Publishing (2010-2025) 11.11.2025

We have lived through 15 intensive and dynamic years of doctoral education in the arts in Lithuania and now it is a good moment to reflect what has happened and rewind time in order to reflect and give proposals or even fortune-telling for the future.

Defence | Gravitational Aesthetics

28 November 2025, 2 p.m. defence of art project of JULIJONAS URBONAS.

Compo(s)t and Detritus: A Research Exhibition by Doctoral Students in the Arts

Exhibition opening on November 7, 2025, at 5 p.m. in the VAA exhibition halls "Titanikas" (Maironio str. 3, Vilnius).

Prof. dr. Burcu Dogramaci | Art (History) on the move: Dis:connectivity, Entanglements and Exile

Public lecture on 10 September, at 11:00 am
Juozas Karosas hall, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Gedimino pr. 42, Vilnius)

Admission to History and Theory of Arts Doctoral Studies (position with research subject)

Application documents must be submitted 25 August - 4 September

Admission to FINE ARTS doctoral studies (position with research subject)

Application documents must be submitted 25 August - 4 September 2025.

Defence | The Iconography of St. Francis and St. Dominic in Franciscan and Dominican Art in Vilnius in the 16th-mid 19th Century: Expression of Features of Saints and Theological Ideas

20th June, 2 p.m. defence of the dissertation of BIRUTĖ KABAŠINSKIENĖ, doctoral student of Art History and Theory

Defence | Strategies to Acculturate Nature in Western Art of the 19th–20th Centuries

26th June, 2 p.m. defence of the dissertation of DEIMA KATINAITĖ, doctoral student of Art History and Theory

Dr. Christoph Haffner | Materialist Philosophy of Contemporary Art

Public lecture on Thursday, May 8, at 2:30 pm
Jurgis Karnavičius auditorium (1305), Music Innovation Studies Centre, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Gedimino pr. 42, Vilnius)

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)

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

Express interest in contributing by 26th March 2025

Defence | How to get to Venice biennale?

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

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).