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Admission to Doctoral Studies 2026

 

Applications documents must be submitted: 

- Architecture / Design / Fine Arts doctoral studies: 18-20 March 2026

- History and Theory of Arts doctoral studies: 24 August - 2 September 2026

Defence | Degrowing Poetics

 

6th March 2 p.m. defence of art project of MIKLOS (MIKI) AMBROZY, doctoral student in Fine Arts.

Dr. David Maroto talk „Fictocritical Encounters: Rethinking Criticality and Writing in Contemporary Art“

 

10 February 2026, 2 p.m., Vilnius Academy of Arts, 102 auditorium, building C1 (Malūnų str. 3, Vilnius)

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

 

February 24th (Tuesday) at 17:00 Vilnius time (UTC+02)

Defence | The Expression of the Concept of Childhood in Lithuanian Art from the Mid-18th to the First Half of the 19th Century

 

5th February, 2 p.m. defence of the dissertation of JOANA VITKUTĖ, doctoral student of Art History and Theory.

Dr. Bart Geerts public lecture „Daily Drawing Things You Don't Understand“

 

December 11, 4 p.m., Vilnius Academy of Arts, 102 auditorium, building C1 (Malūnų str. 3, Vilnius)

Symposium "Degrowing Poetics and Counter-Ecologies"

 

1-2 December 2025, VAA Room 102 (Malūnų str. 3, Vilnius)

FORUM. Performance by Irina Gheorghe: Scores at the End of the Present 19.11.2025

Performance will happen on November 27th 14:20 at VDA Gothic Hall, Maironio st. 6, Vilnius.

Defence | Wet Choreography in Artistic Biotechnology

 

16 December, 2 p.m., defence of art project of JAN GEORG GLOECKNER, doctoral student in Fine Arts.  

Prof. Peter Osborne public lecture “On Criticability”

 

November 26, 2 p.m., Vilnius Academy of Arts, 102 auditorium, building C1 (Maironio str. 6, Vilnius)

Defence | Primal Expression in the Field of Visual Communication Design

 

12 December, 2 p.m. defence of art project of RASA JANČIAUSKAITĖ, doctoral student in Design.

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)

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