Institute of Art Research

Dr. Dainius Junevičius

dainius.junevicius[at]vda.lt



Photography historian, exhibition curator


Born in 1958 in Kaunas, since 1976 lives in Vilnius.

In 1981, he graduated from the Vilnius University Faculty of Physics with a degree in semiconductor physics. From 1981 to 1990, he worked as a physicist at the research institute "Venta" and at the Semiconductor Physics Institute. From 1991 until 2023, with a break in 1994-1997, when he worked as a research fellow in the Cultural History Department at the Institute of Culture and Art, he held various positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania.

Since 2002, he has been a member of the European Society for the History of Photography.

Academic research focuses on the history of 19th-century Lithuanian photography. He has written and edited several books on the history of Lithuanian photography, curated exhibitions of historical photography in Lithuania and abroad, and published over 50 articles on photography history in Lithuanian, Polish, and English in scientific and cultural journals in Lithuania and internationally.

On October 20, 2023, he defended his doctoral dissertation in the field of art studies within the humanities, titled “Lithuanian Photography of the 1950s to 1970s (the Wet Collodion Period) and Its Social Determinants“ (original title – „XX a. šeštojo-aštuntojo dešimtmečių (šlapio kolodijaus laikotarpio) Lietuvos fotografija ir jos socialiniai determinantai“).

Starting on November 4, 2024, he is undertaking a two-year postdoctoral research project “French Traces in 19th-Century Lithuanian Photography“ (supervised by Dr. Algė Andriulytė).

Curated exhibitions:

Šviesus miestas, tamsūs laikai. XIX amžiaus fotografo Wilhelmo Zacharczyko Vilnius / Mindaugas Meškauskas. Aš esu vilnietis / Dovilė Dagienė. Čia tada, ten dabar: vieta – Vilnius, Lietuvos nacionalinio dailės muziejaus Vilniaus paveikslų galerija, 2025 m. spalio 7 – 2026 m. balandžio 26 d. (su Margarita Matulyte).

Józef Czechowicz. Fotografie. Galeria im. Sleńdzińskich, Białystok, 11.07–17.08.2025 (with  Elżbieta Korol).

Benoît Henri Tyszkiewicz. Entre la Lituanie et la France. La Saison de la Lituanie en France, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France, November 9, 2024 – January 19, 2025 (with Emmanuelle Vieillard and Audrey Lebeault)

Odnalezione obrazy: fotoestetyka hrabiego Benedykta Henryka Tyszkiewicza (1852–1935), Muzeum Łazienki Królewskie, Warsaw, December 8, 2023 – March 10, 2024, (with Małgorzata Grąbczewska).

Tarp Lietuvos ir Prancūzijos. Du grafo Benedikto Henriko Tyszkiewicziaus pasauliai, Lithuanian National Museum of Art - Vilnius Picture Gallery, July 13 – October 10, 2021.

Juozapas Čechavičius ir jo epocha fotografijoje, Vilnius Picture Gallery,  December 4, 2018 – March 3, 2019.

Juozapo Čechavičiaus Vilnius, Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art, November 13, 2015 – January 16, 2016, Šiauliai Photography Museum, February 26 – May 8, 2016.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books:

Junevičius, Dainius, Matulytė, Margarita. XIX amžiaus fotografo Wilhelmo Józefo Zacharczyko „Vilniaus albumas“, Vilnius: Lietuvos nacionalinis dailės muziejus, 2025.

Józef Czechowicz. Fotografie / teksty Dainius Junevičius, Elżbieta Korol. Białystok: Galeria im. Sleńdzińskich, 2025. 

Mykolo Brenšteino kelionės pėsčiomis po Žemaitiją 1896 metų vasarą dienoraštis, Vilnius: Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla, 2025 (Žemaičių praeitis 19).

Benedykt Henryk Tyszkiewicz. Sugrįžimas / The Homecoming, edited by Dainius Junevičius, Vilnius: Dailės galerija „Klasika“, 2020.

Junevičius, Dainius, Strakauskaitė, Nijolė. Kuršių nerija anno 1900 : Tilžės fotografo Roberto Minzloffo (1855–1930) stereoskopinių fotografijų rinkinys „Die Kurische Nehrung“, Tilsit, 1900 /– Neringa : [Liudvikas Rėza Cultural Center], 2020. Book published in English in 2023 and in German in 2024.

Iškilioji Lietuva. 1860–1918: stereoskopinių vaizdų albumas / Stereoscopic Lithuania 1860–1915, edited by Dainius Junevičius, Vilnius: Artprint, 2019.

Abdonas Korzonas – pirmųjų Vilniaus vaizdų fotografas, Vilnius: Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla, 2017.(in 2019, this book was awarded the Vilnius Club prize for the best book of the year about Vilnius)
Polish translation: Abdon Korzon pierwszy fotograf widoków Wilna, Warszawa: DiG, 2021.

Šenavičienė, Ieva, Junevičius, Dainius, Sukilėlių būrių Žemaitijoje monografija / Prepared by Ieva Šenavičienė, Vilnius : Lietuvos istorijos instituto leidykla, 2015. (chapter by Junevičius, Dainius. “The Iconography of the 1863 Uprising in Samogitia“, p. 157–176)

Antalis Rohrbachas: 1861 m. fotografijos, Vilnius: Versus Aureus, 2013. (in 2015 the author was awarded the Pro Cultura Hungarica medal by the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education).

Exhibition catalogues:

Benoît Henri Tyszkiewicz. Entre la Lituanie et la France. La Saison de la Lituanie en France, 2024. November 9, 2024 – January 19, 2025. Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône.

Odnalezione obrazy: fotoestetyka hrabiego Benedykta Henryka Tyszkiewicza (1852–1935) // Discovered images : the photo-aesthetics of count Benedykt Henryk Tyszkiewicz (1852–1935) / edited by Dainius Junevičius, Małgorzata Maria Grąbczewska, Šiauliai : Šiauliai “Aušros” Museum, 2024.

Juozapas Čechavičius ir jo epocha fotografijoje: parodos katalogas / Józef Czechowicz and his Age in Photography. Exhibition Catalogue. [2018, Vilnius] / [edited by Dainius Junevičius], Vilnius: Lithuanian National Museum of Art, 2018.

Juozapo Čechavičiaus Vilnius: parodos vadovas / [text author Dainius Junevičius], Vilnius: Lithuanian National Museum of Art, 2015.

Notable articles in recent years:

Przyczynki do historii fotografii na Litwie do końca okresu mokrego kolodionu (1839–ok. 1890). Contributions to the History of Photography in Lithuania until the End of the Wet Collodion Period (1839 – ca. 1883) in the Light of Recent Research. Biuletyn Historii Sztuki, 2025, t. 87, nr. 2, p. 9–28. https://doi.org/10.36744/bhs.3655

Lietuvos fotografų nuotraukos 1867 m. Rusijos etnografijos parodoje, Lietuvos kultūros tyrimai, 2018, t. 10, p. 142–162.

Fotografai 1863–1864 m. sukilime Lietuvoje, 1863–1864 m. sukilimas: istorija ir atmintis / edited by Zita Medišauskienė, Darius Staliūnas, Vilnius: Lithuanian Institute of History, 2016, p. 95–111.

Keletas štrichų Vilniaus laikinosios archeologijos komisijos garbės nario Henri François Alexandre’o van Blarenberghe’o biografijai, Kova dėl istorijos: Vilniaus senienų muziejus (1855–1915) / edited by Reda Griškaitė, Žygintas Būčys. Vilnius: Lithuanian National Museum of Art, 2015, p. 283–289.