Ona Juciūtė lives and works in Vilnius. In her practice, she combines methods of sculpture, installation, material research, video, and storytelling. Ona is interested in the hierarchy of materials, habits of display, questions of energy transformation, and changing ways of producing objects.
Ona has held solo exhibitions at Editorial project space in Vilnius and at the Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry in the United Kingdom, and has participated in group exhibitions at MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, Kaunas Artists’ House, Atletika, RUPERT, Swallow project space in Vilnius, among others.
Working in scenography, she collaborates with the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, Hotel Pro Forma in Copenhagen, the State Youth Theatre in Vilnius, Volksbühne in Berlin, and others. In her work for the stage, Ona most often engages with themes of time and the fragmentation of memory.
Since 2021, Ona has participated in residency programmes abroad, including AIR Niederösterreich in Austria, Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen in Germany, and Diyalog Istanbul in Turkey. She was awarded the first JCDecaux Prize in 2016 and received an individual Alexandra Kasuba Grant in 2017. Since 2021, her sculptures have been part of the permanent collection of Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki.
