Biography
Škarnulytė is a Lithuanian-born artist and filmmaker. Working between the realms of the documentary and the imaginary, Škarnulytė makes films and immersive installations exploring deep time and invisible structures. She works in realms that range from the cosmic and geological to the ecological and political.
She most recently presented works at MoMA PS1, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, MORI Art Museum, Kiasma, Gwangju Biennale, Helsinki Biennale, Vilnius Biennale, Henie Onstad Triennale, and Penumbra. Her work was presented in solo exhibitions at Canal Projects, NYC (2024), Kunsthaus Göttingen (2024) Ferme-Asile, Sion (2023); Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel/Bienne (2021); Den Frie, Copenhagen (2021); National Gallery of Vilnius (2021); Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2017); Contemporary Art Centre CAC of Vilnius (2015).
Prizes awarded to her include the 2023 Ars Fennica Award and the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize. She represented Lithuania at the XXII Triennale di Milano and participated in the Baltic Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. She has films in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Kadist Foundation, Kiasma, Fondazione in between Art and Film, IFA, HAM, FRAC Corsica, LNMA, MO Museum, and private collections. Her works have been screened at the Tate Modern and Serpentine Gallery in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museum of Modern Art in New York, and numerous film festivals, including Oberhausen, Visions du Réel, Rotterdam, and Busan, among many others. She is a founder and currently co-directs Polar Film Lab, a collective for analogue film practice located in Tromsø, Norway and is a member of the artist duo New Mineral Collective..
Awards
2023 Winner of the Ars Fennica 2023 Award
2022 Nominated for Silver Eye Award
2022 GASAG Art Prize, initiated by GASAG and organised together with the Berlinische Galerie (declined)
2021-2022 Taurus Prize for Visual Arts, The Taurus Foundation for Arts and Sciences
2019 Main Future Generation Art Prize, PinchukArtCentre
2017 Main award for Sparebankstiftelsen DNB stipend, Norway
2017 Kino der Kunst Project Main Award 2017, Munich, Germany
2016 National Lithuanian Art Prize for Young Artist
2015 Anne og Jakob Weidemanns award, Høstutstillingen, Norway
2014 Nominated for the best documentary, 13th Dhaka International Film Festival
2013 Nominated for the best short film, EIFF Edinburgh International Film Festival
2013 Special Jury Mention in Vilnius International Short Film Festival
2009 National Italian premium of MIUR for video art
Grants
2024 LTKT individual stipend
2015-2018 Artist work grant, diversestipend, Kulturrådet, Norway
2014 Artist work grant, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, NBK, Oslo, Norway
2013 Travel Grant, Nordnorsk Filmsenter, Norway
2014 Kulturrådet, Arts Council support Geology of Morals pubblication, Norway
2014 Travel Grant - Office of Contemporary Art Norway, Latent River, 31st São Paulo Biennial, Brasil
2013 Artist work grant, Troms fylkeskommune, Tromsø, Norway
2013 Travel Grant, Nordnorsk Filmsenter, Norway
2013 Northern Norway Public Art Commission (Festspillene I Nord Norge), Norway
2013 Kulturrådet, Arts Council support for Hollow Earth project, Norway
2013 Troms fylkeskommune support for Hollow Earth project, Norway
2012 Lo schermo dell ́arte 2012 grant for workshop, Italy
Residencies
2023 Amant Residency New York, USA
2023 Villa Arson, Nice, France
2022 Providenza, Corsica, Pieve, FR 2022 Art Explora, Paris, France
2021 OVEREXPOSED - Sonic Acts Home-Based Residency
2021 MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles, USA
2021 The Bogliasco Foundation, Italy
2020 Super Otium, in collaboration with Lithuania Embassy, Napoli, Italy
2019 Nida Art Colony, Lithuania
2019 Jan van Eyck academie, Netherlands
2018 Banff, Canada
2017 Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (one year)
2015 ABH/ AiR Helgeland-Berlin in ZK/U, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik in Berlin, Germany
2015 Kunstnerhytta i Ny-Ålesund, NBK, Norway
2015 Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale, Norway
2014 Krems Air, Austria
2014 AIR Barents, Arkhangelsk, Russia
2014 ComoKlubbe artist-in-residence program, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2013 AIR Svalbard, Svalbard, Norway
2012 Kaman Art Foundation Artist-in-Residence, Jetpur Village, Rajasthan, India
2011 Space Beam, Incheon, South Korea
2010 Tutok space, Manila, Philippines
2010 Artists-in-Residence Programme, Gunsan, South Korea
2010 Space Beam, Incheon, South Korea
