AUKSĖ PETRULIENĖ

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of birth: 17th November 1973.
Adress: Kampiškių 1, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Tel.: +370 7 345362 (home), + 370 61244272 (mobile).
e-mail: aukse.petruliene@gmail.com www.aukse.lt

EDUCATION
1999-2001 - Vilnius Art Academy, design department, Master of Arts,
1995-1999 - Vilnius Art Academy, printmaking department, Bachelor of Arts,
1991-1995 – Kaunas Art College, artistic leather.

WORK EXPERIENCE
From 2012 - head of Ceramics museum, branch of National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum,

2009 – 2015 - lecturer, Vilnius Art Academy, printmaking department,
from 2009 – member of Lithuanian Artists Association,
from 2005 – “PSILICONE THEATRE”, direction of video performances and their implementation, 2001 - 2011 - National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, department for education.

AWARDS
2013 Lithuanian state culture and art scholarship,
2010 and 2013 Kaunas city municipality culture and art scholarship,
2008 Crystal of Kindness - the award of Kaunas City Mayor for revitalization of cultural life in the city,
2007 the winner of the grant for young stage artists "Open Space" at Arts Printing House, Vilnius, Lithuania.

EXIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES (last five years)

2015 "Hairy Hairy Mouth", audiovisual site specific performance and installation together with jazz band "Chui" ( Croatia), Kaunas Art Biennial, Lithuania,
"Sarx", audiovisual performance and installation together with composer Juta Pranulytė (Lithuania) for the project "Sounding bodies" initiated by Contemporary Music Communication Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania,
Interactive educational installation inside the exposition of Baltic sea, Lithuanian Sea Museum, Klaipėda, Lithuania.

2014 "Summer Garden Photograph" audiovisual performance with "Dirt Nonet" (Austria/Lithuania/GB/Slovakia),
International festival "Glatt & Verkehr", Krems, Austria,
"Summer Garden Photograph" Kosice, Slovakia,
"Summer Garden Photograph" Caffe Oto, London, UK,
"Summer Garden Photograph" international festival of contemporary academic music "Iš arti", Kaunas, Lithuania,
"Cabbage Head Man Circus" - site specific land reclamation project, Kaunas, Lithuania, Video installation "Bestiarium Marinum", Lithuanian Sea Museum, Klaipėda, Lithuania.

2013 Worldwide premiere of audiovisual performance "Greenhouse Stories", "Kids Euro" festival, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC, USA,
Audiovisual performance "Greenhouse Stories", Philadelphia, USA,
Audiovisual performance "Greenhouse Stories", Contemporary Art Festival Virus, Šiauliai, Lithuania,
Audiovisual performance „Reject Your Soul“, with saxophonist Jan Maksimovic, Bornholm Puppet Festival, Bornholm, Denmark,
Audiovisual performance „Reject Your Soul“, with saxophonist Jan Maksimovic, International Stockholm Library, Sweden,
Audiovisual performance „Reject Your Soul“ with jazz band „Jazzator“ (Russia /Switzerland), International Theatre Festival "FETA", Gdansk, Poland,
Audiovisual performance "The Story of Hanged Fox of Šančiai District", together with local community of ex prisoners, Kaunas Art Biennial, Lithuania,
"Self Defense", workshops of experimental animation, Kaunas Faculty of Vilnius Art Academy, Kaunas, Lithuania,
"Nowe Legendy Gdanskie" ("New Gdansk Legends"), workshops of experimental animation, Contemporary Art Education Centre Łaźnia 2, Nowy Port, Gdansk, Poland,
Video installation „Reject Your Soul“, Vilnius Graphic Art Centre, Lithuania.

2012 „Reject Your Soul“, performance of silicone puppets with jazz band „Jazzator“ (Russia /Switzerland), premiere at Vilnius Culture Night Festival „Let There Be Night“, Vilnius, Lithuania,
International premiere – international street art festival „Spoffin“, Amersfoort, Netherlands,
„Reject Your Soul“ with band „Choco Jazz“ (Croatia/Austria), “Ganz New Festival”, Zagreb, Croatia,
„Reject Your Soul“ with „Choco Jazz“, Vilnius International Theatre Festival “Sirens”, Vilnius, Lithuania..

2011 Personal exhibition „Boxing“, comics based on the life of famous Lithuanian boxer A. Šocikas, Lithuanian Sport Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania,
„Herbarium“, installation for „Museum For The Blind“, M.Žilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania,
Audiovisual performance “Mrs. Strangled and. Mr. Shot”, International Puppet Theatre Festival “Flying Festival”, Kaunas, Lithuania,
Video installation art director, international art project „Sanctuary“, Birštonas „Gryn Park Festival“, Birštonas, Lithuania,
„Boxing“, installation of silicone puppets and video at the exhibition „Declaration. Printmaking Contexts“, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania.


2010 „Prints on air“, video installation in exibition „Printmaking – from tradition to experiment“, National M.K.Čiurlionis art museum, Kaunas, Lithuania,
Audiovisual performance “Strangled and shot”, international theatre festival “PannOpticum”, Neusiedl am See, Austria,
“Strangled and shot”, international theatre festival “Stage”, Helsinki, Finland,
“Strangled and shot”, Lithuanian culture days in Gdansk, Poland.

2009 “Dam the anger, produce electricity!” - experimental animation for an interdisciplinary art project “The Friendly zone” addressing public space in Kaunas,
International Championship of Art “Art-o-thlon”, Lithuanian National TV,
“Communication changes attitude”, Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre, Klaipėda, Lithuania,
Audiovisual performance “Fooled and Robbed”, Lithuanian days in “Actovy Zal” initiated by the TransEuropeHalles European network project “Factories of imagination”, Moscow, Russia,
Audiovisual performance “Strangled and shot”, International festival of culture and ecology “Grynparkas”, Birštonas, Lithuania,
„Prints on air“, international printmaking biennial, Bitola, Macedonia,
Interactive audiovisual installation, project „New Prospect“, Vilnius,
Audiovisual performance “Strangled and shot”, international theatre festival “Sirens”, Vilnius, Lithuania,
Audiovisual performance “SJÖJUNGFRUNS ATTACK ”, together with jazz group “Memento normative”, Eskilstuna Art museum, Sweden.

2008 “Here Comes Vilnius!” – video performance, presentation of VILNIUS – EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2009, musical theatre – club New York, Vilnius, “Here Comes Vilnius!”
, VIVATTUR - International Trade Fair of Tourism, Sport and Leisure, Vilnius,
“Laboratory of the Fear” – audiovisual workshop for children, youth and families, VIVATTUR - International Trade Fair of Tourism, Sport and Leisure, Vilnius,
“In puris naturalibus ” - audiovisual stories for the project “Fabulae moventes”, art gallery of Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania,
“Arriva Vilnius!” - video performance together with „Rosalba Piccini“ jazz quartet, presentation of VILNIUS – EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2009, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy.

2007 KAUNAS EDEN – HOW IT ALL HAPPENED, installation of paintings, lights and photographs for the conservatory of botanical garden, Kaunas, Lithuania,
Psilicone theatre audiovisual performance “FOOLED AND ROBBED”, International media art festival ENTER , Šiauliai, Lithuania,
Psilicone theatre performance “BISON ON TABOURET”, Arts Printing House, Vilnius, Lithuania,
“DESSERT HOUSE”, sculpture exibition, Laisvė avenue, Kaunas, Lithuania,
Audiovisual project “You Won’t Beat Me!”, VIII International Printmaking Biennial of Baltic countries, Kaliningrad, Russia,
ART + ART TO COMMUNICATE: SCULPTURE, 2005, Kaunas Art Gallery, Lithuania.

2006 International Triennale of Graphic Art and poster “4TH BLOCK“, Kharkiv, Ukraine,
International Printmaking Biennial of Baltic countries “Now Art Now Future”, Kaunas,
International plain air “Tributo a Ferruccio Marchetti“, Mondaino, Italy,
Media art festival “Forgotten Places“, FOOLED AND ROBBED, Psilicone theatre audiovisual performance Klaipėda, Lithuania,
Art forum “Homo ludens 8“, Jonava, Lithuania,
George Maciunas 75 – audiovizual adventure in the swimming pool , Kaunas, Lithuania,
Multimedia art and music festival CENTRAS 5, Kaunas, Lithuania.

In 2005 I established the Psilicone Theatre. Its unique principle is based on miniature puppets made from silicone. Psilicone theatre performance is a public game with silicone puppets, texts and personal items. From 2005 Psilicone theatre makes performances at the places untouched by the arts - in the yards of block flats, in sports club’s swimming pools - on purpose to meet unusual spectators, to know their needs and expectations of contemporary art.