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, specialization - author's book, Master of Arts,
1995-1999 - Vilnius Art Academy, design department, printmaking studio, Bachelor of Arts,
1991-1995 – Kaunas Art Collrge, artistic leather.

WORK EXPERIENCE

From 2009 – lecturer, Vilnius Art Academy, printmaking department,
from 2009 – member of Lithuanian Artists Association,
from 2005 – PSILICONE THEATRE, direction of video performances and their implementation, from 2001 - M.K.ČIURLIONIS NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART, department for education.
1997-2001 - Publishing enterprise VINGIS, llustrator.

AWARDS

Brick of Kindness 2007 - the award of Kaunas City Mayor for activating cultural life of the city,
2010 - Kaunas Municipality grant for artists.

EXIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES (LAST YEARS)

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.