Growing up in an oil town and pursuing an education in painting has escalated in me conjoining the two by applying crude oil as a medium for painting, along other industrial materials such as iron oxide, metal paint or ink. 

From this, a new research field opened up – me questioning the role of painting in contemporary art and relating myself to the canvas in an aim to explore topics around containment. From the contained image repressed by representation, to frameworks that hold too much and are unable to withhold accumulated tension related to seamless production. 

In my practice I question commerce, value, systems that frame and protect us but simultaneously exhaust and extract from us. I found the relation between the industrial quality of oil, material presence circulating in family history through labour, infrastructures of extraction and an academically acquired craft to be an interesting line of inquiry in exploring and contextualising internal or local issues in a more global sense.  

Andrėja Maiburovaitė (2000, LT) is a contemporary artist based in The Hague, NL.





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Education

2024 Master Artistic Research, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL
2024 Master Painting, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, LT
2023 Bachelor Painting, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, LT


Solo shows

2025
From the Ground, Prasmių Galerija, Zarasai, LT
Crude, Gallery Meno Niša, Vilnius, LT

2024
Napatum, Draugų Vardai, Vilnius, LT
Resource, Mažeikiai museum, LT


Group shows

2026
Graduation Show, KABK, The Hague, NL
Civil Crop, Kunstraum Hase 29, European Media Art Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück, DE

2025
Drill, Paradise, The Hague, NL
Index of Error, Paradise, The Hague, NL

2024
Locals (Duo) with Petras Lincevičius, Contour Art Gallery, Vilnius, LT
Zabolis Art Prize Finalists, VDA Titanikas, Vilnius, LT

2023
Viscidity (Graduation Show), Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, LT

2022
Now, Painting Corridor, Vilnius Academy of Art, Vilnius, LT
PPP1, Painting Corridor, Vilnius Academy of Art, Vilnius, LT

2021
+37,5, Painting Corridor, Vilnius Academy of Art, Vilnius, LT
One by One, Painting Corridor, Vilnius Academy of Art, Vilnius, LT


Art Fairs

2025
Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen, DK
Sengirės Fund Komisas Art Fair Auction, Sapieha Palace, Vilnius, LT


Collections

Mažeikiai Museum
Private collections: Lithuania, Poland, Netherlands


Grants

2025
Zarasai Town Mayors Fund, LT

2024
Beginner Artist Allowance, Lithuanian Council for Culture, LT
Zabolis Art Prize


Publications

2026

Blue Hour, Group publication by Master Artistic Research, NL
Material Emergence of Repression, Master Thesis Artistic Research, NL
Screwdriver #3, Independent publishing collective by Eleonora Gasparini, Michela Meliddo and Doğa Çakmakçı, NL

2025
Martina Kryževičiūtė Exhibition Text, LT
Extra-Violet, Group publication by Master Artistic Research, NL
Poppyseeds Magazine #1, NL

2024
Shoebox Magazine #3, edited by Dennis Farnsworth, NL