Eglė Ambrasaitė (she/her) is a Lithuanian artist, an independent curator and a researcher. She is based across multiple locations, including Žeimiai (LT), Berlin (DE), and New York (USA). She is the founding director of Aikas Žado Association and the curator of Aikas Žado Laboratory*, a collectively-run, non-profit interdisciplinary art institution based in Žeimiai Manor House (LT). Her practice weaves (crip) materialities, decolonial and more-than-human perspectives, affect theory, and dark ecology into curatorial frameworks that imagine alternative futures. Through exhibitions, public programmes, and collaborative research, Ambrasaitė creates interdisciplinary spaces where human, non-human, artificial, and inanimate agencies meet - inviting acts of care and forging forms of interdependence.
*Based in crip materiality methodologies, Aikas Žado Laboratory is organized as an individually collaborative artwork by the artists Domas Noreika and Eglė Ambrasaitė, as well as a communal artwork. Part of its programs are administered, coordinated and developed by the Aikas Žado Association. The main activities of the Laboratory are practical experiments related to the management of cultural heritage objects and the combination of discoveries, methods, techniques and knowledge in the fields of contemporary art, science and culture. The main principles of the Laboratory’s activities are illustrated by the application of conservation, prevention and restoration systems in the Žeimiai Manor House. At the Laboratory, the team collects and tests historical materials, organizes scientific research and exhibitions, and presents cognitive expeditions that showcase specific solutions and methods (based on crip materiality) of turning the Manor House into a contemporary artwork itself.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
01 06 2023
Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education received from Yehuda Elkana Center for Teaching, Learning & Higher Education Research, Vienna, Austria
17 01 2023 → 31 05 2023
Bard Graduate Center, New York City, USA
Selected as part of OSUN Program; visiting PhD student
15 01 2022 → 15 05 2022
ZZF Institute (The Leibniz Center for Contemporary History Potsdam), Potsdam, Germany
Visiting PhD researcher with DRSG grant; host supervisor: Juliane Fürst
14 01 2021 → 14 04 2021
Teaching assistant for Gender Foundations II class designed for MA students and led by prof. Eszter Timar, Central European University (CEU), Vienna
01 09 2019 → now
CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
PhD Candidate in Comparative Gender Studies
01 09 2016 → 30 01 2017
CORVINUS UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
Erasmus exchange programme
01 09 2015 → 22 06 2018
VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY, KAUNAS, LITHUANIA
Masters degree in Political Sciences (Programme: Social and Political Critique)
23 09 2012 → 30 05 2015
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY, LONDON, UK
Bachelor of Arts in Film, Video and Interactive Arts
SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
01 09 2025 → 01 10 2025
Mobility stipend from the Lithuanian Council for Culture for the curatorial residency at AQB, Budapest, Hungary.
01 10 2024 → 03 01 2024
Mobility stipend from the Lithuanian Council for Culture for the curatorial residency at Uncool Artist Residency (UAR), New York City, USA
15 09 2023 → 15 12 2023
Mobility stipend from the Lithuanian Council for Culture for the curatorial residency at Residency Unlimited (RU), New York City, USA
17 01 2023 → 31 05 2023
OSUN Graduate Student Exchange Grant for the semester as a visiting PhD student in Bard Graduate Center, New York City, USA
15 01 2022 → 15 05 2022
DRSG grant for the semester as a visiting PhD researcher at ZZF Institute (The Leibniz Center for Contemporary History Potsdam), Potsdam, Germany. Supervisor: Juliane Fürst
01 05 2021 → 31 08 2021
Young artist scholarship received from the Lithuanian Council for Culture for the art project “Infrathin”
01 06 2020 → 01 09 2020
Young artist scholarship received from the Lithuanian Council for Culture for the art project “As deep as the skin”
01 06 2020
Granted with the Permanent Artist Status from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania
01 01 2018 → 30 09 2018
Young artist scholarship received from Lithuanian Council for Culture for the art project “Lankesa: Acceleration”
23 10 2014 → 26 10 2014
IDEA CAMP (held by ECF) in Marseille, France
Selected by ECF as one of the representatives of an innovative idea in re-defining and shaping public space, (http://www.culturalfoundation.eu/idea-camp-2014/)
RESIDENCIES
2026
Zaratan Residency, Lisbon, Portugal (forthcoming on February, 2026)
2025
AQB Residency, Budapest, Hungary (September)
Residency Unlimited (RU), New York City, USA (June)
2024
Uncool Artist Residency (UAR), New York City, USA (October, 2024-January,2025)
Residency Unlimited (RU), New York City, USA (May-June)
2023
Residency Unlimited (RU), New York City, USA (September-December)
ART PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
2025
01 02 2025 → 31 12 2025
A leader of the project “Peripheria x Cor (PxC)”, implemented in Vilnius, Berlin, Brussels, and Vienna. Funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
2024
01 04 2024 → 10 11 2024
A leader of the project “Aikas Žado Laboratory 2024: Healing Ontologies”, implemented in Aikas Žado Laboratory, Žeimiai Manor House. Funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
22 07 2024 → present
Advisor on contemporary art for artists in residence and community, Uncool Artist Gallery, Navy Yard, New York, USA.
2020
01 04 2020 → 15 10 2020
A leader of the project “Invisible Man’s Cinematheque 2020:Intensities”, implemented in Aikas Žado Laboratory, Žeimiai Manor House. Funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
2019
01 02 2019 → 15 10 2019
A leader of the project “Invisible Man’s Cinematheque: to (dis-)embody”, implemented in Aikas Žado Laboratory, Žeimiai Manor House. Funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
2018
01 06 2018 → 01 10 2018
A leader of the project “2018 Projects for the Invisible Man’s Cinematheque”, implemented in Aikas Žado Laboratory, Žeimiai Manor House and funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
2017
01 06 2017 → 30 09 2017
A leader and a coordinator of the project “Invisible Man Cinematheque”, implemented in Aikas Žado Laboratory, Žeimiai Manor House and funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
2015
01 06 2015 → 28 08 2016
Coordinator for the part of the project “Climbing Invisible Structures: Ritualized Disciplinary Practices in Social Life” in collaboration with Vilnius Academy of Arts, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Skaftfell: Center for Visual Arts and Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale.
12 11 2015 →
Chairwoman of “Aikas Žado Association”
