ABOUT

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”