Inga Kaupelytė
Inga Kaupelyte produces drawings and paintings in expressionism style.
Her work is a reflection on our complex society and the universal questions of mortality and reincarnation. Her question is about our behaviour as we gonna live forever, bodily and material desires versus spiritual existences, and the unity of oneness. She uses ashes of various burned materials as the form of medium depicting the message that we all come from nowhere and we will become nothing one day, and probably later we will reborn. “Ashes to ashes” - based on the Bible but incorporating ideas from Buddhism. Inga burns objects, leaves, paper, textile, then uses them in composing new shapes, referring this process as reincarnation. She signs her art under Ingaga name, which means being “very enthusiastic and excited about someone or something”. This is exactly how she feels after completing an artwork.
One of Inga’s trademarks is unamused face/-es she uses in the characters in her paintings. A human face is depicted rarely, as she prefers to use a metaphor of an animal. That face is unhappy, seeking for a better life, even though not realizing it is living wonderful times. This way Inga wants to remind us to be grateful of what we have and to remember that one day we’ll die.
Inga Kaupelyte was born in Panevezys, Lithuania in 1983. She lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Inga Kaupelyte has shown her work in group exhibitions around Europe.
“You will always exist in the universe in one form or another.”
When Inga was a child she thought she would become a poet. Inga loved to create with words. But after numerous paintings of pegasus horses and winning few drawing contests at schools her parents suggested she should better create "visual poems".
When Inga was just 12 she started attending Painting school in her hometown Panevezys.
After graduating simultaneously from High School and the School of Fine Arts, she successfully achieved a bachelor degree in Audiovisual Arts at Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts in Lithuania.
Later on Inga worked as an Art Director, Video Editor and Digital Designer in advertising and TV industry for several years. Then she moved abroad in search of inspiration amongst new surroundings. Since then Inga worked in Ireland, Belgium, Sweden and Spain; when eventually she moved to Amsterdam where she currently lives.
Since 2013 Inga is also a founder of design label Ingaga Porcelain, of which she is also a designer and a maker.
Education
2001 – 2005
Bachelor in Media Arts / Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts / Vilnius, Lithuania
- Produced experimental documentary movie about Lithuanian culture achieving high recognition at international movie festivals
- Graduated with honours
1994 – 2001
Visual Arts / Panevezys Art School / Panevezys, Lithuania
Specialized in: Acrylic Painting, Ceramics, Illustration
Shows
2018
Butterfly Effect / Lithuanian Embassy / The Hague, The Netherlands
2017
Word Alchemists / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015
Winter Show / Ninasagt (group) / Düsseldorf, Germany
Catrinas in Nederland contest and exhibition / 1st place winner / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014
LT.art.NL - IV / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sunday Salon - II: Works on Paper / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jam Workspace / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013
LT.art.NL - III / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Forgiveness / ij8 Gallery / Reykjavík, Iceland
Delete this / Hilltröm Gallery / Stockholm, Sweden
2011
LT.art.NL - II / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2010
LT.art.NL - I / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lithuanian Art 2000-2010: 10 Years Retrospective / Vilnius, Lithuania
2004
Earth Art & Video Performance at the group exhibition “Horizons” / Penevezys, Lithuania
awards
2015
Catrinas in Nederland contest and exhibition / 1st place winner / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005
"Be happy!" creative documentary film, 15min. / 2004:
TV broadcast SMC TV, TV 1 / Lithuania
International film festival Kino Pavasaris / Vilnius, Lithuania
“Next festival” cinema ”Lietuva” / Vilnius, Lithuania
2004
Exground filmfestival / Wiesbaden, Germany
Festival „Kulturos tvartas” / Vilnius, Lithuania
Festival „Tinklai“ / Lithuania
Premiere at the cinema „Skalvija“ / Vilnius, Lithuania
1998
1st place winner at The Miniature Painting contest / Panevezys, Lithuania
Collections
Collections:
Private collection / Mexico city, Mexico
Private collection / Vilnius, Lithuania
Private collection / De Hague, The Netherlands
Private collection / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Private collection / Mannheim, Germany
publications
2017
Ocean Witness by WWF oceanwitness.org
News portal DELFI.lt (in Lithuanian)
Design and lifestyle magazine Lamu Slenis (in Lithuanian)
2016
Video on THIS IS CERAMICS