Viktorija Makauskaite


About   (EN)  /  (JP)


Viktorija Makauskaite is a Lithuanian architect and artist based in Japan. She uses photography, drawing, craft, and text as her artistic medium, often exploring their interconnection.

A part of her work stems from architectural upbringing through observation and engagement with sound and space.
She is interested in exploring the connection between ourselves and place, the alive and inanimate worlds around us. Viktorija sees art as an opportunity to redefine one's ground and establish new links with adopted and abandoned places, languages, communities, and self.



Exhibitions

Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces
group exhibition, Pranas Domšaitis Gallery, LNMA, Klaipėda, Lithuania 2024

Drawing In Practice
group exhibition, Pon Ding, Taipei, Taiwan 2024

Clouds Shapeless Like Thoughts
open studio exhibition during Artists’ Book Week, Kobo Chika Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2024


Small Press

Days Like This 2024

現場報告 2024

RYTOJ #01 Gift Collective zine dedicated to the art of giving and receiving. Edited and made by RYTOJ(Ryuta Abe and Viktorija Makauskaitė) 2024

2009 2024

Ah, 2024

Getting Feet Wet 2024   

Rescued Drawings  2023

Who’s Making the Noise?  2023

Out for a Walk  2022  


Features, Mentions, Events

Tokyo Art Book Fair RYTOJ (Ryuta Abe and Viktorija Makauskaitė), Japan 2024

Flotsam Zines Tour Flotsambooks, Japan 2024

GUP Magazine FRESH EYES Talents, Conceptual Photography Category, Netherlands 2023  

Z/I/N/E Whitehouse Shinjuku, Japan, 2023

Byob Fair,  bring your own book, 4th edition, Enter Enter Amsterdam, Netherlands 2023  

Flotsam Zines Tour Flotsambooks, Japan 2023 

Broad Magazine Canada 2023

Vermikko books online feature, Japan 2022

377975㎢ Vol.2, Japan Photo Award, Japan 2022

377975㎢ Vol.1, Japan Photo Award, Japan 2022


Education

Master in Architecture History and Theory, Vilnius Tech, 2006 Lithuania

Bachelor in Architectural Design, Vilnius Tech, 2004 Lithuania


Contact

email: vikmakau@gmail.com
IG: vikmakau
Languages: Lithuanian, English, and Japanese
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