Emilija Škarnulytė

Press release

06.11.2025

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Duration

08.11.2025 - 15.02.2026

Opening

07.11.2025 6pm

Press event

06.11.2025 11am - 12pm

Place of the press event

Kunsthaus Graz, Space01

Curators

Katia Huemer, Alexandra Trost

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The artist Emilija Škarnulytė (*1987 in Vilnius, Lithuania) works between documentation and imagination. Her films and installations explore the depths of time and invisible structures, from the cosmic and geological to the ecological and political. Enriched with mythological symbolism, her works open up a view beyond the purely human perspective. Figures such as Sirenomelia - inspired by the oldest mythical figure in human history, the mermaid, and embodied by the artist herself - and various female deities populate a world dominated by humans. In the remotest corners, beyond human influence, the hope remains that there can be life after destruction.

For her solo exhibition in the dome-shaped Space01, Emilija Škarnulytė is going to create an immersive installation of video, light and artefacts that plunges us into the mystical side of our world.

Press release

Emilija Škarnulytė. Waters call me home

Exhibition views

Artist Emilija Škarnulytė

photo: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek

The curators of the exhibition Alexandra Trost and Katia Huemer, artist Emilija Škarnulytė and director of Kunsthaus Graz Andreja Hribernik

photo: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek

Emilija Škarnulytė, Æqualia, 2023 (video still). Courtesy of the artist

"Emilija Škarnulytė. Waters call me home" at Kunsthaus Graz

Photo: Ansis Starks

"Emilija Škarnulytė. Waters call me home" at Kunsthaus Graz

Photo: Ansis Starks

"Emilija Škarnulytė. Waters call me home" at Kunsthaus Graz

Photo: Ansis Stark

"Emilija Škarnulytė. Waters call me home" at Kunsthaus Graz, "If Water Could Weep (Mermaid Tears)"

Photo: Ansis Starks

"Emilija Škarnulytė. Waters call me home" im Kunsthaus Graz

Photo: Ansis Starks

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Images

[Translate to English:] Emilija Škarnulytė

Photo: Visvaldas Morkevicius

Emilija Škarnulytė, Æqualia, 2023 (video still). Courtesy of the artist

Emilija Škarnulytė, Aphotic Zone, 2022, Videostill

Emilija Škarnulytė

Emilija Škarnulytė, Hypoxia, 2023, Videostill

Emilija Škarnulytė

Emilija Škarnulytė, Hypoxia, 2023, Videostill

Emilija Škarnulytė

Emilija Škarnulytė, Aphotic Zone, 2022 (Videostill)

[Translate to English:] Emilija Škarnulytė

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