Jolanta Sendaitė-Paulauskienė
Artist, research focus: hydrofeminism
Through weaving, I investigate materiality, textile memory, and tactile sensitivity. Rooted in slow-making and autoethnographic methods, my practice forms intimate, reflexive structures and fragile connections. It further engages water as a fluid, ever-shifting system intertwined with femininity, birth, care, and embodied experience.
2022–2024
MA Textile Art and Design Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania
2018–2022
BA Textile Art and Design Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania
Work Experience
2025 – present
Vilnius Academy of Arts, Textile Art and Design Laboratory, Student Practical Training Specialist
2024 – 2025
Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Pranas Gudynas Restoration Centre, Textile Conservation Intern, Professional development programme for the Third (III) Qualification Category of Textile Conservator
Exhibitions
2025
Artist’s Day (solo), “Balta Balta” Gallery, Vilnius
“Ūmėdė Festival: Garden, Heaps, Laboratory, and Ether,” SODAS 2123, Vilnius
“Continuities and Transformations: Dedication to Prof. J. Balčikonis’ 100th Anniversary,” Gallery “Arka,” Vilnius
“Weave Up!” International Project Exhibition, Galerie 7, Lyon, France
2024
“As Wave is Driven by Wave,” Galerie 7, Lyon, France
2nd International Art Triennial “Unpredictable Futures. Water,” Klaipėda
2023
“Austėja,” VDA Exhibition Hall “Titanikas,” Vilnius
“Humans, Non-Humans, With and Without Humans,” Cultural Centre “Ideas Bloc Kompresorinė,” Vilnius
2022
10th Lithuanian Textile Art Biennial “Laboratory of the Future,” Lithuanian Artists’ Association Gallery “Arka,” Vilnius
4th Young Textile Artists’ Triennial Exhibition, Łódź, Poland
2021
“Flux” (solo), St. John’s Street Gallery, Vilnius
“Body, History, Research,” Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius
1st International Art Triennial “Unpredictable Futures / Nenuspėjamos Ateitys” (UFNA), The Museum of Molėtai
“Manifesto Without Masks,” St John’s Street Gallery, Vilnius
2020
9th Lithuanian Textile Art Biennial “EDGE #30,” Gallery “Arka,” Vilnius
“Walls,” Textile Gallery “Artifex,” Vilnius
2019
“What If…?,” Gallery “Akademija,” Vilnius
Grants and Awards
2021 Lithuanian Artists’ Association Award for active creative practice
2019 Anastazija and Antanas Tamošaitis Award for a contemporary interpretation of ethnicity in artistic practice, for the textile series Identity as a Variable Concept. Spaceship. Spacetime. Space