Aurelija Bulaukaitė (born 1991) is a Lithuanian contemporary artist. She works across painting, sculpture, performance, installation and digital media. She was a finalist of the Baltic Young Painter Prize in 2021, and has held solo exhibitions in Vilnius, Riga and Monaco.
Biography Bulaukaitė was born in 1991 in Vilnius. She studied at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, where she took a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in fine arts. In 2022 she was completing a master's degree in contemporary sculpture there.
Bulaukaitė moved from painting towards performative research during her studies. Her projects used video performances and vlogs to examine internet culture, and included an extended study of the influencer economy across platforms such as TikTok and OnlyFans.
Bulaukaitė's first joint exhibition, Mes turime būti ypatingai atsargūs ("We Must Be Extremely Careful") with Eglė Grėbliauskaitė, was shown at the Autarkia project space in Vilnius in 2019.
In 2021 she was one of fifteen artists selected as finalists of the thirteenth Baltic Young Painter Prize, whose exhibition was held at the MO Museum in Vilnius.
In 2022 she took part in the group exhibition Nejauka (The Uncanny) at the Palace of Culture, Entertainment and Sport in Vilnius. In November, she led a workshop titled "Kylantis influenceris" ("Emerging Influencer") at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, closing the public programme "Dėl grožio?" ("About Beauty?") on beauty standards.
In 2023 her work was included in the KUNO Biennial exhibition Tãkios vaizduotės at the Titanikas gallery in Vilnius, and she participated in the parallel art fair KOMISAS, held alongside ArtVilnius. From July to September 2023 Bulaukaitė was an artist in residence at Residency Unlimited in New York.
Her solo exhibition little Grand spells opened at the gallery ASNI in Riga in May 2024.
Later in 2024 her work was shown in Phenomenon at Art Corner H in Seoul, a two-person exhibition with the Korean artist Choi Ki-chang that set Lithuanian and Korean contemporary practices in dialogue.
In July 2025 she presented The Smart Blonde Empire at the Fairmont hotel in Monaco during Monaco Art Week. The project combined new paintings with archival photographs by the Lithuanian portrait photographer Raimundas Adžgauskas, and took as its subject Olialia, a Lithuanian commercial and media phenomenon of the 2000s.
References