• Residency period: Spring 2025
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Julijonas Urbonas is an artist, designer, researcher, and engineer; founder of the Lithuanian Space Agency; associate professor at Vilnius Academy of Arts; and former CEO of Klaipėda city’s amusement park. He currently lives and works in Vilnius.

Urbonas’ artistic research revolves around gravitational aesthetics, extraterrestrial arts, critical design, amusement park engineering, expanded choreography, and science fiction. He has represented Lithuania at several triennials and biennials, including the 17th Venice Biennale of Architecture. His work has received international acclaim, including the prestigious Award of Distinction in Interactive Art at the Prix Ars Electronica 2010 and the Lithuanian Government’s Culture and Arts Prize in 2024.

Website: julijonasurbonas.lt
Instagram: @julijonas

Julijonas Urbonas, Hypergravitational Piano, 2018, grand piano, custom electromechanics, polished stainless steel, acrylic marker scribbles. Vartai Gallery, Vilnius. Photo by Aistė Valiūtė and Daumantas Plechavičius
Julijonas Urbonas, When Accelerators Turn into Sweaters, 2019, copper filament, superconductor (Nb-Ti), a stainless-steel cross-section mockup of the Large Hadron Collider. Milano Triennale 2022. Photo by DSL Studio
Julijonas Urbonas, Lithuanian Space Agency: Planet of People, 2021. Biennale Architettura 2021, Venice. Photo by Aistė Valiūtė and Daumantas Plechavičius
Julijonas Urbonas, Lawn Centrifuge, 2023, electromechanics, stainless steel, sod, soil. Moonshineology, Vilnius University Observatory, Vilnius. Photo by Aistė Valiūtė and Daumantas Plechavičius