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Vilnius Academy of Arts Graduation Projects

Participants:
Hasan Alp Celikel, Natas Darulis, Ani Gandžumian, Liepa Marija Gradauskaitė, Aldona Jankauskienė, Gustina Maksvytytė, Greta Vengalytė.

XXX 000 — Ā© Ani Gandžumian

From flax waste and willow, concrete and light, from movement, memory, identity and inherited stories — students s explore design as an act of transformation. These are not simply objects, but traces of research, collaboration and experimentation.

Vilnius Academy of Arts presents a selection of graduation projects.

Vilnius Academy of Arts presents a selection of graduation projects that explore familiar materials, traditions, and systems that are reimagined through contemporary making, technology, and experimentation. Flax waste reconnects material innovation with disappearing craft traditions, while willow weaving becomes a living design language through collaboration between designer and craftsman. Concrete becomes a tactile interface where touch transforms into sound and light. Childhood warnings are recast as official signs, questioning how folklore, fear, and authority shape our understanding of danger. The movement of tango becomes a rotating mirror, while digitally fabricated objects translate personal expression into a multisensory experience. The car, perceived as a masculine space of power and surveillance, quietly transforms a young woman’s body from something lived into something watched. Unique unique artistic identity is created through multiple design innovations that come together in one show.

Together, the works move between past and future, craft and technology, body and material, memory and imagination. They explore how knowledge, traditions and stories are carried and being held.

About Vilnius Academy of Arts

Vilnius Academy of Arts (VAA) was established in 1793 and is the oldest arts university in the Baltic countries. It offers a variety of study programmes in all three study cycles (BA, MA and PhD) in the areas of art, design, architecture, and art theory and history.

Interwoven — Ā© Liepa Marija Gradauskaitė

Linen Waste Recycling: Reviving Traditional Crafts — Ā© Gustina Maksvytytė

To Draw a Star — Ā© Hasan Alp Celikel

Concrete Dialogue — Ā© Natas Darulis