Emilija Škarnulytė
Emilija Škarnulytė is participating in the MUNCH Triennale with a new installation.
Photo: Visvaldas Morkevicius
Born in 1987 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Working between the realms of the documentary and the imaginary, Škarnulytė makes films and immersive installations exploring deep time and invisible structures. She works in realms that range from the cosmic and geological to the ecological and political.
Exhibitions include Louisiana MoMA PS1, Palais de Tokyo, Villa Medici, MORI Art Museum, Kiasma, Gwangju Biennale, Helsinki Biennale, Penumbra. Her work was recently presented in solo exhibitions at Kunsthall Trondheim (2024) Canal Projects, NYC (2024), Kunsthaus Göttingen (2024) Ferme-Asile, Sion (2023). Her solo exhibition at Tate St Ives opens in October 2025.
Škarnulytė is the recipient of the 2023 Ars Fennica Award and the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize. She is a founder and currently co-directs Polar Film Lab, a collective for analogue film practice located in Tromsø, Norway and is part of the artist duo New Mineral Collective with Tanya Busse.
