Vaida Mikliušienė Portfolio

V a i d a M i k l i u š i e n ė

A r t i s t

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T h e A r t i s t

I am a Lithuanian-born artist living and working in Switzerland. After earning my Master of Law degree from Vilnius University in 2004, I practiced for ten years as an attorney at law specializing in intellectual property, competition law, contracts, and litigation.

In 2015, I moved to Switzerland with my family—and with the decision to finally pursue the path I had long postponed: art.

Today, I live in Richterswil (Canton Zürich). In the fall of 2025, I started studying in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the Hochschule Luzern HSLU – Design Film Kunst. I work primarily in painting but also expand to sculpture and installation. My artistic research is rooted in questions about the reasons for traditions, stereotypes, and social norms. Why are we—humans—like this?

I bring a broad perspective to my work—shaped by lived experience and a deep desire to contribute meaningfully to the world around me.

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P o r t f o l i o

P a i n t i n g

S c u l p t u r e

U n i d e n t i f i a b l e

A r t i s t S t a t e m e n t

“It’s okay if she’s not good at math – she’s a girl.” That’s what a teacher once said about my daughter. A man who had spent his life shaping generations of young minds. In that single sentence lived an entire worldview. This statement gave the beginning to my entire artistic path.

I was a provincial girl, raised in Soviet and post-Soviet Lithuania, carrying the whole postcolonial bouquet of inferiority and hunger for a better life. Possibly that is why I first became a lawyer. I did well. For ten years, I negotiated power, contracts, deception, and justice – until I realized I had become a servant of power systems. I turned to art, seeking radical change.

My work is an inquiry into life itself – its material and invisible structures, bodies and energies. The human body must be in my art. It appears as a major protagonist of my stories. I paint, sculpt, and construct around it.

Oil, glass, water, plants, metal — each can become a messenger. I am drawn to the principles that govern the world: gravity, circulation, attraction, decay.

I revisit history – even prehistory – searching for beginnings and the forces behind them. The ancient Venuses, the primordial female figures, the order of power and stereotypes — all are inscribed in us.

I want to reread them with an open gaze toward what it means to be human now, today. Art, to me, is a power to unlearn, change, and cause discomfort. It is a practice of seeing beyond our physicality. Reality is thinner than it looks.

So – what do you see?

S e l e c t e d E x h i b i t i o n s

Solo Exhibitions

2024 The Same Stories, Atelier Windows, Wädenswil, Switzerland
2023 Portfolio Exhibition, School of Design Bern and Biel, Bern, Switzerland
2022 The Wind of Lights, Atelier & Kunstgalerie Hodler GmbH, Thun, Switzerland

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

2026 Nature and Forms, B74 Raum für Kunst, Luzern, Switzerland

2026 All Inclusive Festival 2026, HSLU, K++V, Luzern, Switzerland

2025 Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid?, Wartsaal Wipkingen, Zurich, Switzerland

2025 0 auf 100, marytwo Gallery, HSLU Kunst + Vermittlung, Luzern, Switzerland

2025 Intervention „Ecofeminist Landscaping“, Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf, Switzerland
2024 ZHdK Propädeutikum Graduation Exhibition, Zurich, Switzerland
2024 Adam Brody Pop-Up Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2021 Frontofbicycle, Galerie Katapult, Basel, Switzerland
2020 Frontofbicycle, Basel Art Center, Switzerland
2019 Frontofbicycle, Basel Art Center, Switzerland
2019 Frontofbicycle Pop-Up, Basel, Switzerland
2018 World Lithuania, Lithuanian National Museum / Town Hall Vilnius, Lithuania

Education

From Fall 2025 – student at Hochschule Luzern (HSLU) Design, Film, and Art – BA Fine Arts
2023–2024 Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) – Foundation Year in Art (Gestalterisches Propädeutikum)
2015–2020 School of Design Bern and Biel (SfG BB) – Portfolio Certificate
1999–2004 Vilnius University, Faculty of Law – Master of Laws (LL.M.)
1987–1999 Šviesioji (formerly Juozas Paukštelis) Gymnasium, Kėdainiai, Lithuania
1993–1997 Children’s Art School, Kėdainiai, Lithuania