Born 1966 in Kaunas, Lithuania. Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Education
2000 – 2003 Postgraduate studies in Audiovisual Media at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM).
Diploma supervised by Prof. Valie Export, Prof. Marcel Odenbach and Prof. Siegfried Zielinski.
1992 – 2000 Fine Art studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf)
with Prof.
Günther Uecker and Prof. Magdalena Jetelová. Diploma (Akademiebrief). Master student
(Meisterschülerin) of Prof. Magdalena Jetelová.
1985 – 1991 Studies in Graphic Arts at the Vilnius Academy of Arts (VDA). Diploma supervised by
Assoc. Prof. Saulius Valius.
Awards, Scholarships
2023 NEUSTART Kultur Project Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
2021 Project Grant by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
2020 Project Grant Neustart Kultur, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
2012 Artist in Residence (Working Grant), RONDO Studios, Graz, Austria
2010 Höge-Preis Award, International Foundation of Women Artists “Die Höge”, Germany
2009 Artist in Residence, Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China (Working Grant of the Kulturamt
Düsseldorf)
2007 Working Grant by the Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Culture, Künstlerhaus Schloß
Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany
2005 Publication support by the Kunststiftung NRW, Germany
2005 Artist in Residence (Working Grant), Artists Unlimited e. V., Bielefeld, Germany
2003 9th Ida-Gerhardi-Förderpreis Award, City Gallery Lüdenscheid, Germany
2002 Award for Fine Arts of the State Capital Düsseldorf (Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst der
Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf), Germany
2001 Working Grant by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
2000 9th Video Art Award Bremen, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
2023 “Gitter”, SITTart, Düsseldorf Germany (with Brigitte Dams)
2022 “Transit Spaces”, Meno Parkas, Kaunas, Lithuania
2019 “Schwarz Weiß Grau”, Meno Parkas | gleixner art, Düsseldorf, Germany
2014 “Videoarbeiten und Fotografie“, City Gallery, Tuttlingen, Germany
2012 “Other Sight”, Gallery G69, Graz, Austria
2011 “Back from Chongqing”, Atelier am Eck, Düsseldorf, Germany (with Natascha Borowsky)
2009 “Between the Lines”, Kunstverein Kreis Gütersloh, Gütersloh, Germany (with Johanna Reich)
(C = Catalogue)
2009 “Six Hours Ahead”, Organhaus, Chongqing, China (with Natascha Borowsky)
2008 “siehst du mich”, Gallery Schwenk, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany (with Magdalena Sadziak)
2008 “Transiträume 01”, Kunst im Abgeordnetenbüro, Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz,
Germany
2006 “Gravity”, Gallery Artists Unlimited e. V., Bielefeld, Germany (C)
2005 “Sehnsucht”, Kunstverein Lippstadt, Lippstadt, Germany (C)
2003 “Förderpreisträger der Stadt Düsseldorf”, Kunstraum, Düsseldorf, Germany (C)
2001 “Kreuz + Wort”, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
1998 - 1999 “Replace | Muutoksia”, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland; Vantaa City Museum,
Vantaa, Finland; Art Museum in Kajaani, Finland; Mykolas Žilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas,
Lithuania (with Anna-Lea Kopperi) (C)
1998 “Next Stop”, Art Museum in Thun, Switzerland
1997 “Unser Tagesrätsel”, Gallery Konrad Mönter, Meerbusch, Germany (C)
1995 “Das Heilige“, Chapel of the Knappschaftskrankenhaus, Recklinghausen, Germany (C)
1995 “Umlagerung”, galerie januar e. V., Bochum, Germany
1994 “Neringa Naujokaite“, Laden 33, Düsseldorf, Germany
1992 “Projektionen”, Gallery Pavilion Annelie Brusten, Wuppertal, Germany (C)
Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2024 "CRISIS DE NOCHE", Crisis galería, Lima, Perú
2023 "IN THE FOREIGN. Aspects of Migration", Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2023 "MOTIVE", Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany
2023 Around video - Art Fair, Meno Parkas Gallery, Brussels
2023 POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair, Meno Parkas Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2023 VALENCIAPHOTO Festival, Colegio Mayor Rector Peset, Valencia, Spain
2023 "Will We Dance Tomorrow - Tales for the Future“: The Crown Letter Projekt, Institut Français Prague,
Czech Republic
2023 “HINWENDUNGEN. Eine Handreichung”, kunstGarten, Graz, Austria
2022 Neringa Naujokaite | Patricija Gilytė | Židrija Janušaitė | Žilvinas Landzbergas
Video Art at Meno Parkas Gallery, Kaunas
2022 URBAN VISIONS. Beyond the Ideal City, Bologna, Italy
2022 “Equation with Unknowns. Lithuanian Artists in Germany from 1945 till Now",
Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
2022 LOOP Fair, Barcelona, Spain
2022 “PARADIESGARTEN (LOST)", Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany
2022 DIE GROSSE 2022, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany (K)
2022 Nachtfoyer Spezial, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
2022 “SEQUENCE #2: Vom Fliegen”,
Kunstverein Bochum e.V., Haus der Kortum-Gesellschaft, Bochum
2021 “The Dream of Living”, Museum Ratingen, Ratingen, Germany (C)
2021 “The Sanctity of Nature?”: 10th Sacrum Art Triennial, Centre of Contemporary Art (CoCA), Torun,
Poland
2021 VIDEOFORMES 2021: 34th International Festival of Digital Arts, Clermont-Ferrand, France (C)
2020 “The Sanctity of Nature?": 10th Sacrum Art Triennial, City Art Gallery, Częstochowa, Poland (C)
2020 “A NEW REALITY": PHOTO L.A. - International Photographic Art Fair. First Edition of
Virtual Collect + Connect, Los Angeles, USA
2020 “Wir sind wieder sichtbar!", onomato künstlerverein e. V., Düsseldorf, Germany
2019 imai Videolounge, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany
2019 “10 + 10 = 20", Exhibition Hall at Hawerkamp, Münster, Germany;
Haus der Kunst Enniger, Ennigerloh-Enniger, Germany
2019 DIE GROSSE 2019, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany (C)
2019 “#recording”, Künstlerforum, Bonn, Germany
2018 “So Close, so Far”: VIII International Contemporary Art Festival KAUNAS IN ART, Kaunas,
Lithuania
2018 “Heterotopia on the Route”, Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China (C)
2017 “freedom (not) yet again”, RUBART, Yerevan, Armenia
2016 “Kunst im Kino”: 62nd International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany (C)
2015 5th OpenART Biennial, Örebro, Sweden (C)
2015 Musica Electronica Nova: 6th International Festival of Elektroacoustic Music, Wroclaw, Poland
(with Joanna Wozny) (C)
2014 “Dieses Hier & Jetzt“, KunstGarten, Graz, Austria
2014 “Approach to Realities“, Kunstraum, Düsseldorf, Germany
2013 “Self-Discipline and Speculation“: III International New Media Art Triennial, Beijing, China
2013 “Marler Medienkunst-Preise“, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, Germany (C)
2012 “Lange Nacht der Museen”, KunstGarten, Graz, Austria
2012 “surfaces”, RONDO, Graz, Austria
2011 “CologneOFF 2011: Baltic Sea“, OFFicyna Observatory Cinema, Szczecin, Poland;
Arteles & Galleria Rajatila, Tampere, Finland; Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia;
Smolny University, PRO ARTE, National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Goethe Institute,
St. Petersburg, Russia
2011 “CologneOFF VI“, Arad Art Museum, Romania; City Art Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine; Goethe Institute,
Kiev, Ukraine
2011 “Soft Friction”: 24th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Filmhaus, Stuttgart, Germany (C)
2010 “Un..Sharpness of the Documentary”: 10th Kunstfilmtag, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf,
Germany (C)
2009 “Narracje N#1: Installations and Interventions in Public Space”, Gdansk, Poland
2009 “With a View to the Sound”: 9th Kunstfilmtag, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany (C)
2009 “Jetzt und Damals”, City Gallery, Lüdenscheid, Germany (C)
2009 “Märkisches Stipendium for Visual Arts in the Category of Video”, City Gallery, Iserlohn, Germany
2009 “Sample #2”, Project Space of the German Artists' Association, Berlin, Germany
2008 “km 500”, Kunsthalle, Mainz, Germany (C)
2008 “Bilder machen Leute”, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Trier, Germany
2008 “contemporary art ruhr 08, das forum”: Kunstmesse Essen (C.A.R.), Zollverein, Essen, Germany (C)
2008 “Bilder machen Leute”, Landesmuseum, Koblenz, Germany (C)
2007 “Gut + Böse”, City Gallery, Lüdenscheid, Germany (C)
2006 “Venceremos/Sale”, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany (C)
2006 “Space - Plane - Body”, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania (C)
2005 “A Second Sight“: International Biennale of Contemporary Art (IBCA), National Gallery, Prague,
Czech Republic (C)
2004 “Kunst jetzt!: Ida Gerhardi Förderpreis”, City Gallery, Lüdenscheid, Germany
2004 “LichtRouten 2004”, Lüdenscheid, Germany (C)
2004 “Pathos/Gefühle“, Raumpool e. V., Frankfurt, Germany (C)
2004 “Here We Come!!!”, Art and Exhibition Hall, Bonn, Germany (C)
2002 “UNPLUGGED - Art as the Scene of Global Conflicts”: Ars Electronica 2002, Ars Electronica
Campus, Linz, Austria (C)
2001 “The ARTPOLE of the world”: 35th International Fair for Modern Art ART COLOGNE,
Koelnmesse, Cologne, Germany (C)
2001 “Tische der Kommunikation”, Mobile City Gallery at the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (C)
2000 “Rendez-vous: Patients Meet Artists”, Robert Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany (C)
1999 “Weltschmerz“, Gallery Leßmann & Lenser, Rodgau, Germany
1998 “Vielfaches Echo“, Edith Wahlandt Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
1998 “Folgen“, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany (C)
1998 “Vote for X Objects”: Videonale 8. International Video and Media Art Festival, Bonner Kunstverein
Bonn, Germany (C)
1997 “Germany - Japan”, Toride Art Hall, Toride, Japan
1997 “Germany - Korea”, Kaywon Arts Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
1997 “Verweildauer”, Kunstverein Kreis Gütersloh, Gütersloh, Germany
1997 “Ich eigne mich nicht”, ArToll Kunstlabor e. V., Bedburg-Hau, Germany
1997 “Stadt am Himmel”, KunstWerk e. V., Cologne, Germany
1996 “Der zerteilte Blick”, DuMont Art Hall, Cologne, Germany
1995 “Made in Mauritius“, Ministry of Arts and Culture, Port Louis, Mauritius; Kunstraum, Düsseldorf,
Germany (C)
1995 - 1996 “Denk Ich an Deutschland 1933 1945 1995”, Gallery Annelie Brusten, Wuppertal; Heinrich-
Heine-Institut, Düsseldorf, Germany (C)
1994 “Loma Kitsi”, Kluuvi Gallery at the Helsinki City Museum of Art, Helsinki, Finland (C)
1991 “Überfahrt | Perkėla”, Forum Bilkerstrasse, Düsseldorf, Germany (C)
Symposia, Workshops, Presentations (selection)
2018 “freedom (not) yet again: Neringa Naujokaite on Her Video Work”, lecture at the Braunschweig
University of Art (HBK), Braunschweig, Germany
2017 Lecture in the series “NATURAL BORN – Because No One is Born an Architect or an Artist”, at the
Peter Behrens School of Architecture (PBSA), University of Applied Sciences (HSD), Düsseldorf,
Germany
2016 Curatorship of the exhibition “5 x 3: Patricija Gilyte - Tina Tonagel - Adriane Wachholz”,
Kunstraum, Düsseldorf, Germany
2012 Workshop in the frame of “ANNENVIERTEL! The Art of Urban Intervention”, < rotor > Centre for
Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria
2009 Presentation at the Organhaus International Artists' Workshop, Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing,
China
2004 “Das erinnerte Haus”, presentation at the Symposium of the Mobile City Gallery at the Museum
Folkwang, Essen, Germany
1995 International Symposium “The Sign“, Nida, Lithuania
Teaching Activity
since 2018 Lecturer for Design theory at the Peter Behrens School of Arts (PBSA) in the Düsseldorf
University of Applied Sciences (HSD), Germany
2012 – 2018 Research associate at the Peter Behrens School of Architecture (PBSA), Düsseldorf
University of Applied Sciences (HSD), Germany
2008 – 2010 Substitute Professor for Video and Room Installation at the University of Applied Science
(HS) Bielefeld, Germany
2005 – 2013 Lecturer for Artistic-Media Design in Social Context, University of Applied Science (HS)
Bielefeld, Germany
Publications
“Neringa Naujokaite - Art Deco. Eine Studie zur Rekonstruktion eines Zwischenkriegszeitinterieurs“,
texts: Dr. Monika Krikštopaitytė, Dr. Giedrė Jankevičiūtė (DE/LT), Verlag Kettler, Dortmund, 2021.
ISBN 978-3-86206-924-8
“Neringa Naujokaite - Other Sight“, texts: Dr. Ursula Panhans-Bühler, Angelika Vauti-Scheucher, Verlag Kettler, Dortmund, 2013. ISBN 978-3-86206-299-7
“Neringa Naujokaite - Between the Lines“, text: Daniel Neugebauer, Kunstverein Kreis Gütersloh e. V., Gütersloh, 2009.
“Neringa Naujokaite - Stencils“, text: Dr. Danièle Perrier, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, 2008.
“Neringa Naujokaite - Gravity”, text: Daniel Neugebauer, Artists Unlimited e. V., Bielefeld, 2006.
“Neringa Naujokaite“, text: Dr. Erich Franz, Kunstverein Lippstadt e. V., Lippstadt, 2005. ISBN 3-9806707-8-3
"Neringa Naujokaite: Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf 2002", catalogue accompanying the Award of the City of Düsseldorf 2002, texts: Michael Voets, Dr. Sabine Maria Schmidt, Kulturamt der Stadt Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 2003.
“Anna-Lea Kopperi, Neringa Naujokaite - Replace | Muutoksia“, texts: Maija Koskinen, Leevi Haapala,
Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, 1999. ISBN 952-9847-12-2
“Neringa Naujokaite - Unser Tagesrätsel“, Konrad Mönter, Meerbusch, 1997.