Artist: LINA RINGELIENÉ
Country: LITHUANIA
Title: AEQUINOCTIUM, NOMINATION FOR THE AWARDS
Size: 50 x 26 cm
Technique: mixed technique, material: combed flax fiber, flax chaff, linen fabric, rose thorns, Echinocystis lobata (a plant), plaster, glue
Year: 2022
Biography: Lina Ringeliené was born in Lithuania, Vilnius in 1966. She is a member of Lithuanian Artists’ Association. Lina graduated from Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts – Textile Department (1990). In 1990, she started her work as a lecturer at Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences and in 2018 as a docent of Vytautas Magnus University Education. Her individual exhibitions: exposition of textile and drawings (together with the artist Egle Gineityte), Vilnius, Lithuania (1994); personal textile exposition, Samogitian Art Museum, Plunge, Lithuania (1998); “Space – big and small ones”, individual textile exposition, Vilnius, Lithuania (2011); “ACHEMISE FOR JUDITH”, individual textile exhibition, Vilnius, Lithuania (2014); “Gelmi? Strukt?ros”, individual exhibition, Musse de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France (2015). She has participated in many group exhibitions. The most important from the last years are: Miniarttextile Como, Italy (2008, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2021); 5th International Biennial of Textile Art (WTA), Buenos Aires, Argentina (2009); 4th Riga International Textile and Fiber Art Triennial “Tradition and Innovation”, Riga, Latvia (2007); International Triennial of Textile Miniature, Szombathely, Hungary (2009, 2015); International Baltic Mini Textile Triennial, Gdynia, Łódź, Poland (2010, 2013, 2016, 2019); Lithuanian Biennial of Textile Art, Vilnius, Lithuania (2008, 2014, 2018, 2020); International Biennial of textile Miniatures, Vilnius, Lithuania (2011, 2015, 2017, 2019); Asia-Europa III, Krefeld – Germany, Łódź – Poland, Kédainiai – Lithuania (2016-2018); 20th “Oslava-Celebration”, Bratislava, Slovakia (2018); Small Size Works Exhibition. Fiber Art from Asia and Europe, Kédainiai, Lithuania (2011); Collection of Textile Miniatures “The Golden Found of Lithuania”, Bratislava, Slovakia (2014); “Lina Ringeliené, Roland Krutovs. Textile Exhibition”, Atelier du Genie, Paris, France (2015); 4th Quadrennial of Contemporary Art “Q19: Memorabilia”, Lithuania (2019); 10th International Art Fair ArtVilnius’19, Vilnius, Lithuania (2019); International Biennial Exhibitions of Contemporary Textile Art “Scythia”, Ukraine, 2021.
Motto: The material speaks for itself as well as the spectator goes in search of meanings as far as one can and as far as one wishes.