Exhibition ‘Darkroom’ by Rimantė Mikulovičiūtė opens at the Freud Bar & Gallery (198 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JL, UK) on March 6 at 6 PM. The exhibition runs until April 10.
Rimantė Mikulovičiūtė (b. 1987, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian painter based in London. She studied painting at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vilnius. In 2025, she will complete her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art and is currently preparing for her graduation exhibition in London this June.
Mikulovičiūtė’s practice is rooted in an exploration of memory and the ephemeral nature of recollection. Drawing from personal and family photographic archives, her paintings navigate the tension between remembrance and uncertainty—evoking a world where history is layered, reimagined, and reconstructed. Through an intricateinterplay of texture and transparency, her works invite a profound stillness, imbued with a quiet melancholy. When presented collectively, they form a cohesive visual narrative—an introspective realm reminiscent of dreams, where meaning unfolds in quiet contemplation.
Artist Rimantė Mikulovičiūtė. Photo from personal archive
Mikulovičiūtė’s painterly signature is defined by a distinctive mood and a refined approach to surface treatment. Her paintings are built through a process of layering and textural experimentation, working on both wood and canvas. She continuously explores the possibilities of oil paint, handmade watercolors, pigments, and beeswax pastels, achieving subtle variations in depth and tone. This meticulous attention to materiality lends her work a unique atmospheric presence, reinforcing its connection to memory and the passage of time.
