Viktorija Domarkaite

Jeweller

Published: 12.04.2017

Viktorija Domarkaite

: Tallinn
ESTONIA

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Mail:: viktorija.domgmail.com

Phone:: +370 61481409; +372 56484787

Viktorija Domarkaite. Object: Beautiful Accident, 2016. Resin, silver, paint.. 1.7 x 8 x 1.9 cm. Photo by: Viktorija Domarkaite.

Viktorija Domarkaite. Installation: Come and Drown Me, 2016. Plastic film.. 400 x 450 x 0.1 cm. Photo by: Johann Põldra.

Viktorija Domarkaite. Neckpiece: Too fragile When You are Close, 2015. Plaster, thread.. 17 x 0.4 x 15 cm. Photo by: Maria Kahnwailer.

Viktorija Domarkaite. Ring: OCD click sound making rings, 2014. Reused aluminium cans, spray-paint, steel.. 2.7 x 6 x 5 cm.

Viktorija Domarkaite. Ring: OCD click sound making rings, 2014. Reused aluminium cans, spray-paint, steel.. 2.7 x 6 x 5 cm. Photo by: Tiki Baghashvili.

Viktorija Domarkaite. Object: Containing Fire, 2013. Brass, pigment.. 9 x 1.2 x 5.5 cm. Photo by: Viktorija Domarkaite.

Viktorija Domarkaite
Object: Beautiful Accident, 2016
Resin, silver, paint.
1.7 x 8 x 1.9 cm
Photo by: Viktorija Domarkaite
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.

Viktorija Domarkaite
Installation: Come and Drown Me, 2016
Plastic film.
400 x 450 x 0.1 cm
Photo by: Johann Põldra
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.

Viktorija Domarkaite
Neckpiece: Too fragile When You are Close, 2015
Plaster, thread.
17 x 0.4 x 15 cm
Photo by: Maria Kahnwailer
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.

Viktorija Domarkaite
Ring: OCD click sound making rings, 2014
Reused aluminium cans, spray-paint, steel.
2.7 x 6 x 5 cm
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.

Viktorija Domarkaite
Ring: OCD click sound making rings, 2014
Reused aluminium cans, spray-paint, steel.
2.7 x 6 x 5 cm
Photo by: Tiki Baghashvili
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.

Viktorija Domarkaite
Object: Containing Fire, 2013
Brass, pigment.
9 x 1.2 x 5.5 cm
Photo by: Viktorija Domarkaite
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.

Bio

Viktorija is an artist and a starting freelance curator. She has received a bachelor's degree in jewellery and blacksmithing from the Estonian Academy of Arts, where she is currently finishing her master's degree in design and applied art. Connecting through emotions in her artistic work and possessing strong organisational skills, developed while being a student representative of the Academy, have led her to start curating exhibitions. Viktorija’s main goal is to create delightful and peculiar expositions enhancing the beauty of the artworks themselves.

Statement

I will be brutally honest, I do not believe that an object can fully speak about itself. A piece of art is physical matter that requires a viewer to become strong as well as vulnerable for understanding it. The idea can be explained in a few sentences, but to actually understand the piece, and find both my own life and yours in it, will take more than just a few lines.
A viewer has to listen, read, object, recognise a lie, feel betrayal, admit failure, look for a solution and find analogy to his own life, in order to detect the countless ideas and confessions between these lines.

Concept jewellery, installations and performances are an expression of anything infecting me with a need to purify my soul, by reliving emotions. I want to help people with physical and mental despair, to speak for the broken ones in order for them to finally feel acceptance of past events.

I want to create and acknowledge other people creations. I feel the need to show them to the world in best light possible, alongside indulging in a dialog between us – creators, and them – viewers. Because we need both, to achieve something spectacular.

CV

Viktorija Domarkaite, 1993, Lithuania.

Education:
2015 Estonian Art Academy - jewellery and blacksmithing BA
2012 Kaunas art gymnasium - secondary education

Internships and practices:
2017 Klimt02 internship
2016 Benas Staskauskas internship
2014 Kristo Pachel atelier practice

Masterclasses:
2017 Mari Ishikawa – Parallel World - Border
2016 Claude Schmitz, participant and assistant – „Precious Jewel“
2016 Ian Lambert, Artisanal manufacturing
2016 Jeroen Carelse, Extrasensory perception in the field of Art and Design
2015 Benjamin Lignel, Intensive relaxation.
2015 Gemma draper, Ritual.
2015 Philip Sajet master workshop participant and assistant – Jewellery is Language - let’s speak it!
2014 Ruudt Peeters master workshop Air

Exhibitions:
2016 Hüpe/Hype, Helios design, Design night fair, Tallinn, Estonia
2016 Hüpe/Hype, Tali Nordic design shop, Tallinn, Estonia
2016 Kafedra, Tartu, Estonia
2016 Escola d'Art i Superior de Disseny de València, Valencia, Spain
2016 Cathexis, Valencia, Spain
2016 Valu Vormid, aluminium casting, Estonia pst. 7,Tallinn, Estonia
2015 Pinnaall, specialty graduation exhibition, Jaan Seek museum, Tallinn
2014 Tunne oma keha, drawing exhibition, EKA Galeriis.
2014 Vari – Shadow, specialty exhibition, Estonia pst.7 pool, Tallinn

Grants, Nominations:
2016 Noor Ehe stipendiumi nominee
2014 Bilateral Agreement Scholarship

Managed events:
2017 Born Digitals – Sofia Hallik, PhD exhibition, Hop Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2016 Great Wall of Waste – installation, FOORUM square, Narva mnt. 5, Tallinn
2016 Kafedra - Jewellery Exhibition, Tartu, Estonia
2016 Hüpe/Hype - accessories exhibition, Helios design, Disainioo, Tallinn, Estonia
2016 Cathexis - Jewellery exhibition, Fabrika 12, Valencia, Spain
2016 Escola d'Art i Superior de Disseny de València, Valencia, Spain

Works part of Estonian Academy of Arts Student Fund

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Viktorija Domarkaite

: Tallinn
ESTONIA

: Wix Viktorija Domarkaite; Behance Viktorija Domarkaite; Instagram Viktorija Domarkaite; Facebook Viktorija Domarkaite

Mail:: viktorija.domgmail.com

Phone:: +370 61481409; +372 56484787