→Paulius Sliaupa

Biography

Paulius Šliaupa (b. 1990, Vilnius, Lithuania) holds a BA in painting and an MFA in contemporary sculpture from Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania, an MFA in media arts from KASK, and the HISK postgraduate residency program in Ghent, Belgium. He was awarded the grand prize of ArtContest22, Brussels, Belgium, the main prize of INPUT/OUTPUT 2023, Brugge, Belgium, and the Simultan Festival prize, Timișoara, Romania, in 2024. Paulius was a resident artist at Foundation Fiminco 2024-2025, Paris, France. Selected exhibitions would include personal exhibitions: Falling (2026), Kaunas picture gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania; Winterteller (2025), Bogardenkapel, Brugge, Belgium; A Snowfall of Salt (2024), Centre Intermondes, La Rochelle, France; After Nature (2024), Galerie Michèle Schoonjans, Brussels; Night Watch (2022), HuidenClub, Rotterdam; Neon Poems (2021), Casinot XXH, Malmö; and Dès Vu (2019), Meno Niša, Vilnius. His work has also been part of numerous group exhibitions, including ‘After Dusk‘ (2026), Fundacion Andreani, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Deep Fields (2026), CENTRE WALLONIE-BRUXELLES, Paris, France; Magical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order (2025), ARGOS, Brussels; Matrix-Ost (2025), Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge, Berlin; Habiter la faille (2025), Fondation Fiminco, Paris; And the Wind Will Take Us Away (2025), Stasys Museum, Panevėžys; as well as GOING PLACES, MOVING THINGS (2024), Mipec Longbien, Hanoi; KIN (2022), LT.art Vienna. His works have been acquired by private collectors in Lithuania, Berlin, Ghent, Rome, Brussels, Rotterdam, Paris, and Istanbul. Paulius’ works are in the collections of museums M HKA, Antwerp, Mu.ZEE, Ostend, IKOB, Eupen, and SMAK, Ghent. Vilnius city gallery Meno Niša, which represents P. Šliaupa, has successfully exhibited his works at international art fairs in Antwerp, Paris, Budapest, Berlin, Cologne, and Copenhagen.