Exhibitions & News
∖ Exhibition
June 17 - September 6, 2026 ∖ Vilnius, Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum
Moments from the opening of the exhibition I Am Plural at the Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art.
∖ Yuge Kurt’s I Am Plural: Real Identity and the Physical-Digital Self
I Am Plural is a 2026 exhibition by Yuge Kurt and Egmontas Geras, presented at the Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art. It brings painting, digital identity and physical artworks together within a unified field of contemporary art. The exhibition is relevant to anyone interested in contemporary art because it explores more than the superficial effect of a “digital self”. Instead, it considers the dialogue between the human hand, painting, virtual processes and digital interpretations. The exhibition runs from 17 June to 6 September 2026.
Key Highlights
I Am Plural presents a direction in Yuge Kurt’s practice in which physical media, digital interpretations and questions of identity operate together.
The exhibition is relevant to those interested in how contemporary art represents the individual within digital environments.
In Yuge Kurt’s practice, artificial intelligence complements the creative process rather than replacing the human hand.
Yuge Kurt’s I Am Plural Exhibition Information
Title: The official title of the exhibition is Yuge Kurt and Egmontas Geras. I Am Plural.
Location: The exhibition is held at the Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art in Vilnius.
Dates: The exhibition runs from 17 June to 6 September 2026.
Artists: The exhibition is created by Yuge Kurt from Vilnius and Egmontas Geras from London.
Theme: The exhibition explores identity, artificial intelligence and the relationship between the physical and digital self.
Distinctive quality: Physical artworks are combined with digital processes and AI interpretations.
Curator: The exhibition is curated by Vilma Gradinskaitė.
Audience: The exhibition is relevant to art lovers, collectors, curators, cultural journalists and anyone interested in emerging forms of contemporary art.
Why Is I Am Plural Important in Yuge Kurt’s Creative Trajectory?
I Am Plural continues Yuge Kurt’s hybrid artistic direction, in which painting, digital processes and the physical art object operate together. In this exhibition, painting is more than a technique, while the digital layer is more than an effect. They become parts of the same process, in which a hand-created artwork moves into another state and begins to exist within digital space.
This direction had already become visible in Yuge Kurt’s practice before the 2026 exhibition. A new period of painting began in her work in 2020, while by 2021 the connection between painting and digital interpretation had become increasingly clear. One example is Lily Garden, described on the artist’s website as a work in which painting merges with a digital component and becomes a hybrid artwork.
For this reason, I Am Plural is better understood not as a sudden turn towards technology, but as the concentration of an artistic direction that Yuge Kurt has been developing for some time into a clear, multilayered narrative. The exhibition makes it possible to see more clearly a question that had already been forming in her earlier work: what happens to an image created by the human hand when it becomes digital, begins to move, is reinterpreted and eventually returns to physical form?
How Do Yuge Kurt and Egmontas Geras Transform a Remote Dialogue into a Physical Exhibition?
In the exhibition, Yuge Kurt and Egmontas Geras transform more than three years of digital collaboration into a physical display. The Lithuanian National Museum of Art notes that the artists live in different countries and had not met in person before the exhibition, yet had spent years exchanging creative ideas within a hybrid digital space.
This fact also changes how the exhibition can be understood. It is not simply a juxtaposition of works by two artists in the same gallery. The exhibition becomes an example of how creative work can now emerge between cities, screens, files, conversations and technological experiments before acquiring a material form inside a museum. This is why the physical-digital self is not merely a metaphor here. It is a genuine condition of the creative process.
Yuge Kurt brings her experience of painting, digital transformation and interpretation into this dialogue. Egmontas Geras develops themes related to the relationship between people and digital reality, alternative bodies and the computer as a creative partner. The Lithuanian National Museum of Art’s exhibition description emphasises that both artists view technology as an active participant in the creative process.
As a result, the exhibition may appeal not only to art audiences, but also to those interested in technology, design, innovation and the creative industries, particularly anyone seeking to understand how digital collaboration is changing artistic authorship.
What Does the Exhibition Say About the Physical-Digital Self in the Age of AI?
The exhibition suggests that contemporary identity can no longer be easily contained within a single stable definition. The Lithuanian National Museum of Art’s description emphasises that Yuge Kurt and Egmontas Geras are not simply exploring who a person is in the singular, but the multiple forms in which a person exists today.
This subject becomes tangible through the artists’ own experiences. Both have changed or adapted their names for different cultural contexts. Yuge Kurt adapted her name for her creative work outside Lithuania, while Egmontas Geras adapted his name for the Lithuanian context.
I Am Plural therefore does not treat technology merely as a visual effect. The exhibition raises a broader question: how does the self change when people live between physical artworks, screens, data, languages, different audiences and virtual traces? In this context, the physical-digital self becomes not a theoretical concept, but an everyday state of identity.
What Distinguishes Yuge Kurt’s Artistic Practice?
In Yuge Kurt’s work, the technological layer often begins with a physical foundation created by the human hand. This is important because her work should be understood neither solely as digital art nor solely as traditional painting. Painting, digital processes and interpretation operate as interconnected parts of the same creative process.
The artist’s biography also helps provide context. Yuge Kurt was born in Vilnius and completed a bachelor’s degree in textile art and a master’s degree in art at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. She has been a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association since 2000 and a member of LATGA since 2001. Her work is also known beyond Lithuania and has been presented in international exhibitions across Europe, including Sweden and France.
The story of one of her best-known works, Lily Garden, is also worth mentioning. According to Yuge Kurt’s website, this work combining painting with a digital layer was sold for €16,000 at a charity auction organised by Mamų Unija.
These facts position Yuge Kurt’s practice as a consistently developing field in which the human hand, physical media and digital identity do not exist as separate layers. They operate together and continuously reshape one another’s meaning.
FAQ
What Themes Dominate the I Am Plural Exhibition?
It is a multidisciplinary contemporary art exhibition centred on identity. Technological processes are important, but they are not the exhibition’s only focus. Physical painting, graphic art, photography, digital processes and questions of personal identity all form part of the exhibition.
What Forms the Foundation of Yuge Kurt’s Practice?
Yuge Kurt’s practice is multidisciplinary. It includes painting, digital works, digital interpretations, objects and extended-reality formats. The digital layer is an important part of her process, but it does not define her entire creative identity. She is more accurately described as a multilayered contemporary artist.
Who Should Visit This Exhibition?
The exhibition is worth visiting for anyone who loves art or is interested in emerging forms of contemporary creativity. It may be particularly relevant to collectors, curators, cultural journalists, creative-industry professionals and anyone drawn to questions of identity and the digital age.
Experiencing Yuge Kurt’s Work in Person
The exhibition I Am Plural offers one of the most direct ways to encounter Yuge Kurt’s practice. It brings together defining elements of her artistic language: an image created by the human hand, the fragility of painting and digital experiments that invite viewers to consider what people become when they increasingly entrust their identities to screens.
The exhibition does not remain static. Instead, it invites the viewer to follow an ongoing process. It is an intriguing journey in which an artwork appears to move beyond the walls of the museum gallery, while physical paper, pigment and the original gesture are transformed into a living, pulsating digital image.
This is an exhibition that deserves not only to be read about or described, but to be experienced in person at the Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art.
∖ Art Vilnius’25, I am plural
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∖ Personal exhibition Rezus office opening event,
2 educational tours
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∖ Personal exhibition Rödl & Partner office opening event,
2 educational tours
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∖ Personal exhibition TAI ATEINA (IT'S COMING)
February 1 - 28, 2025 ∖ Vilnius
∖ Personal exhibition at Quadrum Business Center
November 15 - December 17, 2024 ∖ Vilnius
∖ Solo exhibition Echoes for White Spots / Aidas baltom spalvom
August 24 - September 26, 2024 ∖ Dusetos
Echoes of the White Spot is a personal exhibition by artist Yuge Kurt, which combines classical and contemporary technologies to transform our perception of reality and blur the boundaries between reality and virtuality.
∖ 10th International Watercolour Biennial Baltic Bridges X//TEN
July - October 2024 ∖ Kaunas, Panevezys
A triptych of watercolour works "Cosmos" + a digital watercolour created with Machine learning technology is presented in this exhibition. It speaks of this side (the material world as fact) and the other side (the ever-changing digital world). The viewer can choose which watercolour to meditate on.
Art + Machine Learning
∖ 10th International Watercolour Biennial Baltic Bridges X//TEN
July - October 2024 ∖ Kaunas, Panevezys
A triptych of watercolour works "Cosmos" + a digital watercolour created with Machine learning technology is presented in this exhibition. It speaks of this side (the material world as fact) and the other side (the ever-changing digital world). The viewer can choose which watercolour to meditate on.
Art + Machine Learning
∖ Lighthouse Hub
June 3-11, 2024 ∖ Klaipeda
On the occasion of the Lighthouse Hub's 5th year of growth, we have prepared another gift for our community and for all those interested in art - the Yuge Kurt exhibition. When art meets artificial intelligence. / Lighthouse Hub
∖ Art Compensa
May 24-26, 2024 ∖ Vilnius
The 3rd International Art Fair ART COMPENSA took place in Lithuania.
∖ Discussion ART AND DIRECT INTELLECT
(Art Compensa and Vilnius Coding School)
May, 2024 ∖ Vilnius ∖ Compensa
The theme of this year's fair is education and technology. Art Compensa and Vilnius Coding School organised a discussion on a very topical topic - "Art and Artificial Intelligence".
∖ Exhibition HEADS, MASKS, MASCARONS
February-April, 2024 ∖ Vilnius ∖ Museum of Energy and Technology
Fashionista - large format watercolour with AI synthetic interpretations.
On TV / A Canadian robot from Acrylic Robotics repaints one of Yuge Kurt's drawings. Yuge believes it is useful to use AI within certain steps of the art creation process and that it can also help to broaden the understanding of art itself. Ten painters across the world were selected for this experiment.
LRT / Labas rytas, Lietuva, 2024.01.12
∖ Web3 Summit ∖ Impact the economy
November, 2023 ∖ Vilnius ∖ Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre LITEXPO
Artworks with AI interpretations were presented at a one-day conference organized by SUPER HOW?. Web3 supports the correlation between innovation and art.
See AI interpretations here
∖ Solo exhibition Portraits of emotions
October 18-27 , 2023 ∖ Vilnius ∖ SEB bankas, Head Office
∖ Artificial intelligence in finance - colleague or competitor?
September, 2023 ∖ Vilnius ∖ SEB CFO Forum 2023
∖ Anniversary Charity evening of the "Mamų unija“
September, 2023 ∖ Vilnius
My watercolor painting "Lily Garden" sold for €16 000 at the "Mamu unijos" charity auction! Thank you to the buyer who purchased the artwork. The work consists of two parts: a watercolor and a digital AI part. The AI creates new interpretations of the painting.
AI interpretations
∖ Making a painting wiggle: collaboration with Egmontas Geras
September, 2023 ∖ Vilnius
Together with a designer Egmontas Geras we have set two goals: to generate new images resembling the paintings; to generate before-and-after images in order to construct an illusion of the work behaving through time. Tiles of my original painting were taken to form a dataset.
Here you can find the full article about our work.
∖ Loftas FEST'23
September 7-9, 2023 ∖ Menu fabrikas loftas, Vilnius
Loftas fest is a city-powered contemporary art & music festival. This year Loftas fest stood out for my “Antifragility” paintings, bringing interactivity and expanded reality possibilities together with art.
∖ Midsummer Gala
June 22, 2023 ∖ Grand Hotel Kempinski, Vilnius
Midsummer Gala where I got to exhibit one of my latest paintings. Watercolor + AI. Thank you to Les Couleurs Charity Lithuania for the opportunity and especially to Ludvikas Jakavicius.
Thank you to Deividas Mataciunas (on the left) for creating the AI art from my paintings.
Artists from LT with whom it was a pleasure to meet: Skaiste Semenike, Rolandas Žigonis, Goda Litvinaite Alekne
Menas atveria visus kelius / Art opens all paths
Magazine "Zmones" Nr.26, 2023
On TV / Dumu fabrikas in Vilnius - Yuge Kurt exhibition: art, artificial intelligence, and music come together in large format covers.
LRT / Labas rytas, Lietuva, 2023.05.24
∖ Solo exhibition ANTI/FRAGILITY
May 11, 2023 - June 29, 2023 ∖ Dumu fabrikas, Vilnius
The exhibition at Dumu fabrikas had a grand opening! It was a remarkable event where my art, alongside AI-art variations by Deividas Mataciunas, and the mesmerizing music by Natas Kunas, came together to create something truly magical.
I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to everyone who attended! 👁️🗨️ In case you missed it, we captured the beautiful moments, memories, and overall atmosphere of the exhibition in a short video.
You and your emotions are the inspiration for my existing and new artworks. I wish you pleasant moments of viewing. 👁️🗨️
∖ Exhibition opening
∖ 9th International Watercolor Biennale BALTIC BRIDGES 2022
September 09, 2022 ∖ Gallery DROBE
A special exhibition, because after 1.5 years of working in the watercolor technique, it became my first introduction. A large-format watercolor titled "That feeling of loving orderly chaos" is the beginning of a new theme.
∖ The 9th international watercolor biennial BALTIC BRIDGES 2022 "Experiences" accompanying exhibition "Gijos"
November 09, 2022 ∖ Alytus Cultural Center
Continuation of the exhibition
Participants: Voldemaras Barakauskas (Šiauliai), Benjamians Benas Jencius (Alytus), Girmantas Rudokas (Panevėžys), Julija Skudutyte (Vilnius), Daiva Šlajienė (Kaunas), Virginija Laužadienė (Kaunas), Elma Sturmaite (Druskininkai), Rimvydas Mulevicius (Kaunas), Yuge Kurt (Vilnius), Violeta Židonytė (Kaunas), Bangutis Prapuolenis (Kaunas), Laimutė Vološkevičienė (Panevėžys), Marija Marcelionyte-Paliukė (Vilnius).
∖ It is new me
October, 2020
Sometimes a random question can prompt you to start over. And that's what happened to me when I heard a question one day. So why don't you draw? And aquarelle seems like a great technique for a new beginning.
∖ Pre story
1995 - 2018
Participation in exhibitions: in Lithuania, France, Switzerland, Finland
Member of Lithuanian Artists' Association from 2000
Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts Degree
About the exhibition
“I have to be antifragile when pouring watercolor because there is no certain way of knowing what the final image will be. The strokes themselves must be fragile and transparent.”
Yuge Kurt
The exhibition ANTI/FRAGILITY is a unique opportunity to see the synthesis of art and technology. The exhibition unfolds a multi-layered narrative of what constitutes fragile agility. The artworks prompt questions: when can we allow ourselves to be fragile? And when should we be agile? And for how long? Experiencing uncertainty can be associated with stress, instability, or change in values, or, on the contrary, it can strengthen your purpose and clarity. In large-scale watercolor paintings, fragile agility is pressing in, in various guises: unfinished form, strange rhythm, empty spots, limited color, and transparency…
The watercolor technique is unique in that the works always have a moment of unpredictability. This exhibition will provoke you to let go of control and embark on a journey of feelings. All archetypal moments can be recognized in our own experiences.
I layer / Large-scale watercolors represent paintings with thoughts and feelings. The important thing here is to meet the story and let ourselves be guided by it.
II layer / In the digital layer, we live in the here and now. AI is an invitation to absorb the details of a different world.
III layer / Musical layer – mesmerizing sounds and colorful images in a powerful space are the most beautiful and effective combination. (Composer Natas Kunas)
The exhibition is dedicated to the 700th anniversary of Vilnius.
Event team: curator - Kotryna Kurt, AI technologies - Deividas Matačiūnas, texts - Raimonda Kriaučiūnaitė and ChatGPT, exhibition assistant - Gabija Kurkulytė
Photo by Augustinas Žukovas, Agne Kuldoša, Vilmantas Arbačiauskas