The Art of Identity and Memory

Giedre Jankeviciute is a senior researcher at the Art History and Visual Culture Department of the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute and teaches at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Her current field of interest lies in artistic culture of occupied countries. Her monographs include Valstybe ir daile: dailes gyvenimas Lietuvos Respublikoje 1918-1940 (Art and State: Art and Artistic Life in the Lithuanian Republic, 1918-1940, 2003) and The Graphic Arts in Lithuania 1918-1940 (2008). She has edited the catalogues Under the Red Star: Lithuanian Art in 1940-1941 (2011) and The Realities of Occupation: Posters in Lithuania during World War I and World War II (2014, with Laima Lauckaite). She organized the international conference "Art and Artistic Life during Two World Wars" (Vilnius, 2011, with Laima Lauckaite) and edited a collection of articles with the same title prepared on the basis of the presentations read at the conference (2012, with Laima Lauckaite). Currently she is writing a monograph on Lithuanian art and artistic culture from 1939 to 1944 and compiling a book on the art historian Mikalojus Vorobjovas (Nikolai Worobiow, 1903-54), who was active in Lithuania in the mid-twentieth century.