Simona Finkelštein – menininkė / Simona Finkelštein – artist

I create through painting, textiles, photography, and mixed media. My practice is guided by intuition.
This work explores memory, the feminine experience, transformation, belonging, and the unnoticed poetry of everyday life. It begins with attention to life itself — the way things hold memory, the way fabric softens with time, the way light changes meaning, the way a body carries invisible stories.
Theatre, motherhood, and movement shaped this artistic language. I am drawn to atmosphere — what is felt before it is understood: silence, texture, rhythm, presence.
Rather than working within a single medium, I move freely between painting, textiles, photography, and mixed media. Each material offers a different language for exploring these themes.
Creating is an act of listening. I follow colour, texture, intuition, and the dialogue that slowly unfolds between myself and the material. The process is not about illustrating ideas — it is about allowing something truthful to emerge.
Each work becomes a space for contemplation — an invitation to slow down, notice, remember, and feel.
I believe art, like life, is not about arriving at certainty. It is about remaining open to becoming — feeling what is yours and what is not.

Selected Projects & Exhibitions

2005.06LeZuDI student journalist days, artist.
2006.06Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences and Art Studio Terra Bella performance “Sutemų maldos”, set designer.
2007.06Giuseppe Verdi opera Rigoletto, costume designer, Italy.
2007.01–2008.02NOA.Opera “Bildungas”, “Džiuljeta ir Džiuljeta”. Set and costume designer.
2008.07.20–29Children’s summer camp “Lietuvos Atgaja”, kids’ art teacher.
2009.07.24–26Children’s weekend camp in Modžiūnai, teacher.
2009Contemporary dance performance „***”, choreography J. Deineko. Costume artist.
2010.03.25Contemporary dance performance „Takumas”, choreography J. Deineko. Costume designer.
2010.07.19–25Children’s camp in Modžiūnai, kids’ teacher.
2010.10.02Performance „Neklausinėk, Julyte!”, director Agnė Dilytė, Arts Printing House. Costume designer.
2010Video project (ne)(su)(si)šnekėjimai, Arts Printing House.
2011Film „Book Smuggler”, director Jonas Trukanas. Costume designer.
2012.05.28–29„Still/Life” set designers’ exhibition-performance.
2012.23–29Children’s camp in Modžiūnai, teacher.
2014Summer Art Academy of Birštonas, costume designer.
2015Contemporary dance performance „Juodvarniai”, choreography Lina Puodžiukaitė-Lanauskienė. Costume designer.
2018Ferdinand Brun, director Olga Simonova. Set and costume designer.
2021Photography exhibition “Litvaks – here and now”, co-author and photographer.
2021Visual art group exhibition “A river flowing under the river”, artist, curator.
2024Art exhibition “Inner Beings: The Layers of a Woman’s World”.

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