Guided tour with the artist Jolanta Mikulskytė in the exhibition “Beyond the Surface”

On Friday 6 February at 17.30 and on Saturday 7 February at 12.00, a guided tour with the artist Jolanta Mikulskytė will take place in the exhibition “Beyond the Surface” at the Exhibition Hall of the Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre (KCCC).

The exhibition reveals the underwater states the artist has been exploring for a number of years: changes in pressure, fauna, biology, artefacts. Here underwater imagery has been turned into large-format lithographs reflecting how, under the action of the water element, a person’s self-awareness, sense of the world and whole being change.

Jolanta Mikulskytė (b. 1979) is a graphic artist. In 2006 she graduated in graphic art from the Vilnius Academy of Arts (1997–2006). She has held solo exhibitions in Lithuania. Since 2006 she has taken part in creative traineeships, educational programmes and exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad.

Since 2007 she has taught at the Department of Graphic Art of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, and since 2025 she has been a professor there. She works in the field of printmaking; over the past several years she has used the lithographic technique exclusively in her work and promotes it by leading creative workshops.

* Lithography (litho- + Gr. graphō — I write) is a planographic printmaking technique. Its basis is the lithographic stone (limestone). The printing elements are drawn on the surface of the stone with a greasy pencil, crayons or lithographic ink, and then etched with gum arabic and with mixtures of gum and acid of varying strength. Lithography today combines different media and broader forms of expression: dry lithography (algraphy), offset lithography, photolithography and various combinations — polyester lithography + stone, aluminium plate lithography and so on. The range of expression is extremely wide: drawing, pourings of ink, colourfulness, photography, montages, different degrees of grain and so on.

The tour is free of charge once an exhibition ticket has been purchased. Tickets can be bought at the Exhibition Hall box office.

Opening hours of the KCCC Exhibition Hall (Didžioji Vandens g. 2, Klaipėda): Wednesday–Sunday 11.00–19.00 (closed on public holidays). Please note that participants may appear in photographs and video recordings of the event published in various media.