BIOGRAPHY
Junija (Yuna) Galejeva is an abstract oil painter from Lithuania. With a background in musicology, she approaches art with a musician’s mindset, applying melodic movement and improvisation to her creations. Working with oils and acrylics on canvas, she explores color nuances and textures to craft emotive, rhythmic compositions. Intuitive pulsions lead her hand and brush into repetitive pattern-like compositions that expand on the canvas, opening up the viewer’s field of vision. The touch is soft and meditative or vigorous and dynamic, according to Yuna’s emotional inclinations. Either way, the artist welcomes us unreservedly into the intimacy of her psychological sphere, prompting a wave of instinctive associative responses. Yuna’s abstract paintings are a musical expression in visual form. The harmonious and delicate palette has a soothing contemplative aura that refreshes the senses. There is an emotional depth to the work which encourages active engagement with the viewer.
She currently resides in Vilnius, where she works as an editor for the national radio program LRT Klasika and as a lecturer on the history of baroque opera at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.
Born in Siberia (Krasnokamensk, Zabaykalsky Krai), Yuna grew up in Visaginas, a small town in north-eastern Lithuania, where she attended secondary and music schools. At age 16, she went to Vilnius to study theory and history of music at the J. Tallat-Kelpša Conservatory. After graduating, she completed studies in musicology at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, earning her master’s degree in 1999. She studied painting, drawing, graphic arts, and art history at the Savickas Art School from 2008 to 2010, and then for three years at Kunigunda’s Dineikaitė’s painting studio “Baltas kubas.”
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Solo exhibitions
2023 – PSYCROMA, Crystal sala d’arte, Veroli Fr (Italy)
2022 – FOCUS, Savicko Pictures Gallery, Vilnius
2021 – SEASONS, AVNT Gallery, Vilnius
2018 – AUTHORSHIP OF THE PAST, ARS Gallery, Vilnius
2018 – AUTHORSHIP OF THE PAST, AVNT Gallery Vilnius
2017 – SILENCE, LRT Gallery, Vilnius
2017 – SENSES OF IMAGE, PSI Gallery, Vilnius
2015 – UNTITLED, Karoliniškės Music School, Vilnius
Latest group non-virtual exhibitions
2024 – THINKING TO THE FUTURE, PARIS
2023 – CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION, EXTERYO Sr1, VILLASANTA (MB)
2023 – MELANCHOLY, BURO, BOLOGNA (BO)
2023 – NOON – CHI, PALAZZO VELLI EXPO, Rome (Italy)
2023 – COLOURS AND SOUNDS, GALERIE MS, Le Havre (France)
2023 – Thinking to the FUTURE, Art Gallery KUJAKU, Tokyo (Japan)
2023 – LOVE youself Art Exhibition, Art Showrooms, Milan (Italy)
2022 – ART & TECHNOLOGY, SOUND LIGHT COLOR ATELIER, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
2022 – NEW ART VIBES The Languages of Contemporary Art, GALLERIA AZOTE, Paris (France)
2022 – INSPIRED BY ČIURLIONIS, XVI International Mažeikiai Art Festival, Mažeikiai (Lithuania)
2022 – NEW ART VIBES 2.0, EXTERYO, Villasante (Italy)
2022 – NEW ART VIBES, Medina Art Gallery, Rome (Italy)
2021 – ALDILA’, Beyond the Obvious, M.A.D.S. ART GALLERY, Milano (Italy) – Fuerteventura (Islas Canarias – Spain)
2021 – HYSTERICA. M.A.D.S. ART GALLERY, Milano (Italy) – Fuerteventura (Islas Canarias – Spain)
2021 – SACRIFICE. M.A.D.S. ART GALLERY, Milano (Italy) – Fuerteventura (Islas Canarias – Spain)
STATEMENT
Painting is like composing music on canvas. The colours and their relationships to each other can be as expressive as the chords and notes in music, and the brushstrokes can reveal a melody and rhythmic pattern. It is important to me to keep the artwork open to interpretation by the viewer so that there is something new to see each time. Just as you listen to music, you hear it differently each time and it is always very personal.
I strive to make the painting dynamic, with a musical movement that expresses a flow of time and thought. ‘Music on canvas’ is not an end in itself. The main goal is to express thoughts and feelings, to convey an emotional state and to evoke associations.
