Dr. Eglė Grėbliauskaitė

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Eglė Grėbliauskaitė is an Associate Professor at Vilnius University’s Institute of International Relations and Political Science (VU IIRPS). She also teaches at Vilnius Academy of Arts (VAA) and Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VILNIUS TECH). She is a board member of the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association (LeTMeKoo, LIAA), and holds the official status of Artist of the Republic of Lithuania.

From 2022 to 2024 conducted a postdoctoral project “Supervising Artistic Autonomy: Art and Cultural Policy in Lithuania”, funded by the Research Council of Lithuania (in VU IIRPS). Her research focuses on the institutional supervision of artistic freedom, the relationship between art and cultural policy, democratic resilience, institutional critique, and the socio-political dynamics of cultural conflicts.
She has held academic fellowships at the University of Borås (Sweden), University College London (UCL), and Kingston University London (UK).

Grėbliauskaitė holds a Doctorate in Visual Arts (VAA) and an MBA from The Open University Business School (UK), with specializations in strategy, financial strategy, strategic human resource management, and creativity, innovation and change management. Grėbliauskaitė’s artistic practice and academic work examine the intersections of democracy, censorship, historical memory, and social critique, often employing contemporary art practices such as film, installations, and public space interventions.

Research projects and grants

‘Supervising the Artistic Autonomy: Arts and the Cultural Policy in Lithuania’, postdoctoral fellow, 1 December 2022 – 30 November 2024, funded by the Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT), agreement No S-PD-22-94.

Supervision of doctoral students and/or postdoctoral fellows

Selected conference presentations

• 2025, International conference Visuality 2025: Social Innovations for Sustainability Communication, Vilnius Tech, Vilnius, “The Right to Disturb: Artistic Freedom and Political Sensitivity in Public Space”, oral presentation, https://vilniustech.lt/international-conference-visuality/program/343929.
• 2024, 13th ICCPR – Cultural Policies in Democratic and Nondemocratic Regimes, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, “Artistic Autonomy in the Shadows of Post-Soviet Politics: A Participatory Action Research Perspective”, oral presentation, https://iccpr2024.exordo.com/programme/session/52.
• 2023, National conference Evaluation of Public Policies and Services: The Role of Citizens and NGOs, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, “The Inconsistency of Liberal Democracy and the Broken Promise of Good Governance. A Case of Art Censorship in the Wars of Historical Memory in Vilnius”, oral presentation, https://www.vdu.lt/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/PROGRAMA_konferencija_2023-11-22_GV.pdf.
• 2023, International academic conference Visuality 2023: Media and Communication in the Age of (Dis)Information, Vilnius Tech, Vilnius, “Envisioning the Autonomous Society and Autonomous Art Symbiosis: What Must Be Sacrificed?”, oral presentation, https://vilniustech.lt/international-conference-visuality/archive/2023/347151.
• 2022, International conference Defining Public in the Space, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, “Let’s Not Forget Not to Remember”, oral presentation, https://www.facebook.com/events/5642301075835529/?ref=newsfeed.