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Aistė Gaidilionytė and Kamilė Vasiliauskaitė (b. 1999) are a creative duo currently based in Vilnius, Lithuania. With a background in architecture, they are interested in the role of the architect as an activist and mediator. Their practice, based on new materialism, post-growth, and feminist spatial theories, is concerned with reclaiming material expertise and emphasises sensitive observation, research, and reuse of materials, as well as hands-on prototyping, particularly focusing on investigating and rethinking contemporary building materials.
Education
Aistė
2022 Architecture MA exchange, Bergen School of Architecture - BAS, Bergen
2021 Architecture MA exchange, KU Leuven, Brussels
2018 - 2023 BA+MA Architecture, Vilnius Tech, Vilnius
Kamilė
2022 Architecture MA exchange, Bergen School of Architecture - BAS, Bergen
2021 Architecture MA exchange, IUAV University of Venice, Venice
2020 Architecture BA exchange, Estonian Academy of Arts - EKA, Tallinn
2018 - 2023 BA+MA Architecture, Vilnius Tech, Vilnius
Artistic research
2024 - ongoing Pretending wood
2024 Lingering on a new dress, part of Baltic lines, Riga, Valga, Vilnius
2022 Secret Manland, part of Experiments’ Platform, Vilnius
2021 Neo-Futuristic Walks: Vilnius, Vilnius
Architecture
2025 Clay playground, SODAS 2123, Vilnius
2023 - 2024 TUMMO restaurant, Mantas Peteraitis architecture studio, Vilnius
2024 Klaipėda Court, competition, Mantas Peteraitis architecture studio, Klaipėda
2023 Local Sauna, Akee Space for Culture, Aleknaičiai
Exhibition architecture
2025 15th Kaunas Biennial: Life after life, Mantas Peteraitis architecture studio, Kaunas
2023 Sikon’iškumo paroda, VilniusTech, Vilnius
Curatorial
2025 Experiments’ Platform: Reflecting Abundance, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Vilnius
2023 Akivarai: Aukštumala, SIKON, Kintai
2023 Sikon’iškumo paroda, VilniusTech, Vilnius
Aistė
2022 A Pokalbiai, Where will the architect go next?, Architektūros fondas, Vilnius
2022 A Pokalbiai, The Great Fail, Architektūros fondas, Vilnius
Kamilė
2025 Talks series in Vilnius as part of the HouseEurope! campaign, Architektūros fondas, Vilnius
Workshops
2025 EASA: Rizome, Electricity in Hand and Home and Away, Savonlinna
2024 Let’s Courtyard!, VilniusTech, Faculty of Architecture, Vilnius
2023 EASA: 1:1, exquisite dj’s, Calarasi
Group exhibitions
2024 I hope this email finds you well, InTheCloset artist-run space, Vilnius
2022 What do we…?, SODAS 2123, Vilnius
Aistė
2021 Surrender Resistance / Follow the DIRT, L'Escaut Architectures, Brussels
Kamilė
2020 Storytelling as a Survival Kit, Vent Space, Tallinn
Internships
2023, Children’s Forest Pavilion, 18th Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice
Aistė
2022 Mantas Peteraitis architecture studio, Vilnius
Kamilė
2021 Inblum Architecture and Interior Studio, Vilnius
Residencies
2026 HIAP Residency, Learning Materials, Helsinki
2025 Akee Space for Culture, Pretending Wood, Aleknaičiai
2024 VARES Architecture Residency, Sketchy Materials, Vagla
2023 Akee Space for Culture, Local Sauna, Aleknaičiai
Publications
2025 Estonian Architectural Review MAJA: Air (118), Pretending Wood. On the Trail of Sketchy Materials
Contacts
e-mail: agaidilionyte@gmail.com, kavasiliauskaite@gmail.com
instagram: @aiste__g, @ka_vasiliauskaite