Artist Profile
Vytautas Kumza
Photographer based in Amsterdam
Vytautas Kumza (b. 1992) is Lithuanian-born, Amsterdam-based photographer of the younger generation. In 2017 he graduated in Fine-art photography from Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. He has held several solo shows in Lithuania and Netherlands, participated in group shows in Lithuania, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France, Greece, Czech Republic. Artist focuses on interventions in everyday situations that result in the manipulation of the physical, temporal and aesthetic laws of the subjects within his images. These simulations create a space of contemporaneity in which the beholder can only linger and experience the present moment. Kumža makes assemblies oscillating between absurdity, encryption, transcription and inefficient functionality, sometimes revealing the banality of the genre.