LT.art Vienna is an annual interdisciplinary festival presenting contemporary art and culture connected to Lithuania in Austria’s capital. Organised by a team of curators and artists living and working in Vienna, who have long been active in the city's cultural scene, the festival has grown into one of the most significant cultural events for the Lithuanian community in Austria while attracting an increasingly diverse international audience.
LT.art Vienna brings together artists, creating opportunities to present their work and engage in dialogue with local artists and audiences. Through concerts, exhibitions, performances, workshops, film screenings, and lectures, the festival addresses audiences whose cultural interests range from classical music to contemporary artistic research.
A recurring thread throughout the festival's history has been the exploration of one's position within contemporary social, political, and cultural contexts. Each edition is developed around a thematic focus: Adaptation (2019), Identity (2020), Integral (2021), Admission Fee (2022), Still Fun (2023), Gossip (2024), (Un)productive Rituals (2025), and Polyphony of Space (2026).
Justina Špeirokaitė
Justina Špeirokaitė (b. 1985, she/her) is a mother, curator, cultural organiser, and researcher with a background in social work and cultural studies. Based in Vienna, she draws on her Lithuanian background to explore how sociopolitical and historical conditions shape contemporary lived experience, with a focus on transgenerational relations and post-socialist identities.
In 2014, she co-founded the cultural platform Improper Walls. Since 2019, she has supported newly arrived artists in Vienna through the QMA initiative. Justina also leads the LT.art Vienna festival, fostering artistic exchange between Austria and Lithuania, co-organises artist residencies in Serbia, and co-develops the interdisciplinary project bal, connecting the Baltic countries and the post-Yugoslav region.
Viltautė Žemelytė
Viltautė Žemelytė is cross-sectorial project developer and manager. For more than a decade she has been working on building synergies among culture, education, social and health care. Viltė is co-founder of RED NOSES clowndoctors organization in Lithuania, collaborated on many independent performing art projects and now is responsible for performing art and short film program in LT.art festival.
Danielė Brekytė
Daniele Brekyte is classical contemporary music artist, violinist currently based in Vienna. She took part at various prestigious music festivals including Wien Modern, Ostrava days. As a soloist she was invited to perform with the Lithuanian State Orchestra and others. She is a music manager of an art festival LT.art Vienna.
Julija Karimzanova
Julija Karimzanova is a project manager and coordinator based in Vienna. For the last 5 years she has worked as a coordinator for different cultural projects in the area of performing arts. Julija is responsible for the performing arts programme of the LT. Art Vienna initiative and oversees the administrative processes.
Urtė Špeirokaitė
Urtė Špeirokaitė is a Vienna based cultural organizer, co-founder of a cultural platform Improper Walls, curator at QUESTION ME & ANSWER, coordinator at LT.art Vienna. Her interests follow digital media possibilities and contemporary art, with a focus on socially engaged topics.
Magdalena Kozlovskaja
Magdalena Kozlovskaja is an arts, marketing & communications manager, music teacher and researcher. Her professional experience ranges from working on the internationally acclaimed opera-performance Sun & Sea (Marina) to spending several years in the administrative team of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre. In addition to her work on various projects, she actively volunteers in the Lithuanian community in Vienna, teaches music, and is also pursuing her PhD in Musicology at the University of Vienna. Magdalena is currently responsible for communications at the LT.art, as well as coordinates one of the projects.
Katarzyna Bitowt
Katarzyna Bitowt is a sound artist, composer, and audio producer working across contemporary music, documentary podcasting, and interdisciplinary performance. Her practice combines sound design, field recording, and narrative-driven audio storytelling. She has more than six years of experience managing and working in the recording studio of the National Library of Lithuania. Her recent projects include sound design and editing for the investigative podcast Kniefall – Die Radikalisierung der Karin Kneissl, as well as collaborations with NARA, creating original music and soundscapes for documentary formats on human rights topics. Her work explores experimental sound, language, biodiversity, and socially engaged cultural narratives.