Vytautas Kumža constructs realms out of contradiction to search for meaning within the fractured logic of daily life. His practice unfolds in the space between stillness and tension. Rooted in a childhood shaped by instability, his work gravitates toward what resists resolution, focusing on what lingers unarticulated. Ordinary objects become charged through displacement and distortion, inviting viewers into a process of looking, and then looking again.

His newest series of works brings together photography, sculptural gestures, and glass sculptures. These objects, both delicate and defiant, transform familiar symbols into something uncanny and unresolved. Through displacement and distortion, they create spaces that feel at once delicate and unsettling. Kumža does not resolve contradictions, but he inhabits them. Objects stand in for what cannot be easily named. Hand-crafted visual illusions become tools for building a new kind of order, one that doesn’t deny dysfunction but reshapes it.

Kumža graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2017. His work has since been exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Netherlands); Museum of Photography Seoul (MoPS) (South Korea); CODA Museum (Netherlands); Museum Villa Mondriaan (Netherlands); (nelly&) theo van doesburg foundation, Amsterdam (Netherlands); NEST, The Hague (Netherlands); National Gallery, Prague (Czech Republic); Geste, Paris (France); Kunsthuis SYB. Beetsterzwaag (Netherlands); and MaMA, Rotterdam (Netherlands).