JUNIJA GALEJEVA

Junija (Yuna) Galejeva is an abstract oil painter from Lithuania. With a background in musicology, she approaches art with a musician’s mindset, applying melodic movement and improvisation to her creations. Working with oils and acrylics on canvas, she explores color nuances and textures to craft emotive, rhythmic compositions. Intuitive pulsions lead her hand and brush into repetitive pattern-like compositions that expand on the canvas, opening up the viewer’s field of vision. The touch is soft and meditative or vigorous and dynamic, according to Junija’s emotional inclinations. Either way, the artist welcomes us unreservedly into the intimacy of her psychological sphere, prompting a wave of instinctive associative responses.

Junija’s abstract paintings are a musical expression in visual form. The harmonious and delicate palette has a soothing contemplative aura that refreshes the senses. There is an emotional depth to the work which encourages active engagement with the viewer.

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She currently resides in Vilnius, where she works as an editor for the national radio program LRT Klasika and as a lecturer on the history of baroque opera at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. 

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Born in Siberia (Krasnokamensk, Zabaykalsky Krai), Junija grew up in Visaginas, a small town in north-eastern Lithuania, where she attended secondary and music schools.  At age 16, she went to Vilnius to study theory and history of music at the J. Tallat-Kelpša Conservatory. After graduating, she completed studies in musicology at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, earning her master's degree in 1999. She studied painting, drawing, graphic arts, and art history at the Savickas Art School from 2008 to 2010, and then for three years at Kunigunda's Dineikaitė's painting studio "Baltas kubas."

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