Elena Krukonytė is a Lithuanian visual artist and photographer. Her background in fashion photography sparked her interest in the ever-changing visual culture and its relationship with the past. Since 2017, she has been curating the Lithuanian Visual Culture Archive (1990–2005) through the Instagram account @90s_lithuania and the website 90slithuania.com, critically exploring Lithuanian identity in a world transitioning from a material to a digital, and from a polar to a complex landscape.

Through research into nostalgia, metamodernism, and liquid modernity, Krukonytė engages with archival imagery to compose what she calls a "metamodern collage.“ Her practice employs analogue and digital photography, video art, and installation, embedding pop-cultural references and friction between past and present. Currently, she is studying a Master’s degree in Photography and Society at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.

[Education]

2017-2020
Bachelor Applied Photography
Vilnius College of Design


2024-present
Master Photography and Society
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague



[Publications]

2025, Dynamic Identities, book (MAPS x Živi Atelje DK)

2025, Neakivaizdinis Vilnius, magazine (Spring issue)

2024, Moteris, magazine (March issue)


︎︎︎ Artcle about photography and "90s Lithuania" on Lamų Slėnis.

︎︎︎ Article about "Nekenčiu reklamos"and "90s_lithuania" and on Delfi.lt 360

Presentation of a project "Portrait of Early Generation Z" on a magazine "Cikados" #9.

︎︎︎ Radio interview about photography work, projects "Portrait of Early Generation Z" and "90s Lithuania" on LRT Klasika radio show "Pakeliui su klasika", startint at 0:58

︎︎︎ Interview about "90s lithuania" and photography on news site Zmones.lt

︎︎︎ Article about project "Portrait of Early Generation Z" and "90s Lithuania" project on newspaper 15min.lt

︎︎︎ Lithuanian National Television LRT morning show "Labas rytas, Lietuva" reportage about Elena Krukonytė's bachelor project "Portrait of Early Generation Z" and 90s Lithuania

︎︎︎ Article about project "Portrait of Early Generation Z" on photodocumentary website Latitude55

︎︎︎ Article about photography aesthetics and project "90s Lithuania" on Abstract Stylist

︎︎︎ Article about "90s Lithuania" project on Alfa.lt

︎︎︎ Žinių radijas podcast "Sėkmės gylis" about Elena Krukonytė's photography work and 90s Lithuania project

︎︎︎ Elena Krukonytė's campaign photographs of designer Ramunė Piekautaitė's FW 20/21
 on SwO.lt

︎︎︎ on Moteris.lt

︎︎︎ Elena Krukonytė's campaign photographs of Soda Futura collection "Summer in Venus", 2020 on L'Officiel.lt

︎︎︎ Presentation of a project "Portrait of Early Generation Z" on a national newsite 15min.lt

︎︎︎ Presentation of a project "Portrait of Early Generation Z" on Pupil Sphere