Marija Rubavičiūtė (b. 1977, Vilnius) is a stage designer and visual artist.
She graduated with a master’s degree in Stage Design from the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2007. Working between theatre and visual art, she creates stage and costume designs for various theatre productions while also developing her own visual art practice. Her work includes paintings, installations, book illustrations, and exhibition projects presented in solo and group shows.
Her illustrated book Tetulė Liu was selected in the Book of the Year 2022 awards in the children’s book category.
Since 2021, she has been a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association.
Rubavičiūtė’s artistic language unfolds through multilayered assemblages and art objects that reflect on the fragility of time, memory, and states of being. Her works move between dream, vision, and recollection, where fragments of the visible world transform into quiet visual narratives. Combining painting, drawing, photography, and collage, she plays with scale and perspective, creating subtle tensions between reality and imagination.
Old photographs, textured paper, and unexpected details—such as fragments of stage design models—often become part of her compositions. Through these materials, the artist builds delicate visual worlds in which past traces, personal memory, and imagined landscapes intertwine.
“My art is poetry without words, speaking the language of details, lines, and forms.”