Yulia Skuratova — renowned Lithuanian theatre artist, participant in the Lviv Quadriennale of Scenography 2025

Julija Skuratova. Photo by Aleksandra Jacovskytė 

Julija Skuratova, a distinguished Lithuanian theater artist. In 2004, this artist did her internship at the Faculty of Puppet Theater of Białystok Branch of the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. In 2008, she graduated from art postgraduate studies at Vilnius Academy of Arts, in 2006-2012, having transferred her experience to the students of Vilnius Academy of Arts, since 2012 she is still pursuing it at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater.

The artist has held several personal exhibitions; since 1999, she had been participating in scenography exhibitions in Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, where she left a clear imprint; she has also participated in Prague Quadrennial several times (1999, 2003, 2007, 2015). The artist’s creative work has been marked by highly valuable Lithuanian theater awards: “Saint Christopher’s” (2001), “Fortune” (2018), the “Golden Stage Cross” (2009, 2013); J. Skuratova has also won special prizes at international puppet theater festivals in Poland, Ukraine, Moscow.

The scenographer started her creative career in 2001 and has been productive in creating scenography for various genres of puppet, drama and musical performances not only in Lithuania, but also in Poland, Russia, Slovakia, and Hungary. In her work, the artist experiments a lot with various forms of visual art and theatre objects by combining various materials, opposites, and different fields. She integrates various forms of domestic and everyday life, fields of art and non-art, she boldly reconstructs reality and creates a new reality balancing on the border between dreaming and reality.

Collages characteristic of her work, reminiscent of a game, seem to be born without suffering. Yet for the artist, “ideas do not always lie on the surface. Often you have to suffer for a long time, to stay in a terrifying uncertainty for a while, as if you were wandering in a fog. But the moments of unexpected discoveries become even sweeter.”