Vilija Vitkute works as a professional body painter since 2013 with different technics: camouflage, illusion, special effects, UV, abstract, installation body-painting face-painting, and creative makeup. She is a world body painting champion in special effects.  She is known worldwide for her camouflage body-painting artworks, she has created the first arctic camouflage body-painting calendar in the world. 

Discover more of her works in the body painting gallery.  

Vilija started to work with paper art at the early age of 12. Today she combines it with her body painting, costume design, and installations.

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Her paper art was seen in International media like VOGUE and used for films and videos.

In 2014 Vilija has dived deeply into the video and film world. She works as an artist, director, producer, actress, and model for different film and TV projects internationally. She has created several art films, music, and art videos which were awarded, nominated, and shown internationally.

Photography for Vilija was one of the first ways to picture her creativity and the way she sees the world, in her early teenage life she started to work as a photographer till today. 

She mainly works with art/ fine art photography, portrait, and travel photography.

Project funder, leader, art director, producer, and artist

- Visual artist, body painter, creative and visual

director, producer, a photographer from Lithuania living in

in Sweden since 2010 and in Italy since 2019.

Vilijas art speaks mostly about human nature. She believes that artists are a crucial voice in discussing climate change and human impact.  Vilija’s passion for art comes from nature,

music, people, and stories. She works about the human body,

environment, equal rights, and climate change. Her body painting is special because she creates it with organic paper art designs, she paints people blending into surroundings, and she also uses body painting to express the culture, the body movement.

She has created in different places in the world, from the mountains in Morocco to the barren landscapes of the Arctic circle. Her art and videos won

prizes in Sweden and worldwide..

Visit the online store of Vilija's Vitkute artwork via The Memory Of Water page. You can order, calendars, prints, postcards, posters as well exclusive acrylic glass photography, framed pictures, limited edition and signed pictures of the artist.

COMMERCIAL  WORK

Multidisciplinary artist Vilija does commercial work with bodypainting, paper art as well as photography internationally for TV commercials, different brands, companies, agencies, etc. 

Artists have been working on nature protection for over 6 years, with different projects around the world, especially about endangered animals and marine life. Artist, herself become vegetarian in her later teenage life and today trying to eat mostly vegan. Her daily life and work are most sustainable. She pays big attention to her actions, and daily choices when it comes to protecting nature -Mother Earth especially when we are living in climate crises-human crises times.

Vilija as well works on human rights, she did a few projects in Sweden. "Allas lika värde" project about equality and human rights in Falun with 600 children and as well about LGBT rights at different parades in the EU.

Here you can book, and request the artist for events, TV/films, art projects, commercials, private bodypainting, Installations, workshops, lectures, producers, art directors, etc.