Born in Lithuania, Kėdainiai, 1980, and based in Switzerland since 2015, Mikliušienė’s path to art was not straightforward. Trained as an attorney-at-law and specialized in intellectual property and competition law, she spent nearly a decade analyzing human behavior, power dynamics, and social structures before turning to art as a means of making an impact. 

Her transition from law to art marked not only a career shift but a philosophical one – from interpreting facts and serving clients to searching for hidden truths and asking for the right questions. Reality is thinner than it seems. 

She lives and works in Richterswil, Canton Zürich, Switzerland, and in 2025 started Fine Arts bachelor studies at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art. 

“It’s okay if she’s not good at math – she’s a girl.” That’s what a teacher once said about my daughter. A man who had spent his life shaping generations of young minds. In that single sentence lived an entire worldview. This statement gave the beginning to my entire artistic path. 

I was a provincial girl, raised in Soviet and post-Soviet Lithuania, carrying the whole postcolonial bouquet of inferiority and hunger for a better life. Possibly that is why I first became a lawyer. I did well. For ten years, I negotiated power, contracts, deception, and justice – until I realized I had become a servant of power systems. I turned to art, seeking radical change. 

My work is an inquiry into life itself – its material and invisible structures, bodies and energies. The human body must be in my art. It appears as a major protagonist of my stories. I paint, sculpt, and construct around it. 

Oil, glass, water, plants, metal – each can become a messenger. I am drawn to the principles that govern the world: gravity, circulation, attraction, decay. 

I revisit history – even prehistory – searching for beginnings and the forces behind them. The ancient Venuses, the primordial female figures, the order of power and stereotypes — all are inscribed in us. 

I want to reread them with an open gaze toward what it means to be human now, today. Art, to me, is a power to unlearn, change, and cause discomfort. It is a practice of seeing beyond our physicality. Reality is thinner than it looks. 

So – what do you see?