Julijonas Urbonas is an artist, designer, researcher, engineer, founder of Lithuanian Space Agency, and former director of Klaipėda city’s amusement park. At the core of his artistic practice is gravitational aesthetics – a unique artistic approach, combining extraterrestrial arts, critical design, amusement park engineering, performative architecture, sci-fi, scenography and kinetic arts. By manipulating gravity, Urbonas contrives condensed visions and prototypes of alternative realities, simultaneously creating extreme, body- and imagination- altering experiences. His projects can be found in private and museum collections such as the Lithuanian Art Museum, the X Museum Beijing, and the ZKM | Karlsruhe.
