Lolita Jablonskienė (PhD) is an art historian and curator based in Vilnius. She is the chief curator of the National Gallery of Art, a subdivision of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art. Jablonskienė is an ex-commissioner of the Lithuanian pavilions at the Venice Biennial in 1999 and 2005. She has curated modern and contemporary art exhibitions in her home country and abroad, contributed art critical texts to Lithuanian and foreign press; lectures at the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts (associate professor). Jablonskienė researches Lithuanian and international art and design of the 2nd half of the 20th c.–21st c., theoretical context and curatorship. At present she writes a book on the development of contemporary art practices in Lithuania during the 1990s.