Šarūnė Kalininaitė, or 5sarunes, is a visual maker based in Lithuania. She began developing her practice at Alytus Art School in her early teenage years, where she studied drawing, painting, sculpture, and art history. At 16, she spent a year at M.K. Čiurlionis Art School in Vilnius, further refining her skills. Beyond assignments in art schools, Šarūnė worked extensively on her own and quickly grew bored with traditional materials - prompting her to experiment with ready-mades and non-art materials in her objects.
Her early work was reflective and humorous, playing around with words and generally accepted notions. She began questioning her environment and its rules as soon as she started making.

In 2012, Šarūnė went on to study Sculpture at the University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Arts, where she focused on conceptual work while also rigorously exploring materiality - ranging from works with complex combinations of materials in a single piece to minimalist text-based art using found objects from the streets. During those years, she participated in numerous group exhibitions, provoking audiences to react or act through her poignant concepts or fragile materials.

By the time she graduated, Šarūnė was already interested in the origins of things and commodities. As her questioning of the environment, including the art system, gained momentum, she took a break from visual making to focus on research into the art supply industry, consumerism, animal welfare, and environmental issues. Nevertheless, she remained involved in the visual arts field, working as a digital illustrator, an art instructor for adults, and a teacher for visiting foreign students. At that time, she had already begun reducing her use and purchase of synthetic art supplies and had started making her own.

Returning to Lithuania in 2021, Šarūnė rekindled her personal practice and began teaching at Alytus Art School. She has since gone as far as using raw, natural elements - such as soil, sand, clay, grass, leaves, berries, rust, ash etc. - rubbing them directly into paper and fusing them with drawing, both traditional and digital. She explores everyday themes through states of melancholy, wonder, the mundane, and spirituality, searching for ways into the totality of existence.