URTĖ JANUS

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Urtė Janus is a Lithuanian artist based in London. Grounded in an understanding of matter as a world-making and communicative entity, Janus' durational installations emerge through conversations with specific landscapes and materials, constructing conditions that allow material agency to unfold through time. Her recent research explores the permeability and porosity of matter, asking what flows, leaks and seeps through bodies, boundaries and borders.
Urtė recently graduated with an MA in Art & Ecology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and currently works at the Goldsmiths Centre for Art & Ecology. In 2026, she completed a residency at Antony Gormley and Vicken Parsons’ High House. She was selected for the Emerging Artist JCDecaux Art Prize in Vilnius (2023) and is an alumna of the Alexander McQueen Sarabande Foundation in London (2023). Her work has been presented at (AV17) Gallery, Vilnius (2025); Editorial Projects, Vilnius (2024); Arts SU Gallery Space, London (2024); the National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (2023); Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2023); and the Alexander McQueen Foundation, London (2023), among others. In addition to her artistic practice, she curates Project Octagon, an outdoor art initiative based at the Anglican Chapel in Nunhead Cemetery, London.