URTĖ JANUS

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Urtė Janus is a Lithuanian interdisciplinary artist based in London. She creates durational sculpture and installations informed by embodied methodologies and collaboration with a wide range of practitioners. Her work responds to hidden or unrepresented processes and histories, engaging soils, minerals, waters, microbiomes, and atmospheres as carriers and producers of memory. Through embodied fieldwork, she mobilises the human body as a sensing and mediating apparatus for more-than-human testimony, unfolding in installations that foreground material and sensory languages experienced by the whole body, such as smell, sound, colour, decay, fermentation, putrefaction, erosion, and growth.

Urtė recently graduated with an MA in Art & Ecology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and currently works as a Junior Fellow at the Centre for Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths. 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 exhibited with galleries such as (AV17) Gallery, Vilnius (2025); Editorial Projects, Vilnius (2024); Arts SU Gallery Space, London (2024); The National Gallery, 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.