URTĖ JANUS

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Urtė Janus creates durational installations experienced across multiple senses, bringing together a broad spectrum of collaborators, including craftsmen holding ancient material knowledge, microbiologists, geologists, dream practitioners, and psychoanalysts. By mobilising unstable chemical and biological processes, Janus seeks to make visible and perceptible life forms and processes beyond the human scale, such as microscopic organisms, the slow motions of toxic agents, and very slow processes of decay, with the hope of establishing embodied forms of attention to more-than-human worlds—a collective body that is porous, metabolically entangled, and politically charged.

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.