URTĖ JANUS

Urtė Janus is a London-based artist whose practice explores the entanglements, interchanges, and transits of bodies, matter, and time, aiming to undo the Western dissociative separation between mind, body, and land. Born in 90s Lithuania, during the collapse of the Soviet Union, Janus grew up amidst multigenerational and ecological trauma, experiences that shaped her work and its focus on the vulnerability of living systems. Janus creates immersive installations in which psychic, bodily, and geological processes intertwine, and materials come alive, unfolding through decay, fermentation, metamorphosis, growth, and death—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.

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