Bound #1 / installation 2023 / 250 x 250 x 20 cm

Equilibrate/ video performance 2015 /

Rijksakademie 

Let your body do all the talking / installation 2021

Collide / performance 2023

 

half hitch / performance  interpretation of the Rietveld chair /2016-2024

Ruta Butkute’s multi-facetted art practice combines sculpture, choreography and installation. Guiding through ideas of performativity and function of the sculpture, she researches ‘how to make sculpture move’; an important question to ask since sculpture is static, and doesn’t move, unless one is given the key to be able to read it.

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Butkute’s art practice is guided by this critical reflective approach towards the physical qualities of the sculptures. ’How can bodies animate objects, how can objects set bodies in motion?’ Recently, spatial and relational aspects of her work gained importance in addition to its material and physical features: the relation between sculptures, performers, audiences and the surroundings in which they interact. Artist likes to stage the performativity of objects in order to raise attention to the purpose and functions of certain forms there, employing the object’s sculptural physicality. Butkute is interested in how one medium transforms into another, and seeks to involve the audience strongly in the final presentation. Her work departs from the principle that an object has a function hidden inside, transforming this function from the original one and searching for the new.

Array / porcelain 2018 / 48 cm

 

Spell Action#1 / performance 2019

Why Not? festival, W139

Let your body do all the talking /performance 2021-2022

Waning Gibbous #1/ porcelain / 48 cm

Circle #1 /

porcelain 2023 /  85cm

 

 

Collide /  excerpt performance 2023

Let your body do all the talking / performance 2021-2022

Circle #1 #2 / porcelain, 87 m

review:https://galleryviewer.com/en/article/2227/ruta-butkute-sculptural-movement

Flux / installation 2024/ bradwolff & partners

 

Collide #5, 2023/ porcelain, 50 cm

review: https://galleryviewer.com/en/article/2227/ruta-butkute-sculptural-movement

Collide #5, 2023/ porcelain, 50 cm

review: https://galleryviewer.com/en/article/2227/ruta-butkute-sculptural-movement

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