Ruta Butkute

Kaunas, Lithuania
lives / works Amsterdam 

Education

2014- 2015 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2007- 2010 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
2003- 2007 Bachelor studies, Vilnius Academy of Visual Arts, LT
2006 Socrates Erasmus exchange studies, Hacettepe University, Ankara, TR 
2001- 2002 Preparatory course design, Vilnius Academy of Visual Arts, LT

Residencies

2025 Kohila ‘wood firing’ residency, Estonia, EE
2023 European Ceramic Work Center (EKWC), Oisterwijk, NL
2019 Guldagergaard international ceramic center, Skealskor, DK
2018 Le Maupas A.I.R, FR
2016 Arita residency, supported by Mondriaan Fonds, JP
2015 Rosas P.A.R.T.S, supported by Work Space Brussels, BE
2013 Atelierhaus Salzamt, CreArt, Linz, AT
2013 Id11, CreArt, Delft, NL
2012 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Swing residency, New York, USA 
2011 CRIDA, Palma de Mallorca, ES
2011 BijlmAir, Amsterdam, NL

Fellowships / stipends

2025 Mondriaan Fonds (MF), international voucher, NL
2025 Stichting Gerbrandy Cultuurfonds, NL
2024 – 2028 Mondriaan Fonds (MF), kunstenaar basis, NL
2023 – 2024 Stichting Stokroos (Hanzenfonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds), NL 
2023 – 2024 Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK), development grant, NL 
2023 Stichting Niemeijer Fonds, NL
2023 Amarte Fonds, NL
2021 Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK), project grant, NL
2021 Tijl Fonds (Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds), NL
2017- 2021 Mondriaan Fonds (MF), Werkbijdrage Bewezen Talent, NL
2018 Stichting Stokroos, NL
2017- 2019 Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK), development grant, NL
 2017 Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK), project grant, NL
2014 – 2015 Mondriaan Fonds, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, NL
2014 Lithuanian Culture State grant, LT
2012 – 2013 Start Stipendium, Mondriaan Fonds (MF), NL
 

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Glazed spirals dove grey [installation], Movement Exposed gallery, Utrecht, NL
2025 Object Synchronicities, video performances Ruta Butkute, text Emily Kocken, Umede fest 3rd edition, Sodu 2123, Vilnius, LT 
2024 Half Hitch [performance], curated by Petra Noordkamp, van Doesburg house, Paris, FR
2024 Flux [installation, duo Ruta Butkute & Norman Dilworth, Bradwolff & Partners gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2023 Bound [installation/ performance Half Hitch], Movement Exposed gallery, Utrecht, NL
2023 The alchemy of abstractions [installation], duo Ruta Butkute & Akmar, Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam, NL
2023 A Wheel A Stone A Rope A Wing [installation / performance Collide], duo Ruta Butkute & Matea Bakula, Park, Tilburg, NL
2022 Let your body do all the talking #1 [performance] ‘PLAYGROUND’ festival, Museum Leuven, BE
2022 How To Make Sculpture Move [reading video performance], duo Ruta Butkute & Emily Kocken, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, LT 
2022 How To Make Sculpture Move [book launch, Installation, reading performance], duo Ruta Butkute & Emily Kocken, Bradwolff Projects Amsterdam, NL
2022 How To Make Sculpture Move [reading video performance], duo Ruta Butkute & Emily Kocken, Wiels, BE
2022 Half Hitch [performance],Valkhof Museum, Nijmegen, NL
2021 Tumble [installation], Movement Exposed gallery , Utrecht , NL
2021 Let your body do all the talking [performance], Arti Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2021 Direct me to the centre of gravity [installation], duo Ruta Butkute & Emily Kocken , Arti Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2020 Art Rotterdam Fair [Installation], duo Ruta Butkute & Katrin Korfmann, gallery Bradwolff & Partners, Van Nelle fabriek, NL
2020 Spell Action #1 [performance], The Performance Show, AVL Mundo, Atelier van Lieshout, NL
2020 Spell Action #1 [performance], Why Not festival, W139, NL
2019 Spell Action #1 [performance], Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, LT
2019 Somersault, AV17 gallery, Vilnius, LT
2019 Spell Action [performance], Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Array, C&H gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2017 back body/ left arm, T-shape [performance], duo with Nina Glockner , Sodu 4 (curated by LTMKS), Vilnius, LT
2017 Swinging Sleeve [Installation/performance], Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Swinging Sleeve [performance], Intersections Art Rotterdam, curated by Christine van den Bergh, Bradwolff Projects, NL
2016 T-Shape [performance], exhibition ‘Made in Japan’, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek Grimbergen, BE 
2016 Bow Clap Bow [Project Arita],Teruhiro Yanagihara gallery, Osaka, JP
2016 Test Charts, UNFAIR, Westergasterrein, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Two Bowlines(under a strain), Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Polyhedral Crystals [performance], Working Title Situation 01# Endless New World, Kaaistudios, Brussels, BE 
2015 Branch Pulling [performance], Rosas P.A.R.T.S, curated by Work Space Brussels, BE
2015 Effort Graph, gallery Fons Welters, PLAYSTATION, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Pike Straddle Tuck, Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam, NL

Group Exhibitions

2025 Between sign and soil, Bradwolff & Partners, Amsterdam, NL
2025 Spark, KUNSTFABRIK HB55,  Herzbergstr. 55, 10365 Berlin, DE
2025 After Fire, After Life, installation, Tallinn Design Festival XX at Krulli Kvartal, Tallinn, EE
2025 Material In Motion, installation, historic Tohisoo Manor in Kohila, Estonia, EE
2025 Temporal Choreographies III, video installation, organized in collaboration with Madeline Stillwell, Kyoco Taniyama, Berlin, DE
2024 Stichting Strand Links, collection exhibition, Gorinchem, NL
2024 Summer Expo, curated Marcelle Schots, gallery Movement Exposed, Utrecht, NL
2024 Art Rotterdam, Installation ‘Bound’, gallery Bradwolff & Partners, Van Nelle fabriek, NL
2024 Wonderland, Installattion ‘Bound’, Amarte Fonds, curated Lieneke Hulshof , Krakeling, Amsterdam, NL
2023 Turbulentie, Installattion ‘Array’, curated by Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch, Omstand, Arnhem,NL
2023 Together, Bradwolf & Partners gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2023 Test Case XXVIII [open studios, exhibition], European Ceramic Work Center (EKWC), NL
2022 How To Make Sculpture Move, reading video performance, Ruta Butkute & Emily Kocken, Rijksakademie library public programme, NL
 2022 Unfair editions, Westergas terrain, NL
2022 Gallery Movement Exposed, Utrecht, NL
2021 Art Rotterdam, gallery Bradwolff & Partners, Van Nelle fabriek, NL
2021 F-RAZZOR, Fundraiser exhibition online, Rijksakademie Alumni
2021 Art The Hague, exhibition online, duo exhibition, gallery Bradwolff & Partners
2020 Unfair editions, Westergas, Amsterdam, NL
2019 The State of Transparency, installation ‘Array’, curated by Jens Pfeifer, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL
2018 50th anniversary exhibition Gerrit Rietveld Academy, curated by Moritz Küng, Fedlev building, Amsterdam, NL
2018 The Fox and the grapes, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, curated by Alexandra Landré, NL
2017 Dutch Design Week Eindhoven (DDW), Arita residency project, organized by Saga Prefecture, NL
2017 Triple Step, Big Art, represented by gallery C&H, Herengracht 182, Amsterdam, NL
2017 CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam Zuidoost, NL
2017 Artist First Ceramic Plus, Francis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam, NL
2017 ‘we like art’, Art Rotterdam, NL
2016 In Praise of Waves, curated by Work Space Brussels, BE
2016 Bow Clap Bow, project Arita residency, Dutch embassy, Tokyo, JP
2016 Bow Clap Bow, project space New Address, Arita, JP
2016 Arrows Shot From the Bow, Half Hitch performance, curated by Marjoca de Greef, Rietveld Huis Cordemeyer Apeldoorn, NL
2016 Unfair X Christies Auction, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Museum Night, film program, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NL
2015 De arrogantie van de jeugd, gallery Gabriel Rolt, curated by Julia Mullié and Nick Terra, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Art Fair Amsterdam, gallery Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Mis fit Love, gallery Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL
2014 NL ART LT, Posthoornkerk, curated by Inga Cholmogorova Amsterdam, NL
2014/2015 Klei, Gemmente museum, curated by Babs Haenen, Den Haag, NL