Artist Ruta Butkute

Art Platform

born 1984 Kaunas
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

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

2024-2028 Mondriaan Fonds (MF), kunstenaar basis, NL
2023 Stichting Niemeijer Fonds, NL
2023-2024  Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK), development grant,NL
2023 Stichting Stokroos (the Hanzenfonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds), NL 2023 Amarte Fonds, NL
2021- 2022 Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK), project grant, NL
2021 -2022 Tijl Fonds (Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds), NL
2017- 2021 Werkbijdrage Bewezen Talent, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2018 Stichting Stokroos, NL 2017- 2019 Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK), development grant,NL
2017 Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK),NL
2014 – 2015 Mondriaan Fonds, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, NL
2014 Lithuanian Culture State grant, LT
2012 – 2013 Start Stipendium, Mondriaan Fonds, NL 2006 Socrates/Erasmus grant (exchange program Ankara), LT

Solo Exhibitions

2024 upcoming: 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

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

Publications

Reviews

2024 https://galleryviewer.com/en/article/2227/ruta-butkute-sculptural-movement
2023 Lost painters https://www.lost-painters.nl/omstand-turbulentie/
2023 https://ekwc.nl/kunstenaar/ruta-butkute/
2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E2g0ZcRUvo
2021 https://bradwolff-partners.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/KLEIkeramiek-1_2021-Ruta-Butkute.pdf
2020 https://kunstblijfteenraadsel.nl/why-not-festival-2020-w139/?
2019 http://artmirror.org/exhibitions/426-ruta-butkute-at-av17-gallery
2019 http://m-puslapiai.7md.lt/daile/2019-11-15/Daikto-butis?fbclid=IwAR3qlg_b4dgphlR2EPx5cKlbz17M90iscU1rzyNMhU-vb80AVJ-avFfY4jc 2019 https://artnews.lt/objekto-meditacija-ir-choreografija-rutos-butkutes-paroda-somersault-galerijoje-av17-54837
2019 https://echogonewrong.com/photo-reportage-exhibition-somersault-ruta-butkute-av17-gallery/
2019 https://www.monsterkamer.nl/projects/ruta-butkute-spell-action-kees-janmaat/
2019 https://www.looiersgracht60.org/site/assets/files/1889/ng_3_2019-_50_years_rietveld_glass-_s__18_-_23.pdf
2018 https://bradwolff-partners.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/De-suggestie-van-een-choreografie-Het-Parool-Blendle.pdf
2018 https://kunstblijfteenraadsel.nl/2018/11/30/ruta-butkute-arrays-ch-gallery/
2018 Echo go Wrong, Interview with Eglė Mikalajūnė   http://echognewrong.com/on-objects-in-motion-interview-with-ruta-butkute/
2017 http://echogonewrong.com/photo-reportage-ruta-butkute-and-nina-glockne-at-sodu-4/
2017 http://artnews.lt/ninos-glockner-ir-rutos-butkutes-paroda-back-body-left-arm-projektu-erdveje-sodu-4-42996
2017 http://www.letmekoo.lt/en/sodu-4/back-body-left-arm-ruta-butkute-nina-glockner/
2017 Nrc. review by Lucette ter Borg https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2017/03/09/japanse-matten-als-bewegende-mondriaan-in-drie-dimensies-7254505-a1549504
2017 Mister Motley, review by Richtje Reinsma http://www.mistermotley.nl/art-everyday-life/een-object-heeft-een-lichaam-nodig
2017 Suns and Stars, review  by Vanya Pieters https://www.museeum.com/suns-and-stars-a-museum-without-a-home/
2015 http://artnews.lt/fotoreportazas-is-rutos-butkutes-parodos-effort-graph-amsterdamo-fons-welters-galerijoje-27544
2015 http://trendbeheer.com/2015/11/25/rijksakademie-open-2015/
2015 http://kubaparis.com/amsterdam-art-weekend/
2015 http://artviewer.org/misfit-love-mystics-obssesions-at-galerie-gabriel-rolt/
2015 https://artmap.com/fonswelters/exhibition/ruta-butkute-2015
2015 http://artviewer.org/de-arrogantie-van-de-jeugd-at-galerie-gabriel-rolt/
2015 http://artnews.lt/rutos-butkutes-instaliacija-pike-straddle-tuck-rijksakademieopen-renginyje-amsterdame-26368
2014 http://www.mistermotley.nl/art-everyday-life/rijksakademie
Other
2024 Temporal Choreographies II, artists exchange, organised by Ruta Butkute and Movement Exposed Critical Space, Utrecht, NL
2023 Temporal Choreographies I, video screening program, organised by Ruta Butkute, Johan Broedeletstraat 43, Amsterdam, NL
2023 Connecting Ceramics, Arita residency (JP) film presentation, director Jerry de Mars, Mono Japan Amsterdam, NL
2023 European Ceramic Work Center (EKWC), artist lecture, NL
2023 Collide, Zout magazine interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E2g0ZcRUvo, Park Tilburg, NL
2022 How To Make Sculpture Move, artist talk, Ruta Butkute & Emily Kocken, Rijksakademie library public programme, NL
2021 Direct me to the centre of gravity, artist guided tour, Ruta Butkute & Emily Kocken, Arti Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2020 Gerrit Rietveld academie, artist lecture, glass departament, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Spell Action, artist talk, Why not?, W139, NL
2019 Limestone, artist talk, Guldagergaard art center, Skealskor, DK
2019 Printing Plant, book presentation, book fair, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Spell Action, book presentation & artist talk, Bradwolff Projects Amsterdam, NL
2019 Somersault, AV17 gallery, artist talk & guided tour, Vilnius, LT
2018 Spell Action, book presentation, C&H gallery, Amsterdam,
2018 Spell Action, artist talk & dinner, Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam, NL