Benas Matijošaitis b. 2002
Benas Matijošaitis treats found images not as documents but as unstable evidence, examining how visual information shifts as it circulates through contemporary culture.
Benas Matijošaitis is a Lithuanian artist whose work examines the afterlife of images in contemporary visual culture. Working primarily in painting, he uses photographs, printed matter, digital media, and his own image archive as points of departure, investigating how visual information is detached from its original context and transformed as it circulates through different visual environments.
Rather than treating images as fixed records of reality, Matijošaitis approaches them as unstable carriers of information, continually altered as they move between analogue and digital media. His paintings hover between recognition and disappearance, allowing familiar fragments to emerge from fields of colour, light, and digital noise. In doing so, they consider what remains of an image once the meaning that first produced it has begun to fade.
Working between Kaunas and Vilnius, Benas Matijošaitis completed a BA in Painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and is currently pursuing an MA in Photography and Media Art at the same institution. Alongside his artistic practice, he has curated exhibitions including Ruja (2023) and Žarija (2024).
Benas Matijošaitis is represented by Galerija VARTAI.
ARTISTIC PRACTICE
Benas Matijošaitis paints from an archive he refuses to fully understand. Photographs, printed matter, digital media, and found imagery enter his practice stripped of their original contexts, no longer functioning as documents but as fragments whose meanings remain unresolved. Images are rarely allowed to settle. Familiar forms surface only briefly before dissolving again, as recognition itself becomes unstable. Matijošaitis describes this tension as an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object: an accelerating flood of images colliding with memory and the inherited conventions that attempt to hold them still. Rather than restoring order, Matijošaitis allows images to accumulate until they begin to resist interpretation. The paintings remain open, refusing to resolve into a single reading while exposing the limits of perception in an environment saturated with visual information. His paintings do not preserve images so much as expose the conditions through which they survive.
EDUCATION
2020-2024 - Vilnius Academy of Arts, Department of Painting, Bachelor of Fine Arts
2012-2020 - Kaunas Gymnasium of Arts, Kaunas (Lithuania)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 - Point of Origin, Meno Parkas Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2025 - Burn-in, VDA gallery Titanic, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2024 - Lorem ipsum, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (Lithuania)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 - one at a time, VDA gallery Quaridoor of Painting, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2021 - +37,5 , VDA gallery Quaridoor of Painting, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2022 - PPP1 , VDA gallery Quaridoor of Painting, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2023 - Ruja (rutt) , VDA gallery Titanic, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2023 - Cukrus (sugar) , Lithuanian Artists’ Association’s gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2023 - Ofšorinės akys - Komisas (offshore eyes - commission) , abandoned Lelija factory, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2024 - Žarija (amber) , AAS Pamėnkalnis gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2024 - Zabolis Art prize , VDA gallery Titanic, Vilnius (Lithuania)
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Ruja (rutt) , VDA gallery Titanic, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2024 - Žarija (amber) , LDS AAS Pamėnkalnis gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
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Benas Matijošaitis
'Lorem Ipsum' 4 - 14 Jun 2024For several years in a row, Galerija VARTAI has been happy to open its space to young talents, graduates of the Vilnius Academy of Arts. This year, we are looking...Read more -
Spectrum 2
Summer Group Show 2 Jun - 30 Oct 2024Artists and designers featured in the group show SPECTRUM 2: Gytis Arošius / Kotryna Butautytė / Daydreaming Objects / Vilius Dringelis / Kiki van Eijk / Faktura / Govert Flint...Read more
2023 – Benas Matijošaitis. Artist CV. Young Painter Prize.
2026 – Linas Bliškevičius. Benas Matijošaitis: Point of Origin. Meno Parkas Gallery.
2024 – Benas Matijošaitis: Burn-in. Vilniaus dailės akademijos parodų salės TITANIKAS. Vilniaus dailės akademija.
2026 – Išdeginti vaizdai ir fragmentuota sąmonė: Beno Matijošaičio paroda Pradinis taškas. Kaunas Pilnas.
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Benas Matijošaitis: Point of Origin
08 January - 06 February | Meno Parkas | Kaunas, Lithuania January 13, 2026We are pleased to announce Point of Origin , a solo exhibition by Benas Matijošaitis at Meno Parkas Gallery in Kaunas. The exhibition traces key...Read more -
Charity Auction Stand With Ukraine III: over €188,000 raised!
Collaboration with Stiprūs kartu and Demus Asset Managment November 14, 2025On October 16, Demus Asset Management, Galerija VARTAI and Stiprūs kartu hosted the third Stand With Ukraine charity art auction – and what an evening...Read more -
Benas Matijošaitis: Burn-In
1 - 27 August, 2025 | Titanikas | Vilnius, Lithuania August 21, 2025Benas Matijošaitis’s solo exhibition 'Burn-In' is currently on view at exhibition halls 'Titanikas'. The exhibition takes the phenomenon of screen “burn-in” as a point of...Read more
