Mantas Platūkis Lithuanian, b. 1999

Overview
Mantas Platūkis (b. 1999, Lithuania) is a painter of the younger generation based in Vilnius. He graduated from the Painting Department of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, earning an MA degree in 2025. Platūkis's artistic practice centres on the evolution of technical images, which he analyses through painting. He works with visuals sourced from a range of media – photographs, reproductions, magazines, film stills, and Polaroids – treating them as secondary material. This material, detached from its original context, appears in his works as a form of abstract concreteness – a symbol of a fact that, blurred and stretched by time or memory, has shifted in meaning and form. This interplay of ambiguity and distortion results in symbolic images forcibly severed from their origins. Platūkis’s painterly investigations echo the dilemmas of the contemporary world – his works reflect an effort to understand the transformations, uncertainties, and growing pains of both his generation and the times we live in.
Works
  • Mantas Platūkis, Double-Slit, 2025
    Mantas Platūkis
    Double-Slit, 2025
    200 x 193 cm
    € 2,800.00
    Mantas Platūkis, Double-Slit, 2025
    € 2,800.00
  • Mantas Platūkis, Cy Miegamasis / Cy's Bedroom, 2025
    Mantas Platūkis
    Cy Miegamasis / Cy's Bedroom, 2025
    208 x 193 cm
    € 2,800.00
    Mantas Platūkis, Cy Miegamasis / Cy's Bedroom, 2025
    € 2,800.00
  • Mantas Platūkis, Natura-Morta (Nothing), 2025
    Mantas Platūkis
    Natura-Morta (Nothing), 2025
    169 x 210 cm
    € 2,700.00
    Mantas Platūkis, Natura-Morta (Nothing), 2025
    € 2,700.00
  • Mantas Platūkis, Akys / Eyes, 2025
    Mantas Platūkis
    Akys / Eyes, 2025
    201 x 112 cm
    € 2,200.00
    Mantas Platūkis, Akys / Eyes, 2025
    € 2,200.00
  • Mantas Platūkis, Model, 2025
    Mantas Platūkis
    Model, 2025
    108 x 99 cm
    € 1,500.00
    Mantas Platūkis, Model, 2025
    € 1,500.00
  • Mantas Platūkis, Great Jones Street (Man Dies), 2025
    Mantas Platūkis
    Great Jones Street (Man Dies), 2025
    24 x 30 cm
    € 400.00
    Mantas Platūkis, Great Jones Street (Man Dies), 2025
    € 400.00
  • Mantas Platūkis, Tyla / Silence, 2024
    Mantas Platūkis
    Tyla / Silence, 2024
    194 x 176 cm
    € 2,600.00
    Mantas Platūkis, Tyla / Silence, 2024
    € 2,600.00
  • Mantas Platūkis, Identification (Apples), 2024
    Mantas Platūkis
    Identification (Apples), 2024
    142 x 190 cm
    € 2,300.00
  • Mantas Platūkis, Žymė / The Mark, 2024
    Mantas Platūkis
    Žymė / The Mark, 2024
    171.5 x 146 cm
    € 2,200.00
    Mantas Platūkis, Žymė / The Mark, 2024
    € 2,200.00
  • Mantas Platūkis, Fingers (The Dance), 2024
    Mantas Platūkis
    Fingers (The Dance), 2024
    173 x 99 cm
    € 1,900.00
    Mantas Platūkis, Fingers (The Dance), 2024
    € 1,900.00
  • Mantas Platūkis, Putin's Plane, 2023
    Mantas Platūkis
    Putin's Plane, 2023
    182 x 252 cm
    € 3,000.00
    Mantas Platūkis, Putin's Plane, 2023
    € 3,000.00
  • Mantas Platūkis, The Pond, 2023
    Mantas Platūkis
    The Pond, 2023
    190 x 190 cm
    € 2,700.00
    Mantas Platūkis, The Pond, 2023
    € 2,700.00
  • Mantas Platūkis, Sound, 2023
    Mantas Platūkis
    Sound, 2023
    174 x 116 cm
    € 2,000.00
    Mantas Platūkis, Sound, 2023
    € 2,000.00
  • Mantas Platūkis, ABCDEFGH, 2023
    Mantas Platūkis
    ABCDEFGH, 2023
    100 x 150 cm
    € 1,800.00
    Mantas Platūkis, ABCDEFGH, 2023
    € 1,800.00
  • Mantas Platūkis, Forever, 2022
    Mantas Platūkis
    Forever, 2022
    126.5 x 308 cm
    € 3,000.00
    Mantas Platūkis, Forever, 2022
    € 3,000.00
Biography

EDUCATION

2023-2025  MA Painting, Vilnius Academy of Arts (Cum Laude)

2019-2023  BA Painting, Vilnius Academy of Arts

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED) 

2025 – Zugzwang, Pamėnkalnio galerija, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2023 – Replica, Galerija Arka, Vilnius, Lithuania.

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2025 – Miražas, the former building of Vilnius College of Finance and Credit (Naugarduko g. 5), Vilnius.

2025 – Zabolis Art Prize, Finalist Show, Winner of 3rd Place, Galerija Titanikas, Vilnius.

2024 – Zabolis Art Prize, Finalist Show, Winner of People’s Choice, Galerija Titanikas, Vilnius.

2023 – Ruja, Galerija Titanikas, Vilnius.

2022 – 225 years of VDA, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius.

2021 – 37.5, The Painting Corridor, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius.

2021 – Po vieną, The Painting Corridor, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius.

 

AWARDS

2025 – Zabolis Art Prize, Winner of 3rd Place, Galerija Titanikas, Vilnius.

2024 – Zabolis Art Prize, Winner of People’s Choice, Galerija Titanikas, Vilnius.

Bibliography

PRINTED SOURCES:

2023 – Brigita Gelžinytė, Literatūra ir Menas, Vienas paveikslas. „Garsas“, 2023-07-21, Nr. 14 (3774).

2023 – Viktorija Mištautaitė, 7MD, Šviesėjimas: Grupinė paroda „Ruja“ VDA parodų salėje „Titanikas“, 2023-04-21, Nr. 16 (1465).

 

INTERNET SOURCES:

2023 – Brigita Gelžinytė, Literatūra ir Menas, Vienas paveikslas. „Garsas“, 2023-08-02. 

2023 – Monika Pakerytė, Artnews.lt, Degantis noras. Grupinė paroda „Ruja” VDA galerijoje „Titanikas”, 2023-04-28. 

2023 – Viktorija Mištautaitė, 7MD, Šviesėjimas: Grupinė paroda „Ruja“ VDA parodų salėje „Titanikas“, 2023-04-21.

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