Mantas Platūkis Lithuanian, b. 1999
Mantas platūkis explores the changing life of technical images - the point at which documentary fact gives way to symbolic meaning.
Mantas Platūkis is a Lithuanian painter whose work examines how technical images lose their documentary function as they pass through reproduction, memory, and time. Working from photographs, film stills, magazine images, and Polaroids, he treats these sources not as records of reality but as images already detached from the circumstances that first produced them.
His paintings occupy the point at which an image remains recognisable while no longer carrying its original certainty. Blurred, stretched, or partially obscured, familiar forms gradually become symbolic, revealing how repetition and circulation continually reshape the meanings images are able to hold.
Mantas Platūkis completed both his BA and MA in Painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, graduating cum laude in 2025. His recent solo exhibitions include Zugzwang (Pamėnkalnio Gallery, Vilnius, 2025) and Replica (Arka Gallery, Vilnius, 2023). He received Third Prize at the Zabolis Art Prize in 2025, following the People's Choice Award in 2024.
Mantas Platūkis is represented by Galerija VARTAI.
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.
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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