Benediktas Marija Žukas Lithuanian, b. 1992

Overview
Photo by Pijus Vėberis
Photo by Pijus Vėberis
Benediktas Marija Žukas (b. 1992, Lithuania) is a painter who obtained his MA at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2023. His work is distinguished by a meditative exploration of color, movement, and material presence. Fragmentality and the process is the main focus in his practice. His paintings inhabit the space between intuition and structure, where spontaneous gestures meet balanced compositions. 
 
Žukas’s style is marked by layered fields of pigment, subtle tonal transitions, and textural complexity. He often works in series, allowing each canvas to evolve through cycles of application, erasure, and rediscovery. This process reveals traces of time and thought, giving the surfaces a sense of quiet intensity. Rather than depicting recognizable forms, his abstractions suggest atmospheres shaped by rhythm, silence, and memory.
 
Influenced by both the traditions of Lithuanian and European art history and contemporary painting, Žukas seeks to create visual spaces that feel both deeply personal and universally resonant. He describes his practice as a search for a new form of contemporary art where he tries to combine drawing and painting. His works often evoke a sense of stillness emerging from motion, or clarity born out of chaos — an equilibrium that reflects his interest in the emotional undercurrents of perception.
 
Working primarily with oils and mixed media on canvas, Žukas approaches painting as an act of dialogue with the material itself. Each brushstroke, scrape, and stain becomes a record of presence — a trace of gesture that transcends the purely visual and invites the viewer into a state of reflection.
 
Žukas has exhibited his work in solo exhibitions in Antwerp (Conscience 20 and Gert Voorjans galleries) Riga (ASNI galerija) and Vilnius (Contemporary Art Gallery Meduza and Vladas Vildžiūnas Art Gallery), as well as in group exhibitions in Lithuania and Belgium. His works are included in private collections in Lithuania, Belgium, Netherlands and Latvia.
Works
  • Benediktas Marija Žukas, Follow me, 2025
    Benediktas Marija Žukas
    Follow me, 2025
    160 x 210 cm
    € 4,000.00
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    Benediktas Marija Žukas, Follow me, 2025
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  • Benediktas Marija Žukas, Spectrum, 2025
    Benediktas Marija Žukas
    Spectrum, 2025
    142 x 132 cm
    € 3,000.00
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    Benediktas Marija Žukas, Spectrum, 2025
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  • Benediktas Marija Žukas, Be pavadinimo / Untitled, 2025
    Benediktas Marija Žukas
    Be pavadinimo / Untitled, 2025
    145 x 115 cm
    € 2,850.00
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    Benediktas Marija Žukas, Be pavadinimo / Untitled, 2025
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  • Benediktas Marija Žukas, Camera fragment III, 2025
    Benediktas Marija Žukas
    Camera fragment III, 2025
    130 x 107 cm
    51 x 42 in
    € 2,600.00
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    Benediktas Marija Žukas, Camera fragment III, 2025
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  • Benediktas Marija Žukas, Do not break it, 2024
    Benediktas Marija Žukas
    Do not break it, 2024
    155 x 155 cm
    € 3,400.00
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    Benediktas Marija Žukas, Do not break it, 2024
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  • Benediktas Marija Žukas, Talking heads, 2024
    Benediktas Marija Žukas
    Talking heads, 2024
    155 x 155 cm
    € 3,400.00
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  • Benediktas Marija Žukas, Will you ever get to heaven, 2024
    Benediktas Marija Žukas
    Will you ever get to heaven, 2024
    165 x 140 cm
    € 3,360.00
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    Benediktas Marija Žukas, Will you ever get to heaven, 2024
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  • Benediktas Marija Žukas, Be pavadinimo / Untitled, 2023-2024
    Benediktas Marija Žukas
    Be pavadinimo / Untitled, 2023-2024
    140 x 170 cm
    € 3,400.00
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    Benediktas Marija Žukas, Be pavadinimo / Untitled, 2023-2024
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  • Benediktas Marija Žukas, One eyed painter, 2022-2025
    Benediktas Marija Žukas
    One eyed painter, 2022-2025
    190 x 160 cm
    € 3,850.00
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    Benediktas Marija Žukas, One eyed painter, 2022-2025
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Biography
Photo by Pijus Vėberis
Photo by Pijus Vėberis

EDUCATION
2021 – 2023 –  MA, Vilnius arts academy.
2010 – 2014 – BA, Vilnius college of design.


(SELECTED) SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 – Vilniaus vaikai, Contemporary art gallery ‘Medūza’, Vilnius (Lithuania).
2023 – Untitled, Vlado Vildžiūno gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania).
2022  – The great anonymous, Gert Voorjans gallery, Antwerp (Belgium).
2022 – Savistaba, Lukiškių kalėjimas, Vilnius (Lithuania).
2021 – AA Concience 20, Antwerp (Belgium).
2020 – Tapyba, Arts printing house, Vilnius (Lithuania).
2018 – Tapyba ant popieriaus, Arts printing house, Vilnius (Lithuania).


(SELECTED) GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 – Komisas, Duonos fabrikas, Palanga (Lithuania).
2024 – Komisas, Tech Zity, Vilnius (Lithuania).
2023 – Ruja, Titanikas, Vilnius (Lithuania).
2022 – PPP1, VDA Tapybos koridorius, Vilnius (Lithuania).
2020 – Father and son, Menų tiltas, Vilnius (Lithuania).
2020 – Kontr-argumentas III, Meno parkas, Kaunas (Lithuania). 
2019 – Summer edition, Rik Rossels gallery, Antwerp (Belgium).


COLLECTIONS
Private collections in Lithuania, Belgium, Netherlands.

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