Barbora Žilinskaitė (b. 1996) is a Lithuanian artist and designer based in Brussels, Belgium. Seeking to distance herself from boundaried definitions of creative practices, Žilinskaitė’s output approaches design through a sculptural lens, with a strong focus on material experimentation. Her work explores how utilitarian objects can shift into something symbolic, performative, and alive through the use of anthropomorphic forms. By giving everyday objects a bodily presence, she challenges the boundary between the animate and inanimate and invites a more intimate, imaginative dialogue with the material world.
Her practice questions the divisions we draw between the human and the non-human, encouraging moments where logic softens and intuitive, invisible layers of experience can surface. Žilinskaitė’s work reflects a universal human impulse to give soul to matter, to animate the inanimate, and to see objects as extensions of life - mediators between body and world.
She graduated in Product and Spatial Design from the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2019 and has since developed an independent practice in Brussels.
2025
Creatures of Comfort
OMM – Odunpazarı Modern Museum
Eskisehir, Turkey
Curated by İdil Tabanca
Distorted Gaze
DMW Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2024
Barbora Žîlinskaitė: Chairs Don’t Cry
Friedman Benda, Los Angeles, CA
Enthroned
Curated by Jessica Silverman and Marc Benda, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023
Women Choose Women
Curated by Christine Berry and Martha Campbell, The Barn, Bridgehampton, New York
2022
Design Miami/ Basel
Represented by Friedman Benda gallery
The New Figuration
Curated by Glenn Adamson, Friedman Benda, New York
The Endless Summer
Friedman Benda, albertz benda, Los Angeles
2021
The Salon Art + Design 2021
Represented by Friedman Benda, New York
Collectible Salon
Represented by Vartai Gallery
2020
Virtual Design Destination
By Adorno, London Design Festival
2019
Budapest Design Week 2019
Exhibition "Design Lithuania", Budapest
Design processes: Design X Education
Galery "Akademija", Vilnius
2018
Redesign,
Curated by EKODA, Vilnius
Odunpazarı Modern Museum
Eskisehir, Turkey
Friedman Benda Gallery
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Her practice questions the divisions we draw between the human and the non-human, encouraging moments where logic softens and intuitive, invisible layers of experience can surface. Žilinskaitė’s work reflects a universal human impulse to give soul to matter, to animate the inanimate, and to see objects as extensions of life - mediators between body and world.
She graduated in Product and Spatial Design from the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2019 and has since developed an independent practice in Brussels.
Selected Exhibitions
2025
Creatures of Comfort
OMM – Odunpazarı Modern Museum
Eskisehir, Turkey
Curated by İdil Tabanca
Distorted Gaze
DMW Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2024
Barbora Žîlinskaitė: Chairs Don’t Cry
Friedman Benda, Los Angeles, CA
Enthroned
Curated by Jessica Silverman and Marc Benda, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023
Women Choose Women
Curated by Christine Berry and Martha Campbell, The Barn, Bridgehampton, New York
2022
Design Miami/ Basel
Represented by Friedman Benda gallery
The New Figuration
Curated by Glenn Adamson, Friedman Benda, New York
The Endless Summer
Friedman Benda, albertz benda, Los Angeles
2021
The Salon Art + Design 2021
Represented by Friedman Benda, New York
Collectible Salon
Represented by Vartai Gallery
2020
Virtual Design Destination
By Adorno, London Design Festival
2019
Budapest Design Week 2019
Exhibition "Design Lithuania", Budapest
Design processes: Design X Education
Galery "Akademija", Vilnius
2018
Redesign,
Curated by EKODA, Vilnius
Public Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TXOdunpazarı Modern Museum
Eskisehir, Turkey
Contact
Please direct all available work inquiries to:Friedman Benda Gallery
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