Barbora Žilinskaitė (b. 1996) is a Lithuanian artist and designer based in Brussels, Belgium. Working across the fields of art and design, Žilinskaitė explores how objects can become symbolic, performative, and seemingly alive through anthropomorphic gestures. By giving them bodily presence, she proposes a closer relationship with the material world that surrounds us.
Žilinskaitė is interested in the relationships we form with our environment and the things we live with. Her practice rethinks anthropocentric ways of living, in which humans place themselves at the centre and treat the environment as something to control or possess. At the same time, within a consumer-driven society, the objects around us often shape our habits and control us in return. In response to this imbalanced relationship, her work suggests other ways of living alongside the non-human. Through forms that carry character or presence, she questions the boundaries between the animate and the inanimate, logic and fantasy, asking how we might live with our environment rather than simply in it.
Žilinskaitė graduated in Product and Spatial Design from the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2019 and has since developed an independent practice in Brussels. Žilinskaitė’s work is presented by Friedman Benda gallery and is included in public collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Odunpazarı Modern Museum.
Le Rendez-vous des Amis, 1976 – 2026
Galerie Christophe Gaillard,
Brussels, Belgium
Design Salon by Barbora Žilinskaitė
TheMerode
Brussels, Belgium
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
For everything else email at
Žilinskaitė is interested in the relationships we form with our environment and the things we live with. Her practice rethinks anthropocentric ways of living, in which humans place themselves at the centre and treat the environment as something to control or possess. At the same time, within a consumer-driven society, the objects around us often shape our habits and control us in return. In response to this imbalanced relationship, her work suggests other ways of living alongside the non-human. Through forms that carry character or presence, she questions the boundaries between the animate and the inanimate, logic and fantasy, asking how we might live with our environment rather than simply in it.
Žilinskaitė graduated in Product and Spatial Design from the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2019 and has since developed an independent practice in Brussels. Žilinskaitė’s work is presented by Friedman Benda gallery and is included in public collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Odunpazarı Modern Museum.
Current Exhibitions
Le Rendez-vous des Amis, 1976 – 2026
Galerie Christophe Gaillard,
Brussels, Belgium
Selected Exhibitions
2026Design Salon by Barbora Žilinskaitė
TheMerode
Brussels, Belgium
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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