Barbora Žilinskaitė (b. 1996) is a Lithuanian artist and designer based in Brussels, Belgium. Seeking to distance herself from rigid definitions of creative practice, Žilinskaitė approaches design through a sculptural lens, with a strong emphasis on material experimentation. Her work explores how functional objects can shift into something symbolic, performative, and alive through the use of anthropomorphic forms. By giving everyday objects a bodily presence, she invites a more intimate and imaginative dialogue with the material world and the environment around us.
Her practice questions the divisions we draw between the human and the non-human, encouraging moments where logic softens and more intuitive, less visible layers of experience can emerge. Through forms that carry character and presence, she explores the boundaries between logic and fantasy, the animate and the inanimate, and control and agency, asking how we might live with our environment rather than simply in it.
She 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 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
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Her practice questions the divisions we draw between the human and the non-human, encouraging moments where logic softens and more intuitive, less visible layers of experience can emerge. Through forms that carry character and presence, she explores the boundaries between logic and fantasy, the animate and the inanimate, and control and agency, asking how we might live with our environment rather than simply in it.
She 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 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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