Marija Olšauskaitė
b 1989 Vilnius, Lithuania, where she lives and works
Marija Olšauskaitė employs various modes of collaboration and explores the themes of relationships, openness, intimacy, and belonging in her sculptural works. Solo exhibitions include The Softest Hard, Musée Carré d'Art, Nîmes (2024); Never Act in Haste, PM8/Francisco Salas, Vigo (2024); Sekretas, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2023); Song Sing Soil (with Eglė Budvytytė), Vleeshal, Middelburg (2023); I Want to Stuff My Heart with Moss, Editorial, Vilnius (2022); Witness on our Behalf, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (2019); Marija & Petras Olšauskai: Miss Bird, Art in General, New York (2014), among others. Olšauskaitė participated in group exhibitions internationally, including Les frontières sont des Animaux Nocturnes, Le Palais de Tokyo and Kadist, Paris (2024); The Milk of Dreams, the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2022); and Suddenly it All Blossoms, RIBOCA2, Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (2020); I Walk the Night, PM8/Francisco Salas, Vigo (2019); Joy and Mirror, Port city, Fourtoseven gallery, Riga (2016), among others.


Little Ears 01 (detail), 2014
51.25×31.5in / 130.2×80cm


Little Ears 02 (detail), 2014
54.25×39.5in / 137.8×100.3cm