Ruta Putramentaite hails from Vilnius and is based in Prague. She received her bachelor’s in Photography from Middlesex University (UK) and another bachelor’s in Sculpture from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design (CZ), where she is now pursuing her master’s in Fine Arts.

Putramentaite works across sculpture, writing, audio and performance. For the exploration of the space in-between the personal and the collective, she combines various formal and conceptual elements – her body or her voice, bits of scientific knowledge, fragments of literary works, speculative and imaginary narratives. Her work is informed by a feminist new materialist approach and ponders what it means to be a human in the 21st century, trapped in between accelerated techno-science and accelerated climate crisis.

Her works have been exhibited mostly in Czechia, at the likes of Kabinet t, Plato, Cursor, Meetfactory, Display, Václav Špála gallery, 4+4 Days In Motion, Entrance, Atrium na Žižkově, Gallery 35m2 and Jelení. Together with Denisa Langrová and Jonáš Richter, she is part of the nomadic Choir of Cooperative of Life (sbor družstva život). She is also a co-curator of a festival of Divoká Šárka in the nature reserve of the same name in Prague as well as the co-curator of the symposium More-Than-Human Curiousness with Les-Woods, community for Art, Cultivation and Theory, convened in the Orlické Mountains in Czechia.