Eglė Budvytytė is a Lithuanian artist based in Vilnius and Amsterdam whose practice moves between performance, moving image, sound, song and poetry. She treats choreography as a way to test how bodies behave together and how gestures can interrupt familiar social roles. Her works often place performers in public space or in landscapes where movement, voice and camera build temporary communities. Rather than presenting the body as separate from its surroundings, she focuses on permeability, vulnerability and mutual dependence. Collective action becomes a method for examining gender, normativity and the stories through which societies organise relationships between people, places and other forms of life.
In 2026 Budvytytė represents Lithuania at the 61st Venice Biennale with animism sings anarchy, commissioned by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art. The three-channel film installation was shot on 16 mm in museum interiors and near Grotta Scaloria in Apulia. Drawing on archaeologist Marija Gimbutas’s research into Neolithic matrilineal and animist societies, it translates archaeological materials into song, movement and altered states. Performers move among caves, seawater and replicas of prehistoric figurines, linking ritual gesture with land and historical interpretation. Presented from 9 May to 22 November 2026, the work extends Budvytytė’s interest in collective embodiment while questioning colonial assumptions within archaeology.