Visual Arts

Anna Ampariotou (b. 1961, Athens, Greece) studied interior decoration and graphic design at Vakalo Art & Design College. She also studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) under professors Chr. Botsoglou and T. Christakis. During her junior and senior years, she attended professor N. Tranos’s sculpture workshop and M. Santorineos’s multimedia workshop. She graduated in 2004. Her work involves painting, sculpture, video art, installations and digital projects. She has held six solo shows: The art of doing nothing and the parallel hiking, Citronne Gallery, Athens, 2024; The unknown soul of an architectural mind and my follies, Gallery Genesis, Athens, 2022; Sophronia, a script, the Trojan Lamb and other deeds, Gallery Genesis, 2015; Mr. X and the lack of gravity, Gallery Genesis, 2011; Scissor’s Stories, Center of Fine Arts “G. Karydis”, Athens, 2008; Edges, Pontoporos Gallery, Paros, Greece, 2006. She has participated in over 30 group exhibitions and art festivals in Greece and abroad, including all aboard, Athens International Airport, Athens, 2025; wanderlust / all passports, Schliemann–Melas Mansion, Athens, 2024; Have a seat, Anti Gallery - Hellenic American Union, Athens, 2022; Our secret garden, Gallery Genesis, 2021; In black and white, Marginalia Gallery, Strovolos, Cyprus, 2021; Anti Gallery, Antiparos, Greece, 2020; FONLAD International Festival Video Art, Coimbra, Portugal, 2016; Carbonated, Gallery Genesis, 2016; Barley: Seedtime, Athineo, Athens, 2016; Guess Who’s Coming to dinner, Gallery Genesis, 2015; Miden Festival, Kalamata, Greece, 2014; An actor out alone, Gallery Genesis, 2014; I am not the cancer, Gazarte, Athens, 2014; Talking about the future, Melina Cultural Center, Athens, 2013; NOW & AFTER FESTIVAL, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia, 2013; I never promised you a rose garden, Gallery Genesis, 2013; Beyond Perception, Cologne Art & Animation Festival, 2013; To be... (An Art Tribute to William Shakespeare), Ianos Art Center, Athens, 2012; and back to zero, Miden Festival, 2012; Human resources, Gallery Genesis, 2012; The Exquisite Corpse, Booze, Athens, 2011; The truth is always irrational (An Art Tribute to Alexandros Papadiamantis), Melina Cultural Center, Athens, 2011; Cet enfant by Joël Pommerat, theatrical-artistic performance, Hellenic Cosmos - Cultural Centre, Athens, 2011; Animacall - The Animation Project, National Museum of Contemporary Art Center, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2011; Human Meters, Melina Cultural Center, Athens, 2010; WO(+)MAN=?, 5th Human Rights Art Festival, Cheap Art Gallery, Athens, 2006; Light, XXII International Festival Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2006; Factory, ASFA, Athens, 2005; 4th Human Rights Art Festival, Eugenides Foundation, Athens, 2004. She lives and works in Athens.

During her youth, Annita Kalimeri (b. 1960, Athens, Greece) took lessons in drawing and painting composition in preparation for art school. After being admitted to the Law School of the University of Athens, she studied law and graduated with first-class honours in 1983. In 1985, she began studying art at the Athens Art School but, for family reasons, was obliged to leave before graduating. Nevertheless, she continued to paint professionally. In the early years, she focused on applied arts, painting objects and murals. Several of her murals are found in public and private spaces in Athens. Fifteen years ago, she devoted herself to her own painting practice. Since then, she has presented five solo exhibitions and has taken part in several group exhibitions such as all aboard, Athens International Airport, Athens, 2025; wanderlust / all passports, Schliemann–Melas Mansion, Athens, 2024; The Butterfly Effect, Mouzakis–Butterfly factory, Athens, 2023; and Art Athina in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Her work is held in several private collections. She lives and works in Athens.

Christos Antonaropoulos (b. 1958, Filiatra, Messenia, Greece) studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1980 to 1985 and scenography at the same institution from 1983 to 1985. He graduated with honours in 1985 and, in the same year, received a scenography scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). From 1988 to 1991, he pursued postgraduate studies in painting with an IKY scholarship. In 2000, he received an honorary distinction from the Hellenic-Italian Academy of Fine Arts, and the Greek participation in the Sharjah Biennial was awarded the First Prize. Solo exhibitions: Metamorphosis Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2010; Silks Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus, 2008; Ekfrasi Gallery, Athens, 2008; Kapopoulos Fine Arts, Athens, 2006; Art Space, Athens, 2005; P.K. Palataki, Athens, 2000; Stavrakaki Gallery, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 1991; Titanium Gallery, Athens, 1990 and 2004; To Trito Mati Gallery, Athens, 1986. In 2019, he participated in Art Athina with Eikastikos Kyklos Sianti and presented the exhibition Blue Lights. In 2023, he presented the exhibition Depression and Enthusiasm – Painting at Sianti Gallery. He lives and works in Athens.

Constantin Xenakis was born in Cairo in 1931 and died in 2020. He received his first lessons in drawing in Egypt and moved to Paris in 1955, where he studied architecture and interior design at the École Supérieure d’Art Moderne (1955–1957) and painting at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and Notre-Dame-des-Champs (1957–1963). Beginning with lyrical abstraction and Art Informel, he later turned to photo-kinetic art, electro-kinetic constructions, environments and actions. From the late 1960s onwards, he developed a personal visual lexicon based on signs, combining ancient writing systems, ideograms, alphabets, road signs and contemporary communication codes. Repetition, superimposition and cross-cultural memory permeate an artistic enquiry into legibility, information and the impasses of communication. His most significant solo and retrospective exhibitions include: Greece - Writing Codes, Archaeological Museum of Poros, Poros, Greece, 2020; HEL(L)AS! Everywhere!, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2015; No Way Out - Visual Records: Maps and Codes, Permanent Greek Delegation to the OECD, Paris, France, 2014; Codes, Secrets and Lost Symbols, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, 2010; Works 1980–2001, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, 2003; Retrospective 1958–1996: The Return of the Artist, Hanager Arts Center, Cairo, Egypt, 1997; Retrospective 1958–1996: The Return of the Artist, Museum of Fine Arts, Alexandria, Egypt, 1996; and Espace à Réflexion, Södertälje Konsthall, Södertälje, Sweden, 1969. Major group exhibitions and international events include Theorimata: Deductive and Axiomatic Systems, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Athens, 2018; The Body - The Soul - The Place: Contemporary Greek Artists, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, 2017; Old Intersections - Make It New III, 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, 2015; Polyglossia, Onassis Stegi, Athens, 2011; The Years of Defiance: Art of the 1970s in Greece, Athens Concert Hall, Athens, 2005; Europalia 82/Festival des Arts, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 1982; Cartes et Figures de la Terre, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1980; Tecken, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden, 1978; Expansions et Environnements: Le décor quotidien de la vie en 1968, Musée Galliera, Paris, 1968; and Troisième Biennale de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 1963. His work is held in the collections of the National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum, MOMus–Museum of Contemporary Art, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Museum of Modern Greek Art of the Municipality of Rhodes, Municipal Art Gallery of Heraklion, Bank of Greece Art Collection, Teloglion Fine Arts Foundation of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the American College of Greece Art Collection, as well as in private collections in Greece and abroad. In 2022, the Contemporary Art Museum – Constantin Xenakis Gallery opened at the Konstantinos Karamanlis Cultural Park in Serres, Greece. Established around a core donation of 171 works, its permanent exhibition surveys every stage of the artist’s career.

Costas Tsoclis (b. 1930, Athens, Greece) worked as an assistant in workshops producing cinema sets between the ages of fourteen and eighteen, an early experience that brought him into direct contact with large-scale painting and the construction of images. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1948 to 1954 under Y. Moralis. In 1957, having received a three-year scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation, he moved to Rome, where he continued his studies at the Scuola delle Arti Ornamentali. He settled in Paris in 1960 and moved to Berlin in 1971, where he lived and worked for eighteen months. Between 1973 and 1985, he divided his time between Paris and Athens before settling permanently in Greece. His visual language extends beyond the conventional boundaries of painting, encompassing sculpture, drawing, photography, constructions, video projections, sound, water, light, mirrors, installations and performative actions. Central to his artistic trajectory is “living painting”, through which the static painted surface encounters the moving image and acquires temporality, movement and dramatic intensity. Selected solo exhibitions, listed in reverse chronological order, include: Bright Nights of Anticipation and Hope, Municipal Foundation Costas Tsoclis Museum, Tinos, Greece, 2021; Costas Tsoclis: Painting. Limits and Transgressions, B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music, Athens, 2020; Prayer, Municipal Foundation Costas Tsoclis Museum, Tinos, 2020; C: Tsoclis. Artworks, Golden Gallery by Kapatays, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019; Traces of Art, Municipal Foundation Costas Tsoclis Museum, Tinos, 2019; Variations on the Origin of the World, Sofronis Arts, Luxembourg, 2017; Tsoclis 85: Elements for the Creation of Potential Masterpieces, Athens Concert Hall, Athens, 2015; Vandalism as a Source of Inspiration, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens, 2014; Tsoclis, You, the Last Leper, Spinalonga, Crete, 2012; Prometheus’ Imprudence, Sismanoglio Megaro, Istanbul, Turkey, 2010; Living Painting 1985–2009, Scholeion, Piraeus, Greece, 2009; and Conclusive Oedipus, Benaki Museum, Athens, 2006. Selected group exhibitions include: George Seferis. When the Light Dances, I Speak Justly, Teloglion Fine Arts Foundation, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2019; ANTIDORON. The EMST Collection, Fridericianum, documenta 14, Kassel, Germany, 2017; George Seferis. When the Light Dances, I Speak Justly, B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music, Athens, 2017; Odysseas Elytis: Poetry and Painting, Teloglion Fine Arts Foundation, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 2016; Genii Loci: Greek Art from 1930 to the Present, Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St Petersburg, Russia, 2016; and Urgent Conversations: Athens–Antwerp, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST), Athens, 2016. In 2025, he received the Archisearch Lifetime Achievement Award for his overall contribution to art, while in 2024 he was honoured at the Mediterranean Tourism Awards for his contribution to Mediterranean art and cultural heritage. In 2011, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Department of Visual Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts. In 2004, the President of the Hellenic Republic awarded him the Gold Cross of the Order of the Phoenix, and in 2003 he was honoured by the Academy of Athens in recognition of his longstanding creative career. His international distinctions also include a DAAD fellowship, which enabled him to live and work in Berlin in 1971–1972. Among the defining milestones of his career are his representation of Greece at the 42nd Venice Biennale in 1986, his permanent artistic interventions in public spaces and the establishment of the Municipal Foundation Costas Tsoclis Museum in Kambos, Tinos, in 2010, which was inaugurated in May 2011. He lives and works in Athens and Tinos.

Costas Varotsos (b. 1955, Athens, Greece) studied at the School of Fine Arts in Rome and at the Pescara School of Architecture in Italy. In 1991, he received a scholarship from the Fulbright Foundation; in 1999, he was elected professor at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic Faculty, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is a member of the Engelberg Academy in Switzerland. His artworks can be found in public spaces in Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Egypt and the USA. His principal aim is for his work to remain in direct connection with the natural environment in which it is displayed, continually seeking a form of osmosis with space. He has presented his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. More specifically, he has participated three times in the Venice Biennale (1993, 1995, 1999), in the São Paulo Biennale (1997) and in documenta 14, Kassel (2017). In 2014, the President of the Italian Republic honoured him with the Cavaliere de la Republica Italiana award for his contribution to the Italian arts. In 2017, the President of the Greek Republic awarded him the Medal of Commander of the Order of Merit. He lives and works in Athens.

Evi Savvaidi (b. 1970, Rhodes, Greece) studied sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2004–2012) under Th. Papagiannis and N. Tranos. She studied the art of mosaic with D. Aggelidou and the art of glass at the Pilchuck Glass School Summer Sessions, Seattle, Washington, USA (2010). She has also participated in workshops in Seattle, Boston and Prague. She has presented her work in 10 solo shows and has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including all aboard, Athens International Airport, Athens, 2025; wanderlust / all passports, Schliemann–Melas Mansion, Athens, 2024; The Butterfly Effect, Mouzakis–Butterfly textile factory, Athens, Greece, 2023; reality check chapter II: inner sanctum, Psychiatric Hospital of Attica, Dafni, Athens, Greece, 2022; +9, Iera Odos, Athens, 2019; Sky is the Limit, Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe Beach, Perth, Australia, 2019; Home Sweet Home, Water for Life International Art Exhibition, Niagara Falls History Museum, Ontario, Canada, 2018; The Big Fish Eats the Little One, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney, Australia, 2017; Diamonds Are Forever, Armani Hotel, Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE, 2017; Home Sweet Home, The Other Art Fair, Saatchi Art, London, 2017; From Caravaggio to modern days, Piazza del Popolo, Rome, Italy, 2015; International Edition Art Fair, Hangaram Art Museum of Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea, 2014; Salon Art, Louvre Carrousel Centre, Paris, France, 2014; La Mostra Dentro la Torre Eiffel, Salon Gustave Eiffel, the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 2014; Art Monaco, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, 2014; Florence Biennale: Ethics DNA of Art, Fortezza da Basso, Firenze, Italy, 2013; The Circle of Life, Affordable Art Fair, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, USA, 2013. She has received several awards, including the Ethics DNA of Art Prize for Installation at the 2013 Florence Biennale and the Botticelli Prize from Palazzo Guicciardini Bongianni in Florence. Savvaidi’s works are in private collections in Greece and abroad. She lives and works in Athens and Rhodes.

Giorgos Tzinoudis (b. 1980, Katerini, Greece) studied at the Department of Fine Arts and Art Sciences at the University of Ioannina, Greece, and continued his postgraduate studies in Madrid, Spain, in the Theory and Practice of Contemporary Fine Arts at the Facultad de Bellas Artes of Complutense University. He later completed a second master’s degree in Cultural Organizations Management at the Hellenic Open University. In 2015, he was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship for Greek artists and continued his artistic research in New York in collaboration with the School of Visual Arts (SVA). His artistic practice moves between painting, site-specific painterly installations and writing. He has presented solo exhibitions including Vortex Series, A.A.W Gallery, during Art Fair Seoul, Seoul, South Korea, 2025; Polymorphia, I-D Projectart / Fulbright Foundation, Athens, 2019; Pop Up Show, Efimerida ATH Showroom in collaboration with Jägermeister, 2019; SKG Wannabe Metro Portraits, OTE Windows, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2017–2018; Open Studio Show, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA, 2015; and a presentation of works from the series Phantasmagoria of Defeat, Kalos&Klio Showroom in collaboration with COLORS Accommodation Hotel, Thessaloniki, 2013. Earlier solo presentations include exhibitions at Gallery Kits, Thebes (2009), Gallery Mati, Katerini (2005), and the installation Four Dimension Water Memories at Gallery Stathmos, Ioannina (2004). He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Animating the New Hero, Anya & Andrew Shiva Gallery, New York, 2023; Magic Strokes, Skoufa Gallery, Athens, 2018; Green Habitat, Anya & Andrew Shiva Gallery, New York, 2018; The Right to be Human, Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art, 2017; Trans-Allegoria, IFAC Athens, 2017; Mykonos Biennale, Greece, 2017; POPeye, Skoufa Gallery, Mykonos, 2017; Matalotaje, exhibition hall of the Facultad de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain, 2006–2007; Imagen, luz y sonido en la evolución humana, Community Center of Barcelona, Spain, 2005. His work has also been presented at Gallery Caryatides and Gallery Thimomeno Portreto in Ioannina. In 2025, he participated in the A.A.W Art Residence programme in Seoul. Alongside his visual art practice, he is involved in boxing and writing, and constantly moves between places and cities, hoping to find someone who can pay the bill for that neon sign in hell. He currently lives and works in Athens.

Konstantinos Papamichalopoulos (b. 1975, Athens, Greece) studied painting and printmaking at the Athens School of Fine Arts. In 2014, he graduated from the Digital Art Forms postgraduate programme (ASFA). In 2021, he received his PhD from Panteion University. He has published comics and zines since 2000. He has been an assistant professor at the Art School of the University of Ioannina, Greece, since 2021. His more recent notable solo shows include Dragons, International Art Center Athens (IACA), 2026; Giants and Molossians, Archaeological Museum of Ioannina, 2025–2026; Paliggenesia, Athens City Museum, 2021, and the Municipal Gallery of Ioannina, 2022; Zeus and Athena, Archaeological Museum of Tinos, Greece, 2019; My Power Lies with the Love of the People, Vorres Museum, Athens, 2017; Talos - Depictions of the Artificial Man, the café of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, 2016; The Great Golden Room, Bath of the Winds of the Museum of Greek Folk Art, Athens, 2015. His works are held in public and private collections in Greece and abroad. He lives and works in Athens and Ioannina.

Kyriaki Patronaki-Charalambidou (b. 1958, Kavala, Greece) attended specialised courses in painting, Byzantine iconography and tapestry, gradually developing a personal visual language centred on memory, landscape and the inner world of humanity. Her work is characterised by a poetic and symbolic narrative, where natural elements and the human presence coexist within a dreamlike and timeless atmosphere. Since 1996, she has consistently presented her work in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. She is a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece. Her most recent solo exhibition was Eutopia, Metamorfosis Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2025. Her previous 15 successful solo exhibitions are: In the Landscapes of the Mind, Argo Gallery, Athens, 2019; Journey Within, Eirmos Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2017; Persistent Spring, Artion Gallery, Athens, 2015; Searching for the Thread, OTE Vitrina Art Space, Thessaloniki, 2013; Guided by the Forest, Argo Gallery, Athens, 2011; Waiting for Demophon, Chrysa Art Gallery, Katerini, Greece, 2010; The Return of Persephone, Atrion Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2009; The First Red, Argo Gallery, Athens, 2008; Searching for Olympus, Chrysa Art Gallery, Katerini, 2004; Unsuspected Spring, Atrion Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2003; Terra Incognita II, Chrysa Art Gallery, Katerini, 2000; Terra Incognita I, Atrion Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, 1999; Nostos, Technochoros Art Space, Kozani, Greece, 1998; Matins, Chrysa Art Gallery, Katerini, 1997; In the Land of Angels, Atrion Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, 1996. Selected group exhibitions include: Voyages, Petros and Marika Kydonieos Foundation, Andros, Greece, 2018; exhibition of the Association of Visual Artists of Northern Greece, New Delhi, India, 2015; Natura 2011, Eugenides Foundation, Athens, 2011; Modern Greek Landscape Painting from the 18th to the 21st Century, B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music, Athens, 2009; Sacred and Profane. Aspects of Women in Contemporary Greek Painting 1930–2005, Municipal Gallery of Chania, Crete, Greece, 2005; Twelve Artists from Thessaloniki, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, 1998. Her works are in private collections in Greece and internationally. She lives and works in Thessaloniki.

Lea Petrou (b. 1978, Crete, Greece) studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design and Central St. Martins College of Art and received a master’s degree in sculpture from the Royal College of Art in London. She is currently a PhD student at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Through her artistic practice, she deals with interpretations that are defined geographically, such as our perception of time, place, movement and speech. She attended the eight-month CCA Kitakyushu research programme in Japan, as well as the following artist-in-residence programmes: NAHR, Taleggio Valley; artAmari, Crete, Greece; Galichnik, Skopje, North Macedonia; Leonidio Art Tower, Peloponnese, Greece; Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France. She has received scholarships from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, Athens; the Royal College of Art, London, UK; and CCA Kitakyushu, Japan. She has received second prize from the Jannis & Zoe Spyropoulos Foundation, Athens; Passwort 3 drawing competition award held by the Zeicheninstitut, Kassel, Germany; ACAVA studio spaces award, London. Her work has been presented in four solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, including Double Bond, Athens College, 2026; all aboard, Athens International Airport, Athens, 2025; Cosmic Dust / New Territories, National Observatory of Athens, 2025 (solo); wanderlust / all passports, Schliemann–Melas Mansion, Athens, 2024; The Unknown Island, Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation and Dimotiko Theatro metro station, Piraeus, Greece, 2024 (two-person exhibition); Embrace Empathy, Vorres Museum, Paiania, Greece, 2024; The Butterfly Effect, Mouzakis–Butterfly textile factory, Athens, 2023; Rema Incognita, Euripides Theatre of Rematia, Chalandri, Athens, 2023; Supermarket, Stockholm, Sweden, 2023; Escapism in Athens, FokiaNou Art Space, Athens, 2023; Weaving The Future IV, Maison Grecque, Paris, France, 2022; 1821, Visual of a Revolution, The War Museum, Athens, 2021; 2 Decades +, Spyropoulos Awards, Vorres Museum, Paiania, 2017; Orientation, Kunsttempel, Kassel, Germany, 2017; Passwort 3, Zeicheninstitut, Kassel, 2014; A Space in 500 Pieces, Multimedia Center Mala Stanica, Skopje, 2012 (solo); A Space in 300 Pieces, Arcade EAP, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2010 (solo); Intrude Art and Life 366, Zendai MOMA Museum, Shanghai, China, 2008; Love Difference Ice Cream And Sweets as Cultural Passports, La Spezia, Italy, 2008; Karaoke Poetry Bar, Athens, 2007; Nightcomers, 10th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey, 2007; The Scarecrow, Averoff Museum of Modern Greek Art, Metsovo, Greece, 2006. She lives and works in Athens, Greece.

Lina Pigadioti-Tzima (b. 1967, Athens, Greece) studied at Parsons School of Art & Design in Paris (BFA, 1991) and at Central Saint Martins College of Arts & Design in London, UK (1990). In 2013, she completed a contemporary art course at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York, USA, and in 2014, she participated in a printmaking master class at Columbia University School of the Arts, New York. After working in publishing for 18 years, she devoted herself to art in 2008. She travels extensively for inspiration, taking pictures, writing and collecting objects and memories. She creates a series of works that combine painting, etching, collage and photography in a very personal way. Her work seeks to visualise the impact of time. She photographs images of fthora (wear and tear, decay) and, through varied media and techniques, creates works that convey the sense of decay that time leaves on matter. Lettering and random occurrences complete her visual vocabulary. In recent years, she has expanded her practice to include set and costume design for theatre (Into the Woods, Andy, Closer, etc.). She has presented eight solo shows in Athens and London including Crossroads, Parnassos Literary Society Art Hall, Athens, 2023; diadromes…, Fondazione, Kifissia, Athens, 2022; Palimpsest of Memory, Skoufa Gallery, Athens, 2018; Sections vs. Intersections, Lacey Contemporary Gallery, London, 2015; Fthoras Aleethia, Skoufa Gallery, Athens, 2014; Cursive & Magic Squares, Skoufa Gallery, Athens, 2012. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including all aboard, Athens International Airport, Athens, 2025; The Amphibian, Mykonos Biennale, Mykonos, 2025; wanderlust / all passports, Schliemann–Melas Mansion, Athens, 2024; Abstract Theory, IFAC Arts @ The Yard, New York, USA, 2018; Chemcraft, Espacio Gallery, London, UK, 2015; All Spank, LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, New York, 2014; Apivita in Hippocratic Medicine throughout the centuries, Goulandris Natural History Museum, Kifissia, Athens, 2013; I love Tango, Zappeion Mansion, Athens, 2011; Lightness of Being 2, Gazi Technopolis, Athens, 2011. Her works are held in the collection of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (MMCA), Thessaloniki, Greece, and in private collections in Europe and the USA. She lives and works in Athens, Greece.

Lydia Andrioti (b. 1982, Athens, Greece) attended the visual arts programme at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (ENSBA) in 2006 with an Erasmus scholarship; in 2009, she graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA). In 2012, she received an MFA in New Media from Pratt Institute (NY, USA). During her stay in the United States, she participated in group shows and worked on the production of sets, costumes and new media installations for theatrical plays, performances and installations. She has worked on the conservation of the magnetic and TV installations of Nam June Paik for the collections of the Guggenheim, MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan and Chase Bank. She has worked, among others, with two founding members of Judson Memorial Church (2013–2015): Phyllis Yampolsky, researching and archiving her activist work regarding McCarren Park Pool for Lincoln Library and the Preservation Community of the city of New York, and Elaine Summers, on her Kinetic Awareness and Skytime projects. Andrioti’s work explores representations of emotional places by unfolding visual vocabularies. Her installations incorporate actions, re-enactments, video projections, sound, drawings, collages, photographs, sculptures and readymades. She often utilises the site-specific character of the works. She has shown her work in numerous exhibitions in New York, Vienna, Paris, Ireland and Greece, such as wanderlust / all passports, Schliemann–Melas Mansion, Athens, 2024; The Butterfly Effect, Mouzakis–Butterfly factory, Athens, Greece, 2023; reality check chapter II: inner sanctum, Psychiatric Hospital of Attica, Dafni, Athens, Greece, 2022; reality check, Psychiatric Hospital of Attica, Dafni, Athens, 2021; United States of Wondering (solo show), Peritechnon Gallery, Athens, 2021; [un]known destinations chapter III: reconnection: a second chance, Kypseli, Athens, 2019; +9, Iera Odos, Athens, 2019; Des Knaben Wunderhorn (solo show), Sechsschimmel Galerie, Vienna, Austria, 2019; The birds and the lightworkers backstage are working together (solo show), Gazi hall spaces, Athens, 2017; The fantastic journeys of energy, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, 2016; Antidote, Mykonos annex of the Athens School of Fine Arts, Mykonos Biennale, Greece, 2015; In Praise of chance and failure, Family Business, NY, USA, 2013; Crisis and Paganism, Mykonos Biennale, 2013; Intimate Space, Olympic Village, Vienna, Austria, 2011; Culture Industry, Folklore and Clichés, Vox, Athens, 2008; Gemine Muse, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland, 2005. She lives and works in Athens.

Micha Cattaui (b. 1972, Lausanne, Switzerland) is an Egyptian-Greek contemporary artist and designer. He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (BA and BID in Industrial Design, 1995–1996) and the recipient of numerous distinctions, including first-place awards in the Virtual I/O and Rubbermaid industry-sponsored design competitions at RISD, the Fred M. Ruddy Scholarship and the Thomas Lamb Award for Excellence in Design and Invention. Cattaui also holds U.S. Patent No. 6,192,791 for an innovative kitchen cooking system. His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions and exhibitions, including the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Sarajevo Winter Art Festival, UNSEEN Amsterdam and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. Through sculpture, installation, photography and mixed media, his practice reflects a deep scepticism towards economic systems that prioritise profit over human and environmental well-being, exploring themes of displacement, cultural erosion and the commodification of individuals in contemporary society. By combining traditional craftsmanship with industrial and often reclaimed materials, he creates works that embody the tensions between local and global influences, while raising questions about sustainability, ethics and the future of human relationships in an increasingly interconnected world. His solo exhibitions have been presented in Athens, Cologne, Amsterdam, Mykonos, Piraeus and Berlin, and include projects such as Great Expectations, Scars & Scares, Found & Lost, Antiquity 2.0, StreetOnomics and Unspoken Dialogues. His work bridges contemporary art, design, social critique and cultural reflection. He lives and works in Athens.

Rosa Zeidan (b. 1978) is a multidisciplinary visual artist of Greek and Lebanese heritage. Her artistic practice combines different media, including drawing, photography, cement installations with objets trouvés and painting. She studied at the visual arts department of the Athens School of Fine Arts: painting with professors G. Harvalias, M. Manousakis and G. Kazazis, photography with P. Kokkinias, mosaic with D. Angelidou, engraving with A. Peirounidi and V. Tsalamata and sculpture design with A. Verveti. She graduated with honours in 2021. She holds two law degrees: an LLB from Greece and an LLM from Heidelberg, Germany. She worked as a lawyer until 2014. Time, space, memory, identity and trauma are the central themes she explores in her work. Her artistic work has been presented in one solo exhibition (Frozenland, Wyndham Grand, Athens, 2024) and numerous group exhibitions and festivals in Greece and abroad. Selected distinctions include: 2nd Visual Arts International Festival (FISAD – Building a New World) at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino, Turin, Italy, where she represented the Athens School of Fine Arts (2019); One Minute Athens, Benaki Museum (2018). Selected group exhibitions: Points of Contact, Museum of Modern Greek Art of Rhodes, Greece, 2026; all aboard, Athens International Airport, Athens, 2025; 9-The Amphibian, Mykonos Biennale, Mykonos, Greece, 2025; Tearing and Healing Part II, in cooperation with the Chinese Ministry of Culture at Koventareios Municipal Library, Kozani, Greece, 2025, and Tearing and Healing Part I, Quiyang International Fashion Museum, China, 2024; Naturalis, Goulandris Museum of Natural History, Athens, 2024; Art Thessaloniki International Contemporary Art Fair/Artshot Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2024; En Route, Belgrade City Museum, Serbia, 2024; STIGMA, Dromokaiteio PHA, Athens, 2023; September of 1955, Eugenides Foundation, Athens, 2023; Art and literature charity exhibition, Melina Merkouri Cultural Center, Athens, 2023 and 2020; Needlepoint, Thessaloniki Engraving Center, Thessaloniki, 2023; Graduates selection of Ethniki Asfalistiki Art Gallery STOArt, Athens, 2020; A better world - FISAD, Albertina Accademia di Belle Arti, Turin, Italy, 2019; One Minute Athens, Benaki Museum, Athens, 2018; Contemporary Mosaics, Other Arcadia Foundation of S. Felios Collection, Athens, 2017; 150 years of Civil Servants Equity Fund, Deligiorgi Manor, Athens, 2017. Her works are in public and private collections in Greece and abroad (Benaki Museum, Civil Servants Equity Fund, Quiyang International Fashion Museum). She lives and works in Athens.

Sophia Kalogeropoulou (b. 1946, Athens, Greece) graduated from Pierce – The American College of Greece and studied Law and Political and Economic Sciences at the University of Athens. At the same time, she pursued music studies at the Athens Conservatoire and the Studio of the Vienna State Opera, where she appeared as a soloist during the 1976–1977 season. Self-taught in painting, she developed an immediately recognisable visual language associated with the tradition of naïve art, while retaining a strongly personal and often surrealist character. Drawing on the power of uncontrived expression, she creates colourful, densely populated visual worlds in which reality meets imagination and everyday life coexists with myth, theatre, music and collective memory. The titles of her works often provide the starting point for a story, while her compositions unfold as multi-figure scenes within a distinctive form of visual theatre. Opera, mythology, literature, historical references and imaginary episodes are reconfigured into images that transcend the boundaries of time, distinguished by their optimism, humour and vitality. Since 1990, she has presented her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Greece and internationally, including France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Israel, Turkey and the United States. She has also collaborated with Galerie Naifs et Primitifs in Paris. Selected solo exhibitions include: Sophia Kalogeropoulou – Painting, Athens Concert Hall (Megaron), Athens, 2024; Panharmonia, a tribute by the Greek National Opera, Atrium of the National Library of Greece, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, 2022; Sophia Kalogeropoulou, Alpha C.K. Art Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019; Kalogeropoulou, GINA Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2017; Kalogeropoulou, Kapopoulos Fine Arts, Spetses, Greece, 2016; Myths of Prediction, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens, 2014; Opera Myths, Theorema Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 2013; Thousand and One Nights, Kapopoulos Fine Arts, Athens, 2012; Kalogeropoulou, GINA – Gallery of International Naïve Art, New York, USA, 2009; Animal Planet, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, 2007; Mythologein, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, 2006; Phantom of the Opera, C.K. Art Gallery, Nicosia, 2005; Small Hats, Big Fetish, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, 2003; The Tales of Scheherazade, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, 1998; Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, 1995; Skoufa Gallery, Athens, 1993; and Aenaon Art Gallery, Athens, 1990. Selected group and group exhibitions include: Bridges, with Hatice Kumbaraci Gursoz, Sismanoglio Megaro – Consulate General of Greece, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018; Colors of Greece, The Hamptons, New York, USA, 2015; International d’Art Naïf, Landskrona Art Gallery, Landskrona, Sweden, 2014; Greek Naive Artists, Panayotis and Effie Michelis Foundation, Athens, 2013; IX Muestra de Arte Naïf Europeo, Madrid, Spain, 2012; Naïfs Européens – 2ème Salon d’Automne, Lourmarin, France, 2011; and Bridges, with Hatice Kumbaraci Gursoz, Museum of Fine Art – Heikel Muzesi, Ankara, Turkey, 2009. A particularly significant milestone in her career was Panharmonia in 2022, a major exhibition and tribute by the Greek National Opera based on Takis Kalogeropoulos’s Dictionary of Greek Music and presented through the collaboration of the Greek National Opera, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center and the National Library of Greece. Four of her works are held in the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum International Naïve Art Collection at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery in Ontario, Canada, while her works have also been presented at Bonhams’ The Greek Sale auctions in London. She was married to the composer and musicologist Takis Kalogeropoulos (1946–2009) and has two daughters. She lives and works in Athens.

Stathis Vatanidis (b. 1943, Athens) studied at the Art Students League of New York. He is a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece and has maintained an active presence on the Greek art scene for more than three decades. His work is consistently anthropocentric, focusing on the human figure, body language, personal relationships and the intimate or broader narratives of everyday life. He has presented more than thirty solo exhibitions in Greece and abroad, including Technohoros Art Gallery and Skoufa Gallery in Athens, Gloria Gallery in Nicosia, Cyprus, K Gallery in London, UK, and Nuovo Aleph in Milan, Italy. He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions and art events, including Art Athina, Art Thessaloniki and exhibitions at the National Archaeological Museum, the Museum of the City of Athens and the Benaki Museum, as well as in New York. His works are in the collections of the Vorres Museum, the Pierides Museum and the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, among other significant private collections in Greece and abroad. In 2025, his solo exhibition Obsessions and Enigmas was held at Technohoros Art Gallery in Athens; in 2022, he presented My Imaginary Museum. He lives and works in Athens.

Tolis Tatolas (b. 1978, Katerini, Greece) holds a BA (Hons) and a BSc (Hons) from the Vakalo Art and Design College/University of Derby and the Department of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, respectively. His artistic research reflects his personal aesthetic and philosophical temperament, focusing on the language of geometry and its power. With homo universalis as his preferred intellectual model, Tatolas draws knowledge from various fields, including anthropology, law, biology, psychology, history and architecture, while investigating their interconnections. Music also plays an important role in his thinking and self-expression; after many years of studying classical singing as a countertenor, he often experiments with the boundaries of the human voice, thus expanding his practice to media art. More broadly, he employs a holistic approach to aesthetics within a framework that unites the arts. His work has been exhibited at galleries, universities and museums in Greece, Brazil, the UK, the Czech Republic, Austria, the USA, Latvia and Japan. His solo exhibitions include: Remains of a Fall, Industrial Museum of Gas – Technopolis City of Athens, Athens, 2023; SP Urbanogram, Museu de Arte Brasileira, São Paulo, Brazil, 2022; Dialogues, Galerie Jakubska, Prague, Czech Republic, 2017; Emergence, Kalos&Klio Showroom, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2016. Group exhibitions include: Fête de la Francophonie, Institut Français, Tokyo, Japan, 2024; The Condition of (Im)-Possibility: The Invaders, Athens Municipal Arts Center, Athens, 2024; Does It Matter?, Art Center NOASS, Riga, Latvia, 2022; Body Parts, Haas Fine Art Center – University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, USA, 2022; Beyond Science, The House of Cyprus – Embassy of Cyprus, Athens, 2019; Reality Check Chapter II: Inner Sanctum, Psychiatric Hospital of Attica, Dafni, Athens, 2022; Apparatus: Conceptual Systems, Kalos&Klio Showroom, Thessaloniki, 2014; M55 at FLUSS: A Tribute to Contemporary Greek Photography and Media Art, Völkendorf, Austria, 2011; HeArt, Institute of Education – UCL, London, UK, 2010; City.Reality.Show, Angelos Sikelianos Building – Technopolis City of Athens, Athens, 2009. In 2019, as an artist-in-residence at the Residência Artística FAAP (Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado), he conducted research and produced work during a three-month stay in São Paulo. In 2022, he was commissioned by the Embassy of Greece in Riga to create a large-scale outdoor installation for the Art Center NOASS, on the occasion of the state visit of the President of the Hellenic Republic to mark the centenary of the Greek–Latvian diplomatic relations. His published work includes the book Animals in the Homeric Ages (2005, Erodios) as well as chapters contributed to the edited volumes Science and Technology in Homeric Epics (2008, Springer), Law and the Senses: Touch (2019, Westminster University Press) and A Revolução Grega de 1821: Hino à Liberdade – Os 200 anos da Grécia Moderna (2022, Alêtheia). Essays, articles and works by Tatolas have been published in the Greek and international academic and general press. He has also designed the sets and costumes of numerous plays by major Greek and international playwrights (Ritsos, Genet, Sartre, Mishima, Dostoyevsky, etc.) in Athens. Works of his are in art collections in Greece and abroad (Brazil, Canada, France, Italy, the UK and the USA). He lives and works in Athens.

Vassilis Karakatsanis (b. 1957, Athens, Greece) studied painting, stage design, book art and theory of art at the Athens and Barcelona Graduate Schools of Fine Arts (1976–1984), with scholarships from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation and the Spanish Government. He also studied conservation of architectural monuments at the European Cultural Centre of Venice, with a scholarship from the European Council (1985). He has presented 105 solo shows in Greece, Cyprus, Spain, Italy, Indonesia, Ecuador, Turkey, Denmark, UAE and Germany, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions and art fairs in Greece and abroad, including Art Athina, Contemporary Istanbul, Art Fair Luxembourg, Art Ankara Contemporary Art Fair, Affordable Art Fair-Milan, Art Thessaloniki, World Art Dubai, Art Innsbruck, Stockholm Art Fair, Europ’ART Geneva, IDF Expo Oman and Vima Art Fair-Limassol. His chosen themes and his personal artistic vocabulary are inspired by his experience and observation of the surrounding world. Karakatsanis approaches his exhibitions theatrically, transforming everyday objects into structural elements. He uses a clean, rich colour palette and vivid contrasts, creating installations using elements from existing three-dimensional spaces and transforming them into art forms. He sensitively explores the boundaries between reality and illusion. His works are in private and public collections in Greece and abroad: Bibliotheca Alexandrina & The Cavafy Museum, Alexandria, Egypt; The American College of Greece Art Collection, Athens; MOMus Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece; Municipal Art Gallery of Rhodes – Museum of Modern Greek Art of Rhodes, Greece; Fundación Joan Miró, Parc de Montjuic, Barcelona, Spain; National Gallery of Arts – Galeria Kombëtare e Arteve, Tirana, Albania; Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens; Municipal Art Gallery of Corfu, Corfu, Greece; Cycladian Pinacotheque, Hermoupolis, Syros, Greece; Colección particular de S.M. Los Reyes de España, Madrid, Spain; Palacio de Cristal, Retiro, Madrid, Spain; Can Prunera Museu Modernista, Sóller, Mallorca, Spain; Cyprus State Art Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus; GUITIG Art Collection, Quito, Ecuador; Istituto Orientale, Rome, Italy; John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation Art Collection, Athens; BP Oil Europe, Brussels, Belgium; Es Baluard Museum of Contemporary Art of Palma, Palma, Mallorca, Spain; Colección Gruppo Pedro Serra, Palma de Mallorca; Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou (easyJet) Collection, London, UK; Neka Museum, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia; Fundación FPPU, Montevideo, Uruguay. He lives and works in Athens.

Yassonas Megoulas (aka Cacao Rocks) (b. 1985, Piraeus, Greece) is the son of sculptor Giorgos Megoulas and the grandson of René Boisseau, former Director of the Pasteur Institute and a photographer. He has been active in the field of street art for the past two decades. His work has been featured in numerous international media outlets and has appeared on the covers of The New York Times and National Geographic Traveller. His artworks have been presented in a wide range of art spaces and institutions across Europe and the United States. In Athens, these include the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, the Onassis Stegi, the Benaki Museum, the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation and the Bouzianis Museum, among others. He has received several distinctions, including an ARTWORKS fellowship supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. He has held solo exhibitions at galleries including Dio Horia and AG18 Gallery. Cacao Rocks has designed for METAXA Grande Fine and collaborated with Nike on the creation of a basketball court honouring Giannis Antetokounmpo. More recently, he worked with photographer Robert McCabe on the publication of the book The Memory of the Aegean. In recent years, his practice has increasingly focused on studio painting and large-scale murals, alongside his volunteer work with Axion Hellas and his ongoing research into his grandfather’s photographic archive. He lives and works in Athens.