Confuse your body

You ask me how art begins. For me – and I’ve only recently realised this – it’s people and places. People come first. Everything begins with them, and with that the relationships they forge amongst themselves and with places. That is the starting point for my work. It is from people and places that inspiration springs. I need larger surfaces to have more freedom. So as not to be constrained by boundaries, so as to have no barriers. I try to see the result of my imprint on the canvas without it being prepared. Not in order to achieve a ‘pure’ result. It is not my aim to create art that is ‘beautiful as it should be’, or whatever it may be called. I grew up surrounded by urban imagery in Greece, and that’s probably why I want to incorporate something similar into my work. I often create provocative pieces, probably to ‘provoke’. Not necessarily in a negative way. Simply because I’m expressing what’s on my mind. By showing what’s going through my head, perhaps that’s what provokes. I don’t want too many elements in my works to be obvious. I prefer the viewer to have to look at the work for a long time in order to recognise the figures, the shapes and the faces I’m depicting. What I’m trying to achieve is for the viewer to see what they’re meant to see. Everyone should have their own reading and interpretation. After all, the different perspectives of each individual are ultimately the most important thing to me.

Born in 2002 in Thessaloniki, Greece

Lives and works in Dresden

2024–2025 Diploma under Prof. Olav Westphalen, Dresden

2022 EU4Art Painting Workshop, Rome

2022 Intermediate Diploma in Fine Art, Dresden

2020 Studied Fine Art at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (2021–2023 under Prof. Wolfram Adalbert Scheffler, 2023–2024 under Prof. Peter Wächtler, 2024– 2025 under Prof. Olav Westphalen)

2006–2020 Painting classes, Les Yper Yper with Rania Emmanouilidou,

ThessalonikiExhibitions

2023 ‘Nyx’, Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden

2023 ‘Klangraum’, Garten Nebenan, Dresden

2022 ‘The Anatomy of the Unpredictable’, Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden

2022             ‘Klangraum’, Club Kwang Lee, Dresden

2021 ‘Open Call for Emerging Artists’, Art Number 23,

Athens2020–2024 ‘Annual Exhibition’, Dresden Academy of Fine Arts2019

‘The present is a present 3’, Les Yper Yper,

Thessaloniki Member

of the SKM Community since 2021