Surviving death five years ago ignited a vision I now strive to capture through painting, sculpture, and writing—a fierce celebration of life where fire confronts darkness and breath reclaims existence. This experience shaped my path, compelling me to create sanctuaries within fractured realities where memory, emotion, and echo converge. My work is a ritual of survival and resurrection—a reanimation of silenced stories, especially those of women whose narratives demand space and voice. Working through surrealism and posthuman gestationality, I explore how the natural environment persists, adapts, and extends itself into human communities and bodies. I’m deeply committed to community inclusion and research, weaving voices and presences into the heart of my practice. My process is dialogical—each piece emerges through listening, gathering, and exchange. My sculptures are interactive—meant to be touched, explored, experienced—and become living objects transformed by the hands and movements of others. Lately, sculpture and writing have become as central to me as painting. My paintings are driven by story—some from my own life, others channeled through literature, poetry, and community memory. These works are symbolic and wild, often merging the occult and the mythic with the tangible and emotional. My stories, rooted in childhood and reimagined through a surrealist lens, form the foundation of my first book. Across media, I seek to honor the extraordinary in the ordinary, crafting surrealistic sanctuaries where people—especially women—can find space to yell, to breathe, to live.
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I am a feminist artist born in Athens, dedicated to exploring resilience, transformation, posthuman extensions and the voices of women through my art. At 20, I moved to Spain, where I lived studied and worked for a decade. I hold a BA from the Seville School of Arts, an MFA from the University of Seville, and a MEd in Montessori Education and Adolescent Psychology from the University of Cuyo. For the past 5 years I am based in France. Over the past 15 years, my work has been exhibited internationally, and I’ve led workshops and seminars focused on art as a metalanguage for sublimation and transformation. Through my practice, I fuse activism with artistic expression, inviting viewers into spaces where stories come alive. My art forms a bridge between feminist themes and everyday surrealism, and I actively teach the history of feminism in arts and literature while mentoring with Women on Top. Currently, I am preparing a collection of surrealistic short stories, alongside new paintings and sculptures inspired by my latest research at the Centre Pompadour. Through each piece, I hope to evoke reflection, resilience, and a sense of shared journey. For me, art is a sanctuary—where the personal becomes universal and transformation is not only possible but inevitable.
Education
2021 MEd Montessori Education/Adolescent Psychology, Universidad de Cuyo
2021 (course) Modern & Contemporary American Poetry, University of Pennsylvania
2016 MFA (BBAA) University of Seville, Spain
2015 BA Seville School of Arts, Spain
2019 TESOL Arisona State University
2013 (course) Technology and Scenic Arts CICUS University of Seville, Spain
2012 (course) PERFORMANCE/Body Action/Performance Minimal by Willem Wilhelmus CICUS University of Seville, Spain
Residents / Grants
2025 (October) Selected Artist; Solo Exhibition CICA Contemporary Art Museum, Gimpo, Korea
2025 Ithaka International Art Festival; Commission and Exhibition. Belgium
2024 Winner of the Creative Residence Grant, Centre Pompadour, France. Fully Granted Art Residence for painting & research
2024 Shortlisted between final three candidates for the European project Re-Wiring: Unmasking Gendered Power Hierarchies
2024 Emerging Virtuoso Award, Lumen Art Gallery
2024 Ithaka International Art Festival; Commission and Exhibition. Belgium.
2023 Cinnefable International Festival of Feminist and lesbian cinema; Commission and Exhibition. Paris, France.
2014 European Committee of the Regions; Public Commission. Brussels, Belgium
2011 UNED Art Scholarship
Festivals & Art Fairs
2025 ITHAKA International Art Festival. Participation with Girls on the Run: Carcass. Short Stories, Public Reading, Sculpture & Paintings. Belgium
2024 October PLATFORM PROJECTS Independent Contemporary Art Fair. Duo project: KAIROS & CHRONOS, paintings, public talk. Athens, Greece
2024 ITHAKA International Art Festival. Participation with Witches & Goddesses. Mural painting. Belgium
2024 Art Fair Participation, ART CAPITAL PARIS – Grand Palais, Paris, France
2023 International Festival of Feminist and Lesbian Cinema- Cineffable. Paintings, public talk. Paris, France
2014 MIRADAS DE MUJERES International Art Festival. Participation with Menarche. Paintings, installation, video art, performance.
Gallery Weber Lutgen, Seville, Spain
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 (upcoming) Paintings, Sculptures. CICA Contemporary Art Museum, Gimpo, Korea
2025 (March) Girls on the Run – Paintings, Sculptures, Writings (Public reading, Interdisciplinary Workshop), Gallery Mikrou, Greece
2024 Witches & Goddesses – Paintings. Gallery Mikrou, Greece
2023 WILD TALES – Dialogue with the Dutch Expressionists – Paintings. Kwaster Art Gallery, Belgium
2023 MADONNAS – Paintings. Psifida Art Gallery, Cyprus
2023 MADONNAS – Paintings. Gallery Gwendoline, Grenoble, France
2022 MORSURES – Paintings. L’Anecdote, Paris, France
2021 SAUVAGE – Paintings. Gallery Gwendoline, Grenoble, France
2017 AQUELLO – Paintings, Poetry. Gallery Mafante&Papaposa, Seville, Spain
2014 REPHRASE – Paintings. Gallery Kreislauf. Munich, Germany
2013 THE FALL – Paintings. Gallery Chicago Art Place, Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain
2013 LOS HILOS INVISIBLES – Paintings and engravings. Hall of Health Equity Association Uruguay – Spain
2013 LUCID DREAMING – Paintings. Gallery Bicicleteria, Seville, Spain
2013 APNEAS – Paintings. Gallery Anima, Seville, Spain
2012 PALABRAS GRIEGAS – Paintings. Gallery Tasca, Seville, Spain
2012 YELLOW PAGES – Paintings, Collages. Gallery Feria 61, Seville, Spain
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 (April) Paintings. Maison des Habitants Chorier Berriat, Grenoble France
2024 Paintings. Calabro Art Gallery, Zurich Switzerland
2024 The State in Between Loss & Discovery – Paintings. Insistrum & Hypha Studios, London, UK
2023 Insistrum – Paintings. Booze Cooperativa Gallery, Athens, Greece
2018 POESIA VISUAL – Paintings, poetry (Duo Exhibition). Gallery Méson de los Poetas, Guanajuato, Mexico
2017 CAMBIANDO TERCIOS – Paintings (Duo Exhibition). Gallery Méson de los Poeta, Guanajuato, Mexico
2016 GATAKIA – Paintings, Illustrations. (Duo Exhibition Gallery). El viajero sedentario, Seville, Spain
2014 1st OF MAY – Paintings. City Hall of Seville, Spain
2014 MIRADAS DE MUJERES – Paintings. Gallery Weber Lutgen, Seville, Spain
2014 50 YEARS WITHOUT CERNUDA – Paintings, sculptures. Collective Exhibition, Accion Directa Art Center, Seville, Spain
2013 TIEFSCHWARZ-ANTPARALLEL – Paintings and engravings. Collective project with the artist Dieter Zurnieden. Gallery Weber-Lutgen, Seville, Spain
2013 CRUZANDO CHARCOS – Paintings, sculptures. Collective International Exhibition Gallery Fundeca, Seville, Spain
2013 15 YEARS OF ACCION DIRECTA – Paintings and installations. Collective Exhibition, Accion Directa Art Center. Seville, Spain
Workshops & Seminars
Inspirational Totems
Artistic, sensorial & multidisciplinary seminar, which opts to enhance or unlock individual or collective inspiration with the utter goal of artistic sublimation.
The Hearing Trumpet
Artistic interdisciplinary laboratory that uses art as a metalanguage to create hybrid identities. Based on the work and the writings of Leonora Carrington.
The oceanic feeling
Simply a description of the feeling the infant has before it learns there are other persons in the world. A laboratory focuses on the idea of the ‘Whole’. Individual/group exploration, body language, music, sounds, and upcycling material, transforming human feeling into posthuman gestionality.
Part 1. Weaned -The primitive ego-feeling. Dealing with overwhelming feelings through art. Raw emotionalism,
stark movement, humor, expressionism. Some artists Explored W.Thompson, P.Bausch & Agnes Pelton
Part 2.Boundaries Blended with love. Limitlessness. Extended collaborative braiding, deep concentration, motricity, discharge.
Our Ego in the imaginary world -The illustrative tale
Intrapersonal relationships, self–representation, illustration of ideas, creative writing, and
performative experimentation. Creating and binding an illustrative tale of our ego in the notion of ‘kairos’
The Non-mechanical repetition (postminimal)
Labyrinths & invented words based on the work of Simon Hantaï and ‘Ringaround Arosie’ by E.Hesse. Using wearable sculptures and ephemeral scenographies
Artistic & Social Action
2024-2025 (ongoing) Girls on the Run – Research, short story writing, paintings & sculptures. Public readings and talks, integration of communities into the project with the wearable sculptures & and storytelling.
2023-2024 Witches & Goddesses – Reasearch, posthuman legends, immigration communities & ephemeral sanctuaries
2023-2025 Art mentor in Women on Top (ongoing)
2023 Madonnas. Stories and Paintings of Alternative Motherhoods
2022 PARADIS. A multidisciplinary, participative project of repurposing the language
2021 Artist & Project Manager Region Rhône – Alpes. Company People&Baby, France
Project ‘Art et Nature’ – Creation of ephemeral and sustainable artistic installations in nurseries
2015-2021 Creative and Alternative education. Arts integration, multilingualism. Spain, Greece, France
Art therapy volunteering (children, teenagers, adults, immigrants)
2012-2014 Founder – Artist – Educator, Gatakia Company- Contemporary art workshops, independent poetry teaching. Spain
2013-2014 Menarche (a 9-month audiovisual project). A thorough audiovisual documentation of the menarche and its abstraction in the feminine body.
9 photographic interventions & video art. Spain, Greece
2013 PINTURA VERBAL – a project of interactive & conceptual art. VEGAP Madrid, Spain
Audience Participatory Project for the Visually Impaired. Creation & main idea Marina Tziara, writer Jaime Castro Garcia.
2013 Participation in JIAAP 3 (International Festival Of Performance and Artistic Action 2013)
WEBER-LUTGEN Gallery & City Hall of Seville. Spain
2012 El afecto es revolutionario – a reflection of urban art to humans. Collaboration with the artist Teresa Ribuffo.
WEBER-LUTGEN Gallery & City Hall of Seville. Spain
2011 BLACKBIRD – Video art project – the human presence in the Canary Islands. Collaboration with the photographer Rulo Campos. Canary Islands