Katerina Christidi was born in Greece. She lives and works in Paris.
Exhibitions (selection)
2020 : Quarantine exhibition Space52, Athens . Open letters The laboratory for the Urban Commons, Athens (forthcoming). Les corps purs Centre d’arts plastiques d’Aubervilliers, France (postponed) 2019 : At the surface that was still forming Tinos Festival, Old school of Triantaros, Tinos, Greece 2018 : The laughter in the garden, Old school of Triantaros, Tinos, Greece 2017 : See if you can fit it on the paper Gallery UFAP, Athens 2016 : The day when his shadow was perhaps at it’s darkest Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens 2015 : Kenophobia, Can gallery, Athens. A Corps perdus, Galerie de l’artothèque de Vitré, France 2014 : Figures et paysages , Domaine de Kerguhennec, Brittany, France. French Paradox, Storefront Ten Eyck Gallery, New York 2013 : Agora, 4th Athens Biennial, Athens. Bound for Tinos Tinos Cultural Center, Greece. Le corps, les songes Dix291 Gallery, Paris. On était au milieu de nulle part mais où précisment je ne saurais pas le dire Hôtel Gallery Elysées Mermoz, Paris 2012 : Le leurre du seuil Moments artistiques, Paris. 777-6 Residence and exhibition, Château de Kerpaul, Brittany, France 2011 : Polyglossia Onassis Cultural Center, Athens . Incarnations Le 19 Contemporary Art Center, Montbéliard, France. Les quotidiens, figures de l’humain Ecole d’art Gérard Jacot, Belfort, France. Remap 3 2nd Athens Biennial – off exhibition, Athens . 2010 : Drawing stories 50-1 Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus. Piétinés comme du raisin regonflés par le destin Pavillon, Pantin, France. Belle vue Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens 2009 : And now ? State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece. Transexperiences 798 Art Center, Beijing, China 2008 : Charcoal Overload Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens. In present tense National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens. Traversée d’Art Château de Saint-Ouen, France 2007 : Keine Zeichnung, keine Zeichner, Kunstverein Rûgen, Putbus, Rûgen, Germany 2006 : Drawing screen Museum of cinema, Thessaloniki, Greece. What Remains is Future Old Arsakeion School, Cultural Capital of Europe, Patras, Greece
Publications (selection)
2016 : Les escaliers sont en papier catalogue, editions Friville, Paris 2015 : The Drawer Vertigo, Volume 3 , Paris 2013 : Agora, 4th Athens Biennale, Guidebook 2012 : Le Salon Revue du Centre de recherche I.D.E. Ecole supérieure d’Art de Lorraine, France 2011 : Polyglossia, Onassis Cultural Center, catalogue, Athens. Visionaire special edition 2010, New York 2008 : In present tense National Museum of Contemporary Art, catalogue , Athens 2009: C’est pas angoissant artist‘s book, Nieves editions, Zurich 2007 : Flash Art International Focus Greece, issue 256.
Residencies, scholarships
2019 : Bourse de la fondation Alphonse. Fondation du Judaisme , France 2012 : Résidence « 777 » Château de Kerpaul , Loctudy , Britany 1997 : Prix Charles Oulmont . Fondation de Franc 1996-98 : Residency at the Cité internationale des Arts , Paris
Christidi’s exploration focuses on the creation of a world where vague figures coexist with fragmentary unknown landscapes. The idea behind her work lies on the decomposition and re-composition of a combination of elements which are opposed, added one on top of the other, merge, so they might at the end express an unstable situation between multiple realities.
She tries to bring to the surface a sense of oscillation and uncertainty about where we really stand, through a dialogue of different levels of representation. Forms are linked together by a controlled yet unpredictable development, since the construction process -which is vital for her- is involving association and successive layers until the final image is formed. This escalating process allows the creation of a channel between the conscious and the subconscious.
