Christina Kyriakidou
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- Biography
Christina Kyriakidou is a Visual Artist and Arts Facilitator from Thessaloniki, Greece, living and working in Glasgow.
Her work, influenced by the art movement of Excessivism, focuses on consumer culture and how it interconnects with wastefulness and the constant reproduction and re-invention of our contemporary identities.
Being a multidisciplinary artist, Kyriakidou often revisits the concept of waste in various areas of practice, including performance art.
Waste is seen as a direct documentation of a maximalist, consumerist way of life and, simultaneously, a visual representation of modern-day stressors and addictions.
In 2019, Kyriakidou was invited to showcase her work at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), at 'Growth: Disruption, Resistance & Resilience', an exhibition focusing on the role of contemporary art as a key arena for social action. Ever since, Kyriakidou has participated in both solo and group exhibitions in Scotland, Greece, Ireland, the United States, and Italy. In 2021 and 2022 her ‘Trashion Arts’ project was presented in several shows alongside the international exhibitor group SHIM.
Kyriakidou holds a First Class BA Honours in Contemporary Art Practice and in 2023 she completed her postgraduate studies in Adult Education, Community Development & Youth Work at the University of Glasgow with Distinction.
With an ever-increasing interest in artistic activism and art for social change, Kyriakidou has been running weekly art workshops for asylum seekers and refugees for the Central and West Integration Network since 2022. To this day, the art group led by Kyriakidou, has participated in several shows including exhibitions at the Scottish Refugee Festival.
Her work, influenced by the art movement of Excessivism, focuses on consumer culture and how it interconnects with wastefulness and the constant reproduction and re-invention of our contemporary identities.
Being a multidisciplinary artist, Kyriakidou often revisits the concept of waste in various areas of practice, including performance art.
Waste is seen as a direct documentation of a maximalist, consumerist way of life and, simultaneously, a visual representation of modern-day stressors and addictions.
In 2019, Kyriakidou was invited to showcase her work at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), at 'Growth: Disruption, Resistance & Resilience', an exhibition focusing on the role of contemporary art as a key arena for social action. Ever since, Kyriakidou has participated in both solo and group exhibitions in Scotland, Greece, Ireland, the United States, and Italy. In 2021 and 2022 her ‘Trashion Arts’ project was presented in several shows alongside the international exhibitor group SHIM.
Kyriakidou holds a First Class BA Honours in Contemporary Art Practice and in 2023 she completed her postgraduate studies in Adult Education, Community Development & Youth Work at the University of Glasgow with Distinction.
With an ever-increasing interest in artistic activism and art for social change, Kyriakidou has been running weekly art workshops for asylum seekers and refugees for the Central and West Integration Network since 2022. To this day, the art group led by Kyriakidou, has participated in several shows including exhibitions at the Scottish Refugee Festival.
Christina Kyriakidou studied HND Illustration / Visual Communication at City of Glasgow College and in 2019 she graduated with a First Class Honours in BA Contemporary Art Practice.
In May 2019, all of her first ever 'Monolith' sculptures exhibited in the BA Contemporary Art Practice Degree Show got sold.
In June 2019, after the completion of the Degree Show, Christina Kyriakidou participated in the exhibition 'SPLIT' at WASPS Artists' Studios, alongside some of her former classmates.
In November 2019 she received an invitation from the Learning and Access Curator at the Gallery of Modern Art (Glasgow Museums) to participate in an upcoming exhibition organised by the GoMA Youth Group.
In February 2020 Christina Kyriakidou exhibited her work next to five other artists in the GoMA show 'GROWTH: Disruption, Resistance and Resilience'; an exhibition that greatly focused on the role of contemporary art as a key arena for social action.
In August 2020 her work was selected by the cultural organisation Cheapart to be exhibited at the 85th Thessaloniki International Fair, but due to the covid-19 outbreak the event got postponed until 2021.
In September-October 2020 Christina Kyriakidou held her first solo exhibition in her hometown in Greece, hosted at The Caravan Hotel Thessaloniki.
Christina has also worked alongside art organisation Recoat in several public and private commissions for murals inside and outside Glasgow, where she also gained experience in running workshops for community art projects.
In 2023 she completed her postgraduate studies in Adult Education, Community Development and Youth Work at the University of Glasgow with Distinction.
In May 2019, all of her first ever 'Monolith' sculptures exhibited in the BA Contemporary Art Practice Degree Show got sold.
In June 2019, after the completion of the Degree Show, Christina Kyriakidou participated in the exhibition 'SPLIT' at WASPS Artists' Studios, alongside some of her former classmates.
In November 2019 she received an invitation from the Learning and Access Curator at the Gallery of Modern Art (Glasgow Museums) to participate in an upcoming exhibition organised by the GoMA Youth Group.
In February 2020 Christina Kyriakidou exhibited her work next to five other artists in the GoMA show 'GROWTH: Disruption, Resistance and Resilience'; an exhibition that greatly focused on the role of contemporary art as a key arena for social action.
In August 2020 her work was selected by the cultural organisation Cheapart to be exhibited at the 85th Thessaloniki International Fair, but due to the covid-19 outbreak the event got postponed until 2021.
In September-October 2020 Christina Kyriakidou held her first solo exhibition in her hometown in Greece, hosted at The Caravan Hotel Thessaloniki.
Christina has also worked alongside art organisation Recoat in several public and private commissions for murals inside and outside Glasgow, where she also gained experience in running workshops for community art projects.
In 2023 she completed her postgraduate studies in Adult Education, Community Development and Youth Work at the University of Glasgow with Distinction.
- Christina Kyriakidou
- Monolith 5
- Found Objects
- Christina Kyriakidou
- Monolith 6
- Found Objects
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- Monoliths at GoMA
- Found Objects
- Christina Kyriakidou
- Small Monolith
- Found Objects
- Christina Kyriakidou
- Untitled drawings exhibited at GoMA, February 2020
- Mixed Media
- Christina Kyriakidou
- Untitled, September 2020
- Mixed Media
- Christina Kyriakidou
- Monolith in Ikaria Island, Greece. August 2020
- Mixed Media
- Christina Kyriakidou
- Small Monolith, January 2020
- Found Objects
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