BIO
Sofia Kouloukouri (1987) is a greek visual artist and performer living in Geneva.
Her work has two poles, endurance and narration. Endurance, linked to weights as a feminine heritage, can be traced back to the fundamental education of girls, myths, and the Christian doctrine. As a female artist, Kouloukouri plays with the ‘grand narratives’, be that art history, or fundamental fictions like the ou Bible. Through her objets and performances she inserts herself and appropriates these narratives. Through her own texts, In an intimate confessional tone or an elaborate novelistic one, the narratives points at female characters voicing their opinions on art, life and ‘couple politics’. In my work ancient techniques, such as ceramics and stone, evoking the eternal life of minerals, are juxtaposed with contemporary techniques such as drone videos, arduino circuits and Lumetri effects. Be it in ‘’old media’’ or ‘’new me- dia’’ my work is a material exploration of fragility and solidity as vectors of female identity.
With fellow artist Vana Kostayola (KAVECS), they founded Women Telling the Future, a participative performance where a group of women amateur oracles, invite us into public readings of private futures. WTTF premiered in 2019.
Sofia Kouloukouri holds a bachelor in cinema studies (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), an MA in Visual Arts (Ecole de Design Heaute Ecole d’Art, Sierre), and an MA in Art History (Université de Genève). Her work has been presented at the: Grand Palais (Berne, 2021), Palais de Rumine (Laus- anne, 2020), 3ème biennale des espaces indépendants de Genève (2019), Milkshake Agency (Genève, 2019), Espace Saules d’Out (Genève, 2019), Manoir de Martigny (Martigny, 2018), Platforms Art Athina (Athénes, 2016), Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts (Lausanne, 2016), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen, 2016), Triennale du Valais (Turtmann, 2014), galerie A. Antonopoulou (Athènes, 2011), Dynamo Project Space (Thessaloniki, 2010), Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Thessalonique, 2009)
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EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2021
2019
THEATRE
2021
PERFORMANCE
2022
2021
2020
2019
GROUP
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2010
2009
2005
RESIDENCY
2021
2019
2016
EDUCATION
2017-2022
2013-2015
2005-2011
PLANS FOR A RESURRECTION, 1-3 rue Lissignol, Genève
Le Workout, Milkshake Agency, Genève
Pedro Cazas, Nostalghia Theater Co, Kastro Lamias (19&20/7)
CONTRENATURE, Ammophila 3: There was land here before, Elafonisos (19/8/22)
APNÈE, performing for Loreto Martinez Troncoso, Stoa 42, Athens (19/3/22)
EVE SYNDROME, Répertoire(s), Espace 3353, Genève (23/2/22)
WOMEN TELLING THE FUTURE V.03, FRAGMENTS & ABSENCES, Grand Palais Bern, Bern (09/10/21)
WOMEN TELLING THE FUTURE V.02, EXOTIC?, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne (02/10/20)
Poids Libres, FIBNL, Gare Cornavin, Genève (15/5/19)
WOMEN TELLING THE FUTURE, Espace Saules d'out, Genève (15/6/19),
EVE SYNDROME, Studio ADC, Theatre du Grütli, Genève (14/12/19)
ENCORE + DE TOI, Ferme Asile, Sion
WILLIWOO, Espace eeeeh, Nyon
AMMOPHILA, Dimotiko sxoleio, Elafonisos
BIG - 3E BIENNALE INTERSTELLAIRE DES ESPACES D'ART DE GENEVE
POUR ELLE, Manoir de Martigny, Martigny
Appetizers, Forum Wallis XII, Schloss Leuk, Leuk
Palp Festival, Manoir de Martigny, Martigny
Vide Ateliers, Centre culturel de la Vidondée, Riddes
Lunatic Park, Malévoz Quartier Culturel et La Manufacture des Rêves, Monthey
Platforms Project - Art Athina, Milkshake Agency booth, Faliron Pavilion, Athens
Charlottenborg Forårsudstilling, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Accrochage Vaud, mcb-a, Lausanne
NODE, EXPOSITION ECAV, Pôle Sud, Lausanne
Tous droits réservés tous torts inversés, Usego, Sierre
In einer anderen Welt, Triennale du Valais, Turtmann
Le corps en révolte, Hotel Belvedere du Rayon Vert, Cerbère
Against Lethe, mail art, 5tH ICTV, Nicosia
Cheap art, A.Antonopoulou Gallery, Athens
Demo#1, Dynamo Project Space, Thessaloniki
Looks at couples, Thessaloniki International Film Festival and the
Psychoanalytic Society of Northern Greece, Thessaloniki
Zm Gallery, Thessaloniki
Théâtre Forum Meyrin, with 'Why this now?' by Lucie Eidenbenz (21—25.03)
La Becque, La Tour-de-Peiltz (22—31.08)
Constellations. ISR x HEAD, ISR, Haute École d’Art et de Design, Arts@CERN Instituto Svizzero di Roma, (18—23.07),
Maîtrise Universitaire es lettres Histoire de l’Art
UNIGE - Université de Genève
MA
EDHEA - Ecole de design et haute école d'art, Sierre
BA/MA
Faculty of Cinema, Departement of Fine Arts, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
Expertise on Artistic Direction, Costumes and Scenography
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece (1987). Lives and works in Geneva and Athens.