Katerina Botsari/Selected Work
Katerina Botsari holds a PhD in visual arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts and a Master's degree in painting from The Slade, London. She has completed her undergraduate studies at the Athens School of Fine Arts in the department of painting. Her thesis is entitled "Wasted Billboards: the Anti-monuments of tomorrow" that deals with, the concepts of wandering, diversion, counter-culture and art in public space. Her practice raises issues of monumentality, consumption and the occupation of space in the public sphere.
In her work, she develops large-scale installations, where she shapes the painting concept through ephemeral materials, paradoxical architectural shapes, reuse, the constructed environment, and human intervention on unilateral terms. She has collaborated with international artists from the fields of sound and moving image with the aim of broadening artistic collaboration and thought.
She is the coordinator of the asfaless group, a collective of ASFA students who carry out actions in public space that touch on a wide range of social concerns. She is a founding member of backspace, an experimental art space in Athens. He has held 5 solo exhibitions in London and Athens and has participated in group exhibitions in London, Athens, Istanbul, Toronto, Crete, Patras, Newcastle and Newcastle. In the summer of 2017 she co-curated the art exhibition "BOOBS-The Semiology of breast" at TAF / The Art Foundation in Athens. She has participated in the residency of Maison Maca (Athens 2016) and the Florence Trust (London 2011-2012). In 2006 she represented Greece in the 4th World Student Triennial in Istanbul. Katerina Botsari was born in Patras in 1980 and currently lives in Athens, Greece.
Katerina Botsari/Selected Work
Katerina Botsari holds a PhD in visual arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts and a Master's degree in painting from The Slade, London. She has completed her undergraduate studies at the Athens School of Fine Arts in the department of painting. Her thesis is entitled "Wasted Billboards: the Anti-monuments of tomorrow" that deals with, the concepts of wandering, diversion, counter-culture and art in public space. Her practice raises issues of monumentality, consumption and the occupation of space in the public sphere.
In her work, she develops large-scale installations, where she shapes the painting concept through ephemeral materials, paradoxical architectural shapes, reuse, the constructed environment, and human intervention on unilateral terms. She has collaborated with international artists from the fields of sound and moving image with the aim of broadening artistic collaboration and thought.
She is the coordinator of the asfaless group, a collective of ASFA students who carry out actions in public space that touch on a wide range of social concerns. She is a founding member of backspace, an experimental art space in Athens. He has held 5 solo exhibitions in London and Athens and has participated in group exhibitions in London, Athens, Istanbul, Toronto, Crete, Patras, Newcastle and Newcastle. In the summer of 2017 she co-curated the art exhibition "BOOBS-The Semiology of breast" at TAF / The Art Foundation in Athens. She has participated in the residency of Maison Maca (Athens 2016) and the Florence Trust (London 2011-2012). In 2006 she represented Greece in the 4th World Student Triennial in Istanbul. Katerina Botsari was born in Patras in 1980 and currently lives in Athens, Greece.
