Hidden, 2025, 190 x 225 cm
Konstantina Krikzoni born 1987, Chalkidiki, Greece. Lives and works in London, UK.
Blending ancient storytelling with contemporary sensibilities, the paintings of Konstantina Krikzoni are inhabited by elusive female figures. Evoking echoes of neoclassical nymphs or mythological sirens, these characters convey an urgent, primal desire to reconnect with the timeless wisdom of feminine nature. Krikzoni’s practice continually returns to the female body as a site of intersection between figuration and abstraction. The body becomes fractured and fluid in her paintings, woven into a surface shaped by delicate layers of paint and disrupted by the trace of the line. Here, the line does not merely define, it dissolves, reappears and interrupts forming a terrain of emotional resonance and poetic tension.
Krikzoni has received several notable awards and scholarships, such as the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS, Athens, Greece (2021) and the NEON Scholarship (2020/21 and 2021/22), awarded by the NEON Organisation for Culture and Development, Athens, Greece. She was also shortlisted for the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Germany (2021) and the Chadwell Award, London (2022). Her work features in private and institutional collections, including the Yageo Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, and the Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China.
Blending ancient storytelling with contemporary sensibilities, the paintings of Konstantina Krikzoni are inhabited by elusive female figures. Evoking echoes of neoclassical nymphs or mythological sirens, these characters convey an urgent, primal desire to reconnect with the timeless wisdom of feminine nature. Krikzoni’s practice continually returns to the female body as a site of intersection between figuration and abstraction. The body becomes fractured and fluid in her paintings, woven into a surface shaped by delicate layers of paint and disrupted by the trace of the line. Here, the line does not merely define, it dissolves, reappears and interrupts forming a terrain of emotional resonance and poetic tension.
Krikzoni has received several notable awards and scholarships, such as the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS, Athens, Greece (2021) and the NEON Scholarship (2020/21 and 2021/22), awarded by the NEON Organisation for Culture and Development, Athens, Greece. She was also shortlisted for the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Germany (2021) and the Chadwell Award, London (2022). Her work features in private and institutional collections, including the Yageo Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, and the Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China.
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