Nikomachi Karakostanoglou is a painter and sculptor. The main object of her research is materiality and the narratives or stories it entails and constructs. Her work utilises the morphological and semantic capacities of a wide range of aesthetic categories—in situ installations, sculptures, watercolours, and videos—proposing a spatial and experiential condition around themes such as the relationship of human beings with nature, the reuse of things and their lives in the present, folk history, gender politics, mysticism and magic, spirituality, and sensuality.

She perceives material (bronze, marble, clay, paper, and color) as an indispensable element of each work’s form, idea, and self-actualization. For her, materials are conduits of communication but also empathy, and her works suggest an ongoing dialogue between tangible surface and "immaterial" (psychological, emotional, mnemonic, and cosmological) energy. Therefore, she remains constantly in active interaction with the viewers and the historical or social contexts of the places, buildings, and monuments in which the works are exhibited. Her artistic practice is a kind of enlivenment of visual memory, capturing what "otherwise would slip away, but of enlivening what otherwise would remain dead" (Erwin Panofsky).

Nikomachi Karakostanoglou was born and raised in Athens. She studied business administration at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Public Art (BA) program at Chelsea School of Art and Fine Art: Sculpture (BA, Hons) at Wimbledon School of Art. In 2011, she study Chinese calligraphy in Shanghai. Since 2017, she worked exclusively on her drawings and sculptures, challenging herself with the scale of the works and the materials she had collected during her travels in Asia. In 2023 she was commissioned from STEGI-ONASSIS FOUNDATION on two openair sculptures, ''The drop of knowledge'' and ''Flux''.  She has presented her work in several solo and group exhibition in Greece and abroad.  Her works are found in private and public collections: MOMus collection, Benaki Museum and the Onassis Foundation collection.

 

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS & DUOS

2023

Ti kala ta leei to aidoni , Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece              

2022              

Symbiosis, Otomys Contemporary, St Vincents Antwerp, Belgium

2021

A Narrative on nature, Otomys Contemporary,  Melbourne, Australia

2020               

State of mind. State of being, Mirko Mayer Gallery, Cologne, Germany

2019                       

Atacama, IsnotGallery, Nicosia, Cyprus                                   

2018                   

Confronting Maximalism, Martinos Gallery, Athens, Greece                  

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Forest Bathing, PCAI, Diomedes botanical garden, Athens, Greece

Odyssey, Archaological museum of Piraeus, Greece

2023

Vanitas, MOMus Thessaloniki, Greece                                          

Art Athina, Space 52 Art Fair, Zappeio, Athens, Greece

My past is a foreign country, DEO projects, Chios, Greece                                                      

Contemporary womanhood 1.0, MOMus Alex Mylona, Athens, Greece                        

Plasmata II, Stegi - Onassis Foundation, Ioannina, Greece        

2022           

Egkleismoi, Dromokaiteio, Athens, Greece                               

Forthcoming III, Space 52, Athens, Greece                                             

2021               

Identity, Mirko Mayer Gallery, Cologne, Germany

Anestios, Katakouzinos House, Athens, Greece

The right to breath, Undercurrent NYC, USA

2020             

Art Athina, Cask Gallery, Athens, Greece

Sunsculptures, Mirko Mayer Gallery, Mykonos, Greece

Quarantine exhibition, Space 52, Athens, Greece

Someone else’s nostalgia, Crux Gallery, Athens, Greece

2019                       

Forthcoming II, Space 52, Athens, Greece

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SELECT PUBLIC COLLECTION

 

MOMus Thessaloniki

Onassis Foundation

Benaki Museum

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RESIDENCIES

 

2020

Atacama Desert, Chile