Konstantina Krikzoni (b. 1987, Chalkidiki, Greece) holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London. She also studied Painting at the School of Visual and Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2015), and Mathematics at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the same university (2010). This multidisciplinary background shapes her approach to art, where the intersections of mythology, memory, and the female form are explored in depth.
Growing up by the Aegean Sea, Krikzoni’s work is deeply influenced by the cultural and natural landscape of her homeland. Her practice interrogates historical and classical iconography, reimagining mythological figures and challenging dominant narratives surrounding femininity, nature, identity, and power. By blending ancient and contemporary visual language, she recontextualizes traditional representations of the female form, proposing a dynamic, multifaceted view of femininity.
Krikzoni’s artistic process integrates performance and painting. She employs innovative techniques such as staining, pouring, and glazing, often incorporating organic materials like freshly cut flowers soaked in brine. These flowers, emitting fumes, resist conventional interpretations of femininity, invoking a tension between beauty, fragility, and decay. This use of organic materials allows Krikzoni to create a dialogue between life and death, the material and immaterial, and the human and non-human. Her work embodies a vision of femininity as both a creative and destructive force, in constant transformation.
Krikzoni’s work has been exhibited internationally across Europe, the UK, the USA, and South America. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Nymphidia, Victoria Miro online presentation (2024) Insulaphilia at the Malta Biennale, Valletta (2024); Art Antwerp with Newchild, Antwerp (2023); Shipping Address at Palazzo Monti, Brescia (2023); Continuum at Frieze No.9 Cork Street with Newchild, London (2023); and Disrupted Harmony at Public Service Gallery, Stockholm (2023). She has also shown work at prestigious venues such as Art Brussels, ARTBO in Bogotá, and Emotions are Fact at Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg (2022).
Krikzoni has received several notable awards, including the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2020), the NEON Foundation for Culture and Development scholarship (2021/22), and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021). She was also shortlisted for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship (2021) and the Chadwell Award, London (2022). Her artistic journey continues to evolve, contributing to a radical reimagining of the female figure in contemporary art.
Currently based in London, Krikzoni’s growing body of work challenges traditional representations of the female form and invites viewers to reconsider the fluidity of gender, identity, and the natural world. Her art encourages an ongoing reflection on how myth, history, and the body interweave to shape our understanding of self and other.