Grigoria Vryttia

curriculum vitae (extended)

Grigoria Vryttia

1983: Place of birth: Marousi, Attiki. Raised in Megara

2002 – 2007: Studied in the first studio of Sculpture of the dpt. of Fine and Applied Arts, school of Fine Arts, A.U.Th. under the sculptor Mr.Hatziioannidis Fotis (FOTIS).

2008 – 2010: Master of Fine Arts, Wimbledon College of Art, U.A.L.U.K. with a scholarship from the Michellis Foundation.

2010 – present: Active art-practitioner, designer and teacher, currently based in Athens, Greece. She occasionally makes illustrations for independent music labels and publishing houses. She also designs costumes and special objects for the theatre and the cinema.

Exhibition Activity:

Solo Shows: 

  • 2007: Velvet and Cream, Aggelon Vima, Athens.
  • 2011: Solo Show, ElCulture, Athens.
  • 2012: Ψ project, Psi project space, Athens.
  • 2014: Space Stuff Revisited, Manifactura Galleri, Chalandri, Athens. 
  • 2015:
    • Live at Valios’, private location, Athens. Mindspace, Mural, N.T.U. Athens.
    • Wonder Place, The Coffee Tree, Athens.
    • Feast like A Beast, Eirini Tsouramani house, Petralona, Athens.
  • 2018: Textures in Matter and Sound: solo show and music festival, Chimeres, Athens, Greece
  • 2019: EnClouding, solo show at MEME/Communitism, Athens, Greece
  • 2021: No Lines or Symmetry, Xanthi festival of queer approaches, Chatzidakeion, Xanthi, Greece
  • 2022:
    • Tales of the Earth, Tales of the Wind, Tales of the City, solo show at Aggelon Vima, Greece
    • Improbabilities, POW WOW, Marousi, Greece

Group Shows:

2007: 

  • Homage to professionals: Haut Couture, Telloglion Foundation for the Arts, Thessaloneke, Greece.
  • The graduates of 2006-2007, Macedonian Museum for contemporary Art, Thessaloneke, Greece. 

2009: 

  • Final Show, Wimbledon college of Art, London, Uk.
  • Intersections, The Nunnery gallery, London, Uk.


2010: 

  • Tales of the town, Amarilys hotel, Kavouri, Greece.

2011:

  • 2 Normalcy Bias, Listros gallery, Berlin. 

2012:

  • Grimm [x] 5, Grimm Knot festival, Knot Gallery, Athens, Greece.
  • 6th Art 4 More festival, PopUP 123, Athens, Greece.
  • Erotopia, Event Horizon, Athens, Greece.
  • Happiness/ My world,festival at the ORILA centre for the subcultural arts, Athens, Greece.

2013:

  • 7th Art 4 More festival, Vrysaki, Athens, Greece.
  • Kawaii, CAMP, Athens, Greece.
  • Pandemic/ create your own world, Holy Trinity church, Leeds, Uk.

2014: 

  • WCA Reunion, Galeria-Atelier Metamorfose, Porto, Protugal.
  • 8th Art 4 More festival, group show, Athens, Greece. 
  • The Sky Children, private location, Athens, Greece.
  • Surprise 5, Romantso, Athens, Greece.

2015:

  • Surprize 6, 9 ENNEA Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece.

2016: 

  • 4th International Visual Festival of Patras, RE-culture 4/Sexomania, former Municipal Baths of Patras, Patras, Greece. 
  • Nefele festival: Up with Arts, Bouziani museum, Athens, Greece. 
  • My mailbox is a cabinet of curiosities, Les Yper Yper, Thessaloneke, Greece.
  • Live Painting, Depot Art, Athens, Greece. 

2017: 

  • Chance Encounters at Habeat Records, audiovisual festival, Habeat recordstore, Athens, Greece.
  • To Domatio Project, To Domatio (the room), Athens, Greece.
  • 25th fundraising exhibition of works of Art & Literature for the camp “Haroumena Paidia-Haroumena Niata”, Melina, Athens, Greece. 
  • Big Sculpture Joke, two-people show (with Elias Boudaniotis), Aggelon Vima, Athens, Greece.

2018:

  • Souvenirs d’Athènes , Alibi Gallery (Sarri 12), Psyrri, Athens, Greece

2019:  

  • Artists in Motherhood, municipal Art Gallery of Kallithea, Sofia Laskaridou, Athens, Greece.
  • De Differentia/ Οι διαφορετικές: group show, SNFCC, Athens, Greece.
  • I’m just talking to the universe, a night of feminist ramblings and poems, Communitism, Athens, Greece.
  • Souvenirs d’ Athenes 2019, Alibi Gallery (Sarri 12), Psyrri, Athens.
  • The gulf of Laganas, place of birth, place of dream, place of reverie, Laganas, Zakynthos, organised by the UNESCO dpt of Zakynthos, Greece.
  • Erotica: the art of love, nature and dick drawings, Blank Space, Oslo, Norway.
  • ASFA BBQ, Athens Festival of Queer Performance, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece.
  • No Story Untold, Trii Art Hub, Athens, Greece.
  • An Answer to our Teachers/Don’t hate the Monster, old Kahramanoglou factory, Keratsini, Greece.
  • Performance as Frida Kavlo for Kilimia festival, Chimeres, Athens, Greece.

2020:

  • Don’t Hate the Monster, Old Kahramanoglou Factory, Keratsini, Greece
  • Surviving in Athens: Domatio, Athens, Greece
  • Manual Meditations: PS:, Athens, Greece
  • Meta-Imaginary Items: double show with Nadja Geer, One Minute Space, Athens, Greece

2021:

  • Growing Confined, PS:, Athens, Greece
  • The castro, FokiaNou art space, Athens, Greece
  • Υφαίνοντας το μέλλον III/weaving the future III,  Galeria e Arteve Shkodër, Albania
  • Unfolding, double show with Anastasia Denos, FokiaNou, Athens, Greece
  • Sketchbooks 4 human rights, Project Gallery, Athens
  • Situatedness: Εδώ και Τώρα, One minute, Athens, Greece
  • Lost & Shared: approaches to collective mourning towards transformative politics
  • Curated by Eliana Otta, One minute, Athens, Greece
  • The Platforms Project: Personal Identities (curated by Maria Polyxa) and A monster in my garden (curated by Marry Royssioti), ASFA

2022:

  • Getting out of Zola, group show, PS:Communitism, Athens, Greece
  • Hybrid Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
  • Weaving the Future IV, Greek House, Paris, France
  • Minor Inconveniences (participation&curation), group show, TAF The Art Foundation, Athens, Greece
  • Weaving the Future V, Municipal Market of Hydra, Greece
  • Στης Κλωθώς τα Χνάρια/ On the Traces of Klotho, Museum of the City of Athens, Greece
  • Platforms Project (X-ray project with POW WOW & Personal Identities), ASFA, Greece
  • To νήμα της Ίασης/ The Yarn of Healing, collective workshop and installation, TAF The Art Foundation, Athens, Greece
  • Resilience, group show,  TAF The Art Foundation, Athens, Greece
  • Πυρίκαυστες Πόλεις/ Flammable Cities, Old Municipal Hall of Byronas, Greece 
  • Neoclassical Grounds, installation, Communitism, Athens, Greece

Collaborations:

2007: Special objects (toy space-ships) for the short film “Theremin” by Nikos Pastras, Greece.

2008: polar bear for Ilka Leukefeld, London, U.K.

2009: personal narratives projects by Aditi Nayar, London, U.K. Special effects for the performance “Undroid” by Ioanna Giannoulatou, London, U.K.

2010: Special object (mask) for the short film “Lost Toys” by Seraphim Doussias, Greece. Costume adaptation for the school project about the phenomenon of involuntary marriage of young girls, during the theatre lessons in the art-oriented high-school in Gerakas, titled “Τα προσωπεία και οι πενήντα κόρες”, Greece.

2011: Costume adaptation for the short film “Whores of Mercy” by the Tea time in Berlin group of directors, Greece.

2012: Costume adaptation for the short film “And they lived quietly” by Theodore Chinchonis, Greece.

2013: monster, Digitaria & Hope, Atopos CVC, Athens, Greece.

2014: performance with Nikolas Malevitchis and Adam_is at Embros theatre, Athens, Greece.

2015: Anubis Reconstructed, Susana Kalemou, Athens, Greece.

2018: “Parlour”, voice of bunny shaped pillow, Daphne-Ioanna Giannoulatou, Madeinroath Festival, Cardiff, Wales.

2019: Kangela, for the music video “Ai Mori” by Kangela Tromokratisch
– The Evasive Twattwan Incarnate, to kabaret tis Kangelas, Communitism, Athens, Greece.
– Angel Tits: a set of breasts for Kangela Tromokratisch’s second birthday

2020: Occasional performer (Frida Kavlo) at Kangela’s Cabaret
-Anamesa: Queer Quarantine Fanzine

2021: At A distance, collaborator project

2022: Photoshoot for Dida handmade fans
-Kangela’s drag for children
-with Danai Siozou at “Literary Scene_10″/ “Λογοτεχνική σκηνή 10”

2023: costume and special objects for “The bitter hour of defeat”, solo choreography by Danai Panou

Work experience:

2021-today: teacher of drawing and painting, lecturer on history of art, Praxis College

2020- today:Co-curator at PS: Communitism Gallery, Athens, Greece

2020: Founding member of Domatio Co-Operative (Δωμάτιο Κοιν.Σ.Επ)2018: teacher of drawing and colour theory, Praxis College.

2015-2018: retail of craft products

2011-2014: teacher of drawing, photography and aesthetic analysis, Petra school for Art restoration

2013-2014: Creative co-ordinator for children from 6 to 10 years old, Peiraius primary school, Greece

2012: DIY projects for children, Kid’s fun magazine, Greece

2007-2008: Retail, production and occasional design of leather goods for the shop ActArt, Thessaloneke, Greece

2005-2007: Art courses for children 8-10 years old, Telloglion Foundation for the Arts, A.U.Th., Greece

2005-2006: museum attendant, Telloglion Foundation for the Arts, A.U.Th., Greece

2001-2004: various retail and waitressing jobs in Megara and Thesaloneke