AMALIA VEKRI

Visual arts

AMALIA VEKRI

Amalia Vekri’s work through painting and occasionally sculpture, writing or sound, explores alternative portraitures of the female body, as well as the ways in which it is presented and represented in our current digitalized era. Her work reflects on female empowerment and transcendental nature, within a world of constant flux and ambiguity. Selected recent exhibitions include: Sisterhood (Korai project space, Cyprus, 2021); My Perversion is the Belief in Art (Pori Art Museum, Finland, 2020-21); Perfumed Envelopes Travel: Avalon of the Heart, with Valinia Svoronou (P.E.T Projects, Athens, Greece, 2020); Paris Internationale with Wschód gallery (Paris, France, 2019); The Breath that Leaves me, Stay Inside (part of Aarhus gallery weekend, curated by Corporum Art, Denmark, 2019); Nowhereland (Galerie Utopia, Hamburg, Germany, 2019); The Same River Twice (organized jointly by the DESTE Foundation & New Museum New York and presented at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece, 2019); On the Risings and Settings of the Stars, solo exhibition (Aetopoulos, Athens, Greece, 2019); Curved Arrows (Kunstraum Am Schauplatz, Vienna, Austria, 2019); The Hunger – Catbox Contemporary, with Ian Swanson (Hot Wheels Projects, Athens, Greece, 2019); Schmaltz (Guimaraes, Vienna, Austria, 2018). She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021). She is the program director of Haus N Athen and a founding member of the project Asthenia. She is currently based in Athens.

Moods (Black I), 2021

Moods (Black I), 2021

She would Swallow the World, 2020

She would Swallow the World, 2020

 Too Late to Kiss you Now, 2021

Too Late to Kiss you Now, 2021

View from the exhibition

View from the exhibition "My Perversion is the Belief in Art", Pori Art Museum, Finland 2020-2

View from the exhibition

View from the exhibition "The Same River Twice", Athens, 2019