Natalia Manta is a visual artist living and working in Athens. She studied sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA, 2011 – 2017), where she also completed her Master’s in Fine Arts. She employs different materials such as metal, clay, light-sensitive chemicals and video projections. She collaborates and interacts with artists from a wide range of artistic disciplines —visual, music, theatre or performance artists. In the period 2017-2020, she taught sculpture at the ASFA. Her work has been exhibited both in Greece and internationally in solo and group exhibitions, among others: Handmade: On the Social Dimension of Craft, presented at Art Space Pythagorion on Samos island under the initiative of the National Museum of Contemporary Art and the Schwarz Foundation (2022); RESTART, Korean International Ceramic Biennale (2021)· Limitless Limits, Larnaca Biennale, Cyprus (2021)· Surreal Salon 13, Baton Rouge Gallery, USA (2020)· What is REAL, The Real House, New York (2021); Apotropaion, presented at 16 Fokionos Negri exhibition space in Athens with the support of The Sotiris Fellios Collection, (2021); ANEW, KOREN process space, Athens (2021); Ki-nimata, Bouboulina Museum, Spetses island (2021); Gender Melancholia, The Project Gallery, Athens, (2021); Deadala, The Mosque Kioutsouk Hassan- Giali Tzamisi, Chania, Crete (2021); The machine in the Ghost, Talc Studio, Athens (2021); and PPC meets art, Public Power Corporation historic factory, Athens (2021). She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).