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Introduction
Victoria Miro Projects is delighted to launch Nymphidia, a presentation on Vortic by London-based artist Konstantina Krikzoni. This is the seventh project in an ongoing series of presentations by invited artists on Vortic.
Groups of female figures inhabit Krikzoni’s fluid and painterly underwater scenes, which blend ancient and contemporary approaches to storytelling that are shaped by her upbringing by the Aegean Sea. In her new body of work, Krikzoni disrupts narratives within historical and classical paintings and writings – from Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ Le Bain Turc to the Greek mythological figures of sirens and harpies – to reconsider the relationship between women and nature.
Themes of creation and decay are central to Nymphidia. Submerged on a subaqueous stage, Krikzoni’s figures pose and gaze directly at the viewer from a shorefront surrounded by abstract flowers that bloom and wither around them. Krikzoni’s techniques incorporate staining, pouring, and glazing, as well as using freshly cut flowers as tools to paint. The artist describes them as ‘threatening rather than decorative, soaked in brine and emanating fumes — reworked symbols of femininity that aim to defy stereotypical portrayals.’
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07Konstantina Krikzoni
Konstantina Krikzoni was born in Chalkidiki, Greece in 1987 and lives and works in London, UK. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London.
Solo exhibitions include Armatura, L’Appartement Gallery, Geneva (forthcoming in 2026); Nymphidia, Victoria Miro Projects, Online (2024); and Chamber, Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (2023). Two-person exhibitions include Continuum, Frieze No.9 Cork Street, London, UK (2023). Group exhibitions include Eruption curated by Max Werner, Jarvis Art, New York, USA (forthcoming in 2026); Anima Mundi: Here Now & Eternity, L’Appartement, Geneva, Switzerland (2025); Chiaroscuro: A Century of Charcoal, Victoria Miro Gallery, Venice, Italy (2025); Crooked Smile, Hope 93 Gallery, London, UK; and the Malta Biennale, Malta (2024). She was an artist in residence at the Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy in 2023, culminating in the exhibition Shipping Address. In September 2024, Krikzoni participated in the Philippe and Marion Lambert Residency in Crete, Greece.
Krikzoni was shortlisted for the Chadwell Award 2022, London, UK and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (2019). Other awards and scholarships include the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS, Athens, Greece (2021), and the NEON Scholarship, NEON Organization for Culture and Development, Athens, Greece (2021 and 2022).
Her work is part of private and institutional collections, including of the Yageo Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, and the Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China.
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