GEORGIA SAGRI / Associate Professor
Government Gazette issue announcing the appointment: ΦΕΚ 1068/Γ/13.07.2020
Georgia Sagri was born in March of 1979. She is an artist and professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
She studied cello and advanced music theory at the National Conservatory of Greece. She holds a degree with distinction from the Athens School of Fine Arts and a Master’s degree from Columbia University in New York. She has been awarded scholarships by the Onassis Foundation, the Propontis Foundation, the Leventis Foundation, and Fulbright.
Her work has been presented internationally at museums and galleries including: Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany (2022); de Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2021); Mimosa House, London, England (2020); TAVROS, Athens, Greece (2020); Portikus, Frankfurt/Main, Germany (2018); Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2017, 2018); Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece (2017); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland (2016, 2013); SculptureCenter, New York, USA (2016); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2016, 2015); Forde, Geneva, Switzerland (2015); Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2014); MoMA PS1, New York, USA (2013); Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain (2011); Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA (2011); Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece (2011); DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (2006). She has participated in documenta 14 (2017), Manifesta 11 (2016), Istanbul Biennial (2015), Lyon Biennial (2013), Whitney Biennial (2012), Thessaloniki Biennial (2011), and Athens Biennial (2007).
Her first monograph was published by Sternberg Press, following her solo exhibitions Georgia Sagri Georgia Sagri at Kunstverein Braunschweig and Georgia Sagri and I at Portikus. Her book Stage of Recovery was published by Divided Publishing in May 2021.
She is the founder of the non-profit space ΥΛΗ[matter]HYLE (hyle.gr), located in the center of Athens.
Email: gsagri@asfa.gr

IASI, installation view, De Appel, Amsterdam, photo by Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk,

“Landscape (chest)”, Monday 5th October, 2020, 2020, Charcoal and colored chalk on paper, 198 x 300 cm

Deep Cut, 2018, laserprint on 3M vinyl sticker, 151x337 cm, Installation view at the facade of The Breeder, Athens for The Breeder Skin, 2020

Shelter Refuge, 2022, Performance, Kunsthalle Friart, Fribourg, 15-23 June 2022, during regular opening hours