Alexandra Kapogianni-Beth

Alexandra Kapogianni-Beth is a Greek art historian and sculptor based in Germany.

She has started out sculpting and drawing over 20 years ago and has attended numerous art and sculpture courses in and out of Germany. In 2021 she also completed sculpting studies at IBKK Kunst- und Designzentrum in Bochum-Wattenscheid, Western Germany, and teaches the art of sculpting at this institute.

Alexandra is a dynamic sculptor who uses a wide range of materials to create living and energetic works. “I am passionate about exploring the human body, its beauty and fragility. I create figurative sculptures, working with a model or referring to graphic anatomical representations. This allows me the freedom to see and shape the human body beyond the reality of nature.

In my artworks I seek to capture the beauty of the body in its forms and movement, while showing the imperfection of human nature and vulnerability through fragmentary depiction or by deliberately disrupting the surface.

I mainly draw inspiration from the diversity of Greek history and mythology. Heroism beyond human limits and a variety of mythological actors find their way into my sculptures. My style of expression is based on the classic tradition of well-sculpted bodies, enri...

1998 – 2000 Private school education in art history,
lessons in drawing and painting at the Eorgon
Technis, Athens, Greece

2001 – 2008 Studies of art history at the Johannes Gutenberg
University, Mainz, Germany

2003 First sculptural works

since 2012 Courses in stone carving, studio seminars und
art symposia

2017 – 2020 Sculpting study course at the IBKK Kunst- und
Designzentrum, Bochum-Wattenscheid,
Germany

2021 Diploma (IBKK) in Sculpture

EXHIBITIONS (selection)
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2024
 CENTAUROMACHIA - Tra umanità e mito, personal exhibition, Complesso monumentale die San Severo al Pendino, Napoli, IT
 TAPETENWECHSEL, Innenräume, Burg Kronberg, Kronberg im Taunus, DE

2023
 XIV Florence Biennale, Mostra Internationale di Arte Contemporanea e Design, IT
 art KARLSRUHE, Karlsruhe, DE
 Maler versus Bildhauerin, Reutlingen, DE
 ARTMUC, Spring Edition March 2023, Munich, DE
2022
 ARTe WIESBADEN, RheinMain CongressCenter, Wiesbaden, DE
 PERSONAL STRUCTURES, Biennial Art Exhibition, European Cultural Centre, Venice, IT
 TAPETENWECHSEL, Zeit für Kunst, Kronberg im Taunus, DE

2021
 DIE VERSUCHUNG DES HEILIGEN ANTONIUS, Kunst- und Galeriehaus, Bochum, DE
 INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR Art3f BRUSSELS, Brussels Expo, BE
 XIII Florence Biennale, Mostra Internationale di Arte Contemporanea e Design, IT
 ART EINDHOVEN, Kunst in het Klokgebouw, Klokgebouw Eindhoven, NL


2020
 Shanghai International Art Fair, 2nd Edition, National Exhibition and Convention Center, Shanghai, CHN
 Shibuya Station Exhibition, Edition III, Tokyo, JPN

2019
 EuropArtFair, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, NL
 "Müßiggang ist aller Laster Anfang - Die 7 Todsünden", Kunst- und ...