Eleni Pratsi

The artist was born in Nicosia, Cyprus (October 1987), where she currently lives and works. She holds a DNAP, (Diplôme National d’Arts Plastiques), from the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Nîmes, as well as a DNAP and a DNSAP, (Diplôme National Supérieur d’Arts Plastiques), from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris, France, obtained with Distinction.

Eleni Pratsi produces artworks with geometric compositions and explosive, liquescent colours. She utilises both painting and printmaking techniques, evoking a balance between creative control and affirmation of chance, which extends throughout all the works. Every composition is created from experimentation with different colour combinations and the infinite possibilities that surface through the repetition, overlap and juxtaposition of circles.

The use of stencil, a meticulously cut-out original which meets the canvas, creates sometimes sealed, and other times porous boundaries for the vivid colours that are poured directly on it. The colour palette is influenced by pop culture, developments in pigments and industrial paint production, which Pratsi continually researches. The paint, whose density is specific but different every time, interacts within the i...

2014 DNSAP, (Diplôme National Supérieur d’Arts Plastiques), with Distinction (avec les Félicitations du Jury), equivalent to the Master, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris, France.

2012 DNAP, (Diplôme National d’Arts Plastiques), Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris, France.

2010 DNAP, (Diplôme National d’Arts Plastiques), Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Nîmes, France.

Individual Exhibitions

2022 « La vie en Ronde », Alpha CK art Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.

2017 "Thinking circular", Isnotgallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.

2014 « Le Chemin de la Couleur », DNSAP, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris, galerie droite, France.

2012 DNAP, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris, France.

2010 DNAP, Ecole Supérieure de Beaux-arts de Nîmes, France.

Group Exhibitions

2019 "Trait d'Union", Institut Francais de Chypre, 6-19 avril

2015 « Les Voyageurs », the exhibition of the students of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris, who granduated in june 2014 with a distinction. President of the jury and curator of the exhibition: Hou Hanru, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, Palais des Beaux-arts, 20 october 2015-3 january 2016, Paris, France.

2015 « Couleurs Power », Second edition, Galerie My Art Goes Boom, 15-27 February, Avignon, France.

2015 « Lush art in austere times », Is Not Gallery, 4 February-4 March, Nicosia, Cyprus.

2015 «Couleurs Power », Galerie La Salamandre, 14-21 january, Nîmes, France.

2014 «Pop Up Festival», Is not Gallery, 15 November-15 January, Nicosia, Cyprus.

2014 «Salon des Réalités Nouvelles »...