Sofia Kapnissi

"In her paintings we see how a hyper sensitive person perceives the world"
S. Kapnissi is a trained painter working on revealing the free true space that we all hide within and that gives purpose in life; just like the sunshine does and the warmth of a real home. "My paintings depict the intensity of life; bright colors or black and white, abstract or figurative, my images point at Life and at our humanity that we evoke through beauty."
S. Kapnissi (Athens, 1966) studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University in Greece and at the Free Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague, the Netherlands; for a period as a NUFFIC grantee. She is founding member of the Gaidaro group which from 1999-2008 presented projects advocating for wide participation in the art practice and presentation.
Painting is her main activity which often expands to engraving, textile, video and text.
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2016 MA Media Studies, Leiden University - Netherlands
1996-98 Free Academy for Visual Arts, The Hague - Netherlands
1996 NUFFIC scholarship for art studies
1990 BA in Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Greece

2024 19 July – 25 August, “Pet Shop” in Kunsthal Gent, Belgium

2024 15 June – 13 July, Textile exhibition VERBA CREANT in Biblioteca Comunale Padre Ernesto Balducci, Florence province, Italy.
2024 4- 18 June, “The 15th International Textile and Fibre Art Biennial “Scythia”, Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine

2024, 28 February-30 March: Graphic art group exhibition "Domestic Fauna" in Gallery Ektos in Athens. Read about my lino-prints here: https://atelierkapnos.com/2022/12/14/cat-lino-prints/
2023 Group Exhibition ‘PAPER’ at the THE EUROPEAN CENTRE/Contemporary Space Athens organized by PROJECT 2 ATHENS.
2022 Presentation of the painting series “Humanize the Code” at Big Screen Plaza, New York.
2022 Solo show 'LEGS TIGHT SHUT" at Peter Rommers Couture Art&Design, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2022 Group Exhibition
'Own Domain' (Eigen Domein) at LOU Oudenoord, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 19-27 February
2021 International Art Exhibition "Introducing Mail-Art to Naxos" at Cycladia, Damalas, Naxos-Greece
2021 group show "Seeing Women" at Dekka-arts gallery, Margate, UK (dekka-arts.com)
2021 11th 'From Lausanne to Beijing' International Fiber Art Biennale 2020 - online at https://lbfiberart.ad.tsinghua.edu.cn/
And on Instagram @lbfiberart
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