Markella Lousidis

Born in Athens, Greece, Markella is a multidisciplinary artist working across ceramics, painting, and collage. Her practice explores the tension between tradition and transformation, staging quiet acts of defiance against personal and cultural erosion, mythology, and political corruption. At its core lies a reckoning with betrayal—of the self, the body, and the inherited histories we’re asked to carry.
Each piece becomes a site of friction, where the fluidity of identity meets the density of material. Her recent works in painted décollage and ceramics navigate symbolic heritage and lived experience, revealing identity as constructed, contested, and continually in flux. Blending neo-Renaissance beauty with raw narratives, her work interrogates the space between what we inherit and what we choose to become.
Markella exhibited internationally from the age of seven and studied at classical academies in Paris, Madrid, Berlin, and Athens. Her work has been shown in London, Athens, Italy, and the USA.

European Academies (Paris, Madrid, Berlin, London, Florence, Athens) Currently completing GradDip at Royal College of Art, London

2025 July 18 – Aug 18, Ethereal Horizons, Collective Exhibition, Spazio Levante, Venice, Italy
2024 Nov 1-3, Art San Diego, Circle Gallery, San Diego California
2024 Sept 5 – 29, Exhibition 24!, Pame Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
2023 Jul 21 – Aug. 8, Future Landscapes, Borders International Art Fair, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy
2023 Jul 14-27, Rome International Art Fair 2023, 8th edition, Medina Art Gallery, Rome, Italy
2023, Jun 23 – July 7, Mixing Identities, The Line Contemporary Art Space, London, United Kingdom
2023 Jun 16 – July 7, Secret Spaces, Borders Art Fair, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy
2022 Jan 29 – Mar 6, Sweet Tooth, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Centre, Alexandria, Va, USA
2021 Dec 17-23, Contemporary II, Boomer Gallery, Tower Bridge, London, United Kingdom
2021 Nov 12-18, What is Art? III, Boomer Gallery, Tower Bridge, London, United Kingdom
2015 Oct 17-20, Words & Works, The Venice Art Factory, Venice, Italy