Christina Kyriakidou is a Visual Artist, Arts Facilitator and UNESCO RILA Affiliate from Thessaloniki, Greece, living and working in Glasgow.
Her work, influenced by the art movement of Excessivism, focuses on consumer culture and how it interconnects with wastefulness and the constant reproduction and re-invention of our contemporary identities.
Being a multidisciplinary artist, Kyriakidou often revisits the concept of waste in various areas of practice, including performance art.
Waste is seen as a direct documentation of a maximalist, consumerist way of life and, simultaneously, a visual representation of modern-day stressors and addictions.
In 2019, Kyriakidou was invited to showcase her work at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), at 'Growth: Disruption, Resistance & Resilience', an exhibition focusing on the role of contemporary art as a key arena for social action. Ever since, Kyriakidou has participated in both solo and group exhibitions in Scotland, Greece, Ireland, the United States, and Italy.
In September 2021 she had her solo show "Monoliths" in Apodec, Thessaloniki.
In 2021 and 2022 her ‘Trashion Arts’ project was presented in several shows alongside the international exhibitor group SHIM.
Kyriakidou holds a First Class BA Honours in Contemporary Art Practice and in 2023 she completed her postgraduate studies in Adult Education, Community Development & Youth Work at the University of Glasgow with Distinction.
With an ever-increasing interest in artistic activism and art for social change, Kyriakidou has been running weekly art workshops for asylum seekers and refugees for the Central and West Integration Network since the beginning of 2022. To this day, the art group led by Kyriakidou, has participated in several shows including exhibitions at the Scottish Refugee Festival for three consecutive years, and has formed ongoing collaborations with artists and organisation.
