Born in Athens 

Based in Gothenburg


Katerina Tsakiri is a Greek Photographer and Visual Artist 

who lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden. 



Education

  • 2021 MFA Photography, Valand Academy (University of Gothenburg), Sweden
  • 2011 Erasmus Exchange - Visual and Graphic Design (ESAD Orleans), France
  • 2015 BA in Photography and Audiovisual Arts (TEI of Athens), Greece

Scholarships 

  • 2022 Arbetsstipendium, Konstnärsnämnden
  • 2021 Theodor och Hanne Mannheimers Fond
  • 2020 Adlerbertska Stipendier


Group Exhibitions

  • 2024 [PEP] Photographic Explorations °01, 254Forest ,Brussels,  Belgium
  • 2023 Salong CFF 2023, Formcenter Väst Göteborg, Sweden
  • 2023 "What is Beauty", Photo Vogue Festival, BASE Milano, Italy
  • 2023 Imago Lisboa Photo Festival, Carpintarias De São Lázaro, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2023 Invisible Crete, Viannos Gallery , Crete, Greece
  • 2023 "Un État De Conscience", Galerie La Grande Vitrine, Arles, France
  • 2023 Horror Vacui, Detriti Gallery, Göteborg, Sweden
  • 2022 Salong CFF 2022, Vulcano, Göteborg, Sweden 
  • 2021 "OBSESSIONS", Photographic Exploration Project, Tête Gallery, Berlin
  • 2021 "Vanishing Points", Röda Sten Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden
  • 2020 "The Path of a Falling Leaf", Galleri Format, Malmö, Sweden
  • 2019 "Young Greek Photographers, 2019", Athens Photo Festival, Greece
  • 2019 "Parallel Voices", Photometria Festival, Ioannina,Greece
  • 2019 "Young Greek Photographers, 2010-2018", Athens Photo Festival, MOMus,Thessaloniki,Greece 
  • 2018 "Beauty & Consolation", Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal
  • 2018 "Family of no man", Arles, France
  • 2018 "Self Images", Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki,Greece
  • 2017 "Jeune photographie européenne #2" Maupetit, côté Galerie, Marseille, France
  • 2016 "Young Greek Photographers", Athens Photo Festival, Greece
  • 2016 "European Young Photography" Circulations Festival, Paris,France
  • 2015 "Young Greek Photographers" SOUTH space of photography, Chania,Greece
  • 2015 "Kythera Photographic Encounters",Greece

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2018 Photometria Festival, Ioannina,Greece

Projections

  • 2023 Verzasca Foto Festival, Switzerland
  • 2016 "Encontros da Imagem" finalist of Discovery award under 30, Portugal

Shortilists 

  • 2023 Helsinki Photo Festival
  • 2022  "Solo Exhibition Artist" Copenhagen Photo Festival 
  • 2021 Helsinki Photo Festival

Publications

  • 2023 Der Greif issue #16 "Common Love" guest edited by Shirin Neshat
  • 2018 "CAMERA OBSCURA" , insert magazine in the greek literary and art magazine "ΕΝΤΕΥΚΤΗΡΙΟ"
  • 2017 "Culturescapes Greece, Archaeology of the Future", CULTURESCAPES Festival, Switzerland
  • 2016 “Φωτογράφος”, (Photographer) greek photographic magazine 

Featured

  • 2023 Zerofeedback Online Magazine No020
  • 2023 Der Greif Guest Room: Damarice Amao & Matthias Pfaller
  • 2022 "Top 200 PhMuseum's Stories of 2021", Phmuseum
  • 2016  "Circulation(s) 2016 : Entretien avec Katerina Tsakiri",  L' Oeil De La Photographie

Collections

  • MOMus - Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece 


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