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Elpida Tsaousidis
"Having grown up in a Belgian-Greek family, I began at an early age to explore questions about my origins and roots and thus my own identity.
In my artistic practice, I explore these questions by examining memories, belief systems, and cultural influences – especially in the context of religion and superstition - and in doing so, I deal with identity, self-relationship, and social attribution, including in relation to female figures.
I am interested in the tension between adaption and resistance, between the longing for recognition and the desire for self-assertion.
My works engage with these ambivalences and examine how emotional, social, and cultural influences are inscribed in the body, gesture, and material.
The process of creating my works plays a central role in this: repetitive, ritualistic actions manifest themselves in the works and become part of an introspective process of reflection, an act between curse and catharsis, in which the past and self-image are constantly renegotiated. My works move at the intersection between myth and identity, dream and trauma. They can be understood as a search for traces and an open narrative.
It is an attempt to approach the meaning and power of (personal) history, conditioning, and conflict, as well as their influence on our identity."
Curriculum vitae
*1993 in Dieburg, DE
lives and works in Mainz, DE
Education
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since WS 2024/25 Freie Bildende Kunst, Klasse für Bildhauerei bei Prof. Nancy Lupo, Kunsthochschule Mainz, DE
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SS 2024 Freie Bildende Kunst, Klasse für Bildhauerei bei Gastprof. Marcel Walldor, Kunsthochschule Mainz, DE
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2023 Freie Bildende Kunst, Klasse für Bildhauerei bei Prof. Sabine Groß, Kunsthochschule Mainz, DE
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WS 2022/23 Gastsemester Klasse für Bildhauerei bei Prof. Sabine Groß, Kunsthochschule Mainz, DE
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2019 Kommunikationsdesign und Kunst, École nationale supérieure d’art de Nancy (Auslandssemester), FR
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20217-2021 Kommunikationsdesign, Hochschule Mainz, DE
Awards, Grants, Projects
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2024/25 Deutschlandstipendium
Collections
- Private Collections
Solo and Two-Person Shows
| 2025 | „Unlovable“, Apollo, Mainz, DE |
| 2024 | „Dass auch das letzte Salzkorn auf meiner Zunge landet“, Ausstellungsraum Hochschule Mainz, Mainz, DE |
| 2021 | „Im Bad hat es immer nach Rosen geduftet“, Atelier9, Mainz, DE |
Group Shows (selection)
| 2026 | „Zum gemalten Haus“, Hafenplatz, Offenbach am Main, DE |
| 2024 | „AtemRaum. Eine künstlerische Erforschung von Atem, Medialität und Wahrnehmung“, Schule des Sehens, Mainz, DE „Anonymous Drawings“, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE „Offene Ateliers“, Atelierhaus Waggonfabrik, Mainz, DE „Walldorfschüler im Mars“, MARS, FRankfurt, DE „Kunst bei Karrié. Eine Möglichkeit der Begegnung“, Karrié Bau GmbH, DE |
| 2023 | „LIKE A VIRGIN – touched for the very first time?“, Landesmuseum Mainz, Mainz, DE |
Publications
| 2024 | Elke Anna Wagner und Irene Schütze (Hrsg.), „AtemRaum. Eine künstlerische Erforschung von Atem, Medialität und Wahrnehmung“, Begleitpublikation zur Ausstellung, Offenbach am Main, 2024 |
| 2021 | Elpida Tsaousidis, „Beleben“, in: „Drama 1 – Magazin für szenische Literatur“, Swen Lasse Awe und Jonas Schönfeldt (Hrsg.), 2021, S.53-56 |
Selected Works
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Flurmuster (detail), 2026, dust, 50 x 50 cm -
Flurmuster (detail), 2026, dust, 50 x 50 cm -
Flurmuster (detail), 2026, dust, 50 x 50 cm -
Insatallation view: "Ivanan Matić & Elpida Tsaousidis – Kopf, Herz, Schwelle", Emde Gallery, Mainz 2026 -
Insatallation view: "Ivanan Matić & Elpida Tsaousidis – Kopf, Herz, Schwelle", Emde Gallery, Mainz 2026 -
Meshes of a Universe, 2024, dust, diameter ca. 10 cm (dimensions variable) -
False Whisper I, 2025 (printed 2026), inkjet pigment print on PE photo paper, 59,4 × 42 cm, ed. 1/5 + 2 AP -
False Whisper II, 2025 (printed 2026), inkjet pigment print on PE photo paper, 59,4 × 42 cm, ed. 1/5 + 2 AP -
False Whisper III, 2025 (printed 2026), inkjet pigment print on PE photo paper, 59,4 × 42 cm, ed. 1/5 + 2 AP -
False Whisper IV, 2025 (printed 2026), inkjet pigment print on PE photo paper, 59,4 × 42 cm, ed. 1/5 + 2 AP -
False Whisper V, 2025 (printed 2026), inkjet pigment print on PE photo paper, 59,4 × 42 cm, ed. 1/5 + 2 AP -
False Whisper VI, 2025 (printed 2026), inkjet pigment print on PE photo paper, 59,4 × 42 cm, ed. 1/5 + 2 AP -
I Dreamt of Closed Curtains II, 2025, pencil on paper, 15 × 15 cm -
I Dreamt of Closed Curtains III, 2025, pencil on paper, 15 × 15 cm -
I Dreamt of Closed Curtains I, 2025, pencil on paper, 15 × 15 cm -
I Dreamt of Closed Curtains VI, 2025, pencil on paper, 15 × 15 cm -
I Dreamt of Closed Curtains V, 2025, pencil on paper, 15 × 15 cm -
I Dreamt of Closed Curtains IV, 2025, pencil on paper, 15 × 15 cm -
I Dreamt of Closed Curtains IX, 2025, pencil on paper, 15 × 15 cm -
I Dreamt of Closed Curtains VIII, 2025, pencil on paper, 15 × 15 cm -
I Dreamt of Closed Curtains VII, 2025, pencil on paper, 15 × 15 cm -
False Whisper VII, 2025 (printed 2026), inkjet pigment print on PE photo paper, 59,4 × 42 cm, ed. 1/5 + 2 AP -
I Dreamt of Closed Curtains X, 2025, pencil on paper, 15 × 15 cm -
Insatallation view: "Ivana Matić & Elpida Tsaousidis – Kopf, Herz, Schwelle", Emde Gallery, Mainz 2026