Georgia Sagri

Georgia Sagri, (*1979, Athens, GR) lives in Athens and New York. She holds a cello

diploma, a BA from the School of Fine Arts, Athens and an MFA from Columbia

University, NYC. From 2016 until 2019 she was the Visiting Professor of

Performance at Zhdk, Zurich, Art and Media Department in Switzerland. She was

recently appointed to create and run the first and new Performance studio at the

School of Fine Arts in Athens.

At the center of Sagri’s practice lies the exploration of performance as an ever-

evolving field within the social and visual life, interconnected, though distinct, from

the dialectics of representation in theatre, music and dance. In addition to

performance works her artistic output comprises writing, sculpture, video, installation

and drawing. Most of her work is influenced from the ongoing engagement in political

movements and struggles, on the issues of autonomy, empowerment and self-

organization.

She was participant-artist at documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel with the pubic

performance and sculptural manifestation Dynamis. Her first institutional solo show,

curated by Adam Szymczyk, ran under the title Mona Lisa Effect at Kunsthalle Basel

over the spring of 2014. Her first monograph catalogue was published by Sternberg

Press under the title Georgia Sagri Georgia Sagri and I following her two oeuvre solo

exhibitions Georgia Sagri Georgia Sagri at Kunstverein Braunschweig and Georgia

Sagri and I at Portikus curated by Christina Lehnert.

Her work has been included in group exhibitions i.a.: The Eccentrics (2016)

Sculpture Center, NY, curated by Ruba Katrib; Secret Surface Where Meaning

Materializes (2016), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, curated by Ellen

Blumenstein; Bread and Roses (2016) Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, curated by

Łukasz Ronduda and Natalia Sielewicz; What People Do for Money (2016) Manifesta

11, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland, curated by

Christian Jankowsky and the 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015), curated by Carolyn

Christov-Bakargiev. Her work has been presented at the Biennale de Lyon (2013),

ProBio, Expo 1: New York, MoMA PS1, NYC (2013) and the Whitney Biennial,

Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC (2011).

Her work has been shown internationally in public institutions including the Museum

of Modern Art, NYC, the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, KW, Berlin, Arnolfini,

Bristol, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Deste Foundation, Athens

(1st Prize for the performance In the Shop Window, 2001) and in private galleries

including Anthony Reynolds, London; Melas/Papadopoulos, Athens; Lars Friedrich,

Berlin; Team, NYC; Murray Guy, NYC; Real Fine Arts, NYC; Andrew Roth, NYC;

Circus, Berlin; Terri and Donna, Miami and Central Fine, Miami.

In 2009 Sagri founded the audio-only magazine FORTÉ (www.magazineforte.com)

and SALOON, an ongoing nomadic curatorial project.