Katerina Stefanidaki lives and works in Athens. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Athens School of Fine Arts, while her artistic work consists of drawings and installations that often refer to her personal space of residence and work. Her studio is described by its furniture, tools and view, while those who are among the works complete the final picture, such as, for example, the visitors of her first solo exhibition at Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens, 2008. The same space is the topic of Stefanidaki’s second solo exhibition at Zoumboulakis Gallery, entitled “This is the Place, Gentlemen!”, Athens, 2015. This time the content and the shell of the studio is under collapse, while the viewers move among the floating debris. Her next, ongoing installation entitled “Mine” has a similar theme, only here the collapse, the very moment of explosion organizes in a geometric way a new spatial structure (“Pause”, group exhibition, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens, 2017).
In addition to the thematic core related to staying in the same place, Stefanidaki has presented mechanisms/tools that are transferred to be activated in on-site workshops (such as, for example, in collaboration with Zafos Xagoraris and the Onassis Education: ‘Temporary Inscriptions’, Athens, 2017 – 18 and ‘Constructing Public Sentences’, Weimar, 2021 – 22). She has also elaborated on ways in which a work can be displayed, framed or preserved (for example, the design and construction of the showcases in Zafos Xagoraris’ participation in the Venice Biennale, “The Concession”, 2019).
Stefanidaki has designed and configured outdoor spaces and landscapes, such as “Buried Building”, Istiaia, 2014-16, and has participated in various group presentations, like in the exhibition “Burr”, Koren, Athens, 2023 and her most recent solo exhibition “Safe Ground”, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens, 2024.