Lavatoy is a Greek studio that creates handmade ceramic products drawing its inspiration from local tradition, history and organic materials of nature. Shapes, colors, patterns, symbols, technique and natural raw materials are harmoniously synthesized to produce ceramic molds of special aesthetics and daily use. Lavatoy consists of the potter Nikos Katsoulas and a team of designers. […]
Storytelling wonders, around beachy corners of Greece and its islands, Faces of Summer is a series of works created on his summer traveling sketchbook calendars. […]
Daphne Cavadias is a Visual Artist and Designer based in Athens, Greece. […]
“Life is more complete when you constantly challenge your self and your creativity. I have worked for the past 25 years as a fashion photographer based in NYC. A few years ago a dear friend invited me to her ceramic studio and after that I was inspired and hooked. Clay was a new creative outlet that was grounding — rewarding and most of all therapeutic. My love for nature and its purity of forms and textures has been the driving force in creating my work. […]
“My name is Nikos Chandolias and I come from Katerini, a town in the North of Greece. All my childhood memories have revolved around my father’s business, a very successful artisanal bakery, hence the title @frommydadsbakery. […]
Myrsini Alexandridi is an artist based in Stockholm working with ceramics and ink. She is a practicing architect, originally from Greece, always carrying with her the Mediterranean aura trying to harmonise it with the northern European aesthetics. […]
EleniPal Ceramics is a small ceramics studio based in Athens. All pieces are handmade by Eleni Palaiologou combining functionality with minimal and modern aesthetics. […]
Maria Alexiou is of an architectural background and always felt an appeal to organic, curvy shapes and earthy tones. In 2019 her aesthetic started translating also in Calma ceramics, her ceramic project. […]
PlaymoGreek, are Playmobil figures dressed in handmade copies of traditional Greek costumes. […]
Over the past 12 months at The Greek Foundation, we’ve been trying to showcase some of the best projects related to Greek design, architecture, photography, the arts and cultural production in general. Our aim has been to bring our readers articles that will interest and inspire them, but also to connect artists to the world and bring the world closer to them, too. In this context, we have compiled a list of the most popular articles of 2020, which essentially offers an opportunity to go through some of the most impressive projects of the year, step by step. […]
“My background is rooted in art & design. I studied graphic design in Athens and worked in creative labs and animation studios. […]
Efcharis and Nikos Paltoglou lucky enough to grow up in the ceramics workshop, which their father had established in Athens, were enchanted from a young age with this magical substance of soil and water, bringing them closer to both the past and present of humanity. […]
The characters that populate the canvases in this exhibition are based on mythological references of ancient Greece, Egypt and Mesopotamia. […]
An exclusive collection from the maker Melina Xenaki for the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture shop. Inspired by Bronze Age artefacts found in the region of the Mediterranean, her pots and sculptural pieces carry patterns, animals and plants, a dialogue of earth, fire and living things of our Great Sea across millennia. […]
Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Alexandra Manousakis moved to New York City and studied Fine Arts at NYU. […]
“My ceramics have come alive through the marriage of old and new. My inspiration is a connection of traditional and contemporary everyday style. The colours and the forms find a place in all different environments. […]
Yorgos Maraziotis (*1984, Athens GR) is an MA graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He has also studied Silkscreen at the School Of Visual Arts in New York City and holds a First Class degree in Visual Arts from the Wolverhampton University (UK). Ηe uses various media such as sculpture, installation, publications and often works in thematic series. He is a member of the participatory art group November and a board member of the curatorial organisation AthenSyn. […]
HUG Artworks is a collection of limited edition prints by photographer Ellie Tsatsou. […]
“I am Kika Hinari. I live and work in Athens. My involvement in ceramics started in 2013. […]
Kerameio Ceramic Studio was established in 2014 in the Greek Cycladic island of Serifos. Located in an amazing spot, it offers breathtaking views to the Aegean Sea. […]
George Hadoulis (born 1966) lives and works in Athens. He studied at the École des Beaux-arts in Paris and has pursued a singular career with a love for painting and its intrinsic challenges. […]
“I was born and raised in Heraklion city, on the island of Crete in Greece. I studied Architecture in UTH and worked as an architect with two large practices in Athens for the first years of my career. In 2009, I decided to return to my hometown and continue working as a freelance architect there. […]
Thanks to their strong sense of repetition and innate musicality, Philippos Theodorides paintings are directly related to rhythmicality. His painting is the result of an intense expressionism, where gesture and composition are guided by instinct and spontaneous creativity. […]
Andreas Voukenas and Steven Petrides are artists making sculptural furniture in Athens and New York. […]
Alexis Christodoulou, a self-taught 3D artist living in Cape Town, South Africa has spent the last 6 years building a collection of works focusing on imaginary architecture. While working professionally as a copywriter for the last decade, Alexis taught himself 3D rendering as a hobby. […]
Currently based in Singapore, Emi Avora is drawing subjects from her everyday life, her sketches and images of public and personal spaces with a focus on the interior and still life. […]
The “Playful Sculptures”, created by Kostas Neofitidis is comprised by four different, colourful and vibrant sculptures. […]
Camden Arts Centre presents Hollowed Water, an exhibition of new film, sculpture and musical works by Greek artist Athanasios Argianas. […]
“Vanity: Stories of Jewellery from the Cyclades to Pompeii” is an exhibition of artifacts from Ancient Greece and the Roman empire that took place in the Archaeological park of Pompei. It is a thematic approach of the work of master jewelers originating from Delos and other islands of the Cyclades and their counterparts in Pompeii and other vezuvic states. […]
The Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 1979. Its main purpose is the operation of its two museums, on the island of Andros and in Athens, and the promotion of visual arts on a domestic and international level. […]