About the artist: Peggy Kliafa

She lives and works in Athens, Greece

She graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts (with Honors) where she studied Painting under Professor Marios Spiliopoulos and Sculpture under Professor Nikos Tranos (2011/2012).
She graduated from the Athens University of Economics and Business (ASOEE) in 1990, where she studied Business Administration (Major in Marketing); she has been working as a marketing manager for many years.

Her works have been acquired by public collections in Greece as well as Foundations and private collections in Greece and abroad.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS/3 PERSON EXHIBIBITION:

October 2017, 3 PERSON SHOW: “Creative Meetings 2017, Michalis Katzourakis, Peggy Kliafa, Vassilis Gerodimos – Transformation of the Medium”, E. Averoff Museum and the vineyards, Metsovo, Greece, curated by Dr. Lina Tsikouta-Deimezi (catalogue)

September 2016: “Placebo”, Lola Nikolaou Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece, exhibition text: by Thalea Stefanidou (small catalogue)

November 2013, “Pharmakon”, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece, exhibition text: by Dr. Lina Tsikouta-Deimezi (catalogue)

SOLO ONE DAY EVENTS:
June 2015, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece

July 2014, St Nikolaos “church” in the medieval castle of Monemvasia Castle, Monemvasia

GROUP SHOWS:

June 2018, “Art Athina 18” fair, Athens, in the booth of Lola Nikolaou Gallery, in the Athens Conservatoire

May 2018, “Join the Dots”, Luciano Benetton – Imago Mundi Collection, Salone degli Incanti, Trieste, Italy

February 2018, “Symphony in 20 parts. Contemporary artworks from the collections of the State Museum of Contemporary Art and of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art”, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, curators: Thouli Misirloglou, Giannis Bolis

December 2017, “AVLAIA” (DROP CURTAIN), Makrideio Theatre, Paphos, Cyprus, “Paphos 2017” Organization, Cultural Capital of Europe, curator Gioula Hatzigeorgiou, catalogue text Dr. Sozita Goudouna (catalogue)

October 2017, “Creative Meetings 2017, Michalis Katzourakis, Peggy Kliafa, Vassilis Gerodimos – Transformation of the Medium”, E. Averoff Museum and the vineyards, Metsovo, Greece, curated by Dr. Lina Tsikouta-Deimezi (catalogue)

September 2017, “Imagined Homes”, 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Mount Athos Center/Agioritiki Estia, Thessaloniki, Organisation-Production: State Museum of Contemporary Art, Director Syrago Tsiara (catalogue)

July 2017, “Combat Breathing”, group event, EMST National Museum of Contemporary art, Athens, curator: Dr. Sozita Goudouna

July 2017, “A Certain Blue of the Sea”, group exhibition, Ionian Parliament, Corfu, curated by Dr. Sozita Goudouna

June 2017, “Removement, Athens, 2017”, group exhibition, Kairi Arcade, Athens, supported by NEON organization, curated by Maria Vassariotou, Konstantinos Sakkas, Yorgos Nomikos, Georgia Eleni Tigkinagka, produced by: https://www.delta-pi.org/removement

April 2017, “The Library Show”, group show, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Athens, curated by Eleftheria Tseliou, David Sampethai

June 2016, “Multiples”, group exhibition, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Athens, Greece

June 2016, “Private Collection II”, group exhibition, Lola Nikolaou Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece

May 2016, “12”, group exhibition, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece

September 2015, Beirut Art Fair, Lebanon, in the booth of Kappatos Gallery

June 2015, Aegeanale 2015, international art and culture platform at the Aegean Sea, Kivotos, Myconos, curated by Dr. Sozita Goudouna (digital catalogue)

June 2015, “Art Athina 2015”, Art Fair at Faliron Pavilion (Taekwondo Stadium), in the booth of Kappatos Gallery, Athens (art fair’s catalogue)

November 2014, “10”, group exhibition, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece, curated by Dr. Sozita Goudouna

May 2014, Luciano Benetton Foundation Greek Collection, Imago Mundi Project, curated by Vanessa Melissourgaki, Natasha Karagelou, Polyna Kosmadaki. First international exhibition: in Venice, Italy, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Sep 1 – Nov 1 2015 (catalogue)

April 2014, International Conference “Art & Research”, Athens Concert Hall, Athens, curated by Elizabeth Plessa (catalogue)

March 2014, “Shortly”, Museum of Modern-Greek Art, Municipality of Rhodes, Rhodes, co-ordinated by Prof. Kostas Ioannidis (catalogue)

February 2014, Athens School of Fine Arts 2010-11 Graduates’ Exhibition, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, curated by Prof. Michalis Manoussakis (catalogue)

September 2013, Kappatos Gallery, Athens

May 2013, “The Symptom Projects – The Symptom 04”, Amfissa, curated by Apostolis Artinos and Kostas Christopoulos (catalogue)

May 2013, “Paradise Lost”, parallel exhibition, Art Athina, Athens, curated by Artemis Potamianou (art fair’s catalogue)

March 2013, “Medium as Narrative”, CAMP (Contemporary Art Meeting Point), Athens, original idea by George Divaris, Kostas Hristopoulos, curated by Dr. Lina Tsikouta-Deimezi

January 2013, International Conference on Jacques Derrida, University of Athens and French Institute of Athens, curated by Dr. Sozita Goudouna

January 2012, “Rooms 2012”, St George Lycabettus Hotel, Athens, organized by the Kappatos Gallery, curated by Dr. Lina Tsikouta-Deimezi; “Rooms Plus”, Kappatos Gallery, Athens (catalogue)

December 2011, “Art in Shop Windows”, in vacant shops in the Athens centre; organized by the Athens School of Fine Arts and the Municipality of Athens (catalogue)

June 2010, “Sotiria Project”, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, curated by Dr. Panagiotis Papadopoulos (catalogue)

 

COLLECTIONS:

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece

FOUNDATIONS

Benetton Foundation, Italy

Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza Foundation – E. Averoff Museum, Metsovo, Greece

Valmont Foundation, Switzerland

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Several artworks have been acquired by private collections in Greece and abroad.