Lito Kattou

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Lito Kattou – Crystal Tears

Biography

Born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1990, Lito Kattou lives and works in Athens, Greece. She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London with a MA in Sculpture and the Athens School of Fine Arts. Part of an emergent continuum of production, her works negotiate understandings of materiality and subjectivity through a composition of practices, spanning from digital fabrication to thermochemical elaborations. Articulated as weapons, skins, or cosmic elements, Kattou’s works engage with the sculptural potentiality of flatness, processes of embodiment and the transfigurations of material properties within the margins of space and time. Her practice talks about what comes before and after the body, the possibility of its presence and absence, its representation and its abstraction. Subjectivation in Kattou’s work is understood as a series of tactics for the production and the conditioning of the self and the other. The subject is presented as a wanderer, transcending identity and categorization: a composition of voices shifting equivocally between dialogue and monologue. Space, form and narrative are structured around traces left from acts of attack and defence, modes of roaming and intimate communication.

Gallery Exhibitions

Other Venues

Selected Press

02.12.2024

PARNASS Magazine

IM GESPRÄCH MIT LITO KATTOU

14.04.2023

Il Giornale Dell'Arte

Le creature di Lito Kattou alla Fondazione Pomodoro

07.04.2023

Atp Diary

Lito Kattou — Whisperers | Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro – Intervista con la curatrice Chiara Nuzzi

06.2022

CURA

Interview with Adriana Blidaru

IN PROXIMITY WITH THE OTHERWORLDLY: A CONVERSATION WITH LITO KATTOU

30.05.2020

SALIVE LIVE

Lito Kattou | "Productivity is not something settled and stable"

Wonderful Post Anthropocentric Creatures

26.11.2019

KALEIDOSCOPE

Lito Kattou: Crystal Tears

27.06.2019

ATP DIARY

Lito Kattou. Unknown synergy

06.2019

BOMB MAGAZINE

Fluidity and Change: Lito Kattou

CV

Education

2015 – 2017

Royal College of Art, MA Sculpture, London

2008 – 2013

Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece

2011 – 2012

Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Munich

Solo exhibitions

2024

‘Travellers’, T293, Rome

2023

‘Mystery 151 A Rave Down Below’, Old Oil Mill Factory, Elefsina
LANDS/SexLife, opbo studio, Piraeus
Whisperer V’, ICA Milan
‘Whisperers’, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan

2022

‘Myriad Worlds as Ours’, Paganico Sabino x T293, Italy
‘Rain Calling’, TRANEN, Copenhagen

2020

‘Teras Terra’, Galeria Duarte Sequeira, Braga, Portugal

2019

‘Crystal Tears’, T293, Rome
‘Unknown Synergy’, Tile Projects, Milan
‘Empty Afternoons’, Artothek, Cologne
‘GAIA’, Polansky Gallery, Prague

2018

‘Days of San’, DESTE Foundation – Benaki Museum, Athens
Siren Daylight, Room E10 27, Berlin
‘San’, Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia

2017

‘Night Fight’, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
‘Fighting with the Sun’, Clearview.ltd, London

2016

‘Solar Love for the Rapid Felines’, Pierre Poumet, Bordeaux
‘Domestic Survival Tutorials: Session1’, Fokidos, Athens

2014

‘Ra Radiance’, Radical Reading, Athens

Group exhibitions

2024

‘Living Content Biennial’: Earthcake, Salina Targu Ocna – Salt Mine, Romania
‘Touching Faultlines’, Odeon of Gortys, Crete
‘Group Therapy’, Bell House, Prague
‘Hell Remains’, Haus N, Athens
‘Casts of an Island’, Old Carob Warehouse, Limassol

2023

‘Mystery 151 A Rave Down Below’, Old Oil Mill Factory, Elefsina
Weather Engines, Laboral – Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón
Vibrant Waters, Centre for Contemporary Art | Temporary Gallery, Cologne

2022

‘4+3=1’, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
‘Les Sirènes étaient des femmes oiseaux!’, Hyam Projects, Hydra Island, Greece
‘Weather Machines’, Onassis Foundation, Athens
‘Dancing Plague’, GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo

2021

‘Till We Meet Again’, CVAR Museum, Nicosia, Cyprus
‘I want to tell you so many things’, National Gallery – The Palace, Sofia
‘In Bed with a Mosquito’, Galeria Duarte Sequeira, Braga
ECLIPSE, 7th Athens Biennale
‘Teaser 02 – The Fairest’, Berlin
‘Body Snatchers’, curated by Like a little disaster, Polignano al mare, Italy
Las Palmas: Apofenia’, Culturgest, Porto, Portugal

2020

‘Las Palmas: Apofenia’, Fidelidade Arte, Lisbon
‘Keeping the balance’, Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest
‘Anthropocene on Hold’ Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative (online exhibition)
‘Surface Tension’, Flamingo, Berlin

2019

‘Hypersurfacing’, Nimac | Nicosia Municipal Art Centre, Cyprus
‘URANIA’, Sonnenstube, Lugano, Switzerland
‘Fallen Empires and Refound Desires’, Horst Arts& Music, Vilvoorde North, Brussels
Ducato Prize Finalists show, Palazzo del Podestà, Piacenza, Italy
‘Ambroglio’, Foothold, Bari, Italy
‘Cosmogony – Asthenia issue 7’, City Surfer, Prague
‘Russian Morning’, MD, Cologne
‘Listen to Us – Artistic Intelligence’, City Art Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
‘Pentadaktylos’, AG Leventis Museum, Nicosia, Cyprus
‘In a World Where Immortality is the Norm, the Future is My Future’, Galeria Duarte Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
‘Collection as an Automaton’, American College, Athens
‘Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance | Who Would Be Free themselves Must Strike the Blow’, Nottingham Contemporary, United Kingdom

2018

‘Be Water Again’, Korai Project Space, Nicosia, Cyprus
‘Drawings’, 650maah Gallery, Hove, United Kingdom
‘Making Oddkin’, volcanic island of Nisyros, Greece
‘District 17’, Kraupa – Tuskany Zeidler Gallery, Berlin

2017

‘Tagmata ~~ Promo 2017’, Cosmos Carl, London
‘This Star is Relatively Young’, Royal College of Art (degree show), Dyson Gallery, London
‘And If I le dreaming about you?’, Foothold, Bari, Italy
’15 Young artist for the 175 years of the National Bank of Greece’, former Athens Stock Exchange, Athens
‘*bang!’, Daily Lazy Projects, Athens
‘It looks like up to me’, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
‘Planetes’, Old Powerhouse, Pafos, Cyprus

2016

‘THE GEO POLITICS OF MONETIZED AIRSPACE. Come Fly with Me’, I Meet You by the Airside Gucci Concession at 4, Fox Fur Hat Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis
‘Off to Mahagonny’, Peckham Rye Lane, London
‘The Surf Club’, Fotopub, Novo Mesto, Slovenia
‘The Equilibrists’, New Museum, NY in collaboration with DESTE Foundation, Benaki Museum, Athens
‘I would have done everything for you – Gimme More!’, The plug, Westland Place, London
‘What is the Other’, Circuits & Currents, Athens
‘Handsome, Young and Unemployed’, KOMPLOT, Brussels
‘Ambiguity 3’, Green Ray, London

2015

‘A Natural Oasis’, Viafarini DOCVA, Fabrica del Vapore, Milan
‘Rims and Frontiers’, Archeological Museum of Delphoi, Greece
‘CLOUD’, 3137 Project Space, Athens
‘Car Service’, Enterprise Projects, Athens
‘The voices of the Sirens’, Listen to the Sirens | Space for Contemporary Art, Gibraltar
‘Archive Rights III. Innocent categories Suspicious narratives’, Contemporary Greek Art Institute, Athens
‘Exercises in Orientation’, Peltz Gallery, Birbeck University/School of Arts, London

2014

‘They are indeed the principle of things, and yet they are not interpretable and empty as mirrors’, Total Project Space, Athens
‘In the mouth of the wolf. Die wolf, die!’, Cyprus Embassy, Athens
‘Happy Hour’, Montegiardino, San Marino
‘A Fiction in Reality,’ Botin Foundation, Villa Iris, Santander, Spain
‘ROOMS 2014’, Kappatos gallery, Saint George Lycabettus Hotel, Athens

Lito Kattou

Selected Works

Mother & Children

Whisperer I

Whisperer II

Whisperer III

Whisperer IV

Weather Engines

Myriad Worlds as Ours

Les Sirènes étaient des Femmes Oiseaux

4+3=1 There are Stories to be Forged for Common Denominators to come forth and Social Balance to be Restored

Anniversaries I

Anniversaries II

Anniversaries III

Weaver

Sky Diver

Walker

Dreamer

Carrier

Destroyer Dancer

Double Mooner

Moon Lover

Closer

Erratics II

Erratics I

Traveller III

Traveller IV

Traveller V

Traveller VI

Traveller VII

Traveller IIX

Traveller IX

Traveller X

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