Artist in Residency
Artemis Chrysostomidou
November 2025
by Artemis Chrysostomidou
“I occupy the curator's room. Among his belongings, a hologram of him appears, a spectral curator projected as an event emptied of truth, as a fragment of what remains when people of the arts are reproduced as images detached from themselves and where visibility no longer guarantees thought. Everything becomes spectacle, trapped inside its own reproduction. The curator, who once reflected artists and artworks, now watches himself being watched.” https://www.artemischrysostomidou.com/curatorsroom
Language is at the core of her work, which increasingly incorporates visual and artistic elements. Her techniques include poems, lyrics, playwriting, performances, video narratives. In her exploration of everyday life, she uses mockery and contempt, read: sarcasm and irony, as rhetorical devise to bring the narrative context to life. Almost as an afterthought, she devotes herself to the extraordinary, allowing irrationality, joy and their delicate energy to shine light. During the residency, she explored the curator and his field of work in order to present it in the form of a hologram.
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Sprache steht im Mittelpunkt ihrer Arbeit, wo sie zunehmend visuelle und künstlerische Elemente einbezieht. Zu ihren Technikengehören Gedichte, Songtexte, Theaterstücke, Performances und Videogeschichten. Bei ihrer Erforschung des Alltagslebens bedient sie sich Spott und Verachtung, sprich: Sarkasmus und Ironie, als rhetorische Mittel, um den narrativen Kontext zum Leben zu erwecken. Fast wienebenbei widmet sie sich dem Außergewöhnlichen und lässt Irrationalität, Freude und zarte Energie zum Vorschein kommen. Während ihres Aufenthalts beschäftigte sie sich mit dem Kurator und seinem Arbeitsgebiet, um dies anschließend in Form eines Hologramms zu präsentieren.
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Artemis Chrysostomidou is an author, director and multidisciplinary artist-in-residence at the Cité internationale des arts Paris (FR). She creates contemporary theatre embracing the contradictions of the modern world. Her original pieces include Raw Eggs, ACUD Theater Berlin, 2026 (DE), Cité internationale des arts Paris, 2026 (FR), Alkantara Festival Lisbon, 2024 (PT), Altofest Naples, 2023 (IT), Espaço da Penha Lisbon, 2022 (PT); Manipulation and Other Romantic Stories, Altofest Naples, 2024 (IT), Frankfurt LAB, 2021 (DE); Mortality, Hooray!, EXPO Festival, English Theatre Berlin, 2020 (DE); A Guide on How to Prevent Daily Life Accidents, BIOS Athens, 2019 (GR) etc. As a dramaturge she has collaborated with various directors, while as a multidisciplinary artist she presented video, installations, site-specific, photographic and text-based series at Cité internationale des arts (FR), Flux I bell Berlin (DE), Lichtenberg Studios (DE), Lettrétage Berlin (DE), Travers, Copenhagen Contemporary (DK), Temporars, Muzeum Susch (CH) etc. In 2023 her bilingual book Oh, that hand of Yours was presented at Frankfurter Buchmesse as it was awarded the Young Book Designers Award (GR/DE). In 2018 she was awarded the State Prize for Literature (CY) for her bookDogs don’t bark in France | Sculpture. She received fellowships at Flux I bell Structurs Berlin 2025 (DE), O Rumo do Fumo Lisbon 2022 (PT), Frankfurt LAB 2021 (DE), Art Stations Foundation Switzerland 2020 (CH), European Theatre Convention as European Emerging Artist 2019 (DE).