Bio

Georgia Sagri, (1979, Athens, GR) is an artist. She studied music and cello at the National Music School of Athens. She holds an BFA from Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens and an MFA from Columbia University, New York.

At the center of her practice lies the exploration of performance as an ever-evolving field within social and visual life, interconnected, though distinct from the dialectics of representation in theatre, music and dance. In addition to performance pieces, a great part of her artistic output comprises sculpture, video and digital media, installation, writing and drawing.

Most of her work is influenced from her on-going engagement in political movements and struggles, on issues of autonomy, empowerment and self-organization. From 1997–2001 she was a member of Void Network, a cultural, political and philosophical collective operating in Athens. In 2011 she was one of the main organisers of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York.

Her first institutional solo show, curated by Adam Szymczyk, was under the title Mona Lisa Effect, at Kunsthalle Basel in the spring of 2014. 

In 2015 she initiated her studio Ύλη[matter]HYLE, as a semi-public/semi-private cultural space in the heart of Athens.

Her monograph catalogue was published by Sternberg Press in 2018.

She is the professor of Performance in the School of Fine Arts, in Athens. Her book Stage of Recovery was published by Divided Publishing in May 2021.