Isidora Rentzika (b. 1990) focuses on existential issues and universal emotions such as fear, anger, insecurity and the constant anxiety of deconstructing and redefining identity. Her influences from the Existentialists, Game Theory but, also, from the observation of modern everyday life, lead her to the composition of ambiguous images and short stories, moving around the concepts of irony, cynicism and the absurd, with a sense of mockery. In these stories, the need for escape and the possibility of a plot twist are always present. She seeks to capture that moment when the figures experience dilemma, risk, guilt and, perhaps, the transition to a new state. She lives and works in Thessaloniki, Greece.
EDUCATION
2017 BA / MA Painting, School of Visual and Applied Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece
SOLO SHOWS
2021 Nash Equilibrium, To Pikap, Thessaloniki, Greece
GROUP SHOWS
2022 Mataroa Awards exhibition, Art Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Fair, TIF-HELEXPO, Thessaloniki, Greece
2021 Digital.Not_Reboot, ArtCore, Thessaloniki, Greece
New Perspectives (Cosmopolis festival), Great Clubhouse, Kavala, Greece
Athens Open Art, Art Number 23, Athens, Greece
Digital.Not (A), Oratos, Thessaloniki, Greece
2020 To Pikap Community – Art in Thessaloniki 2018-2019, Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki (Casa Bianca),Thessaloniki, Greece
2019 Digging Up 6+3, Refugees Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece
2018 Inspire Project 2018 Christopher Makos: Face the Strange, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Biennale Larnaca, “Container and Content”, Municipal Gallery, Larnaca, Cyprus
Emerging Artists, Open Art Lab (TIF-HELEXPO), Thessaloniki, Greece
2017 4th Painting Studio of AUTh Group Show, Society for Macedonian Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece
2016 4th Painting Studio of AUTh Group Show, Paleontology & History Museum, Ptolemaida, Greece
WORKSHOPS
2018 Inspire Project 2018 Christopher Makos: Face the Strange, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art , Thessaloniki, Greece
AWARDS
2022 Mataroa Awards (Shortlisted), Thessaloniki, Greece
PUBLICATIONS