Bio
Artemis Sartzetakis (born 1999) is an Athens based interdisciplinary artist working predominantly with performance, sculpture, as well as 3d visualisation and VR. They create work inspired by the complex and often co-emergent relationships that determine the natural world.
Due to their father's profession as an environmental economist, Artemis was raised to be highly aware of the climate crisis. This preoccupation with the reality of the degradation of the natural world manifests in a deep appreciation of the micro and macro concordant behaviors in nature.
The artist references such relationships through their sculptural work, human plant hybrid performances and virtual installations.
They have worked with various methods of casting to produce humanoid busts being permeated by amorphous structures akin to myxomycetes or other organic matter growing in tandem. Their latest performance project under the title Plasmo-Desma explores sees Performers with plant appendages tense their surroundings through their expanded body. The next chapter in the artist’s work inhabits the virtual realm, allowing for physical limitations to be removed from the creative process.
Group Shows
2023
“Athens Digital Arts Festival-Welcome to the Uncanny” Stoa korai, Athens, Greece
“The Horde: Goblin Mode” the OVERKILL Festival, Enschede, Netherlands
“ASFA graduate show 2023” Peiraios 256, Athens , Greece
“Open spaces: Chaniartoon”' Old Customs House, Pl. Katehaki 8, Chania , Greece
“The Post-Humanisms and Metaverses Condition: IFPA” Drama , Greece
2022
“Platforms Project ” Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece.
“Leafy Bodies” Okay Initiative Space, Athens, Greece.
“ROOMS - Kappatos Gallery” St. George Lycabettus Hotel, Athens, Greece.
2021
“Platforms Project” Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece.
2020
“Zuidpool Takeover" Zuidpool Theater, Antwerp, Belgium.
2019
“10 Live Performances & 30 Video Documented Performances'' A.S.F.A. Athens School of Fine Arts - Underground Theater, Peiraios 256, Athens , Greece
"International Aristotle Onassis Exhibition” Hydra Artistic Annex of Athens School of Fine Arts, Hydra , Greece
Education
2018-2023
Athens School of Fine Arts
MFA in fine arts.
2015-2017
Anatolia College
International Baccalaureate Diploma Program
Scores per year: 36 and 34 points, with a total of 42 (Excellent)
Selected high-level courses: History, Visual Arts, and English Language and Literature
Seminars
2023
Erasmus+ project
"Business and Art Come Together: We cooperate instead of competing!", organized and implemented under the framework of the Erasmus+ project "Cultural Footprint" .
2019
BUTOH dance, by Atsushi Takenouchi, Athens JINEN Butoh workshop.
2018-2019
Two-year performance seminar by Emilia Bouriti, visual and performance artist,
Temporary Employment
Costume design and production for LARP performance overkill festival
https://theoverkill.nl/program/kostis-stafylakis-theo-triantafillidys/
October 2019 - January 2019: Paid internship at Kifidis Orthopedics 29th Syngrou Ave. Athens Greece. 117 43
Design and creation custom orthopedic appendages with a team of sculptors from the Athens School of Fine Arts.
makeup artist at OKAY initiative space
2023 and 2022 OKAY-Recap commemorative-photo
Q-Reclaim Ambient stage set design asistant