ANTIGONI TSAGKAROPOULOU
Visual arts
Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou (Bunny) is a visual artist based between Athens and Los Angeles. They hold a BA in sculpture from the Athens School of Fine Arts and are currently completing an MFA in media arts at the University of California (UCLA) under a Fulbright scholarship. In their interdisciplinary methodology, the social component is paramount, while fluffiness and touch is being used as a means to foster intimacy and interaction. It is about how softness can lead us to transform our subjectivities and communities or how melancholy and failure can shape a new understanding of the political. In 2018 they created Fluffy Library, a hybrid platform of togetherness for artists, book lovers, educators, activists, children and youth, families of all kinds and people from the LGBTQIA+ community, which was hosted for a year by ATOPOS cvc with the support of NEON Organization for Culture and Development. Their work has been showcased internationally in museums, institutes and exhibition spaces, including: Arnolfini Center of Contemporary Arts in Bristol (solo show); the 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art; Fresh A.I.R. residency in Berlin; theaters Sophienshaele and Hebbel Am Ufer (HAU), also in Berlin; Onassis Stegi in Athens; as well as the art spaces Wrightwood 659 in Chicago, Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Austria, and The Breeder Gallery in Athens. They have collaborated with such artists as Annea Lockwood, Annie Sprinkle, Brooke Candy, and Willem Pope L. They have been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).