LELLE DEMERTZI
Visual arts
Léllé Demertzi (b.1993) graduated from the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens in 2017. She also studied acting at the Athens Conservatory Drama School. She completed the MA Raumstrategien (Spatial Strategies) at the art school Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee in July 2019. In September 2020, she completed a 12-month internship at the International Program of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. She has presented her work (performance, video, installation, photomontage) in solo and group exhibitions in Athens, Berlin, Zurich and Luzern, Salzburg, Accra and New York. She is part of the artist duo Reservoir Peacocks, advocating for female empowerment. Recurring matters in her artistic research are identity, displacement and the need for belongingness, the ‘self’ and ‘the other’, the in-between spaces, language and silence, memory, presence and absence, as well as scars and the stars.