visual artist and filmmaker
Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou (b. 1993, Greece) is a visual artist and filmmaker based between Los Angeles and Athens. Their multidisciplinary practice moves across moving image, installation, performance, and sculpture, bringing together soft textiles, shiny costumes, 16mm film, archival material, digital technologies, poetry, and speculative fiction. Through affective, embodied, and sensory experiences, Antigoni creates worlds that pulse between past histories, unsettled presents, and imagined futures, exploring queer and trans temporalities, spaces, and ways of seeing and relating. Their work often engages with bodies that resist easy classification, asking what structures determine which bodies must become legible, recognizable, and transparent in order to belong. Their practice is characterized by haptic visuality, shimmering images, and a sometimes fairytale-like cuteness that acts as a spell to draw viewers in and invite closer attention and participation. Asking how the past persists in the present through bodies and technological imaginaries, they playfully remix these traces toward mythical, surreal, erotic, and softer ways of being in the world.
Antigoni is currently pursuing a PhD in Media Arts & Practice at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in LA. They hold an MFA in Media Arts from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture and a BFA in Visual Arts and Sculpture from the Athens School of Fine Arts. They have received numerous scholarships and awards, including support from the Fulbright Foundation, the Onassis Foundation, and the ARTWORKS Fellowship of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Their work has been presented internationally at venues and institutions including the Arnolfini Centre for Contemporary Arts in Bristol, REDCAT, UCR ARTS x LACMA as part of PST Art in LA, Gray Area in SF, Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, Onassis ONX in New York, TRANSFER Gallery, NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf, the 6th and the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale, ATOPOS cvc in Athens, and the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, among others. They have collaborated with and worked alongside notable artists who have shaped their artistic path, including Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, La Pocha Nostra / Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and William Pope.L for his Whispering Campaign project at documenta 14.