visual artist and filmmaker
Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou is a visual artist and filmmaker based between Los Angeles and Athens. Their practice moves across moving image, installation, performance, and sculpture, bringing together soft materials, 16mm film, archives, digital technologies, poetry, and speculative fabulation. Through affective and sensory worlds, they explore queer and trans forms of intimacy, transformation, and relation across bodies, histories, technologies, and environments. Their work asks how bodies made vulnerable, illegible, or out of place can create relations, worlds, and forms of survival otherwise.
Transformation often becomes a way of refusing fixed identities and inherited roles, while opacity takes form through fragmented archives, shifting embodiments, and images that resist complete legibility. Moving between past histories, unsettled presents, and imagined futures, Antigoni approaches archives not as fixed records but as traces that can be touched, re-enacted, and transformed through living bodies. Within conditions of control, oppression, exclusion, and loss, the work moves through vulnerability and resistance, but also sensuality, pleasure, femme excess, shine, tactile abundance, and erotic intensity. Softness and a fairytale-like cuteness recur throughout, drawing viewers closer while opening other possibilities for pleasure, connection, and belonging. Through collaborations with lovers, friends, ancestors, robots, plants, and other more-than-human beings, their work creates spaces for play, rest, desire, and interdependence. Rather than imagining transformation as an individual act, Antigoni is interested in how bodies become otherwise through relation—building temporary habitats for more porous, erotic, and collective ways of being together.
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.