Vasso Tzouti (b. 1977) is a visual artist working across painting, photography,
and video. Her practice investigates the body as a contested site—fragile, ambivalent, and porous—while troubling normative ideals of autonomy and perfection. Embracing vulnerability, transformation, and unruliness, her research presents bodies-in-the-making that resist binary frames and hegemonic standards. Drawing on feminist and posthumanist theory, Tzouti’s work embodies resistance, pleasure, and defiance as revolutionary forms of becoming.
Parallel to her artistic practice, she has designed and led numerous educational programs for major cultural institutions in Greece, such as the Benaki Museum and
the Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation, and she frequently gives talks and workshops on the role of creativity in education.
Tzouti lives and works in Athens.
Education
2012: BFA, Athens School of Fine Arts, professor Yannis Psychopedis painting workshop
2011: Department of Visual Arts, Université Paris 8, Paris
2001: BA, Department of Theatre Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Solo exhibitions
2025
Straight Legs and Black Socks (xpon art gallery, Hamburg)
2024
monster + monsters (xpon art gallery, Hamburg)
text by Dr Dikaios Sakelleriou
2022
Take me to the bouzoukia of paradise (Art Base, Brussels)
Group Exhibitions
2024
- Good Cause Festival (Bahnhof Pauli, Hamburg)
- Modern Fiction II (Tombazis Mansion, Hydra School of Art Annex, Hydra)
- Modern Fiction I (Fabrik der Künste, Hamburg)
2023
- Animal Farm (Mov Skiouros, Athens)
2022
- A view by the sea (Mov Skiouros bookshop, Athens)
2019
- Unusual Self- Portraits (The Project Gallery, Athens)
- Eight artists for a woman (Skoufa Gallery, Athens)
- Zoforos (Telloglion Fine Arts Foundation, Thessaloniki)
2018
- “7” (STOart Gallery, Athens)
2017
- Andreas Embirikos “Octana” or the reason for freedom (Mov Skiouros bookshop, Athens)
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Art in a greengrocer shop (Athens)
2016
- Rowing Courses, collective performance in collaboration with the visual artist Nikos Papadopoulos (Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens)
- Ex-ils, Visual Notes on Ex-Patristics (MOMus–Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki)
2015
- Vizyneus, a trip (Zografios Lyceum, Istanbul)
2014
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James Joyce Café (Theatre Train at Rouf, Athens)
- Child and play in life and art (Melina Merkouri Cultural Center, Athens)
2013
- Metamorphoses (Anoihti Poli art space, Athens)
- Calendars of Showcase (Ikaros Publications, Athens)
2012
- 12 young artists (Melina Merkouri Cultural Center, Athens)
- Death of the creator (Beton 7 Cultural Center, Athens)
- Flags, banners, standards (Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens)
2011
- “With lime and sea” – images on the poetry of Odysseas Elytis (House of Cyprus, Athens)
- hands = wings, a public performance (Louvre Museum, Université Paris 8, Paris and Benaki Museum, Athens)
2010
- EXILES (House of Cyprus, Athens)
2009
- A3 (Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens)
2008
- Fire in Olympia (Melina Merkouri Cultural Center, Athens)