Georgia Sagri

Drawing holds a central place in Sagri’s broader practice. For her, it is both training and release, a medium where the body thinks, stores, and processes experience. Whether used to map forthcoming performances or to exhale the aftershocks of action, drawing captures the trace of thought. It reveals the care, vulnerability, and endurance the body carries. Her drawings extend the present of the performance into the now, holding the original impulse while absorbing the residue of embodiment. 

Georgia Sagri’s work has been presented widely in major exhibitions and international institutions including: documenta 14, Manifesta 11 (Zurich), Götenberg Biennial (2025), 76th Whitney Biennial, 14th Istanbul Biennial, 12th Lyon Biennial, and solo and group presentations at: MoMA, MoMA PS1, and the Guggenheim Bilbao (New York/Bilbao); Palais de Tokyo (Paris); KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Gropius Bau (Berlin); Kunsthalle Basel; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (Vaduz); Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Rivoli); Skulpturenpark Köln (Cologne); de Appel (Amsterdam); Mimosa House (London); Portikus (Frankfurt); Museum of Cycladic Art and TAVROS (Athens); and the SculptureCenter (New York). 

She is the Associate Professor of the Studio of Performance at Athens School of Fine Arts (GR), and the founder of the Athens-based independent art space, ΥΛΗ[matter]HYLE (hyle.gr) a non-profit, dedicated to care practices and social empathy at local and international levels. 

In Gone Gone Beyond, first chapter presented at the Götenberg Biennial, Sagri stages a performance with an inflatable sculpture to confront the rupture caused by grief. Breath becomes central: audible, sculptural, and affective, marking the boundary between presence and disappearance. The work builds on an encounter with poet Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, whose final and only thetartical piece emerged from a place of deep personal loss. Through this lens, Sagri traces how sorrow destabilizes and reshapes identity. The performance sets a cycle of strain, release, containment, and adaptation into motion, between body and sculpture, visibility and invisibility, self and its becoming.