Vivi Touloumidi

Vivi Touloumidi is a contextual artist, researcher and a craftswoman. She is interested in exploring adornment as a multifaceted cultural phenomenon and in its manifestations of the human condition, while taking into consideration today’s social challenges. Her practice investigates the wearable and the body-related object as a medium of agency to carry sociopolitical messages, evoke discourse and position the body in the public realm.

Since 2010, her work has been published and shown in museum exhibitions internationally, such as the Pinakothek der Moderne (DE), CODA Museum (NL), Grassimuseum (DE), Imatra  Art Museum (FI), ITAMI Museum (JP), Hellenic Museum (AUS), World Crafts Council (BE) and Lithuanian National Museum (LT). Art fairs include SOFA (USA) and COLLECT (UK), while her artworks belong to the public collections of Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim (DE) and the MARZEE Collection (NL), among others.

She is lecturer at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (2018-present), a co-curator of the artistic research seminar METHOD/ART and contributing author for Art Jewellery Forum. Vivi was born and studied in Athens, Greece, before continuing her education in Germany and Canada. She holds an MFA in the Crafts from Konstfack University in Stockholm and is currently concluding a PhD in the Arts at ARIA and University of Antwerp.

Vivi’s research is an on-going enquiry into the social significance of wearable craft and body-related objects in engaging with the current times. On this trajectory, in 2022 her publication “Pharmakos” was launched, as also her article in Forum+ magazine under the same title. She has been repeatedly an invited speaker on the theme at events such as PARSE, the 4th Biennial Research Conference in Sweden.

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