Kyvèli
Dear Spectator,
My name is Kyvèli (Pronounced: Key🔑 - vèh - lee / in Greek, my native tongue: Κυβέλη). Zoi: (Zoe - Ζωή), which in Greek means “life”, is my middle name, and my family name is: Stenou (Στενού). Everyone calls me: Kyvèli.
Photo by Paris Tavitian
Kyvèli is a painter living and working in Athens, Greece. Her work is about creating oneiric situations inspired by constant observation of the surrounding environment. She structures her visual language by continuously researching and experimenting on the relationship of the spectator and the spectacle. Fueled by her half Athenian, half New Yorker heritage, her work plays with the themes of anthropological history, fate, spirituality and societal unity. Kyvèli has exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions internationally, from New York, Paris, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Naples and Athens, while her collaborators span from galleries and collectors to film directors and designers. In 2021-2022 she was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship. She is also the founder of KYAN, a project space and artist residency program in Athens, Greece.