Konstantina Kalara

Nadia Kalara is a visual artist. She holds a PhD from the School of Architecture of the University of Thessaly (2013), an MA in Fine Arts from the School of Art and Design, University of East London (2001), and a degree from the School of Visual and Applied Arts of the AUTh Faculty of Fine Arts (1992). From 2003 to 2012 she taught Visual Arts at the schools of architecture of the Universities of Thessaly and Patras as a contract lecturer, and at the NTUA School of Architecture as an external collaborator. In 2012 she was elected Lecturer at the AUTh School of Architecture and was appointed in 2014. In 2017 she was elected Assistant Professor in Visual Arts and Approaches to Representing Place and Landscape. Since 2017 she has been a member of the coordinating committee and teaching team of the AUTh MSc “Advanced Design”. Since 2021 she has been a member of the teaching team of the course “Anthropology of Space” in the AUTh inter-departmental MSc “Philosophical, Pedagogical and Interdisciplinary Anthropology”.

Her work includes solo exhibitions and installations in Greece and abroad, participation in group shows, participation and teaching in international cross-disciplinary art and architecture workshops, artist residencies, public-sphere projects, conferences and symposia. Her work deals with the fragment, its history and its representations, the experience of the ruin, the visual tradition of assemblage, the tradition of site-specific art, the walk as a methodological and creative tool, and the constant interplay between the original and its copies, between the model and its repetitions, reconstructions and simulations. Her practice spans many media and materials. Often the exhibition layout seeks to create a complex perceptual situation of viewing, visiting and reading. It invites the viewer to reconstruct the meaning of the space, commenting on the nature and condition of representation.