Georgia Kotretsos
Georgia Kotretsos is a Visual artist, Researcher and the Founder of THE ΤΕΛΟΣ SOCIETY, Arts & Culture Research Lab Observatorium (TTS). Last year she was an Invited Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University (Michaelmas Term 2025) and in the same year she began serving as an Artist and Consultant at Narrative Intelligence. In 2026, she was appointed Sociocultural Director of the Hellenic–ASEAN Business Council. She is also an Associate Lecturer in the Visual Arts Program at Deree – The American College of Greece.
She is the founder of the nonprofit organization THE ΤΕΛΟΣ SOCIETY in Athens, Greece, and the publisher of TTS Press, which operates in the field of cultural studies and art research in Greece, the Balkans, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. THE ΤΕΛΟΣ SOCIETY focuses on the Greek periphery, the islands, and remote areas, forming interdisciplinary teams tailored to each project and working collaboratively on site-specific, intangible initiatives that reveal the distinct character of each locale.
TTS publications are available at Politeia, Ianos, the Museum of Cycladic Art, Iambos, Pixel, ToDonti, and Public (online). Through these activities, THE ΤΕΛΟΣ SOCIETY highlights the significance of contemporary art and cultural heritage while fostering new creative perspectives and audiences.
Kotretsos holds an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2004), completed on a full merit-based scholarship, and a BFA from the Durban Institute of Technology in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2000), where she relocated as a teenager during the country’s post-apartheid transition.
Her work critically engages with dominant theories of viewing and perception, employing liberatory and anarchic visual practices to foreground the site-specific nature of spectatorship and the emancipation of the viewer as a source of artistic knowledge. Her research-based practice—across artworks, texts, and interviews—resists conventional forms and epistemologies, proposing alternative modes of knowledge production and reception.
Her work has been presented in Greece and internationally, including at the Onassis Art Center and the Asia Society in New York, the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Tinguely Museum (Basel), La Kunsthalle (Mulhouse), the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki), and the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis. She has held seven solo exhibitions and participated in major international initiatives such as the 56th Venice Biennale (collateral program), MediaImpact (Moscow), and FIELD MEETING (New York).
Previously, from 2006 to 2010, she co-founded Boots Contemporary Art Space in St. Louis, USA, an independent contemporary art laboratory, and served as editor-in-chief of BootPrint, a biannual journal by and for artists. From 2009 to 2013, she was a columnist for Art21 Magazine (PBS Arts Feature, New York), writing Inside the Artist’s Studio. Her writing has also appeared on LABKULTUR.TV (Germany). In 2019, she published the report “Athens is the Only Cave in the World that has a Skylight” for Field Journal (USA), reflecting on the Greek arts scene during the 2008–2018 recession.
Her works are held in private collections, including the National Bank of Greece, the Mamidakis Foundation, and others.
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