Nitsa MeletopoulosGrotto-Modo

Nitsa Meletopoulos’ practice evolves between contemporary art, contemporary ceramic, sculpture, and design. Through maximalism, grotesque, and those cumulative styles that overflow, she develops an aesthetics of excess. Mixing styles and techniques (like throwing, molding, or 3D printing), playing with pop, historical and traditional references, she jumps between the natural and the artificial, the supernatural and the psychedelic. Nitsa Metelopoulos plays with bold choices of colors, creating strange organic pieces that are somehow disturbing the perception. Entering Nitsa Meletopoulos’ world is like entering into a contemporary cabinet of curiosities full of mysteries and surprises.

Before studying art at the Beaux-Arts d’Avignon in France, Nitsa Meletopoulos studied psychoanalysis at Montpellier University of Sciences. Later on, during a residency in Leipzig, she started to work with clay and sculpture. She lived in Leipzig for 4 years where she started to work for a ceramic factory in parallel to managing the Franco-German artistic platform “Fugitif”. In 2018, she returned to France to strengthen her ceramic technical skills in the school « Maison de la céramique » based in Dieulefit. Now, she lives now and works in Burgundy and collaborates with galleries in Paris, Leipzig, Madrid, Los Angeles, and New York.