Leonie Yagdjoglou

Artist Statement

The theme of individual or collective trauma is a central focus in Leonie’s work, especially in the articulated Totems. Connectivity is also a recurring concept in her pieces, expressed through movable components, unexpected materials attached to them (such as screws, copper, springs, etc.), through titles, and the use of archetypal symbols that create the allusion and belief that humanity is connected to everything. But how does this connection happen exactly? How are individuals linked to one another, despite their diversity and regardless of time and geographical distance? For Leonie, this connection occurs through the healing of trauma; it begins with but exceeds the emotional realm, culminating in the quantum entanglement of humanity.

Curriculum Vitae

Leonie Yagdjoglou is an Athens-based visual artist. For the last eighteen years, she has devoted her practice to ceramic art, as it combines the two basic elements of her artistic ways of expression: design and painting. She has had six solo shows: “My self as a room” (Mykonos), “Objects born not made” (Tinos), “Narratives from ceramic creations” (Art Appel Gallery), “The Queen Undressed” (IRIS Gallery), “Ceramystique” (Benaki Museum), and “Where I come from” (Contemporary Athens Gallery). She took her first professional steps in Cologne, where she participated in founding MILK Design. Back in Greece, she co-founded MILK Branding. Leonie studied at the Vakalo Art and Design College and at the Art Centre College of Design in Switzerland (Bachelor of Fine Arts).

Title: SOLID BOOK 2

Kind: Ceramic

Materials: Ceramic Stoneware Clay Fired Up To 1240°C, Porcelain Colours, Acrylic, Textile