Vasiliki Kappa was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. She’s a cross-over artist

currently living and working in Athens, Greece. She studied painting holding a

master’s degree in Digital Arts (Athens School of Fine Arts). She also has a degree in

Film direction, in Ancient Greek literature and linguistics, Acting and Opera Singing as

well as a diploma in alternative psychology. As a visual artist she brings together a

wide range of tools, ranging from painting to filmmaking, animation and video art.

She has held 24 solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions around

the world (Germany, USA). Apart from a visual artist Vasiliki is also a recognized

writer, registered by literary critics as one of the most disruptive voices in

contemporary literature.

Her first book "The hyena’s diet" was officially nominated for a State Prize novel,

something that rarely happens for an emerging writer. Her work as a multiple artist

gave her the opportunity for a direct contact with the audience and constant

experimentation with the idea of artistic identity and its applications in communication. In 2010, in cooperation with

KOYINTA Cultural Organization, she supported an inspired artistic movement in order to start a dialogue both with

well-known and emerging artists in a strictly artistic semantic context. Part of the movement was a TV cultural show

titled Blow-Up, directed by Christos Karakasis. Vasiliki was the main host and presenter of the Blow Up TV show,

which produced a total of 14 episodes that were screened both in Greece and Cyprus and they are also available on

the web, with Vasiliki presenting artists, film directors, actors and writers. Finally, in the film festival field, she is one of

the founders of the International Digital Film Festival in

Athens and during its last edition in 2013, she was the

festival producer and also a member of the Organizing

Committee of the “International Panorama of Scientific

and Ecological Films” which was implemented also in co-

operation with Wildlife Vaasa Festival.

INVISIBLE CITIES

Her Invisible Cities, a title initially inspired by Italo Calvino,

is a series of paintings that started coming to life in 1998.

She has been working on the very same idea for fifteen

years. This series was presented to the audience for the

first time in 2002 in a Solo Exhibition in Athens and is her

most popular series of works. In 2014 she has published

her book “Take a trip to the Invisible Cities”, as the result of

an amazing meeting between two projects that gave her

the opportunity to express the same idea in different

forms. The first project is her paintings “Invisible Cities”.

The second project is a film called “Take a Trip” directed by

Christos N. Karakasis, where she was asked to write the

narration. The film was produced during the last two years.

All filming took place in England, as London is the city

presented and the subject goes around the philosophical

chord of the deeper meaning of a city.

”Take a trip to the INVISIBLE CITIES”

Exhibition

Artist’s statement: Placed on the Landscape, villages and

cities seem fragile. I always felt that if I close my eyes they

would disappear as if they had never been there.

Everywhere under the ground are hidden remnants of

ancient buildings. Ancient cities were more than buildings they were living organisms with settlements and ruins,

fables and heroes, hidden mysteries. From antiquity until today there is the same vibration. Invisible cities belong to

the world, every part of the world that keeps alive the memory of past cities. Invisible Cities have two faces: one

obvious, one hidden. All these tiny houses in my paintings are trying hard to stay together; otherwise this chromatic

wilderness around them should swallow them. I paint them as I remember them, I purify them from any realistic detail,

trying to create a short chromatic summary of each place and reproduce the feeling you get when you see it for the

first time. All paintings are based on real places that I have visited in my life. Τhe viewer is free to find his/her own

cities behind those in my paintings which still remain invisible to me.”

“Take a trip to the INVISIBLE CITIES” exhibition opens at Vaasa City Library on Wed. October 1st

at 17.00 and it is

supported by The Regional Council of Ostrobothnia in association with Wildlife Vaasa Festival.