Rania Fragkoulidou
Artistic practice is the aftermath of constant observation of the perceptible world, an open and ever changing raise of questions about the experienced reality and social interactions -symbolic or expressed violence in private and social life, identity as a field of self-limitation, social convergence or conflict.
Rania Fragkoulidou was born in Katerini in 1972. She studied Painting (1999, Prof V. Dimitreas) at School of Fine Arts in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Printmaking (2009, Prof X. Sachinis). She was awarded with National Scholarship for Painting from State Scholarships Foundation (2000-02, Prof I. Fokas). She helds Master Degree in Applied – Clinical Sociology and Arts at the Department of Sociology, University of the Aegean and Department of Fine and Applied Arts in Florina University of Western Macedonia.
She was awarded six times for her artwork in Greece, Portugal, Serbia-Herzegovina, Japan and Romania. She attended seven individual exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions and Art Festivals in Greece and abroad such as in France, Germany, Poland, Japan, China, Portugal, Esthonia, Romania, Chech Republic, Serbia-Herzegovina and Constantinople. She has illustrated poetry for literary magazines, cover pages for books and the promotion Art print for the 1st & 2nd Art Thessaloniki International Contemporary Art Fair HELEXPO 2016 & 2017. Her artwork contains painting, printmaking, mixed media and artist books.
