About - Paulina Cassimatis

Paulina Cassimatis develops a visual practice that moves dynamically between sculpture and painting, repositioning the human figure at the center of the viewer’s experience. Her creative approach departs from academic idealized perfection and shifts toward a more immediate, expressive, and experiential language of form and image.

At the core of her work lies the human body – not as an idealized model, but as a living carrier of tension, fragility, and inner movement. Whether through the volume of sculpture or the surface of painting, her figures seem to vibrate with emotion. Textures and traces of gesture often remain visible, preserving the memory of the act and the process. This conscious retention of materiality lends the works a sense of drama and immediacy.

Her sculptural and painterly compositions do not merely aim at representation; they function as fields of contemplation. Through posture, the relationships between forms, and silent tensions, her work raises existential questions about presence, connection, isolation, and the individual’s position in relation to the self and others. The figure becomes a vehicle for inquiry rather than resolution.

By unifying volume with trace, and mass with color, Paulina Cassimatis constructs a cohesive visual universe in which sculpture and painting engage in an organic dialogue. The result is a contemporary expressive language that transforms matter and image into an immediate, reflective, and deeply human experience.

Solo Shows

2019 “The Ephemeral Project” curator Sozita Goudouna, Keramikos Archeological Site, Athens.
2018 “Lens of Clay” curator Sozita Goudouna, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Athens.
2016 “Tribute to Lorenzo Bernini” Villa Rospigliosi, Lamporecchio, Tuscany, Italy.

Group Shows

2013 2nd Ageanale, curator Sozita Goudouna, Kivotos, Mykonos.
2013 ‘I never promised you a rose garden’,Genesis, Athens.
2012 “Beer and Art, Olympic Beer Factory, Ritsona, Greece.
2011 “11th Plateau”, Historia Museum, Hydra.
2005 “Moments in Time” Curator Athina Schina, Athinais Cultural Centre Athens.

Commissions

“The Owl” for St. Catherine’s British School
Konstantinos Karamanlis for the Karamanlis Institute, Athens
Stavros Niarchos for The Niarchos Foundation and place of birth Vamvakou Sparta
Stavros Niarchos for ELEPAP institution, Athens and Thessalonica
Vassos Hatzioannou for the Hatzioannou foundation, Lefkosia, Cyprus
Konstantinos Leventis for the Leventis foundation, Lefkosia, Cyprus
Athina Gerontopoulou for the Company of the Friends of the People, Athens
Mother of Hios, composition of mother and children for Gexa, Hios