ELEFTHERIA SIFNAIOU
She was born in Athens. From a young age, she showed a restless and playful creative spirit — constantly reshaping her surroundings, creating collages on her walls and rearranging her furniture as a form of personal expression.
After finishing school, she moved to Italy to study fashion design. She lived in Milan for four years, starting her career in the fashion market as a model.
Upon returning to Greece, she continued working as a model in both local and European projects, while pursuing studies in Marketing & Management and Interior Decoration, further enriching her understanding of aesthetics and visual composition.
Her involvement with event styling began almost by chance, when she designed her child’s baptism — a project that sparked her passion for creating handmade compositions and poetic atmospheres. Later, she designed decorative details and crafted delicate textile pieces for baptisms, blending sewing with painting, collage, air-dry clay and other materials. This early exploration of mixed techniques and tactile harmony naturally evolved into her current ceramic practice, where craftsmanship meets emotion.
Her journey with ceramics began in 2017, when she attended seminars on coil technique in the workshop of Greek artist Michalis Sklavainas. In 2023, she studied pottery technology under Menandros Papadopoulos. Since then, clay has become her main medium of expression — she is mostly self-taught and continues to explore the creative and expressive possibilities of ceramics in her own studio in Athens.
Her work combines organic forms with hand-painted, symbolic and abstract motifs, resulting in one-of-a-kind contemporary ceramic pieces that balance artistic spontaneity with refined minimalism.
She has participated in exhibitions in Greece and across Europe, including:
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21° Contemporary Day, AMA | Associazione Musei d’Arte Contemporanea Italiani, Florence (2025)
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International Art Exhibition, Gallery C6, Barcelona (2025)
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Venice International Art Fair, Venice (2024)
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Rossocinabro Gallery, Rome (2023)
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International Art Exhibition at Medina Art Gallery, Rome (2023)
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Panhellenic Exhibition of Potters and Sculptors, Athens (2022)
Eleftheria continues to develop her artistic language, merging fine art, design, and craftsmanship to create timeless ceramic works that elevate contemporary spaces.