Christina Dimitriadis
Christina Dimitriadis, born in 1967, is an artist, photographer, and lecturer. She hails from a multicultural family and was raised in Thessaloniki. Her roots extend from Helgoland in the North to Salzburg in the center and Istanbul in the Southeast.
Since 1993 she has been living and working in Berlin. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with honours in Photography from Parsons School of Design, The New School for Social Research, New York, in 1992.
Dimitriadis examines living environments as structures through which identity, displacement, and historical memory are shaped. Her work focuses on thresholds — between presence and absence, individual and collective experience, visibility and withdrawal. She is interested in how spatial arrangements condition perception and how environments silently inscribe political and social realities.
Working primarily with photography, her practice unfolds through long-term investigations of landscape, architecture, and interior space. These settings are not treated as backgrounds but as active fields of tension. Through formal reduction and architectural precision, she eliminates the incidental and constructs images of concentrated stillness. Rather than illustrating events, her photographs create situations in which underlying structures become perceptible.
Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including Berlinische Galerie (Berlin), EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art (Athens), mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Vienna), Istanbul Modern, La Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), and in major biennials and triennials such as the Istanbul Biennial, Moscow Photo Biennale, Auckland Triennial, Thessaloniki Biennale, and Thessaloniki Photo Biennale.
Her monographs include Technologies of the Self (Galeria Studio, Warsaw, 2015), Island Hoping (Meta Books, Amsterdam, 2019), and J’ai perdu mon Eurydice (Kerber Verlag, 2025).
She was nominated for the SPECTRUM International Prize for Photography in 2020 and for the Louis Roederer Foundation Photography Prize for Sustainability in 2024.
From 2007 to 2008, Dimitriadis collaborated on two projects with the Bauhaus Stiftung Dessau and IBA Stadtumbau. In 2010, her works were published in Band 8: Stadt und Migration, Edition Bauhaus, Dessau.
Dimitriadis has received grants and funding from Stiftung Kunstfonds (Bonn), Stiftung Kulturwerk der VG Bild-Kunst, NEON Organization for Culture and Development (Athens), OUTSET (Greece), and ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen.
Alongside her artistic practice, she teaches internationally and has held positions at Universität der Künste Berlin, New York University Berlin (Head of Photography, 2014–2017), Kunstuniversität Linz, Freie Universität Berlin, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, and Kanazawa College of Art. She was invited to teach at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg in 2021 and 2022. For the most recent biography and press material, please contact.