About Me

Sofia Christodoulou is a 21st-century artist born in Nicosia, Cyprus, in 1998. She studied at the Athens School of Fine Art (ASFA) and currently lives in Vienna.

She is a painter who lives among brushes, with a major part of her lifestyle and routine centered in an art studio. She is constantly in contact with color paints and oil pastels, often incorporating hand-cut stencils to create layered compositions. These are her source of power and her words when she cannot express herself vocally.

Living perennially between history and mythology, reality and fantasy, she has developed the ability to transform and transcend the material world through art. Our current timeline is characterized by its fast-paced environment, where everything changes in a matter of seconds. Amidst this constant motion, she seeks a safe haven of stability—a place where she can draw freely and allow her soul to speak without feeling haunted by time.

When she looks in the mirror, she does not always see herself as she is, but rather as she would like to be—often imagining a version better than her current reality. She sees the world and other people in the same way: through a lens of potential and possibility, better than they might appear.

The phenomenology of today, she believes, should allow people to extend their restrictions and become less rigid in their approach to humanity. This perspective creates an invisible division between two worlds: the external, humanitarian world and her preferred internal world—the safe haven she mentioned earlier. The contrasts and dilemmas differ between these realms.

When she confronts her work, she faces her true self without the ability to hide her flaws. It is at this point that art becomes an unprecedented experience of form—existing within an empirical world that contradicts the outside, often unreal and man-made world.

Through her artistic practice, she explores themes of identity, memory, and human presence. Using color, form, and texture, she evokes movement and rhythm. Her work has an expressionistic aesthetic that invites viewers into a world of introspection, where abstraction and materiality interact to create dynamic visual narratives.