Kika Charalampidou was born in Athens. She graduated from the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1992). She completed her M.A. Studies in “Information and Communication Technologies for Education” in Postgraduate Interuniversity Program at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (N.K.U.AD.E.C.E.). Her artwork has been presented in exhibitions at the French Institute of Thessaloniki (1989), the Exhibition Space of port Thessaloniki (1992), the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens "Melina Merkouri" (1995), the Gallery 7 (Athens, 2002), the Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center of Chicago (Chicago, USA, 2005), the Cheapart (2006), the Greek Film Archive (2011), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Florina (2016), the Art-Athina (2016), the Railway Carriage Theatre “Treno sto Rouf” (2016), the Municipal Art Gallery of Piraeus (2017, 2018), the ASFA - Athens School of Fine Arts (2018, 2021, 2022), the Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens (2023), the Former Public Tobacco Factory (EETE 2023, Platforms Project 2024), etc. Furthermore, she has delivered lectures at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, at the Department of Architecture - University of Thessaly, the Department of Education/ University of Athens (DECE) and at Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA). She has been teaching art in secondary education for many years.

The research explores the representational and narrational functions of space and the multiple relationships that arise in the field of visual and audiovisual arts, focusing on the work of the visual artist William Kentridge. The project takes as its starting point the spatial approaches that emanate from Kentridge's artwork as they form a realm of interdisciplinary perspectives in the field of visual arts by establishing connections with theory, art and audiovisual technologies. The aim of the project is to use Kentridge’s work as a field of creative dialogue between narrative representations and theoretical and interpretive approaches about space through transformations of the visual act and the role of the embodied performance. By illustrating the role that the narrative character of the image plays in our times, this project will investigate issues concerning the social and cultural history of space through the multiple environments defined by the image in Kentridge’s art. The research seeks to redefine the perspectives of space that underlie the themes and practices of the artist, in order to produce new interpretative schemes. The interdisciplinary methodological tools will focus on studying the meanings formulated by the multiple modes of representation related to space and the body, with a particular emphasis on their mutually influential relationship.

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