GRIGORIOS ILARIDIS
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Grigorios Ilaridis (b. 1997, Athens) is a Belgian–Greek artist based in Antwerp.

His practice moves between digital collage and sculpture, using image as a structural tool for constructing bodies, fragments, and hybrid forms. Ilaridis begins with collages composed from personal photographs, mythological references, and fragments of popular culture. These images function as speculative blueprints, which he translates into three-dimensional works through processes of modeling, casting, and material reassembly.

Rather than treating myth as a fixed narrative, Ilaridis approaches it as a living and unstable system—one that absorbs personal memory, desire, and contemporary visual language. Classical sculptural forms appear in his work not as restorations of the past, but as bodies in transition: interrupted, recontextualized, and re-materialized through synthetic surfaces, transparency, and color. The sculptures occupy a space between recognition and uncertainty, where reverence persists without stable belief and form becomes a site of projection rather than resolution. Working with materials such as resin, acrylic, metal, plaster, wax, and industrial foam, Ilaridis stages encounters between the authority of classical sculpture and the volatility of contemporary culture. His works function as provisional icons, objects that invite attention and care while resisting fixed symbolic meaning. Surface, structure, and material relationships are used deliberately to heighten presence, tension, and layered charge.

After earning his MFA from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in 2023, Ilaridis has gained early recognition through participation in Art Brussels 2024, receiving the Mark Macken Prize, and presenting his debut solo exhibition KLEOS at Base-Alpha Gallery, which now represents him. In 2025, he was awarded an Emerging Talent Grant from the Flemish Government, supporting new material research and international study trips to Denmark and Los Angeles.

Portrait of the artist Grigorios Ilaridis in his Antwerp atelier, 2024.

Selected Exhibitions

SOLO
2024
‘KΛEOΣ’, Base-Alpha Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
Group
2024
‘HYBRIDEN’, curators Tom Liekens and Glenn Geerinck, Cultuurhuis De Warande, Turnhout (BE) ‘Art Brussels 40th Edition’, represented by Base-Alpha Gallery, Brussels Expo, Brussels (BE) ‘Mark Macken Prize’, Vierkante Zaal d’Academie Beeld, Sint-Niklaas (BE)
2023
‘To Be Antwerp’, Gert Voorjans, Antwerp (BE) ‘MASTERS EXPO 2023’, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (BE) ‘De (on)macht van het beeld’, Paleis der Academiën, Brussels (BE) ‘Masters at Work’, Lange Zaal, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (BE) ‘WIPWAP’, Raapstraat, Antwerp (BE)
2022
‘3BA EXPO’, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (BE) ‘Startersprize’, Wintertuin, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (BE)
2021
‘Startersprize’, Wintertuin, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (BE)
2019
‘De Kunstwedstrijd – Klein Sculptuur', CC Zwaneberg, Heist-op-den-Berg (BE)

Awards & Grants

2025
Emerging Talent Grant, Flemish Government
2024
Laureate Mark Macken Prize 2024
2019
Laureate De Kunstwedstrijd – Klein Sculptuur 2019

Education

2019 – 2023
Master of Fine Arts, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (BE)

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