Morphoplastics

Biography

Born in Drama, Greece, Kyriakos Apostolidis is a movement-based artist and researcher, founder of Morphoplastics. He holds a MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an Integrated Master in Painting & Drawing from the School of Visual & Applied Arts at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He also studied at the Universidad de Granada. His studies have been supported by the J. F. Costopoulos Foundation, the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation through the “Alexis Minotis In Memory of Katina Paxinou” endowment, and the Erasmus+ Studies program. He worked for the organization Chicago DanceMakers Forum.

His work has been presented in the international conference ReVIEWING 15 (Asheville, 2025), Luminaria Contemporary Art Festival (San Antonio, 2025), {Re}HAPPENING (Black Mountain, 2025), ION Gallery (Kansas City, 2024), Torsos in Rain (NYC, 2024), An Emptying’ 24h Performance Program (New Paltz, 2024), Impact Performance Festival (Chicago, 2024), Festival Arte/Acción (Mexico City, 2023). He has also participated in the 2nd Biennale Larnaca (Larnaca, 2021), 7th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki, 2019), Inspire Project 2018 / Christopher Makos: Face the strange (Thessaloniki, 2018), and 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki, 2017).

“Exercise_Finger Index” is an exercise based on the act of stepping and of drawing a processual connection between two indexes of attention—internal and external, split on two sides, right and left. The performer taps into an in-between, transitional space of movement articulation where trace the edges of their perception while their postural configurations reveal curving and twisting shapes, also known as figura serpentinata.