Zoe Keramea: Between Surface and Space, New Year’s Cards 1991 - 2026 

For 36 years, Zoe Keramea has been sending out a hand made card for the New Year. 

It starts with laboriously hand-carved sealstones, the earliest form of printing, for the first decade. Keramea progresses through offset printing of paper cutout drawings for the second decade and for the last 16 years the cards become interactive, sent digitally to be printed, cut out and constructed into three-dimensional ornaments by the receiver. This is an artwork that involves the participation of thousands of people. The carved sealstones, the two-dimensional cards and the cut and folded ones into three-dimensional objects will be shown together with a documentation of their making at the Gennadius Library’s reading room from December 8, 2026 to January 7, 2027.

The exhibition will be accompanied by the publication Zoe Keramea: Between Surface and Space - New Year’s Cards 1991-2026, with a text by art historian Nena Tsouti Schillinger about Keramea’s cards and their relationship to her overall body of work. Included in this book will also be a selection of die-cut cards to be folded by the reader.

 

 

 

Short bio


Zoe Keramea is an artist who explores enfolded surfaces using sculpture, printmaking, drawing, and ceramics. Her large sculptural works and editions often take the form of games and puzzles in which the public is encouraged to participate. She was born in Athens, Greece, and holds a Meisterschuelerin Degree from the Universitaet der Kuenste in Berlin. In 1989 she was awarded a Fulbright grant for independent research in printmaking to work on her new intaglio printing technique, zoetype, in New York. In 2012, she represented Greece at the 18th Biennale of Sydney-all our relations and her design Journey Lines was the basis of the Biennale’s branding campaign. Recently, she has exhibited her work at Bridges, Mathematics and the Arts, in Galway, Ireland 2026, in Eindhoven, Netherlands 2025 and Richmond,VA, 2024; at Hellenic American Union Galleries, Athens Zoe Keramea, Transformations/ Μεταροπές, 2025; at Magnae Chartae - Homo Faber Event 2022, Crafting a more Human Future, Venice, 2022. Her work was also shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Artists’ Alphabets, 2012; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Contemporary Drawings, 2009; River to River Festival at South Street Seaport, Zoe Keramea:Ringknot - A Woven Line with the participation of the public for the Big Draw NY, 2006; The Drawing Center, New York, NY, Zoe Keramea: Geometry of Paradox, 2005. She has had over twenty solo shows and has shown her work in numerous group exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world. She has taught workshops in universities and museums and published many artist’s books and games.

 

 

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