> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Does Dimitris Gketsis Sculpt Mythology or Does Mythology Sculpt Him? - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/dimitris-gketsis-contemporary-mythology/ - Published: 2025-04-04T10:54:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-06-06T11:21:38.000Z - Description: Dimitris Gketsis - Sculpting Identity Beyond Boundaries - Artist in Focus Catapult Contemporary art platform - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Artist in Focus, Material & Sculpture ## Dimitris Gketsis: Sculpting Identity Beyond Boundaries **Dimitris Gketsis** works at a fault line most sculptors avoid: where ancient relief form meets current body politics. ![Dimitris Gketsis in his studio in Athens surrounded by his copper sculptures , insight for Catapult contemporary ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/06/dimitris-gketsis-artist.webp) ****Dimitris Gketsis** in his Artist Studio in Athens in front of his stunning sculpture work | Image Courtesy by the Artist His resin sculptures quote Roman and Greek monuments but the figures inside them are hybrid, androgynous, unclassifiable. This is not a look back. It is a question directed at the present. --- > "I use mythology and myths, antiquity and the renaissance, but also 'fashion' to quote and comment on current socio-political issues of now in relation to equality, identity, gender, sexuality and discrimination, wanting to give visibility and voice to all femininities." — Dimitris Gketsis --- **Dimitris Gketsis** **Born:** Athens, Greece, 1993 **Based in:** Athens, Greece **Medium:** Resin Sculpture, Copper **Education:** Athens School of Fine Arts (2016) Guest Semester, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Munich (2013–14) **Recent Exhibitions:** *Méditerranées*, Nil Gallery, Paris, 2025 *Odyssey*, Archaeological Museum of Piraeus, 2024 *Echoing Future*, ACUD Berlin, 2024 **Represented by:** [The Breeder, Athens](https://thebreeder.gr/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [Nil Gallery, Paris](https://nilgallery.fr/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **Website:** [dimitrisgketsis.com](https://dimitrisgketsis.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **Instagram:** [@dimitrisgketsis](https://instagram.com/dimitrisgketsis?ref=catapult-platform.art) **Image Courtesy:** Courtesy the Artist and The Breeder, Athens ## Background Born in Athens in 1993, Gketsis graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts in 2016, with a guest semester at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Munich (2013–14). In 2016 he took up a residency at Art Motile in Madrid. ![Dimitris Gketsis artist studio , work in progress a Cooper sculpture](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/6555c5e6095988e94273529e_in%20the%20artist%20studio%20athens%20with%20dimitris%20gketsis.webp) ****Dimitris Gketsis** \- Artist Studio Athens - Image Courtesy of the artist ![Dimitris Gketsis artist studio works in progress Athens](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/6555d5ecf0920f43f2d79641_art%20practice%20of%20dimitris%20gketsis.webp) ****Dimitris Gketsis** \- Artist Studio Athens - With works in progress - Image Courtesy of the artist ![Dimitris gketsis - Work in progress, a ancient mythological figurative work ](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/6555d6774f19ae6eeded5dc5_contemporary%20art%20now%2C%20greece%2C%20dimitris%20gketsis.webp) ****Dimitris Gketsis** with a sculpture in the making - work in progress | Image Courtesy by the Artist ![the birth of an sculpture by Dimitris Gketsis in his Studio ](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/6555d6b9dc16fcac8196119c_emerging%20artist%2C%20greece%2C%20munchies%20art%20club%20magazine.webp) ****Dimitris Gketsis** \- Artist Studio| Athens, Greece | Image Courtesy by the Artist ![](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/6555d6242fb2d29efe7f3b66_contemporary%20mythology%2C%20artist%20dimitris%20gketsis%2C%20artwork.webp) Contemporary Art now: Dimitris Gketsis with his resin sculpture in the making --- ## The Sculptures Gketsis works primarily in resin, occasionally in copper. The surfaces recall temple friezes and ancient reliefs yet the figures depicted resist any classical legibility. Female, male, animal, human: the boundaries dissolve. His protagonists are hybrid and androgynous, citing Balenciaga campaigns and Schiaparelli corsets in the same gesture that references the Parthenon frieze. ![studio view and a work in progress , a sculpture made out of resin , wall piece a contemporary artwork](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/6555ce45da4a7160b40f4800_contemporary%20artist%20studio%2C%20athens%20greece%20with%20dimitris%20gketsis.webp) ![dimitris gketsis in the studio, the emerging artist sourounded with resin sculptures and a mythological twist](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/6555d3dbf0920f43f2d6251b_emerging%20artist%20now%20greece%20athens%202024.webp) Dimitris Gketsis - Insight the Studio of the artist - Image Courtesy of the artist ![dimitris gketsis, artwork resin sculpture, modern mythological touch greece and roman empire ](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/6555c5ca9083e607ba3c23d2_contemporary%20art%20now%20athens.webp) ****Dimitris Gketsis** at Breeder Gallery Athens: The Fault in our Stars | Image Courtesy by the Artist And Gallery ![](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/6555c5d191af10a12f3aeb28_dimitris%20gketsis%2C%20artst%20at%20the%20breeder%20gallery%20athens.webp) ![](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/6555ce48e392a17a2e10c264_the%20very%20best%20in%20contemporary%20art%20in%20athens%20now.webp) ****Dimitris Gketsis**, The Fault in our Stars, 2022, exhibition view, The Breeder Feeder, Athens - Image Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery ![Dimitris Gketsis, The Fault in our Stars, 2022, exhibition view, The Breeder Feeder, Athens](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/6555d204ee1c01bfc7b9c6f2_exhibition%20view%20now%20at%20breeder%20gallery%20athens%20greece%20.webp) ****Dimitris Gketsis**, **The Fault in our Stars*, 2022, exhibition view, The Breeder Feeder, Athens - Image Courtesy of the artist This is not a contradiction. For Gketsis, fashion and mythology are equivalent visual languages both systems that classify bodies, assign value, render people visible or invisible. He is particularly interested in what classical art history systematically excluded: femininities beyond the white, male Man of Reason. Hybrid beings that propose alternative hierarchies. Figures that are neither clearly black nor white, neither fully human nor animal and for that reason, open up space for other subjectivities. ![dimitris gketsis, breeder gallery athens , the very best of art galleries in greece now on view munchies art club magazine](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/6555d79888ac20bd5a62eccc_the%20breeder%20gallery%2C%20the%20fault%20in%20our%20starts.webp) ****Dimitris Gketsis**, **The Fault in our Stars*, 2022, exhibition view, The Breeder Feeder, Athens ## Exhibitions & Current Projects Most recently, Gketsis showed *Odyssey* at the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus (2024), placing his hybrid figures directly within an institution of ancient Greek heritage. That same year he participated in the group exhibition *Echoing Future: Practices of Radical Imagination* at ACUD Berlin and was present at Felix Art Fair in Los Angeles (2023). ![Dimitris gketsis, scultpure and installation breeder gallery Athens](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/06/dimitirs--gketsis-artist-profile.png) ****Dimitris Gketsis** at The Breeder Gallery Athens Greece: The Fault in our Stars | Image Courtesy by the Artist And Gallery ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2024/03/dimitris-gketsis--emerging-artist-cooper-sculpture-breeder-gallery.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2024/03/contemporary-art-scene-athens-greece.webp) ****Dimitris Gketsis** at The Breeder Gallery Athens Greece: The Fault in our Stars | Image Courtesy by the Artist And Gallery ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2024/03/the-breeder-gallery--art-now-on-view--athens-greece.webp) The Breeder Gallery Athens Greece, Dimitris Gketsis with "The fault in our Stars" Cooper Wallpieces installation view | Image Courtesy by the Artist and Gallery In 2025, he was invited to participate in *Méditerranées* at Nil Gallery Paris (July–August 2025), his current gallery an exhibition that framed the Mediterranean not as a geographic constant but as a source of artistic imagination. A residency at Telegraph Gallery in the Czech Republic is also planned for 2025. Nil Gallery previously presented Gketsis at The Salon by NADA & The Community in Paris (2024). --- ## Why Gketsis Matters Now The question of who was visible in art history and who was not is not an academic one. Gketsis poses it using the very tools classicism provided: relief, figure, canon and inverts the hierarchies within them. That he does so with satire and humor rather than accusation makes his sculptures accessible without defusing them. ![the breeder gallery presents Dimitris gketsis with his resin and Cooper sculptures installation view catapult contemporary](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/6555c5d5da4a7160b408dbcb_the%20breeder%20gallery%20athens%20now.webp) Exhibition View | The Breeder Gallery Athens | Dimitris Gketsis with "The fault in our Stars" | Image Courtesy by the Artist ****Dimitris Gketsis** Exhibition View "The fault in our stars - The Breeder Feeder, Athens - Image Courtesy of the artist ![Dimitris gketsis cooper sculpture in the breeder gallery Athens full view](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/6555d46a4a11ec9bb62865f4_contemporary%20resin%20sculpture%20now%2C%20dimitris%20gketsis.webp) Dimitris Gketsis, **The Fault in our Stars*, 2022, exhibition view, The Breeder Feeder, Athens ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2024/03/best-galleries-in-athens--greece--the-breeder-gallery.webp) Insight the Breeder Gallery with Dimitris Gketsis Scultpur | Image Courtesy by the Artist and Gallery At a moment when body politics and identity debates are often treated as short-lived discourse, Gketsis responds with resin and mythological depth materials that predate the argument by millennia. 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