> ## 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. # Kallirroi Ioannidou Paints Bodies That Cannot Decide What They Are - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/kallirroi-ioannidou-kallmann-museum-ismaning-germany/ - Published: 2026-08-31T02:39:21.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-31T02:39:21.000Z - Description: Read our independent art analysis of Kallirroi Ioannidou's Galvanizing Memories at Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning. On memory, myth, and hybrid bodies. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Memory & Identity, Myth & Folklore, Exhibition ## **Kallmann-Museum Presented Galvanizing Memories in Ismaning by Kallirroi Ioannidou** [**Kallmann-Museum**](https://kallmann-museum.de/?ref=catapult-platform.art)presented Galvanizing Memories by **Kallirroi Ioannidou** from March 1 to June 14, 2026. A cat is not always a cat. Somewhere between the tail and the raised haunches, the body stops behaving like an animal and starts behaving like a doorway. ![Exhibition review of Kallirroi Ioannidou: Galvanizing Memories at Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning, 2026. Wide gallery view with a purple cat mural on one wall and a purple bird mural with metal wings on the opposite wall.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/08/kallirroi-ioannidou-galvanizing-memories-kallmann-museum-ismaning-2026-installation-01.webp) ****Kallirroi Ioannidou,** **Galvanizing Memories*, installation view, ****Kallmann-Museum**, Ismaning, 2026\. Photo: Produktion Pitz. Courtesy the artist and Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning. ![Exhibition review of Kallirroi Ioannidou: Galvanizing Memories at Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning, 2026. Panoramic view of the gallery room with both purple murals and the smaller paintings between them.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/08/kallirroi-ioannidou-galvanizing-memories-kallmann-museum-ismaning-2026-closing.webp) ****Kallirroi Ioannidou,** Galvanizing Memories, installation view, Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning, 2026\. Photo: Produktion Pitz. Courtesy the artist and Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning. What reads as an ordinary stretch from across the room turns, up close, into a small argument about what a body is for. **Galvanizing Memories** **Artist:** Kallirroi Ioannidou **Exhibition:** Galvanizing Memories **Venue:** [ Kallmann-Museum ](https://kallmann-museum.de/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **City:** Ismaning, Germany **Dates:** March 1, 2026 – June 14, 2026 **Address:** Schloßstraße 3b, 85737 Ismaning **Photography:** Produktion Pitz (installation views) **Image Courtesy:** Courtesy the artist and Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning Stay long enough and the rooms cooperate with the confusion. Scale stops being a reliable guide, and so does material. A wall can behave like skin, and charcoal can carry as much dread as two meters of purple paint. > An animal, in these rooms, is not a symbol for something else. It is what a body looks like once it stops agreeing to stay one thing. Kallmann-Museum sits in Ismaning, a town outside Munich known for pairing its permanent collection with quieter, contained shows. [Kallirroi Ioannidou on view at Galerie Mellies - DetmoldDiscover Greek/German Artist Kallirroi Ioannidou at Galerie Mellies, Detmold - Like Kids on a New Planet opens a material deep dive into fragility, form, and the space between thought and presence.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/catapult-cd336df4-6a12-4cc2-9062-c11a22403d00.png)Catapult ContemporaryDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/mellies-gallery--detmold-9d18ec0b-cc00-4430-ac99-82a6c086eaf9.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/kallirroi-ioannidou-galerie-mellies/) Previous Exhibiton - Kallirroi Ioannidou - Catapult Contemporary Ioannidou was shortlisted for the Kallmann-Preis der Kreissparkasse 2025 alongside Jonas Brinker, while the prize itself went to Javkhlan Ariunbold. The rooms stayed plain enough that the animals filling them still register as an intrusion. ![Kallirroi Ioannidou , catapult contemporary artist in focus](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/08/kallirroi-ioannidou-galvanizing-memories-kallmann-museum-ismaning-2026-installation-02.webp) ****Kallirroi Ioannidou,** Galvanizing Memories, installation view, ****Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning,** 2026\. Photo: Produktion Pitz. Courtesy the artist and Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning. ![Catapult Contemporary Exhibition review of Kallirroi Ioannidou: Galvanizing Memories at Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning, 2026. Gallery wall with four paintings, a crouched purple devil figure, a pink and yellow horse head, and a dark canvas covered in rows of painted teeth.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/08/kallirroi-ioannidou-galvanizing-memories-kallmann-museum-ismaning-2026-installation-03.webp) ****Kallirroi Ioannidou,** Galvanizing Memories, installation view, ****Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning**, 2026\. Photo: Produktion Pitz. Courtesy the artist and Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning. The cat comes first, stretched the length of one wall in a bruised, artificial purple, front paws down, hindquarters lifted between a stretch and a bow. Where the shoulders meet the neck, the paint opens into a hole, a circular gap cut through the animal's own logic. Smaller paintings hang directly against its flank, among them a pair of pink hands cradling two painted eyes. The mural absorbs them the way skin absorbs a graft. Around the corner, a second animal pushes the argument further. The bird is painted flat on the wall, purple again, but its wings are cut sheets of raw metal shaped like open human hands, fixed on so they throw shadows the flat body cannot produce. Human and animal compete for the same silhouette here, and for now the metal is winning. ![Exhibition review of Kallirroi Ioannidou: Galvanizing Memories at Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning, 2026. Row of five large charcoal drawings, a standing figure with wide wing shapes for arms, a curled form wrapped in a pointed hood, a cat bent forward with an arched spine, a fish under a glass cloche, and a raven with both wings spread open.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/08/kallirroi-ioannidou-galvanizing-memories-kallmann-museum-ismaning-2026-installation-04.webp) ****Kallirroi Ioannidou**, Galvanizing Memories, installation view, ****Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning,** 2026\. Photo: Produktion Pitz. Courtesy the artist and Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning. ![Exhibition review of Kallirroi Ioannidou: Galvanizing Memories at Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning, 2026. Charcoal drawings of a dripping faucet, an animal hanging upside down, a magpie pecking at the ground, a furry face with a black cat silhouette in front of it, and a crouched hare, with a purple mural visible through a doorway.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/08/kallirroi-ioannidou-galvanizing-memories-kallmann-museum-ismaning-2026-installation-05.webp) ****Kallirroi Ioannidou**, Galvanizing Memories, installation view, ****Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning,** 2026\. Photo: Produktion Pitz. Courtesy the artist and Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning. ![Exhibition review of Kallirroi Ioannidou: Galvanizing Memories at Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning, 2026. Close view of the purple bird mural, its wings made from cut sheets of metal shaped like open human hands, with two round holes for eyes.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/08/kallirroi-ioannidou-galvanizing-memories-kallmann-museum-ismaning-2026-work-01.webp) ****Kallirroi Ioannidou,** Galvanizing Memories, installation view, Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning, 2026\. Photo: Produktion Pitz. Courtesy the artist and Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning. A third room drops the color. Twelve large charcoal drawings hang there, each near two meters tall, catching bodies mid-change: a standing figure with wide black wing-shapes for arms and blank round eyes, a curled form wrapped inside a pointed hood with only two eye-holes cut through it, a cat bent so far forward its spine curls into a question mark, a fish resting under a glass cloche, a raven with both wings thrown open. The charcoal argues the same case the purple paint does two rooms over, just without a joke to soften it. ![Exhibition review of Kallirroi Ioannidou: Galvanizing Memories at Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning, 2026. Charcoal drawing of a pale, textured face with two large dark eyes, partly hidden behind the black silhouette of a cat's back and pointed ears.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/08/kallirroi-ioannidou-galvanizing-memories-kallmann-museum-ismaning-2026-work-02.webp) ****Kallirroi Ioannidou,** Galvanizing Memories, detail view, **Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning,** 2026\. Photo: Cheongjin Keem. Courtesy the artist and Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/08/kallirroi-ioannidou-galvanizing-memories-kallmann-museum-ismaning-2026-work-02-1.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/08/kallirroi-ioannidou-galvanizing-memories-kallmann-museum-ismaning-2026-detail-01.webp) ****Kallirroi Ioannidou,** Galvanizing Memories, detail, ****Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning,** 2026\. Photo: Cheongjin Keem. Courtesy the artist and Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning. Ioannidou built this out of a personal fact as much as a formal one. She trained first in spatial planning before turning to painting, and the exhibition still asks how much a room can hold before it stops making sense. That question lands differently now, with public energy spent arguing what a body is allowed to be, and how much of identity is chosen rather than assigned. Ioannidou does not litigate any of that. She paints bodies that refuse their own outlines. Leave the rooms and the hole in the cat's shoulder is the image that stays, an opening left where a body would insist on staying whole. The metal hands bolted onto the bird's back do similar work in a different material, holding a shape together by admitting it was never one piece. Ioannidou's rooms never resolve the difference between animal and human, painted and built. They leave it visible enough to walk past twice. --- ### **stay connected, keep the art in motion** [**Kallirroi Ioannidou on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/kallirroi%5Fioannidou/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/kallmann%5Fmuseum%5Fismaning/?ref=catapult-platform.art) --- **About the Artist** **Kallirroi Ioannidou** Kallirroi Ioannidou (b. 1986, Stuttgart) studied painting at the Universität der Künste Berlin under Prof. Mark Lammert, after training in spatial planning in Thessaloniki. She lives and works in Berlin. [Website](https://kallirroiioannidou.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) · [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/kallirroi%5Fioannidou/?ref=catapult-platform.art) ![Exhibition review of Kallirroi Ioannidou: Galvanizing Memories at Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning, 2026. The artist seated in her studio among paintings, including a yellow wig-shaped canvas and a pink and yellow horse head.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/08/kallirroi-ioannidou-galvanizing-memories-kallmann-museum-ismaning-2026-portrait-01.webp) --- **About the Location** **Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning** A municipal museum in Ismaning, near Munich, built around the estate of sculptor Hans Jürgen Kallmann and known for pairing its permanent collection with contemporary solo and group exhibitions. [Website](https://kallmann-museum.de/?ref=catapult-platform.art) · [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/kallmannmuseum/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **About Catapult Contemporary - Art Platform Submission** This is an exhibition review published by Catapult — an independent editorial platform for contemporary art, based in Vienna. 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