Valsamaki Artemis – Athens,Greece
Education
1999-2002: Graduation from Mokume Silversmithing and Jewellery Design School
1996-1999: BA in Design from Vakalo School, Department of Graphics Design
Seminars
2004: Theatrical Marionette at the MAIRIVI Puppet Art Workshop, Athens, Greece
2004: Rag doll at the MAIRIVI Puppet Art Workshop , Athens ,Greece
2003: Drama Games at the Theatre of Changes, Athens, Greece
2002: Enamel and clasp making techniques at an Institute of Vocational Training.
Workshops
2019: Screen Printing, Athens , Greece
2016: Substance and absence part 2 presented by Jorge Manilla, Athens,Greece
2015: Substance and absence presented by Jorge Manilla, Athens,Greece
2015: Corporeo in corporeo presented by Jorge Manilla,Athens Greece
Exhibitions in Greece
2023: “A History of Revolutions”, Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum, Athens ,Greece
2019: Athens Jewelry Week , Benaki Museum , Athens
2018: Surrealistic Toys , A S Gallery Contemporary Jewelry and Art , Crete Island , Greece
2018: New Horizons, From Jewelry to sculpture, Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum, Athens
2018: The After Joya Effect 5 , Popeye loves olive Art space, Athens
2018: Athens Jewelry Week , “ Intersecting spaces’’, Benaki Museum , Athens
2017: “The After Joya Effect 4”, Popeye Loves Olive art space, Athens
2016: “The After Joya Effect 3”, Popeye loves olive art space, Athens
2016: Athens Jewelry Week, ”Intersecting spaces”, Melanithros art space, Athens
2014 :Symbols.Contemporary Art Jewelery Exhibition at the Industrial Gas Museum (Technopolis),Athens
2013: Without freedom there is no art. Contemporary Art Jewelery Exhibition at the Popeye Loves Olive Art Space, Athens
2013: Eternal Bliss. Contemporary Art Jewelery and Objects Exhibition at El.Marneri Gallery, Athens
2012: Mentis is opening again Exhibition based upon materials of Mentis artisanship at the Benaki Museum,Athens
2011: Three landscapes of Paros , Artist in Residence ,Apothiki Art Centre, Paros
2010: TOOLS Contemporary Art Jewellery Exhibition at the TAF art foundation, Athens
2002: Contemporary Jewellery at the Lalaounis Jewellery Museum, Athens
2002: Trash Art Exhibition at the Industrial Gas Museum (Technopolis),Athens
International Exhibitions
2023: ”Tarot”,Galerie La Goaillerie Par Mazlo, Paris
2020: 5th International Biennale of contemporarry metal art , Metallophone Museum , Vilnius , Lithuania
2019:Joya Art Jewelry Fair, Barcelona, Spain
2018: Dandelion Fluff’s Flight through the Universe,’’Putti’’ Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2018: Hidden Curriculum, Melting point, Museu de la Ciutat, Valencia, Hosted by Popeye loves olive Art Space
2018: Hidden Curriculum, , Atelier Cepissakova, Munich, Germany , Hosted by Popeye loves Olive
2017: Joya Art Jewellery fair, Barcelona, Spain
2016: Reproduced Paradise,Contemporary Jewellery and Art ,Abandoned Villa, Budapest,Hungary
2016: Joya Art Jewellery Fair,Barcelona,Spain
2016: Transit “ Jewelry from around the world’’, Creativity Oggetti Gallery, Turin, Italy
2016: Unclasped,Discovering Contemporary Greek Jewellery, Melbourne,Australia
2015: Joya Art Jewellery Fair,Barcelona,Spain
2010: Handwerk and design, New Munich Trade Fair Centre, Munich
2008: Sieraad International Jewellery Art Fair, Amsterdam
Solo exhibitions
2016: ”Landscapes of the mind”, Gallery Platina, Stockholm, Sweden
2017: ‘’Under the surface’’,Popeye Loves Olive Art space,Athens, Greece
Awards
2019: Winner of the Joya Barcelona Art Fair award at Athens Jewelry Week
2018: Winner of the Athens Jewelry Week Award
2016: Winner of the Public Award for the ”The After Joya Effect 3”at the Popeye Loves Olive art space, Athens
Publications
New Brooches , 400+ Contemporary Jewellry Designs, Nicolas Estrada , 2017
Self-publish Zine ”Reality of a dream” Issue 1 , 2021
Jewelry Catalogues Publications
Metalsmith magazine Vol 40 No 3 (2020)
Collections
Charon Kransen Arts
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Museum of Modern Greek Culture, Athens Greece
Platina Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Private collections
Membership
Member of the Chamber of Fine Art of Greece
Interviews