Anthi Kosma

Anthi Kosma is an architect researching drawing as performative action and emotional writing. She obtained her PhD from the School of Architecture of Madrid in 2014 with Distinction (Sobresaliente Cum Laude). Since 2019, she has been teaching at the Department of Architecture at the University of Thessaly, Greece.

Anthi Kosma, through her artistic and theoretical work, explores drawing beyond media, as an embodied experience, performative action, and emotional writing. Based on graphic improvisation and pedagogical creative principles around equality, free expression, and experimentation, she organizes workshops under the name "imprográfika". She studied architecture at Democritus University in 2005 and obtained her PhD-DEA from the School of Architecture of Madrid under the supervision of Javier Seguí de la Riva in 2014 with Excellent Cum Laude and Special Mention. She works as an architect independently or with groups (N+10, Spain, 2011-2017 or for the XZA architects 2019-21). Since 2019, she has been teaching at the Department of Architects of the University of Thessaly, Greece, in "Design Studio" and "Special Topics on Representations". The most significant exhibition she has participated in collective exhibition "The Order of Drawing" organized by the Drawing Research Group at Loughborough University with curator Arno Kramer.

In the creative process, experiments with mixed-media and hybrid drawing involve blending and integrating both analog and digital elements and techniques. Drawing's action and performativity are explored as an embodied experience, a gestural and sentimental form of writing that transcends traditional media. Understanding drawing as a process of becoming, an explorative force through constant transformation that surpasses the representational norms of ocular-centric culture, is crucial for individuation, self-exploration, fulfilment, and artistic experimentation. Recently, her artistic work has aimed to merge, open up, and include aspects of drawing's queerness and its relationship with nature, post-human approximations, and investigations that reconsider drawing's aspects of materiality.

See the artist’s website here, and the Impro-Grafika website here.

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