Opening: Friday 22 May 2026, 7.30–9.30pm
Grafting is a common gardening technique in which one plant is joined to another so they heal and grow as one. One part offers the trunk and roots, the other brings the capacity to transform. Bound together in close contact, they generate a new entity to produce stems, flowers, and fruit.
And Here I Bloom, For a Short Hour Unseen explores grafting as a form of union through which new identities emerge. Used metaphorically, it serves as a point of departure for Kotoula and Moschou. By merging their individual artistic practices—ceramics, drawing, photography, and sculpture—the exhibition presents a new body of collaborative work developed between the two artists, stemming from Moschou’s residency at The Paddocks in 2025.
* The title of the exhibition And Here I Bloom, For a Short Hour Unseen is an excerpt from I Am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied by American author and naturalist, Henry David Thoreau.
For previews, please contact the gallery info@thepaddocks.gr
Artists’ biographies:
Chryssa Kotoula (b. 1995, Larissa, Greece) is an artist, designer and founder of Matters of Concern, a creative studio focused on material research in contemporary ceramics. She is a graduate of the Sculpture, Glass, and Ceramics Department of LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, and the School of Visual and Applied Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She lives and works in Athens, Greece.
Kotoula was shortlisted for the Officine Saffi Foundation Biennial Prize 2024, Italy, and was awarded the Officine Saffi Special Prize, as well as the European Ceramic Context 2024 Triennial, Denmark. She participated in the Onassis AiR Extended Research Residencies in 2025/26.
Selected group and solo exhibitions include: We Are Walking, Talking Minerals, Milan, Italy (2025), The Material Way, 3 Days of Design, Copenhagen, Denmark (2024), (un)Known Territories, Milan, Italy (2024), Vienna Design Week – Fokus, Trash, Vienna, Austria (2024), Women Ceramic Artists of Greece, Greek Ceramix Contemporary, Mon Coin Studio, Athens, Greece (2024).
Katerina Moschou (b. 1991, Athens, Greece) is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, photography, printmaking, and painting. She holds a Fine Arts degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and studied at École Supérieure d’Art Dunkerque-Tourcoing, following a Law degree from the Democritus University of Thrace. She lives and works in Athens.
Moschou participated in the Artist Residency Programme at The Paddocks in Spring 2025. She was selected by Void Editions as a Futures Photography Talent 2025. The photobook How to Drive, created in collaboration with Zoetrope Athens, received the Polycopies & Co Grant (Paris, 2022), the ArtsLibris Banc Sabadell Award (Barcelona, 2023), and was shortlisted for the PhotoEspaña Best Photography Book Award (Madrid, 2023) and Women by Women by PhotoVogue (2025).
Selected group and solo exhibitions include: How to Drive, The Paddocks Gallery, Volos, Greece (2025), Big Table, Common Ground, Athens, Greece (2025) How to Drive, Galery FOTO-GEN, Wroclaw, Poland (2024), How to Drive, LibreriaMarini, Rome, Italy (2024), Photobiennale Thessaloniki, Greece (2023), Vanitas, MoMUS Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece (2023-2024), Dandelion Seekers, 3537.org., Paris, France (2023).
