BASE-ALPHA GALLERY

GRIGORIOS ILARIDIS

Grigorios Ilaridis (b. 1997, Athens) is a Belgian–Greek artist based in Antwerp.

The practice of Grigorios moves between digital collage and sculpture, using image as a structural tool for constructing bodies, fragments, and hybrid forms. Ilaridis begins with collages composed from personal photographs, mythological references, and fragments of popular culture. These images function as speculative blueprints, which he translates into three-dimensional works through processes of modeling, casting, and material reassembly.

Rather than treating myth as a fixed narrative, Ilaridis approaches it as a living and unstable system—one that absorbs personal memory, desire, and contemporary visual language. Classical sculptural forms appear in his work not as restorations of the past, but as bodies in transition: interrupted, recontextualized, and re-materialized through synthetic surfaces, transparency, and color. The sculptures occupy a space between recognition and uncertainty, where reverence persists without stable belief and form becomes a site of projection rather than resolution. Working with materials such as resin, acrylic, metal, plaster, wax, and industrial foam, Ilaridis stages encounters between the authority of classical sculpture and the volatility of contemporary culture. His works function as provisional icons, objects that invite attention and care while resisting fixed symbolic meaning. Clean surfaces, compositional restraint, and material contrast are used deliberately to heighten presence, tension, and layered charge.

After earning his MFA from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in 2023, Ilaridis has gained early recognition through participation in Art Brussels 2024, receiving the Mark Macken Prize, and presenting his debut solo exhibition KLEOS at Base-Alpha Gallery. In 2025, he was awarded an Emerging Talent Grant from the Flemish Government, supporting new material research and international study trips to Denmark and Los Angeles.