Kiki Petratou (Greece, 1971) is an artist based in Rotterdam. She studied Fine Arts at the Athens School of Fine Art (GR) and obtained her Masters in Art at the Piet Zwart Institute (NL) and Plymouth University (UK). She has been recently admitted to the University of Amsterdam for the Master research Program in Media Studies. She has participated in several workshops and residencies for film and photography in Greece and the Netherlands.
Her work has been presented in a number of museums and galleries including the Nederlands Fotomuseum, TENT, RAM Foundation and Lokaal 01 in the Netherlands and film and video festivals such as “Belle Arte Lamia” (GR, 2006), the “Art Film and Video Festival” at the Prenelle Gallery (UK, 2005), “Pixel dance video weekend” at the Aristotelian University of Thessalonica (GR, 2005), “Video Art” at the Factory, (Athens, GR, 2005), “The one minutes” at the Centraal Museum (Utrecht, NL, 2002). She has been commissioned for the creation of 2 video-clips for the upcoming CD/DVD of the Dutch band ZIMIHC (May, 2006) and the short film on the concepts of Realism – Modernism – Postmodernism, made for the Department of Literature in the University of Leiden (NL, 2004).