Kyriakos Apostolidis (b. Drama, Greece 1991) is a Chicago-based performance artist and movement director. Working with the human body as his primal artistic material and self-referential subject, Apostolidis’s practice-based artistic research project, named Morphoplastics, aims to examine the phenomenological issue of presence in performance art, focusing on the concept of plasticity in terms of body-mind connection and space-time experience. Morphoplastics makes use of the kinesthetic psycho-physical awareness of the performer to explore the innate expressive potential of the human body as the source material of artistic representation. This improvisational movement practice attempts to articulate a sensorial-based communication between performer and audience through kinesthetic empathy and to bring the tradition of figurative art to performance.

Apostolidis pursues a Master in Fine Arts in performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with a scholarship by the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, and the J. F. Costopoulos Foundation. He holds an Integrated Master’s in painting from the School of Fine Arts at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, while studying in Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Granada with the Erasmus+ Studies program. His work was presented at Festival Arte/Acción (Mexico, 2023), Research Project Cyborgians: Your Brain is not an Onion with a tiny Reptile Inside (Samothrace, Greece, 2022), Biennale Larnaca (Cyprus, 2022), Performance Festival —Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (Greece, 2019). He curated and worked on the movement direction of the performance project Fusions! for the event Open Studio Night (US, 2023).