Artist Name: Krsto Gligorjadis
Residency Dates: June – July 2026
Born: 1996
Hometown: Skopje, North Macedonia
Lives & Works: Skopje, North Macedonia
Instagram: @krstogligorjadis
Bio/Statement:
Krsto Gligorjadis is the recipient of the 2025 DENES Award for Young Visual Artists in North Macedonia.
Krsto Gligorjadis is a multidisciplinary visual artist and performer whose work fuses ritual, myth, and contemporary questions of masculinity, shaped by the chauvinistic context in which he lives and works. Trained in law, pedagogy, graphic design, and visual arts, his interdisciplinary practice bridges gender rights, societal critique, and personal transformation. Through performance, installation, and participatory works, Gligorjadis explores how private emotions become public reflection, questioning what it means to be a man today. His body-centered practice functions as a therapeutic ritual, transforming trauma into embodied artwork and creating spaces of empathy, accountability, and healing.
Krsto Gligorjadis’ recent achievements include the TODAY Award 2025 (DENES Award), Skopje, recognizing his contribution to contemporary visual and performance art, and the QUEER MAKEDONIUM Award for My Father’s Skirt at Shkodra ArtHouse, Albania (2023). He has participated in biennales such as the Skopje Youth Biennale, Part II, Museum of Macedonia (2025) and the Belgrade Youth Biennale, Art Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzorić (2025). Krsto Gligorjadis’ recent solo and group exhibitions include: Years of Dangerous Living, SCS Center – Jadro, Skopje, North Macedonia (2025); Memento, Komshilook, Skopje, North Macedonia (2025); Tobacco-pickers, Museum of Macedonia, Skopje, North Macedonia (2025); CITY AS A PUBLIC, public space, Skopje, North Macedonia (2024); Skills for Resurgence, SCS Center – Jadro, Skopje, North Macedonia (2024); Under Ground is Easier to Breathe, public space, Skopje, North Macedonia (2023).
Support: Krsto Gligorjadis’ residency is made possible with support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
