STAVROS
VAITSIS

Born in Alexandroupoli to a family with roots in Asia Minor and the Black Sea, Stavros Vaitsis showed early promise in drawing, winning first prize in a national art contest in primary school. He later stepped away from art to study solid-state physics—another way to model the world through science and philosophy.

After a career in the IT industry that led him to Switzerland, intensive meditation reopened his path to making: first through color and painting, then through the physicality of clay. His recent work blends sculpture and light, balancing inner opposites and courting surprise—“doing things rightly wrong”—to reach deeper layers of introspection. Mirrors recur in the light works, returning the gaze to the viewer and turning looking into self-reflection.

In 2025, during a two-week stay on the Greek island of Tinos, famed for its marble, he carved the sea goddess Thalassa: a reconnection with his origins and with sculpture as the purest way of giving life to matter.