Christina Thalassa

Christina Thalassa lives in Athens and works as a set and costume designer, visual artist, and theater educator. Since 2024, she has been working as Curator of Education at MOMus - Museum Alex Mylona, where she designs, organizes, and implements educational programs and participatory activities for diverse audiences. She also contributes to administrative and organizational processes that support the museum’s operation.

The main focus of her professional activity is museum education and the design of experiential learning activities that connect contemporary art with theatrical expression and participatory creation. She develops programs that employ interdisciplinary approaches, combining visual arts practices, creative drama, and storytelling, with the aim of actively engaging audiences and positioning artistic experience as a field for social dialogue and inclusion. Through these processes, she seeks to cultivate imagination and creative expression among participants, fostering communication, free expression, and empathy. She has designed and implemented programs for school groups, adults, and special audience groups, focusing on the connections between art and issues of identity, the body, the environment, and collective memory.

She studied at the School of Drama, Faculty of Fine Arts at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), specializing in set and costume design. She holds a master’s degree in Art History from the Department of History and Archaeology of AUTh, as a scholar of the Onassis Foundation. She pursued her studies at the Facultat de Belles Arts de Sant Carles in Valencia, specializing in painting and drawing, and upon completing them, she received a scholarship from AUTh to create a three-dimensional model of the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza.

As a set and costume designer, she has collaborated with the National Theatre of Northern Greece, the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Kozani, the Municipality of Thessaloniki, as well as theater groups such as ‘Mikros Vorras’ [Little North], Eclipses Group Theatre, and ‘Drosa Techni’ [Performing Art].

Her visual arts practice includes painting, drawing, digital media, and the creation of special props for theater and performance art. She is also active in illustration, collaborating with the urban design company Design Clips. Her works are held in private collections in Greece and internationally. Since 2026, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Onassis Foundation Scholars’ Association, serving as Special Secretary.