ABOUT

Her artistic practice emerges from a multidisciplinary research approach focused on sites in transition — including industrial areas, sites affected by natural disasters, and archaeological excavations. She examines material culture in relation to living landscapes, creating works and installations she calls “material narratives.”

A key interest of hers is the use of archaeological methodology as a tool for artistic practice. Through the dynamic interaction between these fields, she explores issues related to different perceptions of the environment and aspects of the environmental crisis, through both present and hypothetical scenarios.

 

BIO

Athina Koumparouli (b.1983) is a visual artist based in Athens, Greece. She studied Conservation of Antiquities and Artworks, and holds a Master’s degree in Post-Industrial Design and Artistic Practices.

Her work has been featured in group exhibitions in Greece and internationally, including Elefsina European Capital of Culture (2023), Paxos Biennale (2024, Paxos island), In Memory of Memory (2023, Paris), This Current Between Us, curated by Panos Giannikopoulos and Gia Liapi (2022, Athens), Outraged by Pleasure curated bu Nadja Argyropoulou (2023, Athens), The Poem Returns as an Echo Curated by Caterina Stamou (2024, Athens), The Symbiocene Forest at BioArt Laboratories (2019, Eindhoven), Dutch Design Week (2019, NL), among others. Moreover, she has participated in artist residencies and programs in the Netherlands (BioArt Laboratories, Eindhoven), Italy (ECEc Laboratory, Rome), France (W Atelier, Paris), and Greece (Mystery 19, V.A. Initiator, Elefsina 2023). Her first solo exhibition, This way, the traces never die, took place in 2025 at a.antonopoulou gallery in Athens.In 2022 and 2023, in collaboration with the University of Ferrara and supported by Culture Moves Europe, she developed an artistic project connected to an ongoing excavation on the Appian Way (Rome). In December 2025, she has been invited to participate with a site-specific installation at the 6th Edition of Kochi – Muziris Biennale (Kerala, South India). She also has been awarded by ARTWORKS (2022) and is a Fellow of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artists Support Program. 

In 2025, she was selected by the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece as a mentee for its mentorship program.