website. veniadimitrakopoulou.com
Venia Dimitrakopoulou is a sculptor who divides her time between Athens and Aegina, where she has a studio. She has exhibited her work in both solo and group exhibitions across Greece and internationally, including in France, New York, and Italy, as part of her “Primordial Future” trilogy, which was presented in three major cities. Her large-scale sculpture Promahones was showcased at the Benaki Museum on Pireos Street for several months before being installed in the garden of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens in 2016. In 2019, the Antonino Salinas Archaeological Museum in Palermo added her work Golden Spear to its permanent collection.
Dimitrakopoulou’s artistic practice is rooted in an intuitive material and spatial understanding of her surroundings, evident in her monolithic sculptures as well as in her more delicate installations. Her works are deeply informed by both the physical world and her inner reflections on time, history, and personal mythology. As art critic and curator Eleni Varopoulou notes, “Venia Dimitrakopoulou weaves ancient, primal elements of human existence and artistic creation with modern, personal mythologies. Her explorations span, on one hand, historical and cultural time, and on the other, personal, internal time.”
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