Myrto Stampoulou

Myrto Stampoulou
1975 born in Athens, Greece
Lives in Athens, Greece
Education

2005-7 Master of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Arts.
1997-2003 Painting Degree, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece.
1993-5 Journalism diploma, Institute of Professional Journalism (Ergastiri Epagelmatikis Dimosiografias), Athens, Greece.
1994-6 Photography and darkroom course, Photography Department of New Heraklio Municipality, Greece.

Grants/Awards

2018 Obvia Residency, Setubal, Portugal.
2006 Outvideo festival, best videos/animations.
2007 Creative and Professional development award, Scottish Arts Council.
2005-07 Scholarship for postgraduate studies, Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY).
2003 Erasmus scholarship to UDK Berlin.
2002 Biennial of the Fine Art students of Greece, First prize.

Solo Exhibitions

2020 The Gruen Effect, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens.
2010 Where is my shadow, Market Gallery, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Glasgow.
2008 Sci-Fi cinema, part of Where is My Shadow project, Arch 14, Eastvale place, Studio Warehouse, Glasgow.
2005 +Pegnia, Zoumboulakis Art Galleries, Athens, Greece.
2004 Inner view, To Milo gallery, Athens, Greece.

Group Exhibitions

2022
Animal tales, curated by Georgia Liapi, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2021
Coven: Witchcraft for Love Politics, curated by Vassilia Kaga and Katerina Stamou, at the Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research (FAC), Athens, Greece.
Systems, Organisms, Symbiosis, curated by Gigi Argyropoulou & Kostas Tzimoulis, at Eight, Athens. The show was part of the edition of Instituting of NEW Alphabet School co-organised by HKW Berlin with the support of Goethe Institut Athen.
Solus ipse, curated by DImitris Halatsis, at Circuits & Currents, Athens, Greece.
Gardening, co-curated by Georgia Liapi & The Gallery’s gardeners, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens.
2020
News from the Studios – A life-affirming show, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens.
2019
Games & Toys, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens.
2017
Athens, we have a problem, curated by August Beinoglou, Snehta residency, Athens.
2015
Art & Design-a mutual relationship, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens.
2016
Happiness, part of Back to Athens 4, curated by Dimitris Halatsis, at Ypsilon publications, Athens.
2014
Ghosts, curated by Libby Sacer Foundation during the residency of Cheap Art, Athens.
Trust, curated by Libby Sacer Foundation during the residency of Cheap Art, Athens.
Block in black and white, curated by Sophia Kyriakou, Project room Owl Space, Athens.
2013
From Athens with spontaneous love, corner of Donaustrasse / Ganghofer Strasse, curated by Vassileia Stylianidou, Neukölln, Berlin.
Speakers ́ Corner, contribution to a project by Anna Mields and Katja Kollowa, part of 48 STUNDEN Neukölln, Kunstfestival, Berlin.
2012
Big city, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens, Greece.
A cube of art is opening, curated by Liana Zoza, Cube gallery, Πάτρα.
2011
Bulb Festival, curated by Polyzois Kotsanadas, The Hub, Athens, Greece.
2010
Locus Solus, curated by Sozita Goudouna, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece.
Small Paintings, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2009
Small Paintings, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2008
Miden Video Festival, Kalamata, Greece.
Artists’ short films, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Ireland.
Dreams come true, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens, Greece.
Small paintings, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens.
2007
The Gold Epoque (...), curated by Kormoranos, art space Ermoupolis, Siros, Greece.
Synch Festival (screening program), Technopolis-Gazi, Athens, Greece.
Public screening, in Gothenburg city airport waiting room, by students of the GSA and the Valand school of Fine Arts, Sweden.
Furthermore, curated by Amy Sales, Artnews projects, Berlin.
And the he likes the me, annual members show, Transmission gallery, Glasgow, UK.
Furthermore, MFA graduates show, Tramway, Glasgow.
The Gold Epoque (...), a show of the drawings from the book by Kormoranos, Antonopoulou art, Athens, Greece.
Small Paintings, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2006
Fata Morgana, Visual approaches to Kavvadia’s poetry, Benaki Museum, Athens.
Outvideo, international video festival, curated by Arseny Sergeyev, Russia (video screenings in public spaces in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, St.Petersburg and other cities in Russia).
Video killed the painting Star, curated by Alhena Katsof, screenings in CCA cinema, Glasgow.
Radiations, curated by Rallou Panagiotou, edition of Video killed the painting Star, screenings in CCA cinema, Glasgow.
Video Festival, Independent space, curated by Raquel Mendez, Setubal, Portugal.
Hiscox MFA Interim show, Newberry Gallery, Glasgow.
Kunstvlaai 4, Kunstpark Gasfabriek, Amsterdam.
Her Shorts, International Women's Video Festival, Dinnerware Contemporary Art Gallery, Tucson, Arizona.
Small Paintings, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2005
Russian Dolls, Assembly Gallery, GSA, Glasgow.
Small Paintings, Zoumboulakis gallery, Athens, Greece.
Greek Contemporaries, To Milo gallery, Athens, Greece.
4 Viewpoints, Angela DIkeoulia gallery, Athens.
Group show, Gallery+Lab, Athens.
2004
Strictly Unclassified, curated by Yiannis Psychopedis, Cinema Club in Patras,
Strictly Unclassified, curated by Yiannis Psychopedis Byzantine Museum, Athens, Greece.
Painting-Sculpture-Ceramics, DEPA, Pireus.
2003
Kites, Astrolavos gallery, Athens, Greece
Irini Gennadiou, Kleo Gizeli, Myrto Stampoulou, curated by Daphne Vitali, Contemporary art space Christina Lentzou, Athens, Greece.
The graduates of 2002, Ergostasion, Athens, Greece.
The 6th Painting Workshop, curated by Vassilis Vlastaras, Barracks of Kapodistrias, Argos, Greece.
The Labs of ASKT, Eynard’s Mansion, MIET cultural centre,, Athens, Greece.
2002
Biennial of the Fine Art students of Greece, First prize, Creta Maris Galleries, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
The 6th Studio, Old Kapodistria Quarters, Argos, Greece.
Time exercise, IME foundation, Athens.

Projects

2017
Side Look, co-curation of 3-day festival of culture from Turkey, at Embros theater, with Libby Sacer Foundation group. Program at http://libbysacer.blogspot.com/2017/ and archive at https://online.fliphtml5.com/cgpgl/xxwg/
2014-15
Passport Please: during the 8 month residency at cheapart Athens, Libby Sacer Foundation (Myrto Stampoulou, Eugenia Tzirtzilaki and Dimitris Halatsis) developed and presented the project Passport Please. Program found here: http://libbysacer.blogspot.com/2014/
Archive here: https://online.fliphtml5.com/cgpgl/ajez/
2014
4 days stand (2), co-curating and co-organizing the queer festivals at the free self-organized theater Embros, Athens
https://embros-theater.blogspot.com/2014/05/2-10554-85-1815-1900-live-2130-2230-q.html
2013
4 days stand, co-curating and co-organizing the queer festivals at the free self-organized theater Embros, Athens
http://embrostheater.blogspot.com/2013/05/4-days-stand-queer-festival-8-9-10-11.html

Set & costume Design, Artistic Direction

2024
Ifigenia-Prey, theatrical monologue, directed by Aikaterini Papageorgiou, presented at the ancient small theater of Epidaurus, for the Athens Epidaurus Festival.
2023
It was Paradise, Unfortunately, performative lecture by Raphael Khouri, set design and performance, at Outburst Queer Arts Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and at United in Grief festival, Neumarkt theater, Zurich.
The word progress in my mother’s lips doesn’t ring true, set design for theater play by Matei Visniek, directed by Aikaterini Papageorgiou, Bellos theater, Athens, Greece.
Us, the half-humans of nowhere, set and costumes design for theater play based on Mimika Kranakis’ novel “Filellines”, directed by Eleni Boza, at Apo Mihanis theater, Athens, Greece.
2022
Clean like a spirit, visual curation for museum theater written and directed by Eugenia Tzirtzilaki, at the Industrial Gas Museum, Athens. Greece.
2017
Not to be unpleasant be we need to have a serious talk, art direction and set design for feature length film, directed by Giorgos Georgopoulos.
2013
Über Tiere, set design and costumes for the adaptation of the theter play written by Elfriede Jelinek, directed by Eugenia Tzirtzilaki, Epi Kolono theater, Athens, Greece.
2012
Elle, page 31 (a reference to Hedda Gabler) visual curation, costumes and project development for devised performance directed by Eugenia Tzirtzilaki, presented at CAMP! art gallery, Athens, Greece.
2011
Battery-girl (recharged), set design and costumes for theatre production directed by Euripides Laskaridis, presented at the independent space “PROSORINOS”, Athens, Greece.
2010
Battery-girl set design and costumes for theatre production directed by Euripides Laskaridis, presented at the Low Budget Festival, Kakogiannis Foundation, Athens, Greece.
2009
Tungsten, art direction, set design and costumes and for feature length film written and directed by Giorgos Georgopoulos.
2008
Won’t pay, set design, costumes, project development and co-adaptation from Dario Fo’s original play, co-written with and directed by Eleni Boza, Thessaliko Theatre, Larissa, Greece.
2006
Mum by Sakis Serefas, set design for theatre play directed by Eleni Boza, Notos Theatre Company, Athens, Greece.
2005
Apropos of the melting snow, an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground, directed by Eleni Boza, set design and costumes, National theatre of Greece, Experimental Stage, Athens, Greece.
Nameless, an adaptation from Sophocles' Electra, directed by Eleni Boza, set design and costumes, National theatre of Macedonia (MNT), Skopje, Macedonia (FYROM).
2004
Euripides' Orestes, directed by Eugenia Tzirtzilaki, set design and costumes, National theatre of Greece, Experimental Stage, Athens, Greece.

Publications

Alegal Fields fanzine, contribution with text (“This text is a collage of voices”) and images to the edition, based on the workshop organized by Gigi Argyropoulou and part of Instituting, a chapter of the New Alphabet School, co-organized by Eight Athens and HKW Berlin, with the support of the Goethe Institut Athen, 2019.
Community Course on Intersectionality, First Act, contribution to e-book with text and images. The edition is a collection of texts written during the Course on Intersectionality at the Feminist Autonomous Center (FAC) for research. The book was presented at the 2nd annual No Borders summer school (June 2019) and at the Feminism Phylo/sophia workshop at the Panteion University (December 2019).
The Gruen Effect, drawings by Myrto Stampoulou, poems/texts by Eugenia Tzirtzilaki and Maria Fakinou, Futura pulications, on the occasion of Myrto Stampoulou’s solo show at Zoumboulakis gallery, 2020.
Athens, we have a problem, contribution with text (Correspondence) to e-publication, part of literary and visual arts Sci-Fi festival, curated by Augustus Veinoglou, Snehta Resdiency, Athens.
Won’t pay, a book containing the adaptation of the original play by Dario Fo, presented at Thessaliko theatre, co-written with stage director E. Boza, 2008.
Dreams come true, catalogue for the solo show at Zouboulakis Gallery, 2007.
Furthermore, catalogue for the graduates' show at Tramway, 2007.
The Golden Era, a book of drawings, curated by Kormoranos, 2007.
DAAD Erasmus 2004, Berlin.
Strictly Unclassified, catalogue for group show, Patras Cinema Club, 2004.
Orest, edition containing the new translation for the theatre project presented by the ICP in the experimental stage of the national theatre, Medusa/Selas Publishers, 2003, Athens.
Biennial of the students of the Greek schools of Fine arts, a catalogue produced by Art Press, 2002, Greece.
Graduates of 2002, Catalogue, 2003.
Kites, catalogue for group show, Astrolavos art gallery, 2003.
Argeion skepsis, a publication produced by the students of the 6th studio of the fine arts school, 2002, Athens
The workshops of ASFA, catalogue for exhibition at the educational foundation of the national bank of Greece, 2001, Athens

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