Stefania Strouza (1982) is a visual artist living and working in Athens. Her practice examines cultural narratives of different time periods and how they, through their interrelations, produce new hybrid identities. The artist creates sculptural works and installations that draw associations between the symbolic world of objects and notions of temporality, corporeality and geography.
Contact
stefania.strouza@gmail.com
@stefaniastrouza
Education
2020–
PhD Candidate, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly
2010–15
Master of Fine Art in Textual Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
Supervisor: Heimo Zoberni
2008–10
Master of Fine Art in Environmental Art, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
2000–07
Master of Architectural Engineering, Technical University of Athens, Greece
Solo Exhibitions
2023
My sea-journey, my land-claim, curated by Daphne Dragona,
2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture, Elefsina, Greece
2021
212 Medea (Recited from an Empty Middle), curated by Daphne Dragona,
annexM/Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall, Athens, Greece
2017
Currents and Currencies, a.antonopoulou.art, Athens, Greece
2016
Shore, Wiener Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria
2015
To a certain degree sacredness is in the eye of the beholder / Act V,
Neue Galerie Innsbruck, Austria
2014
To a certain degree sacredness is in the eye of the beholder / Act III,
Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Athens, Greece
2011
Something to Refresh my Memory, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2010
Preludes, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2009
The Present Order, Sleeper Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Group Exhibitions
2023
Plásmata II, Onassis Stegi, Ioannina, Greece
The Mediterranean: A Round Sea, curated by Marina Fokidis, ARCOmadrid 2023, Madrid, Spain
Loin sur la Terre (Far on Earth), Eva Medin & Stefania Strouza, curated by HYam (Hydra for Artists of the Mediterranean), Historical Archives-Museum of Hydra, Hydra, Greece
Time is a Child, curated by Burcu Fikretoğlu, Perasma Istanbul & Galerist, Nautical Club of Leros, Leros, Greece
Hopes and Promises, curated by Ammophila, Elafonisos, Greece
From off my Countenance These Glassy Tears, curated by Burcu Fikretoğlu, Perasma Istanbul & Art On Pera, Istanbul, Turkey
Metamorfoseis, curated by Miss Dialectic, A Forest, Athens, Greece
2022
Doomed companions, unsubstantial shades, curated by Akis Kokkinos, organised by NEON, Hellenic Residence, London
Weather Engines, curated by Daphne Dragona and Jussi Parikka, Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece
True Love Leaves No Traces, curated by Burcu Fikretoğlu, GALERIST, Istanbul, Turkey
AthenSYN II: GOING VIRAL, curated by Sotirios Bahtsetzis and Katja Ehrhardt, STEINZEIT gallery, Berlin, Germany
2021
Mr Robinson Crusoe Stayed Home: Adventures of Design in Times of Crisis, curated by Polina Kosmadaki and Kostis Velonis, The Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
The Right to Breathe, curated by Sozita Goudouna, Undercurrent, New York, USA
2020
Ride Into the Sun, 3rd Industrial Art Biennial, curated by Branka Benčić, Gerald Matt and Christian Oxenius, Istria, Croatia
2019
The Palace at 4 a.m., curated by Elina Kountouri, Director, NEON Organization and Iwona Blazwick, Director, Whitechapel Gallery, Archaeological Museum of Mykonos, Greece
a.O - b.c.*: An Audiovisual Diary, curated by Iliana Fokianaki, State of Concept, Athens, Greece
Still Here Tomorrow, curated by ARTWORKS, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
Curved Arrow, curated by Kostis Velonis, Kunstraumamschauplatz, Vienna, Austria
Tomorrows: Urban Fictions for Possible Futures, curated by Daphne Dragona and Panos Dragonas, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
2018
Ad Astra, curated by Ysabel Pinyol, MANA Miami, USA
Archipelago Mountain, curated by Ana de Almeida and Stephanie Misa, Exhibition Laboratory of the University of Arts, Helsinki, Finland
The Diary of a Seamstress: An Imaginary Biography, curated by Efi Falida, Antonopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece
The Memory of Revolution: Contemporary Greek Artists, curated by Yannis Bolis, co-organised by the State Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki and the Athens School of Fine Arts Athens, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece
Stopping Point, curated by Kostis Velonis, Daily Lazy Projects, Athens, Greece
2017
Imagined Homes, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Taking Roots, curated by Orestis Andreadakis, Thessaloniki Film Festival, Thessaloniki
15 Young Artists for the 175 Years of the National Bank, curated by Olga Mentzafou, Old Stock Market, Athens, Greece
Tomorrows: Urban fictions for Possible Futures, curated by Daphne Dragona and Panos Dragonas, Onassis Cultural Centre, Diplareios School, Athens, Greece
Carrying Owls to Athens, curated by Amer Abbas, Athens, Greece
Antiquidia, curated by Angeliki Antonopoulou, Antonopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece
2016
Instructions for Happiness, curated by Severin Dünser and Olympia Tzortsi, Athens, Greece
Dämmerschlaf, curated by Michelle Fucich, KM 0 Gallery, Innsbruck, Austria
Desk in Exile, curated by Regina Bittner, Bauhaus Stiftung, Dessau, Germany
2015
DeCorbuziers_The Icon, curated by Simon Banos, Romantso, Athens, Greece
The Element of Ground, curated by Takis Kaldis, The Artwall, Athens, Greece
Beauty is the Method, curated by Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Deree College, Athens, Greece
2014
No Country for Young Men: Contemporary Greek Art in Times of Crisis, curated by Katerina Gregos, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
329, curated by Olympia Tzortzi, Wuk Projektraum, Vienna, Austria
Art and Shadow, curated by Dominik Lang, Czech Centers Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
2013
Afresh: A New Generation of Greek Artists, curated by Dafni Vitali, Tina Pandi and Dafni Dragona, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Past Tense, Future Imperfect, curated by Koan Baysa, Art Share L.A., Los Angeles, USA
Impossibility vs. Self-Censorship, curated by Anca Mihulet, Internediae, Madrid, Spain
Bad Chemistry, curated by Phelim Mc Conigly, BOKU, Vienna, Austria
Hotel Obir, curated by Erwin Bohatsch, Bad Eisenkappel / Železna Kapla, Austria
Curators’ Network_Vienna Meeting, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
Perspektiven zeitgenössischer Kunst, curated by Birgit Kellner, Hundsturm, Vienna, Austria
Traces are Just Empty Categories, curated by Miriam Bentham, Friday Exit, Vienna, Austria
2012
eg Nord, curated by Edith Zenun, Atelierhaus of Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
BAT Award Group Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
2011
Summer in the Middle of Winter, curated by Marina Fokidis, Eleanna Papathanasiadi and Apostolos Vasilopoulos, Kunsthalle Athena, Athens, Greece
Kunstakt, curated by Veronika Dirnhofer, Fellner Wratzfeld, Vienna, Austria
Wem die Stunde Schlagt, curated by Gunter Damisch, Zentrum für Kunst, St. Polten, Austria
2010
MFA Degree Show, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
2009
1009 m, curated by Donald Urquhart, WASPS studios, Edinburgh, UK
Cumbernauld Hit, curated by Donald Urquhart, Cumbernauld Town Center, UK
Sublimate, curated by Donald Urquhart, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, UK
Research Fellowships
2016
Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, USA
Bauhaus Lab 2016, Bauhaus Stiftung, Dessau, Germany
Residencies
2021
ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program), New York, USA
2020
CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
2018
MANA Contemporary, New Jersey, USA
Studio Residency Mexico City, Austrian Federal Chancellery Scholarship
2013
Hotel Obir, Bad Eisenkappel, Austria, Academy of Fine Arts residency program
2010
Mooney Foundation, Chicago, USA, Edinburgh College of Art residency program
Megijima, Setouchi Islands, Japan, Edinburgh College of Art residency program
Scholarships / Awards
2023
Art Athina Award 2023
2021
Inspire Prize 2021, MOMus (The Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki)
DEKA Scholarship for Doctoral Studies (PhD) in Philosophy of Art, University of Thessaly
2020
Scholarship for the International Studio & Curatorial Program, J. F. Costopoulos Foundation
Scholarship for Doctoral Studies (PhD) in Philosophy of Art, NEON Organisation
2018
ARTWORKS, 1st Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Program
Austrian Cultural Forum New York Travel Grant
2017
Emerging Artists Award of the National Bank of Greece
2015
Best Diploma Award, Department of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2014
Award for the design competition Caritas Hotel Vienna (3rd Prize)
2012
Art Award of British American Tobacco (1st Prize)
2010
Andrew Grant Travel Scholarship of the Edinburgh College of Art
2009
Michelis Scholarship for postgraduate studies, Technical University of Athens, School ofArchitecture
2008
Vakalo Scholarship for postgraduate studies, Vakalo School of Art and Design
PSAS Scholarship for postgraduate studies, Edinburgh College of Art
2007
Andreas Ploumistos Award for the highest academic grade of the graduating cohort, Technical University of Athens, School of Architecture
2004
Stamos Stournas Award of the Technical University of Athens for the highest academic grade in the academic year 2003–04, School of Architecture
Award of the Technical Chamber of Greece
for the highest academic grade in the academic year 2003–04, School of Architecture
2000
Award of the Technical Chamber of Greece for the 2nd highest academic grade in the entrance examination for the School of Architecture, Technical University of Athens
Commissions
2023
Onassis Stegi, commissioned artwork for the exhibition Plasmata II, Ioannina, Greece
2019
NEON Organization, commissioned artwork for the exhibition The Palace at 4 a.m, Mykonos, Greece
2017
Thessaloniki Film Festival, commissioned artwork for the exhibition Taking Roots, Thessaloniki, Greece
2014
Athens & Epidaurus Festival, 2014 visual identity, Athens, Greece
2013
Mia 2013: Award for the Integration of Women Immigrants in Austria, Vienna, Austria
Collections
D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Athens, Greece
Onassis Foundation Collection, Athens, Greece
MANA Contemporary Collection, New Jersey, US
Gerasimos Gianopoulos Collection, Athens, Greece
National Bank of Greece Art Collection, Athens, Greece
MOMus (Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki) Collection, Thessaloniki, Greece
Bauhaus Dessau Collection, Dessau, Germany
The Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Lectures / Workshops
2023
Performing Space Conference, Department of Theatre, University of Peloponnese, Nafplio, Greece
Plasmata II Talks, Onassis Stegi, Ioannina, Greece
2022
Turbulent Crossings and Polymorphous Arrivals, invited lecturer at the Rheumata workshop, Princeton Athens Center, Athens, Greece
Emotion as a tool for large-scale artworks, sculpture workshop for adults on the occasion of the presentation of the sculpture Maman by LouiseBourgeois, by NEON and SNFCC, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
A Tour of the Monuments of the Corinth Canal, video essay in collaboration with Dimitra Kondylatou, presented at the ad interim/ Tracing relativities from monument to territory conference, organised by Campus Novel, TAVROS, Athens, Greece
212 Medea: the sensation of matter, invited lecturer at the Department of History of Modern Art (prof. Fani Paraforou), School of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
Artist's Lecture, invited lecturer at the Painting Department (prof. Pantelis Chandris), Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
2021
Artist's Lecture, Inspire Prize 2021, Momus (The Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki), Greece
Dialogue (Medean Remix): A Conversation Between Stefania Strouza and Prof. Brooke Holmes, part of the conversation series Repairing the Past, Imagining the Present Otherwise, Duke University, USA
212 Medea, invited lecturer at the seminar series ‘Tragic Drama: Euripides' Medea’ (prof. Brooke Holmes), Classics Department at Princeton University, Princeton, USA
Artists at Work: Stefania Strouza and Daphne Dragona, ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program), New York, USA
2019
Artist’s Lecture, Mountain Fringes workshop, Greveniti Residency, Greece
2018
Artist’s Lecture, Art University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Artist’s Lecture, Salon T.E.A., Mexico City, Mexico
2017
Artist’s Lecture, Liquid Antiquity workshop, Princeton Athens Center, Athens, Greece
Tomorrows conference, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
2016
Artist’s Lecture, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, USA
2014
The Creative Economy conference, Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece
2010
Dig for Victory conference, Experimental Station, Chicago, USA
Publications
2023
An aesthetics of pollution. The coastline of Elefsina through the lens of new materialist theory. archiDOCT, 11(2)
2019
The Condition of (Im)Possibility, Transient Spaces,
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture & The City College of New York, New York, USA
2017
Tamoachan (Today of All Days), Thessaloniki International Film Festival
2015
Shores and Forms, Radical Reading Publications
2012
The Condition of (Im)Possibility, ART/E/FACT Issue 2: The Social Landscape
Bibliography
2023
ΦΡΜΚ #17: ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΚΑΙΝΟΣ
2022
Mr Robinson Crusoe stayed home: Adventures of Design in Times of Crisis, The Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
AthenSYN II: GOING VIRAL, STEINZEIT gallery, Berlin, Germany
Metamorfoseis, Miss Dialectic, Athens, Greece
Prologoi, Miss Dialectic, Athens, Greece
2021
212 Medea (Recited from an Empty Middle), annexM – Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall, Athens, Greece
THE WORST STREET JOURNAL #6 - LIGHT IS MORE, Athens, Greece
2020
Architecture + Voyage, ADATO 2019 #2, Remerschen, Luxenbourg
2019
Archipelago Mountain, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland
Artspaces, DOMES—International Review of Architecture, Issue 151, Athens, Greece
AWAY: The Book about Residencies, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Austria
2018
The Diary of a Seamstress: An Imaginary Biography, Kapon Publications, Athens, Greece
2017
Taking Roots, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
Tomorrows: Urban Fictions for Possible Futures, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
Imagined Homes, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2016
Desk in Exile, Bauhaus Foundation Dessau, Germany
2015
DeCorbuziers_The Icon, Athens, Greece
Beauty is the Method, Deree College, Athens, Greece
2014
Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2014, Athens, Greece
No Country for Young Men, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
329, WUK, Vienna, Austria
Art and Shadow, Czech Center, Prague, Czech Republic
2013
Afresh, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Hotel Obir, Bad Eisenkappel / Železna Kapla, Austria
BAT Art Award, Exhibition Catalogue, Vienna, Austria
2012
Curators’ Network meeting catalogue, Vienna, Austria
Press
2024
Ksenia Georgiadou, Stefania Strouza brought Medea to the industrial land of Eleusis, K Magazine, 2024
The myth of Medea in the landscape of Elefsina, Lifo Videos, 2024
2023
Katerina Parri, Stefania Strouza talks about her new sculptural installation in Eleusis:
"Mystery 87 - I my sea journey, I my land claim", ελculture, 2023
”ARCO Madrid 2023 (The Mediterranean: A Round Sea)”, Art Viewer, 2023
Alex Vicente, “Atenas, la otra capital del arte”, El País, 2023
Julia Flamingo, “5 remarkable digital artworks at Arco Madrid 2023”, Artpool, 2023
Tina Sotiriadi, “The Mediterannean and its Art”, Kathimerini, 2023
Eirini Nikolakaki, “2023 Eleusis: the visual arts highlights”, Athinorama, 2023
“Elefsina – Europas Kulturhauptstadt 2023”, ZDF Channel, 2023
2022
Katerina Zacharopoulou, “Stefania Strouza: Artist’s Interview”, I Epochi twn Eikonwn, Trito Programma, 2022
Aliya Ram, “Fresh perspectives on Euripides's Medea”, Princeton Classics, 2022
2021
Ioanna Gkomouza, “Stefania Strouza at Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall”, Athens Voice, 2021
Christian Oxenius, “Stefania Strouza: Othering time through sculptural gestures”, ARTWORKS Fellows, Medium, 2021
Despoina Zeykili, “Stefania Strouza: The unpredictable nature of Medea and climate change”, Athinorama, 2021
Dimitrios S. Spyrou, “212 Medea (Recited from an Empty Middle)”, The Art Newspaper Greece, 2021
Angelos Kladis, “10+1 contemporary art exhibitions that shine like stars during the holidays”, Athinorama, 2021
Mary Adamopoulou, “A meteorite next to the Pedion tou Areos”, taNea, 2021
Marianna Mavroudi, “9+ exhibitions worth visiting in the fall in Athens”, elculture, 2021
The LIFO team, “Autumn program at annexM: Two new solo exhibitions”, Lifo, 2021
Dimitrios S. Spyrou, “Stefania Strouza: Artist’s Interview”, The Art Newspaper Greece, 2021
2020
Brooke Holmes, “In Flux”. In Fluid Matter(s): Flow and Transformation in the History of the Body. Asian Studies Monograph Series 14. Canberra, ANU Press, 2020
Katerina Lymperopoulou, “Stefania Strouza’ art commission for the 3rd Industrial Art Biennial in Croatia”, Huffington Post, 2020
“Notes from the Artist’s Studio: Stefania Strouza”, Artnews, 2020
2019
Maria Prokopiou, Nixe [between the palm trees and the abyss, the probability of an island] by Stefania Strouza, Free Sunday Press, 2019
“Shores and Forms: a meditation on itinerancy in the Aegean Sea”, MANA Contemporary Editorial, 2019
“Still Here Tomorrow”, ARTWORKS catalogue at Summer Nostos Festival, 2019
Maria Boletsi, “Recasting the indebted subject in the middle voice”, Social Science Information, 2019
Maro Vasiliadou, “Contemporary art blossoms in Mykonos”, Ekathimerini, 2019
2018
Charis Kanellopoulou, “Why do artists need residency programs?”, Artnews.gr, 2018
“Mexico City by Stefania Strouza”, AWAY: A Project Around Residencies, 2018
“On Currents and Currencies. Stefania Strouza in Conversation with Antonia Rahofer”, KubaParis, 2018
“Salon TEA, Un Espacio Multidisciplinario”, La Tempestad, 2018
“Stopping Point at Daily Lazy Projects”, Daily Lazy, 2018
Georgia Papastamou, “Japan and Anaximander’s Mind Inspire Stefania Strouza”, LiFO, 2017
2017
Charis Kanellopoulou, “Currents and Currencies: A Reading on the Tides of History”, Artnews.gr, 2017
Argurw Bozwni, “A Walk Through the Works of the 6th Thessaloniki Biennale”, Elculture, 2017
Dimitra Tsiaouskogloy, “Imagined Homes: Thessaloniki Biennale Envisions a New Community”, Culturenow, 2017
Annita Apostolaki, “Currents and Currencies at Antonopoulou Gallery”, Artnews.gr, 2017
Edith Schlocker, “Das Heilige liegt im Auge des Betrachters”, Tiroler Tageszeitung, 2015
2014
Michelangelo Corsaro, “South Likes: Stefania Strouza at Athens Festival”, South Magazine, Athens, 2014
Greek Festival Magazine, Issue 41, Athens & Epidaurus Festival, 2014
Ioanna Kleftogianni, “In the Steps of Le Corbusier in 1933”, Elefterotypia, 2014
Katerina Lymperopoulou, “Stefania Strouza at Athens Festival 2014”, The TOC, 2014
Giannis Asdraxas, “Athens Festival 2014: Visual Arts Programme”, In2life, 2014
2013
Joël Riff, “Anticomania”, chronique Curiosité, sémaine 49, 2013
Matoula Kousteni & Argurw Bozwni, “Young Greek Artists exhibit in the National Museum of Contemporary Art”, LiFO Showtime, 2013
Katerina Lymperopoulou, “To a Certain Degree Sacredness is in the Eye of the Beholder: a Greek Performance in Vienna”, BHMA online, 2013
2012
Tonia Makra, “Artist’s Interview”, Istoria Magazine, 2012
Ruth Halle, “Rauchgefechte”, oe1, 2012
2011
Kimberly Bradley, “ReMap Athens: Athenian Rapsody”, Artnet, 2011
Rachel Donadio, “Greece’s Bid Debt Drama is a Muse for its Artists”, The New York Times, 2011