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Lito Apostolakou is a London-based artist with a background in history working with drawing, installation and moving image. Her work is research-based and site-responsive, often fragile, engaging with the architecture of remembered space and the multi-layered narratives of memory and place.
SHOWS & RESIDENCIES
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2024
Upcoming shows:
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NOCTURNE with Ali Darke, Lee Maeltzer, Richard Sharples, hARTSlane gallery London, 18 Nov - 1 Dec​
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Sweet Art SALON, Dalston E8 London, 18 Nov - 14 Dec.
Slumber (with Ali Darke), Blue On The Hill Gallery London, 18-27 Oct.
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Clothes You'll Never Wear (curator & exhibitor)
and art book launch, 4 Garden Walk, Shoreditch London, 6-10 Sept
ARTIST RESIDENCY: DRAWinternational, Caylus France, 25 Mar-6 Apr
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Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, UK - "Home", 28 Feb - 14 Mar
MonART - Fox Yard Studio Gallery, Suffolk, UK - screening of Notes for the Musuem of Rooms short 8:52min; 9-22 Feb.
Royal Cambrian Academy of Arts, 6 Jan - 24 Feb
ARTIST RESIDENCY: NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd Iceland, 2-28 Feb
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2023
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The Museum of Rooms Gift Shop, with Ali Darke, Safehouse 1 London, 1 Dec - 12 Dec
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Dirty Laundry film, The Stash Gallery London, 29 Nov (premiere), 2-21 Dec
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ExPurgamento 10 Years Celebration, 9 Nov - 15 Dec
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Lichtenberg Studios (Berlin) ARTIST RESIDENCY collaborator/film maker, Sept/Oct
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Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, 13 June - 20 August
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Traces, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, 22 July
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Mother's Ruin, 35Blumen gallery, Krefeld Germany, 16 June - 16 July
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Mixed Tape no. 5, Cultivate Gallery, online group show, 25 April ongoing
Urban Waters, TikTok residency at Haus_a_Rest, 17-22 April
Scar, The House of Smalls Gallery, 8-29 April.
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2022
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Memento Mori, hARTslane Gallery, 25-27 November
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When in Atina (film screening), hARTslane Gallery, 25-27 November
Sculpture Trail, The Sky is Moving Sideways, Stephens House & Gardens, 13-18 September
Open Art Athens. ArtNumber23, 26 Aug - 1 Sept., Thission, Athens
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Memento Mori, Passaggi Atina ARTIST RESIDENCY, Palazzo Ducale, Atina FR, Italy, 13-28 August
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Mother's Ruin, group show, The Mill House Gallery, Bromley-By-Bow, London
7 - 18 July
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Archive of Daydreams, installation in the artist's studio, 12 Feb - 18 Mar., viewing by appointment
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2021
​Clothes You'll Never Wear, installation in Princes Arcade, London Piccadilly, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, supported by Westminster City Council, the Crown Estate and Art for London. 2-4 Princes Arcade, London SW1Y 6DS, 10th June to 16th July
Unfinished Business, 58-62 Bleinheim Grove, Peckham, group show in an unfinished residential terrace 21 Jan - 17 Apr.
2020
Artists' Walk 2020, Other Rooms installation displayed through the windows of a residential space, London N10, 14 November - 14 December​
Night Map, Haus a rest, Issue 5 (September) the body as landscape, online
City Lit Institute Fine Art final show 2020 online at fineartcitylit.com
2019
Deptford Foreshore Open Studios, London SE4
Deptford X Fringe, Parade of the Friendly Monsters, London SE8
No Format Gallery, Painting Open, Deptford SE8
The Flowerpot Hoxton, London, CLFA2 interim exhibition
Cinema Museum London, City Lit Flicks 2019, "Up the Drain" moving image
RK Burt Gallery, London, Meanwhile - EDAM Final Show
City Lit Institute, EDAM interim show
Transitions Seen Unseen - touring exhibition on the theme of migration in London, work commissioned for the London District of the Methodist Church
Open Studios - pop up at Deptford Foundry, Second Floor Studios & Arts in conjunction with Shapes Lewisham
City Lit interim show "Photographic Spaces"
2018
The Old Biscuit Factory, London, Mapping the Human Brain
Toon Gallery Amsterdam, Nostalgia,
Talented Art Fair 2018, The Old Truman Brewery
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2017
Deck the Walls, 44AD artspace, Bath UK
PURE ARTS Autumn Art Fair 2017 Battle, East Sussex UK
Ply Gallery, Hornsey Arts Centre, Crouch End, London N8
Menier Gallery, London, Stimulus
London Rocks installation, "Creative Histories" conference, University of Bristol
2013-2016
Deck the Walls, 44AD artspace, Bath
Pop up at Much Ado About Books bookshop, Alfriston, East Sussex
Crouch End Festival, Hornsey Art Centre, London N8
Muswell Hill Creatives Open House
Market Fairs Muswell Hill, Primrose Hill, Crouch End, Stephens' House & Gardens
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EDUCATION
City Literary Institute Fine Art 2018-2020
PhD History King's College London 1995
MA Contemporary European History, Queen Mary London 1989
BA History & Archaeology, Athens Greece 1987
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