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LITO APOSTOLAKOU
Lito Apostolakou is a London-based artist, researcher and curator with a background in history working across 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.
Her art practice is informed by her background in history, in that research-driven inquiry is combined with an exploration of how truth, rather than being objective, is a social and linguistic construct. She is visually investigating the multiplicity of perspectives and human experiences that shape different versions of reality, resulting in narratives based on uncertain or fragmented truths. This conceptual framework is reflected in her diverse use of media, including installation, drawing, sound, moving image, text, and photography, which allows her to explore and question the boundaries between disciplines, and create immersive experiences that engage multiple senses and perspectives.
Drawing transcends its two-dimensional frame to become a tactile object that echoes the presence of sculpture, while moving images may be treated as photo collages or visual soundscapes, blurring the lines between mediums. This approach allows her to challenge conventional modes of presentation and invite viewers into a multi-layered experience where the boundaries of art, reality, and interpretation are continually negotiated.
SELECTED SHOWS & RESIDENCIES
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Current & Upcoming 2025
Tower Hamlets Cemetery - Traces art trail - 19 July 2025
Clothes You'll Never Wear (curator+exhibitor), Blue House Yard - Cab Office, London; 7-28 June
Sex and Success in Sussex, curated by Jude Montague, Electro Studios Project Space, 30 May-2 June
Dulwich Festival Artists' Open House 2025, London 9 May, 10/11 May, 17/18 May
In-Habiting (solo installation), Small House Gallery, London, Feb/Mar 2025
2024 Winter Solstice, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, 16 Dec - 21 Dec
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2024 Nocturne (curator+exhibitor), hARTsalne Gallery London, 18 Nov - 1 Dec
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2024 Salon, We Are Sweet Art, Dalston E8 London, 28 Nov - 14 Dec
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2024 Slumber (curator+exhibitor), Blue On The Hill Gallery London, 18-27 Oct
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2024 Clothes You'll Never Wear (curator+exhibitor)
and art book launch, 4 Garden Walk, Shoreditch London, 6-10 Sept
2024 ARTIST RESIDENCY: DRAWinternational, Caylus France, 25 Mar-6 Apr
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2024 Home, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, UK - "Home", 28 Feb - 14 Mar
2024 MonART - Fox Yard Studio Gallery, Suffolk, UK - screening of Notes for the Musuem of Rooms short 8:52min; 9-22 Feb.
2024 Royal Cambrian Academy of Arts, 6 Jan - 24 Feb
2024 ARTIST RESIDENCY: NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd Iceland, 2-28 Feb
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2023 The Museum of Rooms Gift Shop, (curator+exhibitor), Safehouse 1 London, 1 Dec - 12 Dec
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2023 Dirty Laundry film, The Stash Gallery London, 29 Nov (premiere), 2-21 Dec
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2023 ExPurgamento 10 Years Celebration, London, 9 Nov - 15 Dec
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2023 Lichtenberg Studios (Berlin) ARTIST RESIDENCY collaborator/film maker, Sept/Oct
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2023 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, 13 June - 20 August
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2023 Traces, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, 22 July
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2023 Mother's Ruin, 35Blumen gallery, Krefeld Germany, 16 June - 16 July
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2023 Mixed Tape no. 5, Cultivate Gallery, online group show, 25 April ongoing
2023 Urban Waters, TikTok residency at Haus_a_Rest, 17-22 April
2023 Scar, The House of Smalls Gallery, 8-29 April.
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​2022 Memento Mori, hARTslane Gallery, 25-27 November
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2022 When in Atina (film screening), hARTslane Gallery, 25-27 November
2022 Sculpture Trail, The Sky is Moving Sideways, Stephens House & Gardens, 13-18 September
2022 Open Art Athens. ArtNumber23, 26 Aug - 1 Sept., Thission, Athens
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2022 Memento Mori, Passaggi Atina ARTIST RESIDENCY, Palazzo Ducale, Atina FR, Italy, 13-28 August
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2022 Mother's Ruin, group show, The Mill House Gallery, Bromley-By-Bow, London, 7 - 18 July
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2022 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
2021 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​
2021 Night Map, Haus a rest, Issue 5 (September) the body as landscape, online
2021 City Literary Institute Fine Art final show 2020 online at fineartcitylit.com
2019 Deptford Foreshore Open Studios, London SE4
2019 Deptford X Fringe, Parade of the Friendly Monsters, London SE8
2019 No Format Gallery, Painting Open, Deptford SE8
2019 Cinema Museum London, City Lit Flicks 2019, "Up the Drain" moving image
2019 Meanwhile, RK Burt Gallery, London
2019 Transitions Seen Unseen - touring exhibition on the theme of migration in London, work commissioned for the London District of the Methodist Church
2019 Open Studios - pop up at Deptford Foundry, Second Floor Studios & Arts in conjunction with Shapes Lewisham
2019 Photographic Spaces, City Literary Institute, London
2018 Mapping the Human Brain, The Old Biscuit Factory, London
2018 Nostalgia, Toon Gallery Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018 Talented Art Fair 2018, The Old Truman Brewery, London
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2017 Deck the Walls, 44AD artspace, Bath UK
2017 PURE ARTS Autumn Art Fair 2017 Battle, East Sussex UK
2017 Ply Gallery, Hornsey Arts Centre, Crouch End, London N8
2017 Stimulus, Menier Gallery, London
2017 London Rocks installation, "Creative Histories" conference, University of Bristol
WRITING
ART BOOK
Clothes You'll Never Wear, 2024, 58pp. ISBN 9781399965767
ART WRITING
"Richard Herron - The Art of Looking", Village Raw, (2020)
"Double Take: Noma Bar, the illusionary storyteller", Village Raw (Jan-Mar 2020), pp.6-12
Ben Wilson. The Millennium Bridge Gum Trail, Studio Moe London 2019, paperback ISBN 9781789727029
"Delicate Balance: Stephanie Buttle's perfoming ceramics", Village Raw (Oct-Dec 2019), pp. 6-9
"Women in Flux: Emma Franks on finding her voice through art", Village Raw (Feb-Mar 2019), pp. 6-9
"One with the Elements" (on Ana Mendieta's Earth Body series), Where the Leaves Fall (2019), pp. 12-21
"Art Trails and Tales: Ben Wilson's art - a chewing gum diary of our times", Village Raw (Oct-Nov 2018), pp. 6-10
SELECTED ACADEMIC WRITING
‘The Bound Prometheus: Industrialists and entrepreneurs in a Greek town, 1880s-1930s’, European History Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3 (July 1998), pp. 347-72ï‚·‘
‘ “All for one and one for all”: Anarchists, socialists and demoticists in the Labour Centre of Volos (1908-1911)’, in: P. Carabott (ed.),Greek Society in the Making, 1863-1913 Realities, Symbols and Visions, Ashgate, Variorum 1997, pp. 35-53
“Greek” workers or Communist “others”: The contending identities of organized labour in Greece, c.1914-1936’, Journal of Contemporary History, 32, 3 (July 1997), pp. 409-424
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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