Athina Koumparouli is a visual artist and art restorator based in Athens, Greece. She has studied Conservation of antiquities and artworks, and holds a Master’s degree in Post-Industrial Design and Artistic Practices.
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Her artistic practice emerges from a multidisciplinary research approach focused on sites in transition — including industrial areas, sites affected by natural disasters, and archaeological excavations. Investigating material culture in relation to living landscapes, she creates works and installations she refers to as material narratives.
A key interest of hers is the use of archaeological methodology as a tool for artistic practice. Through the dynamic interaction between these fields, she explores issues related to different perceptions of the environment and aspects of the environmental crisis, through both present and speculative scenarios.​
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Her work has been presented in group exhibitions in Greece and internationally, (among others: Elefsina European Capital of Culture 2023, Paxos Biennale (2024, Paxos island), Dutch Design Week 19 (2019, Eindhoven), W Atelier (2023, Paris), This Current Between Us (2022, Athens), Outraged by Pleasure (2023, Athens).
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Her first solo exhibition, This Way, the Traces Never Die, was presented in 2025 at a.antonopoulou.art gallery, Athens.
In December 2025, she is participating with a site-specific installation at the 6th edition of the Kochi–Muziris Biennale (Kerala, India).
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She has participated in artist residencies in the Netherlands (BioArt Laboratories, Eindhoven), Italy (ECEc Laboratory, Rome), France (W Atelier, Paris), and Greece (G&A Mamidakis Foundation Research Residency Programme, Crete / Mystery 19, V.A. Initiator, Elefsina 2023).
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In 2025, she was selected by the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece as a mentee for its mentorship program. She has been awarded by ARTWORKS (2022) and is a Fellow of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artists Support Program. In 2022 and 2023, in collaboration with the University of Ferrara and supported by Culture Moves Europe, she developed an artistic project connected to an ongoing excavation on the Appian Way (Rome).
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Contact: athinakub@gmail.com