Mirsini Artakianou






mail: mirsiniartakianou@gmail.com
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EDUCATION

2025
Master ‘Art in Context’, UdK (Universität der Künste), Berlin

2022 
Training Seminar „Education in the Museum“, Hellenic Children’s Museum (HCM) , Athens

2014 - 2016 
Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, Class of Thomas Rug, postgraduate studies, Germany

2006 - 2012 
University of Ioannina, School of Fine Arts, Diploma, Greece



AWARDS, RESIDENCIES AND GRANDS 


2024 
Residency grant- Vietnam, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Leipzig (KdFS) & Goethe Institut Hanoi, VNM

Residency grant- Salzkammergut European Capital of Culture 2024 (supported by Culture Moves Europe/Goethe Institut), AT

2022 
Working grant Neustart Kultur by Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, DE

2021 
Scholarship support from the Cultural Office of the City of Leipzig, DE

ARTWORKS Award - Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Program, Athens, GR

Residency grant - Government of Upper Austria at Salzamt, Linz, AT

2020 
Work-Scholarship of the „Kulturstiftung des Freistaats Sachsen“ in the context of the program Denkzeit, DE

International Summer Academy, Salzburg, AT

Residency grant - Be Mobile-Create Together, led by the Institut français de Turquie, the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ankara, the Goethe-Institut and the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), Istanbul, TR

2019 
Atelier residence in Zurich, CH

2017 
International Dresden Summer Academy for Visual Arts, Dresden, DE



EXHIBITIONS 


2025 
Schnittpunkt, Suburbia Contemporary Gallery, Spinnerei, Leipzig

2024 
Floating Paradise, The Tiger Room, München

Textile Visionen im Salzkammergut, (European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut) Museum Ebensee, Ebensee

Do you ever dream of your phone?, curated by Markus Heller, Porte, Leipzig

Void into the distance, Ortloff, Leipzig

Stranges I know: Remapping Emotional Landscapes, Culterim, Berlin

2023 
Witersaloon, Shower Gallery, Leipzig

No time to have you lurking, Bistro21, Leipzig

Xeno Festival, curated by Christina Mot, Lesvos

Contemporary Womanhood 1.0., curated by Faidra Vasileiadou, MOMus- Museum Alex Mylona, Athens

When the heart of a pig has hardened, dice it small, Onos, Tinos

Art Theorema Krisis at Fondazione Imago Mundi, Benetton Foundation, curated by Claudio Scorretti and Irina Ungureanu, Treviso, Italy

Power Hause, curated by Katharina Wendler, Schiller-Museum, Weimar

2022 
Vessel for Soul, Galerie d‘Art dans le Haut, Paris

Das sind die Worte, die du benutzt hast, LindeNow Festival, Leipzig

Skulpturen Park Neustadt ll, curated by Clara Hofmann, Leipzig

Silky Lights, curated by Rali Benkova, Brückenloft, Leipzig

Unstable Equilibrium, curated by Silvia Gaetti, A&O Kunsthalle, Leipzig

OFF WATER ll, curated by Alizée Gazeau, Sainte Anne Gallery, Paris

2021 
OFF WATER, curated by Alizée Gazeau, Gr_und, Berlin

Geschichtete Verortung, Tapetenwerk, Halle CO1, Leipzig

Who says, Who knows, What pink tastes, Deska, Usti nad Labem, CZ

Nothing´s Gonna Change My World?, raum www, Gr_und, Berlin

Seasonal Black, Werkschauhalle, Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig

2020 
Mögliche Werke, Blech- raum für Kunst Halle e.V., Halle(Saale)

2019 
5x5@8, Eight- critical institute for arts and politics, Athens

Not a Straight line, curated by Elli Leventaki, TAF(Theartfoundation), Athens



PUBLICATIONS


2024 
ARTWORKS publication, Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), Athens

2023 
Contemporary Womanhood, Exhibition catalogue, MOMus- Museum Alex Mylona, Athens

Art Theorema #3, Krisis at Fondazione Imago Mundi, Benetton Foundation, Italy

2022 
Das Erotik Magazin, Erotik+Mythos, Leipzig

2021 
Nothing´s Gonna Change My World?, Exhibition catalogue, raum www, Berlin

FLUT Vol.03 Magazin für gegenwärtige Erotik, Jena

Les Nouveaux Riches, interview for the online magazine, Vienna

2020 
Be Mobile-Create Together residency publication, (IKSV), Istanbul

#Hosrt und Edeltraut, interview for the online magazine, Berlin

Possible projekts, online interview about the Exhibition ‚Mögliche Werke‘

2018 
Papier Global4, Stadtmuseum Handwerkmuseum, Deggendorf



WORKSHOPS- LECTURES


2024 
Lecture at Fullbright University, Ho Chi Minh City, VNM

Workshop ‚Telling of the monotony‘, University of Fine Arts, Hue, VNM

Workshop ‚Knot, tie and interwoven Installatios‘ University of Fine Arts, Hanoi

2023 
Workshop leader ‚Βεγγέρα‘, Festival Marpissa, Paros, GR

2022 
Workshop leader ‚Δράκοι‘, Festival Marpissa, Paros, GR

2019 
Workshop and Artisttalk, „Museum in Action“ as Part of Interaction Leipzig e.V.,

Grassi Museum of Applied Arts, Leipzig



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