Born in Sudan to Greek parents, Eugenia Apostolou moved to Greece at the age of six. She studied in London at the Central School of Art & Design (1974–1978) and at the Royal College of Art (1979–1982). She lives and works in Athens.
She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, including, Documenta 14 (Kassel, 2017) and the exhibition “Elytron”, part of the Greek participation in the 46th Venice Biennale (1995). Retrospective exhibitions of the artist were presented at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (2009) and at the Alex Mylona Museum (2010), curated by Denis Zacharopoulos (AICA Hellas award, 2012).
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Her works are included in museum collections (National Museum of Contemporary Art – EMST, Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, MOMUS – Thessaloniki, among others) as well as in esteemed private collections in Greece and abroad.
Apostolou’s work is shaped through processes of composition, successive fragmentation, displacement, and reconstruction of the painterly material within the space of the canvas. Central references in her work are the concepts of decay, transition, and the regeneration of existence within a continuous flow of time.
Eugenia Apostolou participates in the exhibition “WHAT YOU WEAR IS WHAT YOU ARE” (curated by Maria Marangou, Maria Panagidou and Stavros Kavallaris) at the Benaki Museum – Pireos (until 24 May, 2026).
