Feel the right timing, be patient, don’t give up.
Sculptress Venia Dimitrakopoulou was born in Athens where she lives and works. She graduated from Pierce – The American College of Greece in 1983, and went on to study Theater at the Drama School of the Athens Conservatoire. She also attended sculpture classes at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) with Professor Theodoros Papagiannis, and attended drawing classes at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA) with Professor Daniel Lacomme.
Venia has presented solo exhibitions in Greece and Italy, and has also participated in many group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Her work is located in public spaces, as well as in private collections.
Her work Promahones, exhibited at the Benaki Museum in 2014-15, is currently installed in front of the National Archaeological Museum (NAM) in Athens. In 2017, the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, awarded Venia with the title of Knight of the Order of the Merit of the Italian Republic, in recognition of her work. She is a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece (EETE), and has published the book Promahones with Hatje Cantz.
