artist's statement:
Art is a powerful attribute of life. My work is concerned with consciousness and it transcends art forms. I use the human body, colour, video and light, matter and sound to share sacred experiences of the body-mind. I wish to generate transformative acts that may challenge or shift human perception. Let us start a conversation, rather than impose an idea. Ultimately, let us be inspired.
biography:
Katerina Barampouti - also known as: Katerina Barabouti, Aikaterini Barampouti and Κατερίνα Μπαραμπούτη
Greek award-winning Live artist, performer, musician, curator and creativity coach, living in London and working internationally. Designing and delivering transformational projects, performances, art shows, music shows, spoken word, video and site-specific installations. Leading art events and facilitating workshops on creativity, art, mindfulness & inclusive change management. She is also involved in research, commercial and communal projects. Her portfolio includes five solo exhibitions, numerous collaborations with art foundations, participation in performances, short film projects, biennales and festivals, and scenography design for theatre plays. With degrees from Goldsmiths University of London (Master of Arts with Merit), and the the Athens School of Fine Arts University (BA hons in Art with Distinction), Katerina has also independently studied alongside the pioneer acting coaches Mirka Yementzakis and Bernard Hiller. She is an accredited Mindfulness Teacher, and professional member of the Mindfulness Association in (UK), an NLP practitioner accredited by ITA Global, an accredited Healer Member of NFSH (UK) and a Member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece. Katerina received the ‘Russian Art-Critics Federation Diploma’ award and UNER/UNESKO award. Her current project ART DEFEATS FEAR is a movements in progress.
further credits:
Numerous artworks belong to private collections in Europe, USA, Middle East and Asia.
She has been commissioned to supervise - as researcher curator and concept designer - selected exhibitions and festivals such as The Cultural Year of Greece in China 2008/Labyrinths Exhibition. She is currently writing about art & artists for NEA SKEPSI magazine and has been a Member of Board of Directors of the Skironio Museum Polychronopoulos and the Athens International Comics Festival.
Her coaching and training client list includes multinational companies, cultural institutions and charities, the public sector as well as individual professionals of all levels of seniority.
in more detail: major past exhibitions, performances, collaborations & projects
solo
2017, ELEFSIS: MINOTAUR ARRIVAL: Site-specific installation of 300 sq meters & performance experience, at The Koppel Project Baker Street gallery, London City, UK. Conceived, designed, written and directed by Katerina Barampouti. Performed by Katerina Barampouti, Juliana Yazbeck, Kyara Orlando, Olga Masleinnikova and Alexis Kraniou.
2011, TRANSIT: Experimental performance/devised theatre, at Studio 3, Goldsmiths University, in the framework of THE WORKS: Final Shows Festival MA in Performance (June 2011), London, U.K. Conceived, designed, written, directed, and performed by Katerina Barampouti in collaboration with Sul Hui Lee and Mabel Aitken.
2007, ROAD TO PALESTINE: Artworks showcase at the Βαβέλ / Babel gallery, Athens, Greece.
2005, ΛΟΓΟΣ: REASON - PROPORTION: Sculpture & light installation and artworks showcase at the National Association of Greek Chemists (ΕΕΧ) at the EEX Main Conference Hall, Athens, Greece. An EEX commission.
2003, JOURNEY INSIDE: Site-specific sculpture, light and painting installation for the Athens International Comics Festival, at “Technopolis” Municipal Gallery of Athens, Athens, Greece. Commissioned by the Athens International Comics Festival.
group
2021, BIG SNAKE ZIGGZAGGING IN ME exhibition: Curator of a group exhibition and creator of THE BURIAL OF A SHAMAN, a main art & video installation, at The Koppel Project Hive gallery, London City, UK.
2018, DIORAMA IN ART (Το Διόραμα στην Τέχνη) exhibition: Artwork titled SAPIENS, at ‘Spiti Tis Kyprou’ / Embassy of Cyprus in Athens, Athens, Greece.
2016-2017, 16 ARTISTS 16 DAYS exhibition: Sculpture & light installation and performance titled MINOTAUR BIRTH, at The Koppel Project Hive gallery, London City, UK. The performance was conceived, designed, directed, and performed by Katerina Barampouti.
2015, CHILDHOOD THE REAL EVENT festival: Art installation and multimedia performance titled LIFE SNAP, at Kids Company & the Royal Academy, London, UK. Designed, directed, and performed by Katerina Barampouti
2013, BAILED OUT exhibition: Multimedia performance titled INSOMNIA2, at the Vibe Gallery, London, UK. Conceived, designed, directed, and performed by Katerina Barampouti.
2012, MATERIAL ENDURANCE, Athens International Comics Festival: Site-specific video installation titled TRANSIT2, at the Diplarios School Building, Athens, Greece.
2011, THE CRISIS AND BEYOND - Greek Emerging Artists exhibition: Artworks showcase and music performance titled BALKAN EXPRESS at The Hellenic Centre, London, U.K. Commissioned by the A.G. Leventis Foundation Scholars Association. The performance was conceived, designed, directed, and performed by Katerina Barampouti in collaboration with Solis Barki.
2011, INCA festival: Music & art performance titled INSOMNIA, at the INCA ARTS SPACE, London, U.K. Supported by the British Council (May 2011). Also presented at The Flex Collective (venue The Others, June 2011). Conceived, designed, directed, and performed by Katerina Barampouti in collaboration with Carmen Zografou.
2010, MED i KRV EXHIBITION 2: Artworks showcase at Booze Cooperativa, Athens, Greece. Under the auspices of the Embassy of Greece in Serbia, and Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Greece.
2009, RECYCLE INSTRUCTIONS exhibition: Sculpture & light installation at the Cultural Centre Melina Mercouri, Athens, Greece. Organization: Cultural Department of the Municipality of Athens. Under the auspices of: the Municipality of Athens.
2008, LABYRINTHS exhibition: Site-specific sculpture & light installation at 798 art space, Beijing, China / under the auspices of the Cultural Year of Greece in China /Beijing Olympic Year 2008.
2008, IMAGE-SPACE-ACTION2 exhibition: Artworks showcase at Technopolis (Municipality of Athens), Athens, Greece. Organised/Curated/under the auspices of: the Commissariat of Fine Arts of Greece (ΕΕΤΕ). Supported by: Technopolis, the Municipality of Athens and the Greek Parliament.
2008, ART IN ART / ACTORS AND PAINTERS exhibition: Sculpture & light installation at the Cultural Center Melina Mercouri, Athens, Greece. Organization/under the auspices of: Actor’s House Foundation and the Cultural Department of the Municipality of Athens.
2006, ALUMINIUM.ART and NEW TECHNOLOGIES, International Festival of Contemporary Art: Artworks showcase in Baku, Azerbaijan. Supported by UNESCO.
2005, III TASHKENT BIENNALE – Saat: Myths of the East and the West: Site-specific video installation and performance titled FIREFLIES, at the Museum of Modern Art, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Received Distinction.
2004, 38th PARALLEL – THE HORIZON, International Meeting of Young Artists for Athens 2004: Site-specific environmental installation titled VOWS and sculpture installation titled MEMORY, at Skironio Museum Polychronopoulos, in Athens and Megara, Greece.
2003, COSMOS: 11th BIENNALE OF YOUNG ARTISTS OF EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN, BJCEM: Site- specific sculpture, painting & light installation & performance titled MEMORY.
fringe music performances
2010, 4LIZARDS
World jazz - Athens, Greece.
Booze Cooperativa theatre stage, To Baraki music stage.
In collaboration with Solis Barki.2010, SWING ON THE MUSIC vol2
Jazz/blues/rock concerts (Jan to May), Athens, Greece.
Almaz music stage, Booze Cooperativa music stage.
Collaboration with the pianist Ruben Satian.2009, SWING ON THE MUSIC vol1
Jazz/blues/rock concerts (Jan to May), Athens, Greece.
Almaz music stage, Booze Cooperativa music stage, To Baraki music stage.
Collaboration with the pianist Asteris Papastamatakis.2009, LET’S JAZZ!
More than 40 concerts/shows, one-year contract (Nov 2008 to May 2009)
Hilton Hotel / Byzantine restaurant, Athens, Greece.
Collaboration with amuse concept events and the pianists: Kostas Yaxoglou, Stavros Linos,
Marios Saridakis.2009, WOMAN’S DAY
World ethnic concert on 9/03/2009 for ATTIKO METRO/AMEL Company, Athens, Greece.
at the Conference Hall of the central Metro station Syntagma.
Collaboration with the musicians: Kostas Yaxoglou & Nikos Psarianos.2008, CABARET GRIQUELLE
Musical , Athens, Greece.
Cabaret Voltaire music stage, To Baraki music stage.
Collaboration with the musicians: Kostas Yaxoglou & Philippe Robert.2008, CABARET CLARION
Musical, Athens, Greece.
Cabaret Voltaire music stage, To Baraki music stage, Booze Cooperativa theatre stage.
Based on poems of Dirk Polak (Mecano)
Directed by Dirk Polak - collaboration with Philippe Robert.2008, DREAMCOLOR
Music & storytelling, Athens, Greece.
Foundation/Museum Atelier Spyrou Vassiliou
Collaboration with Solis Barki.collaborations, conferences, educational programmes, community work & commissions
2018, FOCUS INSIDE conference, 17-22 April, Westminster, London, UK / Speaker and panelist under the thematic ‘Understanding Creativity’. Presented her ‘Targeted Creativity: An effectiveness booster’ methodology on 20 April. (https://www.focus-inside.com/program.html)
2012, KIDS COMPANY, London (Feb - June: series of workshops for teenagers and young people on art & performance under the title LIVING SCULPTURES and exhibition of the work CARGO at the Royal Academy of Arts during June-July 2012). Collaboration with Gabriela Brent.
2011, ONASSIS CULTURAL CENTRE - Στέγη Γραμμάτων και Τεχνών, Athens, Greece: THE SOUND OF IMAGES workshops for teenagers on art, digital media and music in collaboration with Tim Ward and Lorenda Ramou).
2010-2008, GIANNIS KOUTSOHERAS FOUNDATION - supported by YOU.CI
THE SONG OF THE SUN: a play/musical for children by the internationally acclaimed Greek poet Leta Koutsohera, linked to art workshops in Athens –Historical Building of Athens University (Plaka), and in various regions in Greece.Part of: the Greek art movement Cheap Art , the BABEL arts & comics magazine and DRYOS TOPOI: The Experimental Theatre Group of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Athens (director Dr. Anna Lazou).
collaborations on theatre and film
2011, PERSEPHONE: a short film by Carmen Zographou.
2010, SONGS FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA: Musical for children played at various venues and schools in Athens and around Greece: was presented at the Museum of Popular Music Instruments in Plaka/Acropolis area, at the Municipality of Edessa, Greece, at the Municipality of Kozani.
Producer: Kate Koullia. Written and directed by Ourania Anagnostou.2008 -2007, MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE of Alan Rickman and Katherine Viner: A Brokenchair Theatre Company production at Fournos theatre, Athens and Festival of Greek Theatre 2008, Lamia, Greece. Directed by Theodoros Tsapakidis.
2008, THE CROCODILE of F. Dostoyeufski (interpreted for theatre by Th. Tsapakidis) at Alekton theatre, Athens, Greece. Directed by Babis Kalatzis.
co-producer and curator of selected art festivals and exhibitions
2013-2004, ATHENS INTERNATIONAL COMICS FESTIVAL , Athens, Greece. Design and curating of exhibitions, Member of Board (November 2012 Most recent Festival: Katerina was the Curator of David Lloyd's 'V for Vendetta' retrospective exhibition). Under the auspices of: Ministry of Culture of Greece, Municipality of Athens.
2008 -2007, LABYRINTHS - COMICS AND CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTS / Cultural Year of Greece in China, Beijing 2008- Olympic Year: Hosted at the 798art space, Beijing, China. Designed and curated an exhibition of 30 contemporary Greek artists, in collaboration with the architect/curator Niki Tzouda and the curator/art historian Christopher Marinos. Under the auspices of: Ministry of Culture of Greece & The Cultural Year of Greece in China and Beijing Cultural Olympics.
2004, CARTE BLANCHE: Designed, organized and curated the first Carte Blanche event-exhibition for BoozeCooperativa in Athens, in cooperation with Nikos Louvros and Lia Stamopoulou. This event is taking place every year since then.
1999, IT HAPPENED TOMORROW, International Comics Exhibition, under the auspices of the Municipality of Patras, Greece. Curator, in cooperation with the architect Niki Tzouda.
1998, 1st FESTIVAL OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC IN CHALKIDIKI , Greece. Member of the Organization Committee - member of PANASERIA group.
1997, PROJECT CAROLINA TRIBAL HOTEL, Athens, Greece. Organised and curated, in cooperation with Nikos Louvros and Lia Stamopoulou, the first exhibition of visual arts in Athens that took place in an entire hotel, in the centre of the city. The hotel was transformed into an Art-Project: 30 Greek artists intervened in 30 rooms.
studies & training
higher education:
Master of Arts Degree with Merit (MA in Performance Making). Goldsmiths University of London/Department of Drama, U.K., 2010 – 2011. Disciplines: Contemporary Performance Practice, Theatre/Performance Art History and Theory, Stage and Costume Design, Digital Media/Video, Lighting, Archiving Management, Festival Production Management.
NOCN Level 2 QCF* in Music Studies, U.K. (*comparable to working at NVQ2, GNVQ, GCSE). Goldsmiths University of London, 2010 – 2011. Disciplines: Musicianship, Composition, Vocals.
Erasmus scholarship - University of Barcelona (UB) –Faculty of Fine Arts, Spain, 2001 – 2002. Courses/training: Digital Image, Video Editing, Visual Narration, Photography.
BA Hons with Distinction in Fine Arts. Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), 1993 – 1999, Greece. Disciplines: Painting, Installations, Stage and Costume Design, Aesthetic Philosophy, Art History and Theory, Architecture, Photography.
Certificate of studies in Philosophy and Social Politics. Free University of Piraeus (EL.DI.PA.), 1989-1990, Greece.further training/vocation:
Research on Behavioural Change, Perceptual Systems and Linguistics:
- ITA NLP Certified Practitioner (London, 2015-2016)
- The Mindfulness Association, Certified Mindfulness Teacher (London, 2015-2017)
- The Oxford Mindfulness Centre, Masterclass (Oxford, 2016)
- CIPD Certified / Advanced Facilitation Masterclass (London 2016)Acting:
Bernard Hiller Materclasses (London and Rome, 2012 - 2013)
Acting, theatre, vocals: Mirka Yementzakis Training System, Greece, 1998 – 2003
(Prof. Mirka Yementzakis – main assistant of P. Stein, assistant of P. Brook).Movement:
Movement Toolbox (Choreology) with Olga Masleinnikova (London, 2014 -2016)
Butoh dance with Marie Gabrielle-Rotie, London (2012)
Body contact & physical expression: Kinisis Dance School, Athens, 1998 - 2006 (teacher: Susana Abigador)
Oriental, African and Latin dance and percussion (various teachers, 1997 - 2010)
Tae Kwon Do, Red belt (Stefanos Dovas Training System, 1984 – 1992)
Kung fu, Hatha yoga, Tai chi chuan and Chi kung (various instructors, 1993 – 2008)
Red Dragon Shaolin Kung Fu Training System (Athens, 2008 – 2010)Voice/Music:
Student of Mike King (London, 2010 - 2013)
Jazz and Latin singing techniques: with Sofia Noiti and Marta Moreleon (Greece 1998 - 2006)
Classical vocals: Meandrio Conservatory (Athens, 2002 - 2003)
Music (theory/piano): National Conservatory, Athens, 1983 - 1989