ARTIST PROFILE

Penelope Vlassopoulou

  • Greece (b. 1977 in Athens)
  • Currently in Athens, Greece.
  • Multidisciplinary artist exploring the poetic potential of urban elements and the city as a link to common human experience.
Hier wohnte, detail

Hier wohnte, detail

  • 2014
  • Thirty-six individual sheets/units embossed on a Heidelberg 25X35 vertical press. Eleven bear drawings executed with powdered pigment in black.

  • Work in dialogue with the "Stolpersteine", commemorative plaques installed in the pavements of Berlin for those deported and killed during the Nazi era. Part of the project Metamorphosis/Kurfürstendamm. Photography: Rebecca Culverhouse

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    Metamorphosis/Kurfürstendamm | 2014

Metamorphosis/ Kurfürstendamm draws on the Kurfürstendamm area in Berlin, Germany continuing the practice of improvisational drawings and expanding into the fields of history and collective memory through a dialogue with the Stolpersteine, the commemorative plaques in the city pavements for those prosecuted during the Nazi era.