Lito Apostolakou Greater London, United Kingdom

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Lito Apostolakou works across installation, drawing and moving image. Her work is research-based and site-responsive, often fragile, engaging with the architecture of remembered space. Her background in history inspires a process engaged with multi-layered narratives about place and the ephemeral and uncertain nature of autobiographical memory.

Lito Apostolakou is a London-based artist, curator and researcher. She was born in Athens and has lived in the UK, since 1988. She studied in Queen Mary College and King’s College London from where she received a PhD in history, and worked as a lecturer and researcher. She completed a Fine Art course in 2020 at the City Literary Institute in London.

Lito Apostolakou works across installation, drawing and moving image. Her work is research-based and site-responsive, often fragile, engaging with the architecture of remembered space. Her background in history inspires a process engaged with multi-layered narratives about place and the ephemeral and uncertain nature of autobiographical memory. Tactile and evanescent, her work seems always in the process of becoming. While transcribing lived experiences through the immediacy and flow of pencil marks, she infuses drawing with the plasticity of sculpture, experimenting with the kinetic of moving image and the enveloping nature of sound.

Selected exhibitions include: Nocturne, hARTslane Gallery, London; Slumber, BOTH Gallery, London; Clothes You’ll Never Wear (curator+exhibitor), Shoreditch London; Royal Cambrian Academy of Arts, UK; Sofna, Skagaströnd Iceland; Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, UK; Slumber, DrawInternational France; Kismif Conference, Porto Portugal; The Museum of Rooms, Safehouse Gallery, London; Dirty Laundry, The Stash Gallery, London; Mother’s Ruin, 35 Blumen, Krefeld, Germany; The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2023; Traces, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, London; Memento Mori, hARTslane Gallery, London; The Sky is Moving Sideways, sculpture trail, Stephens House & Gardens, London; Mother’s Ruin, The Mill House Gallery, London; Memento Mori, Palazzo Ducale, Atina, Italy; Archive of Daydreams installation, in the artist’s studio, London; Clothes You’ll Never Wear, Princes Arcade, London Piccadilly; Creative Histories Bristol University, UK.

Artist residencies include: DRAWinternational France (2024); NES Artist Residency, Iceland (2024); Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin Germany (2023); PassagiAtina, Italy (2022); Princes Arcade, London Piccadilly, supported by Westminster Council, the Crown Estate and Art for London (2021)

Publications: Clothes You’ll Never Wear, 2024; 58pp. ISBN 978-1-3999-6576-7