Eleni Papaioannou
Eleni Papaioannou is a Berlin-based artist exploring the notion of space through text, drawings, collages, and site-specific installations. Often located outside the confines of exhibition spaces, her site-specific installations make the audience stumble upon her work as they pass by. She deals with contradictions such as narrative and non-narrative, spoken and unspoken, space between meanings and words, and physical and conceptual space. Papaioannou holds an MA. in Art in Context from UdK, Berlin, and a BA. in Fine Art (Distinction) from ASFA, Athens. She has won several grants and prizes. She has participated in many shows in Germany, Spain, and Greece.
Exhibitions (selection): R17* Experimental Zone Berlin (solo) 2024, Epigraphic Museum Athens (solo) 2018 | Schwarze Villa Berlin 2016 | Frauen Museum Fürth 2015 |Berlinische Galerie 2002
Haiku Poetry (selected poems)
Hidden fear of death
Drops every day on my skin
Silently painful
Concrete monolith
Not even the slightest crack
In your linelike lips
Perfectly combed hair
The same gestures everyday
As life passes by
To whisper in tears
Uncommon words, unsaying fears
It´s how one survives?
Unfolded secrets
Shellless pale, placed on a silk
Asking to be heard
Thin toxic yellow
Which sickness would you order
This tardy evening?
Black charcoal
And mouth full of soil
Breathless
Homage to J. Kounellis
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