Ermina
Apostolaki

Ermina Apostolaki is a spatial designer and has studied Stage and Costume Design in Vakalo Art and Design College and Business Administration at the University of Piraeus (BA). She holds two Master’s degrees, from the Technical University of Berlin, Institute of Architecture (MA), and the National Technical University of Athens, School of Architecture (MRes). Ermina currently works for theatre and film productions. Among others, she has collaborated with Schaubühne, the Neos Kosmos Theatre, the National Theatre of Greece, the Piraeus Municipal Theatre and the Greek National Opera. Films that she has worked for have won awards in film festivals such as the Drama International Short Film Festival, the South-East European Film Festival and the New York Film Awards. Her first solo performance “Personal Jesus” was presented in 2013 in the Gemäldegalerie Berlin. In 2014, she was awarded a scholarship from the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute in Warsaw to participate in the SharedSpace:Weather workshop, co-organized by Prague Quadrennial 2015. Her performance “Flaw” was shown in the art centre Bios in Athens in 2016. In 2017, her work for the theatre plays “Don’t forget to go home” and “The motherfucker with the hat” was presented in the World Stage Design Exhibition in the category of Emerging Designers. The same year, she was also awarded a scholarship from Goethe Institute to participate in the International Forum 2017, held during the Theatertreffen theatre festival. In 2018, she was awarded a scholarship from Art Department Masterclass to participate in the World Building masterclass. From 2017 to 2019, she was a scholar in the research program post-nostalgia:Design meets utopia, organized and funded by Vakalo Art and Design College. She realized her first sound installation “The resonance of the bazaar” in 2019 in the art centre Romantso in Athens. In 2019, she presented also her co-research on performance art and precariat audiences in PQ Talks, organized by Prague Quadrennial. In 2020 she presented the sound game “Urban Songs" in the festival Dance Days Chania. Also, her installation "The Vocabulary of Violence" is participating in the Athens Digital Festival 2020 and her performance installation “Cartophilia” is selected to participate in the Eye’s Walk Digital Festival in 2021.