ARTEMIS CHRYSOSTOMIDOU
She was awarded in Cyprus
the 2018 National Prize of Literature, Best New Writer
for her book Dogs don’t bark in France | Sculpture.
In 2019 she wrote and directed at BIOS Athens the play
A guide on how to prevent daily life accidents
about orders and the love between two women.
During the same year she was awarded the scholarship of
European Theatre Convention as European Emerging Artist,
she worked at Theater Magdeburg for Düsterbusch, City Lights,
participated in the ETC International Theatre Conference in Dresden
and her text Utopia and Absence was presented
at the Ejerslev Dreaming Festival in Denmark.
In 2020 she received the scholarship of Temporars
by Muzeum Susch, Art Stations Foundation Switzerland
and her new play Mortality, hooray!
will be premiere at the 2020 EXPO Festival, English Theatre Berlin,
International Performing Arts Cetner.
In 2021 she will participate to TRAVERS at Copenhagen Contemporary
and she will be a fellow artist of Frankfurt LAB.
Previous years:
From 2015 to 2017 she collaborated with VASISTAS theatre group on dramaturgy
for Apologies 4&5 by Efthimis Filippou at the International Athens Festival
and Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri at the Onassis Foundation.
In 2012-2013 she codirected with a molecular immunologist
an educational program in Scotland and Cyprus.
In 2011 she wrote and directed in Thessaloniki the plays
The flesh has its own spirit about lust presented in an old Greek tanner,
Words like Oedipus, The cost of life and Death came as half a human
about male power and the desperate need for intimacy.
HER STUDIES
In 2005 she began her studies
at the National Theatre of Northern Greece
and she continued studying at the Drama Department
of the School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University.
In 2011 she received an MA in Theatre Studies.
HER WORK
Let’s imagine a natural ecstasy.
It’s not about the story, it’s about speeding the thought.
Scenic space as an area of aesthetic consistency, working with terms of
minimalism and precision, questioning if art is able to reunite the human vision
with the perception of the world, the high risk of love,
the grief and the tenderness, the braveness and the present,
finding at the same time the sense of humor.