ARTEMIS CHRYSOSTOMIDOU
She was awarded the National Prize of Literature
for Best New Writer in Cyprus
for her book Dogs don’t bark in France | Sculpture,
(publisher To Rodakio, Athens, 2018).
In 2019 she wrote and directed the play
A guide on how to prevent daily life accidents
at the Main Stage of BIOS exploring urban culture, Athens,
about orders and the love between two women.
During the same year, she was awarded the scholarship of
European Theatre Convention as a European Emerging Artist,
working at Theater Magdeburg for Düsterbusch, City Lights and
participating in the International Theatre Conference in Dresden,
while her text Utopia and Absence was presented
at the Ejerslev Dreaming Festival in Denmark.
In 2020 she received the Temporars grant of
Muzeum Susch, Art Stations Foundation Switzerland,
she will talk about her work at the 2020 Nicosia Book Fest,
her play Mortality, hooray, about beauty tips, science and love stories
will be premiered at the 2020 EXPO Festival, English Theatre Berlin,
and she will be a mentor of the TRANSMISSION X2 workshop in Paris
by ALTER EGO (X) compagnie de théâtre européen.
In 2021 she will be a fellow artist of Frankfurt LAB presenting her new project
How to manipulate people and other romantic stories,
based on music as a crucial part of dramaturgy,
and she will participate at TRAVERS multidisciplinary project,
at Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen's international arts centre.
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 Aberdeen, Scotland and Nicosia, Cyprus.
In 2011 she wrote and directed in Thessaloniki, Greece
the plays The flesh has its own spirit, about lust presented in an old Greek tanner,
Words like Oedipus I, The cost of life and II Death came as half a human,
about male power and the desperate need for intimacy.
HER STUDIES
In 2005 she began her studies with a scholarship
at the Drama School of National Theatre of Northern Greece,
and the Drama Department of the School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University.
In 2011 she received a MA in Theatre Studies.
HER WORK
Her work is moving through different languages and genres,
using the observation as a study of phenomena and beyond.
She deals with accurate wording and reactions as existential humorous poetry,
considering that aesthetics are an ethical statement which manifests our presence.
It’s not about the story, it’s about speeding the thought.
Scenic space as an area of a major consistency and high risk,
working with terms of minimalism, precision, grief and tenderness,
bravery, present, simplicity and humour.