OLGA SOUVERMEZOGLOU

Olga Souvermezoglou (b. 1997) is a visual artist and independent researcher based in Greece. She graduated in 2022 from the Department of Visual Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts and is currently pursuing postgraduate studies in the Interdisciplinary Master's Programme "Sociology and Philosophy of Art and Culture." During her undergraduate studies, she participated in an Erasmus+ exchange programme at the Fine Arts and Photography department of the Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA), Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Her artistic practice is grounded in archival research and the investigation of historical events, traces, and testimonies through visual and performative methodologies. Working across installation, moving image, photography, and participatory practices, she explores the ways in which personal and collective memories are constructed, transmitted, and transformed. Her research focuses on the relationship between archives and lived experience, examining how oral histories, written records, and material remains can generate alternative narratives and forms of historical understanding.

In 2022, she presented her diploma project, Earthquake Diplomacy / Neighbour Diplomacy, a multimedia installation investigating the 1999 earthquakes in Greece and Turkey and their social, cultural, and political reverberations, focusing on the emergence of solidarity and new forms of neighbouring relations following collective trauma.

In 2023, she worked as an Events Coordinator at the European Theater and Film Institute (E.T.F.I.) as part of her professional internship. During the academic year 2023–2024, she was awarded a scholarship by the Indonesian Government to study traditional arts, specialising in batik and traditional dance practices. This experience expanded her research into embodied knowledge, cultural transmission, and non-Western approaches to artistic practice.

Her current artistic research examines the intersections between art and activism (artivism), ecological relationships between human and non-human systems, and the social dynamics of proximity, community, and collective action. Alongside her visual practice, she continues to develop her performative vocabulary through training and research in performance practices at the National Theatre of Greece.