Nefeli Papadimouli, born in 1988 in Athens, lives and works between Athens and Paris. She graduated from the School of Architecture of the National Polytechnic University of Athens (Metsovio) and from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA) with honors.
In 2018, she is laureate of ARTWORKS (1st artist grant program of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation) and carries out a residency at the Villa Belleville in Paris. In 2019, she receives the Jury Prize of the Dauphine Prize for Contemporary Art for her performative installation Imaginons des pas de danse sur cette nouvelle scène du réel, she presents her work at the 64th Salon de Montrouge, realizes a residency at RAVI-Liège as well as the ARCHIPEL residency at the Frac Grand Large - Hauts-de-France.
Her work has been the subject of several exhibitions in museums, institutions and art spaces, including: the Louvre Museum, the Palais de Tokyo, La Panacée, the 6th Biennial of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, the Festival of Art History at the Château de Fontainebleau, the Istanbul Modern, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the MOMUS - National Center of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, the Museum of Hunting and Nature in Paris, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation among others.
"The artist experiments and confronts concepts that inhabit society - such as difference and resemblance, union and opposition - as poetic exercises to redefine the cultural construction that builds our perceptions and values." – Extract from the text by Licia Demuro for the 64th Salon de Montrouge.