Sofia Dona (Athens, 1981) is an artist and architect based in Munich and Athens. She studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and Public Art at the Bauhaus University of Weimar (“Public Art and New Artistic Strategies”). She has been realizing projects in the field between architecture and art in various cities around the world, including Athens, Leipzig, Detroit, Los Angeles, Pisa and the border area of Tijuana and San Diego. She has exhibited in places such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens (EMST), the Tiroler Künstler*schaft in Innsbruck (Kunstpavillon), the Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura in Tijuana (IMAC), the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst in Berlin (nGbk) and the Athens Biennale. In 2018 she was awarded with the City of Munich Prize for Architecture (Förderpreis 2018 der Landeshauptstadt München) and in 2015 with the Fulbright scholarship for Greek Artists. As a member of the “Errands” group, she has participated in exhibitions such as the 7th Sao Paulo Biennial of Architecture (2007) the 2nd Athens Biennal (2010) and the 1st Istanbul Design Biennial (2013). From February 2016 until March 2018 she was a Research and Teaching Associate at the department of architecture in the University of Munich (TUM) and since September 2019 she is teaching at the ‘Department Culture, Creative Media and Industries’ at the University of Thessaly.
http://sofiadona.com/