Hara Athanasopoulou graduated with a cum laude distinction in Fine Arts from the The Royal Academy of Arts, the Hague. Athanasopoulou has exhibited her works both in the Netherlands and internationally and was also awarded the Jan Roede Award 2024. As a multidisciplinary artist, she specialises in textiles, drawing and sculpture.

Artist's statement
Through her extended research, she explores the complex and multilayered relationship of women and textiles through time. Engaging with the historical and contemporary significance of textile making, her work looks into how textiles have functioned as a collective language for passing down and encoding knowledge, resistance, resilience and female identity. Through her process and research-driven approaches, Hara investigates the intersections between textile work, the domestic sphere, the female experience and storytelling. She approaches textiles as vessels that hold untold stories of the past and utilises them as a medium of communication of these stories. Her work also highlights the communal aspects of textile-making, historically providing women with spaces of expression, free thought, solidarity and defiance. By recontextualising these traditions, she challenges conventional perceptions of textile work and reclaims them as a messenger of multi-layered narratives of the female experience.

Her practice additionally explores the materiality of textiles and their profound cultural significance. She investigates how fabric serves as a vessel of heritage, history, and tradition, carrying shared knowledge and lived experiences across generations. Through meticulous textile craftsmanship and drawing techniques, Hara explores the ways in which textiles preserve, transmit and shape cultural identity.

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