Angeliki Stamatakou was born in 1986 in the southern suburbs of Athens. She is a Greek sculptor whose intuitive works draw from organic and subconscious forms, resulting in pieces that appear suspended outside of time, like fossils dredged up from an ocean in a parallel universe.

 

She explains: “I get inspired by daily life, where I am, how I see things, and how I feel. Each form I create is like a little game I play with myself, opening and closing according to my mood, and through them I discover things about myself. I like to play with mystery in my work, with science fiction and otherworldliness, yet the differences between the pieces come from distinct feelings. I don’t see them as one subject but rather as pages of a diary, with each sculpture marking a moment, and the common language that ties them all together is subconscious.”

 

Stamatakou first studied pharmacy at the University of Brighton in the United Kingdom, graduating with a master’s degree in 2009. She later pursued fine arts studies at Akto in Athens in 2013. In 2020 she discovered clay, which led to a profound artistic transformation and the beginning of her sculptural journey.

 

Her professional career began in 2022 and quickly gained recognition. She has exhibited at the 59th Venice Biennale, Milan Design Week in 2022 and 2023, the Florence Biennale in 2023, the LA Art Show in 2024, Art Athina in 2024, and Bonhams’ Greek Sale in 2025. She was invited to the XIV Florence Biennale by the International Selection Committee and was awarded the “Lorenzo il Magnifico” Award for Ceramic Art at the closing ceremony.

 

In 2022 she was offered representation by Gallery Philia in the United States, and in 2024 by The Blender Gallery in Greece and the United Kingdom.

 

In May 2025 her sculpture Destiny was auctioned and sold at Bonhams’ Greek Sale in Paris, marking the first time living artists were included in the sale.

 

In 2024 Stamatakou was the featured artist in Anthony Daley’s solo show Irreality in London, a collaboration between Varvara Roza Galleries and The Blender Gallery. That same year, her sculpture Odyssey was created live before an audience of 1,000 during a music event in Athens featuring renowned DJs from around the world. Embracing the freedom of spontaneous creation, she allowed her instincts to guide her, showing how the interplay of sound and environment could shape her artistic expression in real time.

 

In August 2023 she was featured in the “Rising Star” section of the Homo Faber Guide.

 

Residencies have expanded her practice into new contexts. In 2025 she joined Mona’s Space Reimagined series, where she transformed Penthouse 16 into a dreamlike sanctuary filled with ceramic creatures crawling across walls and floors, hybrid objects that blurred the boundary between function and sculpture, and playful shapes that disrupted the architectural rigidity of the space. In 2023 she worked at the foundry of sculptor Marco Olivier in Cape Town, South Africa, designing sculptural mirrors in aluminum and resin. In 2024 she established a workshop in Corfu, Greece, collaborating with a team of specialists from different fields to create large-scale sculptures.

 

Alongside sculpture, she has developed projects in design, fashion, and jewelry. In 2024 she designed sculptural accessories for the fashion brand 2+1equals2 and launched her first jewellery collection. In 2023 she collaborated with Casamia showroom in Dubai, creating ceramic works to adorn its interiors.