Mnemotechnics and Other Psychogeographies of Flying

Sofia Dona is an artist and architect based in Athens and Munich. In 2023 she was a resident at the Onassis AiR program and in 2020 an ARTWORKS fellow at Stavros Niarchos Foundation. In 2018 she was awarded with the City of Munich Prize for Architecture and in 2015 with the Fulbright scholarship for visual artists. Her work has been exhibited in various spaces such as the Gropius Haus of the Bauhaus foundation in Dessau (2021), the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart (2020), the Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura in Tijuana (2019), the nGbK in Berlin (2017), the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Torino (2016) and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens (2013). As a member of the group Aphrodite* she co-curated the queer-feminist festival ‘Aphrodite*’ (2018, 2019 and 2020). She is a member of the art collective Errands group (2007) and the queer-feminist collective Nionia Films (2022). She has taught in various institutions such as the Technical University of Munich, the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå School of Architecture and the University of Thessaly, Kyoto University, Esquela Libre de Arquitectura in Tijuana and the Floating University in Berlin. She is a co-editor of the book ‘Porous City: From Metaphor to Urban Agenda’ (Birkhäuser 2018)