Eriphyli Veneri (1983, Athens) studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts and undertook postgraduate studies at the “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies” program of the Bauhaus University Weimar in Germany with the support of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. She also completed second postgraduate studies at the MA “Art in Context” program at the University of Arts Berlin with the support of the Basil & Eliza Goulandris Foundation. She is a PhD holder (Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly) with the thesis “Greek Restaurants in Berlin: Multisensoriality and Mythmaking in Ethnic Cuisine”. Her doctoral studies were supported by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation. Veneri’s artistic practice is expressed through sculpture, installation, video, performance and participatory projects. Central themes are processes of acculturation, cultural bereavement as a state of distress and as reaction to loss, situations of staged authenticity, reproductions of cultural heritage artefacts as props or decoration.