PENNIE KEY (PENELOPE KOLIOPOULOU)
Visual arts
Pennie Key (Penelope Koliopoulou) is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Athens. Between 2010 and 2020 she lived in London, receiving an MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2016. For the period 2020-2021, she is a fellow of Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (Holland). She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021). Her work is largely about power dynamics, sexuality, and gender. It’s usually intimate, intense, and personal. She has a make-do aesthetic and prefers to use cheap, democratic materials, such as adhesive tape and photocopies. Important part of her research engages with martial arts and various forms of sex work.