Virna Koutla is an architect and artist currently based in Athens. In 2014 she graduated from the School of Architecture at the National and Technical University of Athens and in 2017 she received an MA in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art in London. In 2016, she joined the research group Informed Matters (University of the Arts London), where she focused on the materiality and performativity of spaces. Virna worked as a designer and artist in London and Lisbon, before moving to Athens to work on prestigious architectural and cultural projects. Her individual work has been presented at exhibitions and conferences across Europe, Japan and the US, and awarded internationally. Her research project ‘Square Mythologies’ was included in the volume Interior Futures (eds. Brooker, Harriss & Walker, Crucible Press: 2019). She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).