Eirini Vourloumis (b.1979) is a Greek- Indonesian visual artist, photographer and filmmaker based in Athens, Greece. Vourloumis is a graduate of Parsons School of Design and of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York. As a visual artist her photographic work has been exhibited in solo shows at EMST, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, the Benaki Museum and the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens. She has also participated in group shows at the Bozar Museum in Brussels, the Sharjah Biennial 19 in Sharjah and the Gropius Bau Museum in Berlin.
Vourloumis has also worked extensively as a photojournalist mostly covering the economic and refugee crises in Greece. Her reportage clients include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Time, Le Monde and The Guardian, among others. Vourloumis is currently directing her first feature length documentary, funded by ERT, Greek National Broadcaster, and the Greek Film Center.
Her recognitions include Ones to Watch, from the British Journal of Photography, and The New Yorker’s Emerging Photographers of the Year series. Her photographs have been acquired by EMST, and the Dakis Joannou, DESTE, Foundation for Contemporary Art collection. Her first book, In Waiting, was released by the German publisher Hatje Cantz. Vourloumis is a member of the Greek Depression Era collective.
SOLO EXHIBIITIONS
2023
In the Same Space, The Municipal Art Gallery of Patras
In collaboration with the National Contemporary Museum of Art Athens
A photographic dialogue with the paintings of Andreas Vourloumis curated by Stamatis Schizakis
2022
'In the Same Space',National Contemporary Museum of Art, Athens
A photographic dilaogue with the paintings of Andreas Vourloumis curated by Stamatis Schizakis
2019
Onassis Cultural Center, Athens
Flash Forward Festival
'The Mermaid Madonna'
In colloboration with Wu Tsang
Screening: One Emerging From a Point of VIew
2018
Martin Gropius Bau Museum, Berlin
'In Waiting'
In House with Wu Tsang
Benaki Art Museum, Athens
'In Waiting’, Book exhibition
The Photographer’s Gallery, London,
‘In Waiting’, screening and book launch
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
National Contemporary Museum of Art, Athens
'Statecraft' curated by Katerina Gregos
2019
Benaki Museum, Athens
The DESTE Foundation and New Museum, New York
'The Same River Twice' : Contemporary Art in Athens
Photo Espana Festival, Madrid
Offland
'The Mermaid Madonna'
Sharjah Bienniel 14
Exhibit: 'The Mermaid Madonna'
In colloboration with Wu Tsang
Screening: One Emerging From a Point of VIew
'Photography in Crisis', Depression Era, Slought Institute, Philadelphia
2018
'Photo-graphé', Benaki Museum, Athens
'The Tourists', Depression Era, Unseen Amsterdam
2017
‘The Decline of Heroes', Depression Era, Antikenmuseum, Basel,
2016
'On Elite Now', Kypseli Municipal Marketplace, Athens
2015
‘Depression Era', Athens Biennale, Bagkeion Hotel, Athens,
'Greek Stories Revisited', China Lishui Photography Festival, China
‘Depression Era', Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece
2014
‘Depression Era', Hungarian Month of Photography, Budapest
'Depression Era', Le Mois de la Photo, Paris
‘Depression Era', Benaki Museum, Athens
‘Lens Culture Emerging Talents’, Barcelona
‘Tokyo International Photography Festival Competition 2014’,Tokyo,
New York
‘Greek contemporary Art In Times of Crisis’
Bozar Museum of Fine Art- Brussels, Belgium
1%: Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality
Collection of photographers (one image)
Published by Hatje Cantz edited by Myles Little
Travelling show
2018 Samek Art Museum, Lewisburg, USA
2017 University of Virginia—Charlottesville Charlottesville, USA
fosfeniLAB Padua, Italy
Médiathèque du Pays de Sierentz Sierentz, France
Photival Photographic Festival Wellington, New Zealand
2016 Addis Foto Fest, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Just Another Photo Festival, Varanasi, India
Chavonnes Battery Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
The Eye – International Photography Festival, Aberystwyth, Wales
Organ Vida Festival Zagreb, Croatia
Brown University Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Providence, USA
AMURAL Festival Brasov, Romania
OBSCURA Festival George Town, Malaysia
Uri-Eichen Gallery, Chicago, USA
Voies Off :: Arles, Arles, France
LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph( projection) Charlottesville,,VA
Athens Photo Festival Athens, Greece
Transphotographiques Lilles, France
Head On Photo Festival Sydney, Australia
Magazzini Fotografici Naples, Italy
Gage Gallery at Roosevelt University Chicago, USA
Balkan Photo Festival Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Rendez-vous Image Strasbourg, France
2015 International Photography Festival GuatePhoto, Guatemala City, Guatemal
Lishui International Photography Festival, Lishui, China
Lagos Photo (Satellite Exhibit) Lagos, Nigeria
Fotodoks Festival (Satellite Exhibit), Munich, Germany
Browse Gallery, Berlin, Germany
East Wing Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
BOOKS
2017 In Waiting, Published by Hatje Cantz ( November)
42 illus. 100 pages. Essays by James Estrin and Panos Kokinnias
2015 1%: Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality
Collection of photographers (one image)
Published by Hatje Cantz edited by Myles Little
AWARDS RECOGNITION
2015 British Journal of Photography
Ones to Watch Issue - 25 Emerging Photographers
Tokyo International Photography Festival Competition
Travelling exhibit of 8 winners Tokyo, NY, Berlin
2014 Duke Documentary Studies Competition
Finalist
Lens Culture
Emerging Talent
PDN Annual
Best imagery of 2014
2013 Emerging Photographer series
Photo booth-New Yorker
2012 American Photography- American Illustration
Annual Photography Book
2006 American Photography - American Illustration
Annual Photography Book 2006