Mirka Drapaniotou was born in Athens-Greece in 1971.
She studied fashion and costume design and worked in the fashion industry from 1992 to 2000.
She attended free-hand drawing and chromatics courses from 2012 to 2017 with the painter,
Irene Koutridou, and from 2018 to2019 with the visual artist, Stavros Bonatsos.
She started taking ceramics lessons from 2013 to2017 by art teacher and ceramist, Marilena
Michopoulou, and Menandros Papadopoulos and continued her studies in M. Michopoulou’s art
school, Clay Form Sculpture‘ Keramikes Morfes’. From 2014 to 2016 she attended classic
sculpture lessons organised by Altin Patselis. Between 2015 - 2017 she attended lessons in
form design by visual artist – ceramist, Nikos Sklavenitis.
Today she is teaching in the school Clay Form Sculpture ‘Keramikes Morfes’ and has her own
studio. Since 2020 she is collaborating as exclusive partner with Greek fashion brand Zeus &
Δione, designing utilitarian household items.
She is a founding member of the art group TERRACTIVA.

She has taken part in various group exhibitions:
 MELANITRHOS Gallery, “Clay Stories I”, Athens, 2016
 54th Panhellenic Ceramics Exhibition, Athens, 2016
 MELANITRHOS Gallery, “Clay Stories II – Containing Content”, Athens, 2018
 Ceramics – Sculpture Exhibition, “Equality of Sexes”, with Ceramist Group Kerameon Ichni,
Kalamata, 2018
 Eleni Marneri Gallery, “Metamorphosis”, Athens, 2019
 5
th Ceramics Exhibition, with Ceramist Group Kerameon Ichni, Agora Argiri, Patras, 2019
 Ceramics Exhibition, 'Melana', Gallery of the Hellenic American Union 2021
 6th Ceramic Exhibition, with Ceramist Group Kerameon Ichni, Archaeological Museum of
Olympia, 2021
 Exhibition of Ceramics, 'Aegean', Mon Coin Studio Monastiraki, 2021
 Larnaca Biennale, 'Limitless limits', Cyprus, 2021
 Ceramic Exhibition, “East Meets West (Greek & Catalan Ceramic Art in Paxos)”, 2022
 Exhibition at the Ghika Gallery Shop at Benaki Museum, “Project Mirror”, Athens, 2022
 Ceramic Exhibition, Gallery 6 exi, Thessaloniki 2022.

She has taken part in various seminars & symposia:
 Ceramics decoration – History of Ceramics by Lia Papailia, at ‘Keramikes Morfes’, 2017
 Form development by Velimir Vukicevic, 2017
 Form development by Rafa Perez, 2018
 Raku in Aegina island by Theodora Chorafa, 2017
 Symposium in Kalamata with Ceramist Group Kerameon Ichni, 2018
 Alternative firings by Thodoris Galigalidis, 2018
 International Ceramics Symposium, Approaching Low Temperature, Aegina, 2021
 Archeological Museum of Syros, “1st Symposium of Ceramics, Syros, 2023.

Mirka Drapaniotou
Date of Birth: 28-03-1971
Address: 60 Papagou str, Chalandri, Athens, Greece
Tel.: +30 6947686768
Email: mirkadrapanioutou@yahoo.gr