Vera Iona Papadopoulou is a director working across performance, film and experiential projects, with a practice rooted in presence, embodiment and transformation.

Her work explores how lived experience, memory and collective processes can be shaped into artistic forms. Through performance, documentary and participatory formats, she creates spaces where personal narratives meet social realities, and where art becomes a lived, relational act.

Born in Kyiv and raised in Greece, Vera studied Architecture (OGASA, Odesa), Film Directing (VGIK, Moscow) and Digital Arts (ASFA, Athens). Her artistic path has been shaped through collaborations and training with Marina Abramović, Yoko Ono, and institutions such as GARAGE Museum of Contemporary Art, MoMA PopRally, and the Institute of Contemporary Art Moscow, as well as through the performance methodology of Theodoros Terzopoulos.

Over the past 15 years, she has directed and curated more than forty performances, site-specific works and hybrid artistic projects across Greece, Ukraine and Europe. Her artistic research often engages with themes of identity, motherhood, memory, trauma and transformation, approaching performance as a space of presence, listening and collective imagination.

Alongside her artistic practice, Vera works as a Creative Producer and Director in large-scale educational and social-impact productions. As the founder and creative lead of Full Flight Studio, she has directed and overseen projects developed in collaboration with organizations such as UNICEF, the Greek Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Health, universities and European programs—leading the creation of educational films, animated narratives, documentaries and immersive media experiences.

She is also the founder of spiti8 | The Home of Performance & Experiential Arts, a platform dedicated to performance, collective creation and experiential learning. Through spiti8, she develops performances, labs and research-based artistic processes that bring together artists, educators and communities in shared acts of creation.

Vera’s work is grounded in the belief that art is not separate from life, but a practice of presence—one that allows individuals and collectives to reimagine how they live, relate and create in times of change.