Myrto Xanthopoulou was born in Helsinki in 1981. She lives and works in Athens. She studied Fine Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and Αrt History at Deree College. Her works encompass installations, performances, drawings, constructions, sculptures, and videos made from fragile, disposable materials. They have a textual core, highlighting the poetics of "small things" and resembling improvised gestures around the insignificant, loss, and the adventures of matter. Rooted in her daily life, they form a "diary-like" accumulation of fragmented visual and verbal notes. Form and language are arbitrarily combined, oscillating between the literal and the associative personal meaning. Materials such as paper, reeds, thumbtacks, masking tape, plastic bags, as well as malleable substances like clay and plaster, are used. The handmade and performative aspects are distinctly evident. The titles, often fragments of everyday conversations, function as an integral part of the work. Sequential letters create visual patterns, expansions, verbal landscapes, or perforated surfaces. In the videos and the performances, phrases take the form of a distinctive auditory monologue. Xanthopoulou’s works establish delicate balances and contrasts between the permanent and the temporary, deconstruction and construction, humor and seriousness, meaning and its absence, decay and regeneration, public and private space, weight and lightness, fragility and resilience. In 2020, she was awarded the SNF Artworks Fellowship from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation's Artist Support Program (NSF Artworks Fellowship).