BIO

Alexandra Panou (GR, 1992) is a costume designer and visual artist. Born and raised in Athens, she studied Theatre Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, focusing on dramaturgy. In 2020 she moved to Belgium, where she pursued a Bachelor’s and later a Master’s degree in Costume Design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, graduating in 2024. Her practice lies at the intersection of costume, performance, and installation, with a strong focus on materiality: fabric density, weaving, and texture become structural tools in her process. By combining ready-made objects with crafted pieces, she recontextualizes materials to give them new, paradoxical roles that question social expectations and gender norms. A distinctly feminine perspective informs her work, which frequently engages with questions of identity, power, and social commentary. She has realized independent projects in film and performance and contributed to productions at major institutions, including Toneelhuis, MoMu Antwerp, and the National Opera of Greece. In 2023 she received the ARTOS Incentive Award. She continues to develop a personal artistic language where costume functions not only as an aesthetic layer but also as a performative and critical tool to reimagine bodies, identities, and the stories they carry.

EDUCATION

Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium — Master in Costume Design (2023–2024)

Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium — Bachelor in Theater Costume Design (2020–2023)

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece — Bachelor in Theatre Studies (2010–2016)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Stenochωreography — Costume Design & Construction (2025)
Performance by Fyllenia Grigoriou
wpZimmer / supported by Flanders State of the Arts

Linear Traces — Performance & Scenography (2025)
Duo with Cecile Taylor
Expo Ensemble, T-Space, Antwerp

Perle ai porci — Scenography (2025)
Performance by Luca Tomasselli
Kernsysteem, Plantin Moretuslei 190, Antwerp

Shelly Shonk Fiffit — Costume Design Assistant/Intern (2024)
Toneelhuis, Antwerp

Master Expo (2024)
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Purple Haze — Costume Design & Scenography (2023)
Short film, dir. V. Groos

Hallucinatory Reflections — Costume / Scenography / Execution (2023)
Performance, DeStudio Residency

Wrapped in Memory — Costume Assistant (2023)
Rosas ECHO, Vocabularium
MoMu Antwerp

Moonlight Woman — Costume Design Assistant/Intern (2023)
Short film, dir. Griet Elsen

Capuleti e Montecchi / The Princess of Sazan — Costume Design Assistant (2019)
National Opera of Greece

Le Misanthrope — Costume Design Assistant (2019)
National Theatre of Greece

Ghosts — Costume Design Assistant (2019)
Art Theatre Karolos Koun

The Maids — Wardrobe Assistant/Dresser (2018)
Neos Kosmos Theatre

Nepheles — General Assistant/Intern (2015)
Athens & Epidaurus Festival

AWARDS

ARTOS Incentive Award (2023)