Sofia Pantouvaki

Professor
Professor
A801 Department of Film

Sofia Pantouvaki founded Costume in Focus (2013), the first research group on performance costume and led the research project Costume Methodologies(2014-2018) funded by the Academy of Finland. Her research currently focuses on the theory and practice of performance costume with a special interest in design for opera and dance, costume and technology, and costume and biomaterials; curation and exhibition design; scenography as theatre education; and clothing in the concentration camps of World War Two.

Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...
Phone number
+358505992288

Areas of expertise

Scenography, Costume in Focus, Costume design, Costume in action, Concentration Camp Clothing

Honors and awards

Student Prize: KOTIMATKA (Homebound)

Invitation: Competition Program for Ages 12+
Invitation or ranking in competition Department of Film Nov 2020

Student Prize: VIIMEINEN PÄIVÄ (The Last Day)

Invitation: In competition - New Nordic Films - Next Nordic Generation
Invitation or ranking in competition Department of Film Aug 2020

Student Prize: REVIIRI (Verge)

Invitation: In competition - New Nordic Films - Next Nordic Generation
Invitation or ranking in competition Department of Film Aug 2020

Student Prize: KOTIMATKA (Homebound)

Invitation: Official selection - In Competition
Invitation or ranking in competition Department of Film Sep 2020

Student Prize: KOTIMATKA (Homebound)

Invitation: Official selection - In competition
Invitation or ranking in competition Department of Film Apr 2020

Student Prize: KOTIMATKA (Homebound)

Winner: Student Award - NAtional Competition
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Film Mar 2020

Student Prize: KOTIMATKA (Homebound)

Ivitation: Official selection - National Competition
Invitation or ranking in competition Department of Film Mar 2020

Student prize: Young Golden Award of Costume Design

Costume design, course ‘Dance as a Total Form of Art’ in collaboration with the Theatre Academy Helsinki, UniARTS.
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Film Jan 2018

Gold Medal PQ2015 for Best Exposition in the Student Section, Prague Quadrennial 2015

Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Best Exposition in the Student Section of Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space for the exhibit "The Other Side", National representation of Finland at the Student Section of PQ15. The exhibit also won the PQ Children's Award. Exhibition Curators: Sampo Pyhälä, Sofia Pantouvaki (Aalto) and Kimmo Karjunen (UniARTS).
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Film Jun 2015

World Stage Design 2017 - Finalist of WSD2017 Exhibition

Finalist of World Stage Design 2017 (WSD2017) Exhibition in the Professional section with the project "Tempest", artistic research.
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Film Dec 2016

Publications

Emergent voices and recovered practices

Suzanne Osmond, Sofia Pantouvaki 2024 Studies in Costume and Performance

Studies in Costume and Performance, Issue 9.1 (open themed)

Sofia Pantouvaki, Suzanne Osmond 2024 Studies in Costume and Performance

Transmedia Costume as 'Sustainable' Costume? Blending Physical and Virtual Bodily Materialities

Sofia Pantouvaki 2024 International Journal of Film and Media Arts

"Suo, Silent, Disco"

Kimmo Karjunen, Liisa Ikonen, Tomi Humalisto, Jari Kauppinen, Tuomas Fränti, Jokke Heikkilä, Sofia Pantouvaki, Susanna Suurla, Elina Lifländer 2023

GR@PQ23 - A Rare Gathering: Curatorial Statement

Maria Konomi, Eva Nathena, Sofia Pantouvaki, Andreas Skourtis, Adonis Volanakis, Constantinos Zamanis 2023 GR@PQ23 - A Rare Gathering

"A Rare Gathering" PQ23

Maria Konomis, Eva Nathena, Sofia Pantouvaki, Andreas Skourtis, Adonis Volanakis, Constantinos Zamanis 2023

GR@PQ23 - A Rare Gathering

Maria Konomis, Eva Nathena, Sofia Pantouvaki, Andreas Skourtis, Adonis Volanakis, Constantinos Zamanis 2023

Art of Research 2023

Harri Laakso, Sofia Pantouvaki, Julia Valle-Noronha, Karin Krokfors, Susanna Helke, Priska Falin 2023