Since 2003, due to a professional need to study and to see the European masterpieces of art in real life and lucky enough to be granted travel awards for such travel study, Augusta Atla has lived in London, NYC, Venice, Rome, Milan, Torino, Paris and Athens.

Augusta Atla travels in order to experience Europe and further comprehend psychological issues and the diversity in cultural habits, archetypes and values in Europe. The travel allows one to examine and question nations' cultural origins and provides a multi- cultural perspective unfolded and discussed into and with the artwork. 

Between 2014-2016 Augusta Atla lived in Athens in order to study ancient Greek culture, sculpture and theatre - research about the origins of European art history and culture. Between October 2014 - November 2016 she also ran the art space ATELIER ATHENS.

The sun and colours are also part of the artistic field of Augusta Atla - she fixates, dyes, arranges colours in an artistic attempt to talk about Vitality and Vanitas - everything being part of an incomprehensible and mysterious lifecycle.

Augusta Atla also uses traveling as a way to map aesthetic history - historical objects, folk art, textile collections and historical archives in cities in Europe. Her artwork is intentionally made to playfully revisit and question values, identity, habits and art history.

Atla also deal with how women and men raise themselves due to the changing necessities and circumstances of survival. To wash clothes, lingerie, textiles, to dye, embroidery, food, color compositions in women objects, historical images of women are all elements that Atla incorporates in her work in order to re-arrange gender construction and the history of the woman artist.

Augusta Atla’s fundamental idea on art is that it can be used to mirror aspects of humanity that society marginalises or has no time / wish to reflect upon.

The art practice changes Augusta Atla's own understanding and perception of life, thus her work is not just representational but indeed part of a never-ending evolutionary identity process, not only for the sake of herself, but as a research field discussing identity and growth in general.