Author: dimitra

Nefeli Papadimouli takes part in the group show (ΑRTISTS) AGAINST EGO curated by Palette Terre, at Enterprise Projects.

Exhibition Text:

To be an artist is to consider that the world as it is is not enough. It is to consider that we do have a say. It is also to consider our point of view as a starting point to look at the world, to take a stand. We think that all of these considerations start from a conception of a « me » as a being knowing oneself is thinking; a being full of ego.

Philosophy has been interested in the εgo ever since Descartes; Descartes first considered the ego as a thought-provoking subject. Then, Sartre distinguished the “me” from the Εgo: “The Εgo is not the owner of consciousness, it is the object of consciousness.”

In many religions and beliefs the ego is considered as a confinement: believing that we know who we are.
Each artist has his or her own practice. Everyone tries to make a living out of his art, everyone tries to find a way to exist as an artist. For this purpose, everything is allowed: we want to exist, we want to say, we want to live. We believe that the art world forces the artist to sell himself as an incredible, surprising, inevitable person. If he wants to exist, the artist must assert his ego.

We do know we have ego. That’s probably one of the reasons we’re artists. But what to do?

Can we for one exhibition, use our ego for something other than personal success? Can we, for one exhibition, set aside the injunction to succeed and propose another model of success?

Prticipating artists: Camille Blatrix, Bastien Cosson, Anouchka Oler,
Nefeli Papadimouli, Anastasia Pavlou, We Are the Painters

Duration: 29.09.2018 – 13.10.2018

Our fellows Eirini Vianelli and Jacqueline Lentzou participate at the Greek Short Film Competition Section of the 24th Athens international Film Festival!

Eirini Vianelli presents her film Icebergs on Friday, September 21, 18:00, at the Odeon Opera. Based on the book “Scenes” by award-winning screenwriter Efthymis Filippou (“Dogtooth”, “The Lobster”, “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”), Icebergs is an existential, dark comedy consisting of 14 short vignettes, ranging from the mundane to the absurd.

Jacqueline Lentzou presents her film Hector Malo: The Last Day of the Year, on Monday, September 24, 17:15, at Danaos 1.
Film Synopsis: New Year’s Eve dawns in a moon-kissed car, and Sofia has a dream that she tells no-one: while walking on a desert, she gets to know that she is sick. She pretends she does not care. Has she lost heart?

The Athens International Film Festival Opening Nights, was founded by the Athens Film Society with the intention of highlighting lesser-known aspects/genres of independent cinema, introducing audiences to some of the best productions of the year and establishing itself as the ideal opening of the upcoming movie season. The Festival was launched in September 1995 and continues successfully until now.

Kosmas Nikolaou (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018) presents Choir and Manoeuvre, at Villa Bologna, in Malta. Kosmas, is the recipient of the Roberto Cimetta Fund Valletta 2018 Mobility Funding.

Choir and Manoeuvre is a site-specific intervention in the gardens of Villa Bologna, inspired by the archaeology and the history of Malta. Choir and Manoeuvre is a meeting with the genius loci. The starting point for the intervention is the question of the Maltese Temples. The artist is looking at the mega structures and their relation with the landscape; their orientation and their enigmatic alignments with the celestial bodies. Other references are the Mediterranean flora and fauna, and the colonial past of the island. The spectacular gardens of Villa Bologna are the setting for a storytelling encounter. Sounds, voices and histories amplify our relationship with the location and they offer visitors the opportunity to be part of an imaginary scenario and discover the secret life of the garden. The story will be told on-site through a guided tour to temporary, imaginary structures.

Choir and Manoeuvre is part of Transformer, a multifaceted, two-year project presented by Blitz, Valletta, in collaboration with Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London.

Transformer is supported by the Multi-Annual Support Grant, Arts Council Malta and is part of the Valletta 2018 – European Capital of Culture Programme.

Duration: 08.09.2018-14.10.2018

Sound design: Marios Vitis
Sound engineer: Thomas Gounaropoulos
Translation / proof reading: Ioanna Gerakidi
Brochure: Chrysanthi Koumianaki
Performer: Mohamed Ali (Dali) Agrebi

Our fellows, Orestis Mavroudis and Alexis Fidetzis, participate in the Volax Blind Date group show, in the village of Volax, Tinos, curated by Adonis Volanakis.

The exhibition takes place within the framework of the KINONO Tinos Art Gathering 2018. KΙΝΟΝΟ is a meeting of artists, educators, researchers, scholars and scientists invited to Tinos to produce work by drawing inspiration from the island itself. Within a community of dialogue and synergy, an open and interactive experience fuses multiple and diverse fields of art, science and new media. Visitors, locals and participants engage with the island’s landscape, history as well as each other, towards an act of inter-discovery and communication.

Volax Blind Date focuses on the notion of the love garden. Here the garden is defined as a seducer; the embodiment of a romantic crossing of gaze and desire. The encounter with another body surpasses the singularity of one’s self; it opens up multiple identification fields even for short periods of time.

The artists participated: Nadia Kalaras, Christina Katsari, Dimitris Martides, Orestis Mavroudis, Alexis Fidetzis

The stop-motion film, Icebergs by our fellow Eirini Vianelli won the Special Jury Mention for a Short Film at the 2018 Sarajevo Film Festival.

Icebergs is an existential, dark comedy consisting of 14 short vignettes, ranging from the mundane to the absurd. It is based on the book “Scenes” by  Efthymis Filippou.

The Sarajevo Film Festival is the leading film festival in the region, recognised by both film professionals and the wider audience. It is an international film festival with a special focus on the region of South-East Europe, shining an international spotlight on films, talent and future projects from the region.

Manolis Mavris (ARTWORKS fellow 2018) won the Best Short Film award at the Alpinale Kurzfilmfestival in Austria with his film Maneki Neko!

The Alpinale Film Festival which was established in 1985 is held every August in Nenzing in Vorarlberg. It is specifically designed to provide a platform for young filmmakers to conduct multi-cultural and open dialogue with an international audience.

ARTWORKS fellow 2018, Jacqueline Lentzou participates at Syros International Film Festival (SIFF) with her film Hiwa and the ARTWORKS team will be there!

Founded in 2013, the Syros International Film Festival showcases a wide spectrum of cinema in traditional and re-purposed island sites. Located in the middle of the Aegean summer, removed from the usual demands and hierarchies of the film industry, SIFF embeds events, styles and programs—experimental and narrative, recent and retrospective, Greek and international, workshops and expanded cinema performance—into its unique setting. The festival aims to welcome an array of cinematic experiences into this immersive dreamscape, allowing us to re-think the question of “What is cinema”? SIFF is exclusively supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

This year’s theme Is It Real? invites us to explore the construction of reality in all areas of film making.

Kyriaki Goni (ARTWORKS fellow 2018), presents her works Aegean Datahaven and eternal_u.inc at the platform Digital Futures, organized by Victoria and Albert Museum in partnership with EVA (Electronic Visualisation and the Arts) Conference, in London.

Digital Futures is an open platform for displaying and discussing work by researchers, artists, designers, companies and other professionals working with art, technology, design, science and beyond.  It is also a networking event, bringing together people from different backgrounds and disciplines with a view to generating future collaborations.

On View: 09.07.2018-12.07.2018

Our fellows, Ioannis Koliopoulos and Paola Palavidi, as Hypercomf  are included in the publication Do not Iron, dedicated to artists’ clothes, photographed by Reto Schmid.

With the works of: Niki de Saint Phalle, Marcel Duchamp, Saelia Aparicio, Eric Winkler, Lucile Littot, Matthieu Haberard, Real Madrid, Antoine Donzeaud, Sam Henty, Bianca Bondi, Antoine Grulier, UraraTsuchiya, Eric Giraudet de Boudemange, Anna Lucia Nissen, Sara Naim, Hypercomf, Jade Fourès-Varnier et Vincent de Hoÿm, Orfeo Tagiuri, Gaia Vincensini, Deborah Bowmann, Paloma Proudfoot, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Martin Margiela, César, Liz Craft for Sundogs, Anne Speier for Sundogs, Mathis Altmann for Sundogs

Launched on Friday July 6th at Offprint LUMA foundation, Arles.

Our fellows 2018, Malvina Panagiotidi, Vasilis Papageorgiou and Hypercomf (Ioannis Koliopoulos – Paola Palavidi) are included in the group show Constellations in the Dirt at Kouphonisi island. The exhibition is organised by ΝΕΟΝ, in collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades and is on view until 02.09.2018.

Centered around the archaeological load of the Small Cyclades, Kouphonisia and Keros island complex – an arid land, but at the same time a “fertile” archaeological ground – the exhibition’s curatorial approach focuses on the ‘archaeological find’ and its position in the respective present.

What happens when the products of a civilization are converted into “findings” and appear as fragments? What defines then, the archaeologists’ process of composing anew a picture based on these findings?

Which would be the position of the “present antiquity” in the future? Through which route are findings translated from undefined fragments of material into recognizable objects and how does the interpretation of the archaeologist affect the view of the spectator?

The exhibition Constellations in the dirt includes visual works, sculptures, small installations and soundworks from the following nine artists: Hypercomf, Thalia Ioannidou, Konstantinos Kotsis, Theo Michael, Malvina Panagiotidi, Vasilis Papageorgiou, Kostas Roussakis, Kostas Sahpazis and Vangelis Vlahos.

The archaeological environment of the area functions as motivation for visual creation in two new commissions by NEON organization to artists Malvina Panagiotidi and Kostas Roussakis. At the same time, the exhibition opens up to the external landscape of Kouphonisia, inviting the visitors to explore and discover spots of archaeological interest.

The exhibition is curated by Fanis Kafantaris and Irene Kalliga.

Co-ordination of the exhibition for the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades: Stefanos Keramidas.

Panos Profitis (ARTWORKS fellow 2018) presents his work with Despina Charitonidi at Ex Dogana Galleria (Rome, Italy).

In their last show Turtle Soup Panos Profitis and Despina Charitonidi present a series of installations and sculptural works that focus on the fragility of the body and the matter. The show opened with the performance piece which had as a starting point the anecdote linked to Aeschylus death, mixed with elements of Mediterranean rituals such as the traditional plate breaking in Greece or sword dancing in ancient Cappadocia. Both the exhibition and the performance are a fusion of contemporary references and archaic symbols depicting amongst others rituals of passage, notions of irony, liquidity and vulnerability.

The exhibition is curated by Chiara Pietropaoli and will be on view until the 15th of July at Ex Dogana Galleria.

Performers: Despina Charitonidi, Panos Profitis
Dancers: Bianca Rainieri, Giulia Avino
Music composer: Enzo Pietropaoli

Our Fellows, Giorgos Palamaris and Pavlos Tsakonas, participate at the group show Shell / the politics of being, at the 15th High School in Kypseli, curated by Dr Kostas Prapoglou.

Embarking from the first chapter of the [un]known destinations exhibition that took place at the former 1924 Zarifi residence in Kypseli Athens (September – October 2017), curator Dr Kostas Prapoglou activates with the second chapter of the exhibition one of the most significant historical buildings of the area, whose trajectory was in parallel terms with those of all neighbouring buildings including the Zarifi residence.

Participating artists: Katerina Apostolidou, Maria Adromachi Chatzinikolaou, Evangelos Chatzis, Mary Christea, Aikaterini Gegisian, Kleio Gizeli, Apollonas Glykas, Yannis Kondaratos, Eleni Lyra, Despina Meimaroglou, Giorgos C. Palamaris, Rena Papaspyrou, Andreas Savva, Dimitris Skourogiannis, Rania Schoretsaniti, Marianne Strapatsakis, Yannis Theodoropoulos, Nikos Tranos, Pavlos Tsakonas, Betty Zerva, Eleni Zouni.

On View:  26.06.2018 – 24.07.2018

Eirini Vianelli (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018), participates in the Edinburgh International Film Festival with her short animation Icebergs.

Based on the book “Scenes” by award-winning screenwriter Efthymis Filippou (“Dogtooth”, “The Lobster”, “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”), Icebergs is an existential, dark comedy consisting of 14 short vignettes, ranging from the mundane to the absurd.

Established in 1947, the Film Festival is renowned around the world for discovering and promoting the very best in international cinema – and for heralding and debating changes in global filmmaking.