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Our Fellows presenting their work – May

Last sessions of the work presentations, hosted at Romantso and the artists’ studios, where our Fellows got the opportunity to present individually their work for the rest of the group. It has been an inspiring way for sharing ideas, generating new ones and community building. Many thanks to everyone who presented during the last round– Lydia Miligkou, Orestis Giannoulis, Anastasia Perahia, Eleni Tomadaki, Iria Vrettou–and also thank you to those who attended 🙏

Inside our curatorial Fellows’ mind

During the 4th SNF Artist Fellowship Program, our curatorial Fellows presented their work for the rest of the group. They talked about their past, current and forthcoming projects, from exhibition making to curating publications and also discussed the diverse role of a curator, acting as a creative agent in her/his own right.

Thank you Panos Fourtoulakis, Nicolas Vamvkouklis, Christina Tzekou, Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Ioanna Gerakidi <3

“LETTERS TO MY FUTURE SELF”, Kyveli Zoi

Kyveli Zoi
Letters to my future self
29.6 – 18.9  2022

Opening: Wednesday June 29, 2022
ACAPPELLA
Napoli, Via Cappella Vecchia, 8, (Napoli)

group exhibition “underthesun”

The exhibition “underthesun” curated by Odette Kouzou draws upon Tinos’ unique landscape to develop an in-situ installation in the interior and exterior spaces of our hotel. Following the aesthetics and harmony of the majestic, deserted landscape, the works in the exhibition emerge from the natural environment and interact with its defining features such as the light, air, sea and soil.

Location: Under The Sun Cycladic Village, Tinos
Opening: Wednesday, June 22, 19:00 – 22:00
Duration: June 22 – October 3, 2022

Artists: Antonakis, Alexandros Simopoulos, Aristidis Lappas, Despina Haritonidi, Evgenia Vereli, Margarita Myrogianni, Marilia Kolybri, Nana Sachini, Panos Profitis, Socrates Fatouros, Sofia Stevi, Chyrsanthi Koumianaki.

* Alexandros Simopoulos, Aristidis Lappas, Panos Profiti and Chyrsanthi Koumianaki are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows.

4 Fellows participating in the exhibition “Statecraft (and beyond)”

On Thursday 16.06 the ΕΜΣΤ new artistic programme kicks off with 5 new exhibitions, of which is the group exhibition “Statecraft (and beyond)” that features works by 39 artists and occupies two floors .

Statecraft is an international group exhibition that explores the underlying mechanisms at work in the engineering of the nation state as we know it today, and the challenges it faces in our globalised, networked world. Probing the history and the processes of nation-building in modern times, Statecraft examines the power structures and processes behind state bureaucracy, governance, and sovereignty, along with their common issues of democracy, citizenship, rights, inclusion, and exclusion. The exhibition also explores the scope and limit of state authority while confronting a new political reality in Europe and beyond during a time of rising nationalism and authoritarianism as some countries revert to an inward-looking model.

Featuring 39 artists, Statecraft looks beyond traditional forms of the nation state towards alternative models of statehood and political organisation, while addressing the current challenges of mass migration and the realities of post- and trans-national structures of organisation, globalisation and technologically enabled nomadism.

As the exhibition was being prepared, Russia invaded Ukraine, making us painfully aware of the fact that the post-Cold War order has begun to unravel, that democracy and national sovereignty are not to be taken for granted, and that unchecked state power leads to violent and dangerous conditions for humans, as well as the environment. In today’s multicultural Europe, it is very difficult to formulate objective criteria for nationhood—as the fluid concepts of identity, language and ethnicity are increasingly shifting. In this context, what is the nation state, this relatively modern artificial construct?

To what degree is the nation an imagined political community, a cultural formation, produced through the continued circulation of discourse, as Benedict Anderson has suggested in his seminal book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and spread of Nationalism? How are the myths that sustain the idea of coherent national community engineered?

Statecraft prompts us to reflect on the nation state in the changed circumstances of today, more than 200 years after its conception as an idea. Can we imagine other models of social organisation and statehood that don’t require identification with a particular flag or passport? What other forms of belonging and community outside the nation state might come into fruition? How can we move beyond the toxicity of nationalism while retaining the benefits of the nation state? Is the concept of “global citizenship,” which is gaining currency in light of the need to find shared solutions to shared problems, at all possible—or even plausible?

The artists in the exhibition critically dissect these issues, revealing the hidden complexities underlying the contested issues of nation and statehood, and compelling us to look at these from unexpected and imaginative angles.

Statecraft inaugurates the new artistic programme of Katerina Gregos, who was appointed artistic director of EMST last year.

The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated, full-colour catalogue. Available in both Greek and English, it is designed by Rafaela Dražić with texts by Katerina Gregos, Anny Malama, Ioli Tzanetaki, Theophilos Tramboulis and the artists.

 

Curated by Katerina Gregos

Artists
Bani Abidi, Ewa Axelrad, Zany Begg and Oliver Ressler, Loulou Cherinet, Liu Chuang, Köken Ergun, Katya Ev, Alexis Fidetzis, Marta Górnicka, Ivan Grubanov, Giorgos Gyzis, Lise Harlev, Femke Herregraven, Eleni Kamma, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Thomas Kilpper, Szabolcs KissPál, Panos Kokkinias, Stéphanie Lagarde, Langlands & Bell, Ella Littwitz, Thomas Locher, Cristina Lucas, Tanja Muravskaja, Marina Naprushkina, Kristina Norman, Daniela Ortiz, Trevor Paglen, Antonis Pittas, Janus Samma, Larissa Sansour, Jonas Staal, Anastastis Stratakis, Sasha Streshna, Maria Varela, Vangelis Vlahos, Eirini Vourloumis

*Maria Varela, Anastasis Stratakis, Sasha Streshna and Alexis Fidetzis are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows

 

Statecraft (and beyond)
June 16–October 30, 2022

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST)
EMΣT
Kallirrois Ave. & Amvr. Frantzi Street (former FIX Factory)
11743 Athens
Greece
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 11am–7pm,
Thursday 11am–10pm

 

IRIS AWARDS

Yesterday, at the Iris Awards 2022 ceremon , 3 of our dear Moving Image SNF ARTWORKS Fellows, Yorgos Goussis, Araceli Lemos and Jacqueline Lentzou were among the honored guests.

Yorgos Goussis received the Best Feature Film Award, among the 5 Iris awards that he won in total for his film “Magnetic Fields”! Araceli Lemos was awarded for Best Film Director for “Holy Emy” and Jacqueline’s Lentzou feature film “Moon, 66 Questions” won the award for the Best Editing.

Congratulations to all!

You can check the awards list here.

Workshop by Maria Tsagkari: The things that made us / In love with the sources

During the the 4th SNF Artist Fellowship Program, Maria Tsagkari, visual artist and SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2019, curated and moderated the workshop “The things that made us / In love with the sources” (March-April 2022).

The workshop aimed to bring the participants of the 4th ARTWORKS program together through a series of meetings where the Fellows shared references that have defined them artistically.

Workshop duration: March-April 2022

A series of curators’ talks moderated by Xenia Kalpaktsoglou

Χenia Kalpaktsoglou curated and moderated a series of online talks  during March-May 2022. During their presentations, our invited speakers – Nicolas Bourriaud, Maria Lind & Marianna Kruchinski, Syrago Tsiara, Vasif Kortun – talked extensively about their curatorial practice bringing to the forefront issues beyond the selection of artists and artworks, the theoretical framing and the organization of exhibitions, while also sharing their experiences in establishing or redefining leading institutions for contemporary cultural production.

See below the detailed program of talks:

11 March, 2022 @ Zoom
Vasif Kortun (Curator, Founding Director SALT, Istanbul)

4 April, 2022 @ Romantso
Syrago Tsiara (Deputy Director MOMus- Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and State Museum of Contemporary Art Collections, Director Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art)

5 May 2022 @ Zoom
Maria Lind (curator, director of Testa Konsthall in Stockholm) in conversation with Marianna Kruchinski (curator, member of the self-organized space Typografia in Krasnodar)

13 May 2022 @ Zoom
Nicolas Bourriaud (curator, art critic, co-founder, Palais de Tokyo)

Book Launch: “Image Making / Παραγωγή Εικόνων” by Anastasia Pavlou

“Image Making / Παραγωγή Εικόνων” is a visual atlas of image making made by Anastasia Pavlou in 2020. Within it, images and image-making are explored porously, interlacing photographs, scans, digital collages, and drawings in varied non hierarchical configurations. This book can also be seen as a map and a record of personal experience– one that is about looking, and one that looks.

“Image Making / Παραγωγή Εικόνων” doesn’t hinge on the “how” or the “why” of looking, but on the “where”, becoming another locus for considering the environments that are created by the visual perception of a subject. These environments take form between a specific time and an abstract place. Its stream of images is punctuated with fragments of text, which are traces of conversations between people from the same cultural milieu exploring questions about image-making and its place in the world. The publication is formed as a question and a record of related observations. Choosing propositions over answers, it is a visual and textual dialogue with purposefully vague limits and indefinite potential.

It includes contributions from Hugo Canoilas, Vasilis Chamam, Julia Gardener, Panos Giannikopoulos, Danai Giannoglou, Alix Janta, Stellios Kalinikou, Aris Mochloulis, NMR, Margot Norton, Eleni Odisseos, Eva Papamargariti, Yorgos Prinos, Sebastian Lloyd Rees, David Sampethai, Laurentiu Sarjan, Erica Scourti, Kiriakos Spyrou, Jesper List Thomsen, Maria Toumazou, Arnisa Zeqo. With kind support from Nicholas Konstantinidis, Amalia Mytilineou, Leopold Thun, and those who wish to remain anonymous.

“Image Making / Παραγωγή Εικόνων” was designed by Korina Gallika

Image Making / Παραγωγή Εικόνων launch
Anastasia Pavlou
at Goethe-Institut Athen

Book launch:
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
19:00 – 21:00
with a DJ set by Noff

Goethe-Institut Athen
Omirou 14-16
Athens 100 33

2 Fellows @ the group exhibition “Paradoxical e-Traditions”

“A cyborg world might be about lived social and bodily realities in which people are not afraid of their joint kinship with animals and machines, not afraid of permanently partial identities and contradictory standpoints.”
Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto (1985)

“All possibilities lay before us. We no longer have to choose. We are encouraged to take on the totality of being.”
Dean Lockwood, Rob Coley -Cloud Time: The Inception of the Future (2012)

“Traditions which appear or claim to be old are often quite recent in origin and sometimes invented”
Eric Hobsbawm, “The Invention of Tradition” (1992)

 

At the dusk of 20th Century, Donna Haraway introduced “A Cyborg Manifesto” essay in an effort “to build an ironic political myth, faithful to feminism, socialism and materialism” using her words. In order to speak about the capitalist technocratic politics, and the possibilities of socialist feminism engagement with science and technology, Haraway, marks the hybrid organism of a cyborg – one of the highest technological achievements of this time- as a historical signifier of the changing conditions that women are experiencing in the late 20th Century but most importantly, anticipate for in the coming Century.

“Paradoxical e-Traditions” draws on the same ironic attitude, as a project that takes as its starting point topics raised in Haraway’s essay, through the lens of the current sociocultural conditions -whilst in the third decade of the 21st Century. Revisiting the essay at a time where social connection and integration is interwoven with emerging technologies, structuring historical transformations, the invited artists disentangle the paradox of living in a culture of ‘capitalist digitality’; “A culture, defined by the global informatic archive to which we are constantly tethered, fosters a dream-like state in which we can both possess and be everything we wish simultaneously” (as mentioned at ‘Cloud Time’ by Dean Lockwood & Rob Coley). The project gathers work and performances that evoke the evolution of the postmodern human relation with the machine, emerging computational technology and its connection with what is classically understood us cultural temporal tradition within societies.

Challenging the emotional resistance of societies to cancel binaries or accept innovation that questions what is perceived as inherent tradition -depending to one’s region and social life, the participating artists employ different mediums and techniques, with the use of -what is usually understood as- “traditional” practices like embroidery and drawing, as art forms adjusted to a contemporary context of art production and dissemination. Involving those with new media technology such as early and contemporary computer graphics, they highlight the challenges of adapting to the ever-changing needs of today’s societies. A recurring twist between digital and physical, past and future as a reflection of present time. Considering the idea of ​​the cyborg world where “people are not afraid of their common kinship with animals and machines, they are not afraid of permanently identities and conflicting views” the project attempts to examine the social perception of gender identities, the representation of feminine bodies in art history, the gender dimension of artificial intelligence, and ecologies of the future as potentially developing (“invented”) traditions.

The exhibition is in constant dialogue with the spatial context in which it evolves; a self-organized artist-run space that fosters experimental ideas and supports independent exhibitions, recognizing the vulnerability of their production process. “Paradoxical e-Traditions” creates a network of care by reclaiming the relationships of trust needed to make these alternative trading processes work, which is the essence that makes up the art communities both globally and locally. As presented in Nicolas Sassoon’s work, “SKYLIGHT”, which captures through idiomatic visuals, his experiences and memories of the autonomous underground scene in Western Canada (Vancouver BC). Places of gathering that cultivated alternative economic gestures, supported by the local art community in Vancouver, are visualized via pixelated patterns and digital moirés based on the traditional aesthetics and wallpapers of the physical spaces he recreates. Theo Triantafyllidis work “Self Portrait” (Reclining Ork), calls to reflect on the stereotypes of gender identities and representation while it further mediates on the divisions between the digital and the physical, juxtaposing traditional imagery to his NB digital hero in the form of a woven tapestry typically seen in folklore museums.
Correspondingly, in her work “Daemonic Ecran Vivant” Iria Vrettou presents a moving portrait based on the idea of ​​Tableau Vivant, recalling a technique of presenting a moving image of the 19th Century. Vrettou brings her handmade designs to life through a ritual of perpetual transformation that highlights the fluidity between human and non-human bodies, the subjectification of gender, time and space. For her installation, Erica Scourti uses everyday materials such as different types of paper, napkins and advertising leaflets to archive thoughts from her daily life into an open-ended work, both of collective and self-narration that explores representation, emotion, subjectivity and consumerism. Kyriaki Goni’s work, “Eternal U ” addresses issues of care and emotional infrastructure of an imaginary(?) future, where the human-machine relationship extends beyond the current perceived limits of gender, of private ownership of data management rights, of the human and mechanical element, presenting a dependence between basic human needs, high technology and capitalist economy.
Marina Velissioti in her work “Pacific Call”, is using older traditional techniques such as the use of the loom and embroidery, to emphasize on the physical gesture. In her handicrafts, she involves stories of science-fiction and modern reality. Issues of the presentation of different identities through the use of text and image are raised through the work of the late Maïa Izzo Foulquier (1991-2019), Homme Sandwich (Femme Propagande). Maïa presented, throughout her work, a very personal and moving critique of capitalist patriarchy, the perception of the role of the woman in society, and of the institutional and behavioral rules that frame this, from the point of view of the artist, sex worker and activist.
The work of Georgia Fambris is characterized by the idea of ​​deconstructing what is usually understood as “traditional” behaviors for females and the use of household appliances “traditionally” made and typically advertised as tools exclusively for female use. Recalling the history of performance art and the representation of the female body in “A Lexicon of Gesture”, Evann Siebens recreates characteristic gestures of, both famous and forgotten by art history, artists, in a self-narration and vulnerable performance described as a “feminist way of learning” art history. The incomplete representation of the female figure echoes through the work of Marina Karella who creates sculptural images that deal with the void, while they carry an energy of presence with the animal form dominating, In her sculpture “Cat” she creates the illusion of fabric and fluidity.

Special thanks to The Breeder Gallery, and Zoumboulakis Galleries in Athens, and Wil Aballe Art Projects in Vancouver BC, for the collaboration.

Paradoxical e-Traditions
A group exhibition curated by Georgia Liapi

With works by:
Georgia Fambris, Kyriaki Goni, Maïa Izzo-Foulquier, Marina Karella, Erica Scourti, Evann Siebens, Nicolas Sassoon, Theo Triantafyllidis, Marina Velisioti, Iria Vrettou

Opening: April 12, 2022, at 17:00. Exhibition Duration: April 12 – May 25, 2022.

Visiting hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 18:00 – 21:00, and by appointment.
P.E.T. Project Space, Kerkyras 87, Kypseli.

*Kyriaki Goni and Iria Vrettou are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows

The Sunday Cook: Book Launch

The Sunday Cook is the inaugural publication by Kottage, based on the homonymous collaborative Instagram project, born during the first COVID-19 quarantine. Celebrating the importance of interdisciplinarity by bridging the realms of food and art, it documents the culinary experimentations of various contemporary Greek artists — viewing the kitchen as an extension of the studio. The book is part cookbook part art book, featuring a collection of diverse recipes, photographs of their ingredients, execution and luscious results, as well as accompanying texts and interviews, exploring creative hybridity and its transcultural potential.

The launch will include a presentation of the publication, which will be available for purchase — as well as the onsite execution of an original recipe by Greek-Palestinian-Jordanian chef Vasilis Chamam, conceived especially for the event and in direct dialogue with the project’s ideas and content, which will be served to the audience.

Participating artists: Natasa Biza, Eleni Christodoulou, Dimitris Efeoglou, Alexis Fidetzis, Valentina Karga, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Virginia Mastrogiannaki, Kosmas Nikolaou, Malvina Panagiotidi, Nefeli Papadimouli, Kostas Pappas, Nana Sachini, Fotis Sagonas, Evangelia Spiliopoulou, Valinia Svoronou, Maria Tsagkari, Maria Varela

With texts by: Sofia Eliza Bouratsis, Vasilis Chamam, Anastasis Stratakis, Christina Tzekou

*Dimitris Efeoglou, Alexis Fidetzis, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Virginia Mastrogiannaki, Kosmas Nikolaou, Malvina Panagiotidi, Nefeli Papadimouli, Evangelia Spiliopoulou, Valinia Svoronou, Maria Tsagkari, Maria Varela and Christina Tzekou are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows.

APODEC
Verias 4, 54625 Thessaloniki, Greece

12.05.2022, 18:00

More info: https://kottageprojekts.com/tsc2020booklaunch

 

3 Fellows participate in the group exhibition “Forthcoming III”

Space52 presents Forthcoming III, the third chapter of an exhibition series and research project first initiated in 2018. Charting the material traces of artists’ working processes, the exhibition brings together a collection of sculptures, drawings and fragmented artifacts, miniatures of their self-directed works in progress. The exhibition explores the conversations that take place in artists’ studios and studio visits, forming an inquiry into the expansive terrain of contemporary artistic inquiry. As the first show at space52’s new home on Larnakos Street, Forthcoming III invites a diverse group of contemporary artists, architects, and dancers as a starting point for nurturing future exchanges of knowledge and skills within this new site.

Artists’ studios are more than spaces in which art is produced: they embody a certain way of thinking and being that emphasizes emerging, intuitive, embedded, and non-linear processes. As both a non-profit art space hosting a residency program and the home of Dionisis Christofilogiannis’ art studio, space52 is a reservoir of ideas and artistic practices in dynamic dialogue with each another that come to form a collective art studio.

 

Forthcoming III
Space52
Larnakos 28, 104 46, Athens
28th April – 21st May
www.space52.gr

Opening Reception: 28th April, 19:00-22:00
Opening hours: by appointment ([email protected])

Curator: Dionisis Christofilogiannis
Research Assistant: Athina Lasithiotaki
Catalogue/Poster: Pantelis Vitaliotis – Magneto
Residency Coordinator/Liaison: Ariana Kalliga

Artists: Dionisis Christofilogiannis, Ioannis Dedes, Rene Habermacher, Socrates Fatouros, Lise Harlev, Niκomachi Karakostanoglou, P4 architecture, Nikos Papadopoulos, Ilias Papailiakis, Nikos Sarlis, George Stamatakis, Giorgos Tserionis, Apostolos Karakatsanis, Giorgos Kontis, Karolina Krasouli, Esmeralda Momferratou, Mathias Malling Mortensen, Helene Nymann, Pantelis Vitaliotis – Magneto, Ioanna Ralli, Adonis Stoantzikis, Andi Xhuma, Mary Zygouri

*Giorgos Kontis, Karolina Krasouli and Andi Xhuma are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows

“SAUVAGE” by Natasa Sarantopoulou

Two creatures are struggling to exist. Everything shatters and everything is put back together. Τhe world and their bodies reattach in ever-changing combinations. These creatures do not know if they will eventually dodge what is about to crush them. Surprisingly they go on and on with their elusive life cycle. After all, the only thing they are left with is survival. Isn’ t life a miracle? They may feel so small and terrified sometimes, some other times a bit aggressive. But let’s be honest here, they are completely harmless. If only they could pull this off!

Credits:
Concept- Choreography: Natasha Sarantopoulou
Performance: Ioanna Antonarou, Natasha Sarantopoulou
Dramaturgy Consultant: Alexandros Mistriotis
Set & Costumes Design: Dimitra Liakoura
Music Composition: Pavlos Katsivelis
Light Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Assistants: Giannis Stavropoulos, Foivos Petropoulos
Photography: Aris Papadopoulos, Periklis Pravitas
Production: En Exallo AMKE, Prosopo Organisation

May 7, 8, 21, 22, 28, 29 at 21.00
M54, Menandrou 54
Pay What You Wish Αdmission
Reservations are required due to limited seating
Reservations: 6977660260
Duration: 30’

Strobe lights will be used during the performance
With the financial support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports and NEON Organization.

*Natasa Sarantopoulou is a dance SNF ARTWORKS Fellow

Faulty boy: the performance by SAM ALBATROS

Α “faulty” boy in a -phobic and violent rural greek city. Blood from a punch in a video game and blood off-screen. A boy who isn’t good at being a boy and has to change, has to be slave to other people’s desires. While he only wants to be a slave like Britney Spears in I’m a Slave 4 U; he wants to dance like her because it is fun. A typical Greek family which on the pretence of having the boy’s best interest at heart, has absolutely no idea what’s good for him. A boy that ends up beating up his teddy bears using a belt, pretending to be a dad who takes care of his kids. Past and present collide: a violent father who becomes daddy who becomes daddy issues. Pokemon and Sailor Moon as the grand narratives of childhood, as a mean to escape in a colourful world. And the hope for the metamorphosis, to become something else, something with wings, something away-from-here.

Faulty boy: the performance
The Queer Archive festival #3
Sam Albatros
Romantso, 3 Anaxagora str. Athens
May 12 2022, 21:00-22:00

*Sam Albatros is SNF ARTWORKS Fellow

Nicolas Vamvouklis participates in Spring Forward 2022

Spring Forward, the great celebration of contemporary dance, comes for the first time in Greece, from April 28 to May 1, 2022. On the occasion of its 10-year anniversary edition, the city of Elefsina will become an international center of contemporary dance for four days, hosting 25 performances from 16 countries, with free entrance. More than 100 choreographers and dancers from Europe and Asia will participate in the event, attracting the interest of lovers of contemporary creation.

In this context, the first Startup Forum will be launched: a group of emerging dance presenters will be guided through the festival by four Aerowaves Partners, addressing current programming issues by example. Awards will be offered to three of them to plan presentations of Aerowaves artists when they return home. Aerowaves board member and former director of Dance Umbrella Betsy Gregory will lead the initiative.

Participants: Nicolas Vamvouklis (GR), Eva Posedel (SI), Pétur Armannsson (IS), Chiara Bersani (IT), Tendai Malvine, Makurumbandi (NO), Fatima Ndoye (FR), Guillaume Guilherme (CH), Maria Manoukian (GR), Jenna Jalonen (HU), Thjerza Balaj (DK), Aleksandra Lytvyn (UKR).

Spring Forward is a co-organization of the 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture, in collaboration with the artistic organization DAN.C.CE UNITIVA and the largest European network for contemporary dance, Aerowaves.

More information: https://aerowaves.org/

Access to Elefsina
# 21 km

Via car or motorcycle via Attiki Odos or Athinon Avenue, just a 25-minute drive from the Athens city center.
Via bus (lines 845 and 871 from Piraeus, line 876 from the “Agia Marina” metro station and line 878 from Acharnai).

Via the suburban railway (Magoula Station and then bus line 863).
Via KTEL (intercity public transport bus service -> line Megara – Nea Peramos – Eleusis; starting point at Asomaton Square, Thission).

*Nicolas Vamvouklis is a curatorial SNF ARTWORKS Fellow.

“The World” a pop-up show by Margarita Athanasiou

“The World” is a pop-up show, presenting the most recent series of works by artist and SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2021 Margarita Athanasiou. The large-scale glass prints and the text in the publication that accompanies them were created during a very brief period of time in January 2021 and will be on view for a week only.

Athanasiou’s work is text-based, utilises collage techniques and brings together autobiography and historical facts to create multi-layered narratives that span from humorously personal to eminently political. In this very personal project, she presents a series of A0 glass prints alongside a publication created in collaboration with MISC’s design team, Sylvia Sachini and Mano Tzavolakis. In line with her visual language, these newest collages combine original illustration and found imagery to construct esoteric landscapes ripe with hidden references. The partially-transparent syntheses depict wild animals, plants, plastic rock formations, personal objects and items of historical significance to create small-scale monuments of the mystical and the ordinary, still-lives that utilise archetypically romantic imagery, such as flowers and heart shapes to depict fantastical scenes that are grandiosely pop, playfully whimsical and unashamedly self-referential.

Usually working digitally or in the form of publications, this is Athanasiou’s first time toying with the exhibition format. Releasing her collages into the physical realm is the last stage of a creative ritual that she is hoping will give her usually digital worlds a different kind of space to breathe in.

Misc Athens
Toussa Mpotsari 20, Athens, 11741
[email protected]
+30 6934291552

Opening: Tuesday, April 26, 7pm
Dates: 26/04/2022 — 03/05/2022
Opening hours:
Tuesday – Thursday – Friday 12:00 – 20:00
Wednesday – Saturday 15:00 – 19:00
and by appointment

“Not allowed for algorithmic audiences” solo show by Kyriaki Goni

Not allowed for algorithmic audiences (2021) will be presented as a solo exhibition in KVOST – Kunstverein Ost in Berlin.

Opening: 27 April 2022 . 6 -9 pm
Duration: 28.04.2022 – 21.05.2022

Curated by Nathalie Hoyos & Rainald Schumacher

A cooperation between KVOST & Art Collection Telekom

https://kyriakigoni.com/

KYRIAKI GONI

KVOST
Kunstverein Ost e.V.
Leipziger Str 47 /
Jerusalemer Str
10117 Berlin

Maria Louizou in residence @ the watermill center

Maria Louizou (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2020) will be participating at the Watermill Art Center, an interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts and humanities on Long Island, New York.

Her residency starts on April 2022.

What If We Kissed In The Exhaustion Funnel

The solo show “What If We Kissed In The Exhaustion Funnel” by Spiros Kokkonis (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2019) is hosted at Saigon Athens from April 8th until April 30th 2022.

You are ready to work 12-16 hours a day. You don’t make any excuses. Employees who move on from Nesting Agent status must place their training notes in an approved shredding bin. Toned abdominal muscles and a flat stomach are the Holy Grail of your vacation appearances. Don’t go to parties. Study highly profitable skills all day long. Record your progress. Sell your skills and experience. Electronic devices capable of capturing or storing information, which could be used to exfiltrate data, are not permitted in Production Areas. You are determined to work hard to succeed.

Text by Giannis Galiatsos

 

What If We Kissed In The Exhaustion Funnel
Solo show by Spiros Kokkonis
Saigon
Space for visual arts and sound
Thu-Fri: 5-8pm, Sat: 2-4pm or by appointment

there is nothing inevitable about time, 3rd chapter

The third chapter of the exhibition There is Nothing Inevitable About Time, in which Etel Adnan, The Athens Zine Bibliotheque, Konstantinos Giotis, Efrosini Doxiadi, ΦΡΜΚ, Karrabing Film Collective, Lala Meredith-Vula, Malvina Panagiotidi, Praneet Soi.participate, starts on Saturday, April 9

Read more, here

Exhibition:
3 February – 7 May 2022

Opening hours:
Wednesday-Friday: 12:00-20:00
Saturday: 12:00-17:00

Tavros Space
Anaxagora 33, (1st floor), Tavros.
Tavros Μetro station

Supported by:
SAHA – Supporting Contemporary Art From Turkey provided support for Sena Başöz, Iaspis, Swedish Institute at Athens, Perianth Hotel

*Konstantinos Giotis and Malvina Panagiotidi SNF ARTWORKS Fellows