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Vasilis Papageorgiou wins the First Acquisition Prize at Premio Montani Tesei Under 35 Award.

The 2020 edition of ArtVerona sees the collaboration with a new partner, a young and prestigious subject that will support the under-35 artists present at the Fair with an acquisition award. The Studio Montani Tesei law firm is specialized in art law, protects companies and individuals in their relationship with the art system and its mission focuses in particular on those forms of awareness of the world of culture and collecting aimed at creating awareness and adequate knowledge of the current regulatory system. Under these premises, it was natural to come up with the idea of instituting an acquisition prize dedicated to the younger artists, those who are most in need of support and at the same time can be the harbingers of ideas capable of improving and innovating the system even outside the art scenario. Therefore, the selection will concern all under-35 artists exhibited at ArtVerona without medium or language barriers!

The lawyer Virginia Montani Tesei, founder of the firm, born in 1986, comments with a touch of irony on her decision to support an under-35 award, an anything but banal choice but in this case also very personal: “I think supporting the generation of artists of my age group seems the most natural thing to do. I think of my peers and I, who were born in the year of the Chernobyl explosion and graduated during the Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy and who now, at almost 35 years of age, have to deal with the Covid pandemic which puts projects and ambitions at risk. So, to support my generation – often unfairly defined as that of ‘big babies’ – seems to me the best way to make a small contribution to Italian art in such complicated times“.

The Award will trigger the engagement of the ArtVerona public: the jury panel – made up of Sveva and Francesco Taurisano (CollezioneTaurisano, Naples), Sabrina Comin (Project Manager of TRA Treviso Ricerca Arte) and Virginia Montani Tesei – will select 8 under 35 artists among those represented by the galleries participating in the Fair. Their names will be shared on the Instagram page of ArtVerona and can be voted for. The jury will assign the Award by choosing one of the three names most voted for online. The shortlist of the eight finalists will also be published on the Fair’s website and on the Artshell platform.

Vasilis Papageorgiou is SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2018.

The Creative Excellence Award worth $10,000 went to Greece-France-Japan project “Titanic Ocean” from director Konstantina Kotzamani and producer Maria Drandaki. It will be Kotzamani’s debut feature following a string of successful short films.

The jury said that “Titanic Ocean” was “a daring project which is supported with flair and savviness by the producer and director. A sensual blend of fantasy and realism, Titanic Ocean presents itself as a sure-fire hit of tomorrow.”

Konstantina Kotzamani is a moving image SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2018.

F.A.R. explores the ways in which Athens is inhabited. It stems from the need to understand the different types of transformations that have been taking place in Athens in the past recent years. Despite the economic recession of the last decade and the political instability in the wider Mediterranean region, the city has become a place to be. At the same time, over the last five years, we have seen the local art scene changing; the number of art spaces is growing and venues and initiatives of varying scale are developing.

On December 8th, the program begins with F.A.R. RADIO, a temporary web radio station, broadcasting via www.3137.gr. At the same time, four interventions by Can Altay, Zoe Giambouldaki, Diohandi and Kostis Velonis will be installed outside 3 137, accessible 24/7. The interventions aim to comment on the use and design of public space and reflect on stories of cultural heritage and language.

Invited guests of F.A.R. RADIO are several art initiatives of the city, individuals with a research interest in housing and collective/individual property, as well as employees or owners of small businesses in ​​Exarcheia neighborhood. The guests will develop a 50-minute show—featuring sounds, music and discussion—about their activity, their daily habits, and the city networks within which they engage.

This radio project is a follow-up to Babylon Radio, which was organized by 3 137 in 2014 and to Radio Rhodiola, commissioned by Alserkal Arts Foundation in Dubai in 2019.

RADIO shows by:

Α-Dash Space, Aetopoulos Athens, Daphne Aidoni, Antonakis, Nikolas Arnis, Athens Zine Bibliotheque,Electra Barouni, Bayard, Gordon Beeferman, Callirrhoë, Elena Demetria Chantzis, Klea Charitou, Maria Chatzopoulou, Co-Hab Athens, Communitism, Ilaria Conti, DELIVERART project, Dolce Publishing, Vasilis Dimitrakas, Dora Economou, Enterprise Projects, Eftichis Euthimiou, Florent Frizet, Afroditi Gogoglou, GRACE, Stavia Grimani, Haus N, Hydroexpress Project Publication, Laure Jaffuel,Daphne Kalliga, Eleni Kamma, KEIV, Kelly Tsipni-Kolaza, Leefwerk, LULU, Michalis Markatselis, Giorgos Mitsios, ΝΟΤUS studio, Ntizeza, Malvina Panagiotidi, Eleanna Papathanasiadi, Maro Paraskevoudi, Michalis Pavlidis, Perienth Hotel, P.E.T Projects, Phenomenon, Phoenix Athens, Caroline Pradal, Eleni Riga, Rodeo Gellery, Kleanthis Rousos, Sofia Sabani, Erica Scourti, Snehta Residency, Panagiotis Sotiris, Evi Sougkara, Hristiana Stamou, Kostas Stasinopoulos, State of Concept Athens, Mina Stone, Alexander Strecker, Sub Rosa Space, Katerina Tsellou, Tsev, Marina Miliou-Theocharaki, THE EIGHT, Typical Organization, Eva Vaslamatzi, Daphne Vitali, Eva Vlassopoulos, Weekend, Yellow Brick, Vasilis Zarifopoulos, Zoetrope.

Interventions outside 3 137 by:

Can Altay, Diohandi, Zoe Giabouldaki, Kostis Velonis

F.A.R., Floor Area Ratio is realized with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports (2020), Outset Contemporary Art Fund Greece and Mécène / Mycanae (members of 3 137).

Modern Love explores the state of love and intimate relationships in the age of the Internet, social media, neo-liberal capitalism, and globalisation. It probes the societal patterns and challenges as well as possibilities that the Internet and social media present to our intimate relationships.

Digital technology and consumerism have significantly transformed love and social relationships. The experience of the virtual has increasingly dissolved the boundary between private and public. This influences how we communicate and interact with one another, especially with those closest to us.

On the one hand, the Internet and social media have facilitated the expression of non-heteronormative identities, forms of desire, and alternative ways of being. On the other, they have played a problematic role in cultivating pathologies such as narcissism, obsessive self-performativity, digital dependency within relationships, and the commodification of emotion.

The conflation of reality and fantasy has created complex psychological and relational entanglements, which are explored – among other things – in this exhibition.

In cooperation with Tallinna Kunstihoone (Estonia) and IMPAKT, Utrecht (Netherlands).

Participating artists: Gabriel Abrantes, Hannah Toticki Anbert, Melanie Bonajo, Laura Cemin, Benjamin Crotty, Kyriaki Goni, David Haines, Juliet Jacques, Mahmoud Khaled, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Maria Mavropoulou, Kyle McDonald, Marge Monko, Peter Puklus, Marijke De Roover, Margaret Salmon

Kyriaki Goni and Maria Mavropoulou are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows in visual arts (2018 and 2019 respectively)

𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬: 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞

Who is silenced when another voice takes the stage? What happens when we speak another’s words?
𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 is the work developed for 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 by Mercedes Azpilicueta and Angeliki Tzortzakaki with performer Maria Sideri. Based loosely on encounters recorded in the marketplaces of Athens, it takes the form of a script studying emotional affect in the languages of solidarity and communion shared between women in the public realm.
https://backtalks.city/project/you-bring-joy-into-my-life/

The artists will discuss the work with project curator John Bingham-Hall as a microcosm of the politics and processes of giving and taking voice. Questions in the making of this work become debates about the ways we hear, ignore, record, edit, and speak the words of others in the public sphere.
How can we make audible that which is edited out and make visible our own positions by revealing what is not there? For city-makers, these questions are crucial: how to translate the everyday narration of experience into the language of urban ‘decision-making’? Could scripts be seen as infrastructures for sharing the work of voicing what it means to live together in the city?
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Part of 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸, a program that brings together architects, urbanists, activists, artists, and anthropologists to explore the voicings of contemporary Athens. A collaboration between Onassis Stegi and Theatrum Mundi.
More info: https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/city-talks-back

Discussion and live reading group featuring Mercedes Azpilicueta, Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Maria Sideri and John Bingham-Hall

Maria Sideri is a visual arts SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2018

FREE LIVE STREAM https://backtalks.city/live/

25.11.2020
18.00 GMT // 19.00 CET // 20.00 EEST

Can an exhibition be like a Coven, curated on the basis of autonomy, sharing knowledge and radical care?

The idea of the exhibition as coven, stems from our need to initiate a conversation within the personal and political experiences of the present, raising the question of the relationship between intersectional feminism and curatorial practice. For this, as curators, we wish to create the setting for the coexistence of multiple voices and identities, and to highlight the collective relationships in the conformation of our present quests. Witchcraft is approached in a twofold way: on one hand, it operates as an archetype of empowerment and point of reference for the feminist struggles, since it underlines the historical evolution of capitalism, colonization and patriarchy (Federici). On the other hand, it acts out as a metaphor for the gender and class aspects that characterize artistic production, in a way that it plays a key role in the decisions regarding the exhibition’s realization and the question of its autonomy. At the center of the artists’ interest are emotions and embodied experiences coming from systems of oppression. Their framework is transnational, whilst memories and imaginaries of collective action emerge, as well as possibilities of healing in micro-worlds open to change.

Coven was born in January 2020 through discussions about how to come close, exchange healing and supportive practices and make space for each other in new ways of conviviality within an art exhibition context. Both, the first and the second, lockdowns forced us to postpone the show. This in turn made us redefine an idea, which at its core, is about proximity in a physical space.  We decided to turn Coven into a journey from the online to the offline world and create a community of care beyond the limits of physical space through a series of workshops, conversations and reading groups that will eventually lead – covid permitting – to the exhibit’s realization at the hospitable space of Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research.

“The more you share, the less you need”, Larry Mitchell wrote in his queer-feminist tale, The Faggots and Their Friends between Revolutions, about a rebellious utopia.

Thus, with the embracement of a feminist perspective outside the competitive environment of the dominant profit and non-profit cultural institutions, Coven as a concept wishes to embody the “love politics” it dreams of.

Curated by: Vassilia Kaga & Caterina Stamou

Vassilia Kaga is SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2020 in curating

Participating artists: Margarita Athanasiou, Khaleb Brooks, Rabab El Mouaden, Marie-Andrée Godin, Eliza Goroya, Graham Kolbeins,
Vassiliki Lazaridou, Rory Midhani,  Sotiris Batzianas, Sofia Rozaki, Myrto Stampoulou, Dorian Wood.
Marie-Andrée Godin

Coven/Care – WWW³ (WORLD WIDE WEB /
WILD WO.MEN WITCHES /
WORLD WITHOUT WORK)
Coven/Care – WWW³ (WORLD WIDE WEB / WILD WO.MEN WITCHES / WORLD WITHOUT WORK) is a collective online gathering to remember (or if not, invent) and activate our faculties of care. We are going to share words and lived experiences through collective reading, grounding exercises and (their/her/his) story telling, with the intent of developing a safer spaced caring practice.

Marie-Andrée Godin was born in Canada and works between Canada and Finland, where she now lives. Her research has focused on the figure of the witch as a feminist figure and explores the concepts of a-hierarchy, craft, holistic and anti-anthropocentric thinking and knowledge as a source of potential power or oppression. She is now trying to see how magic, post-capitalism and diverse political forms or systems can be intertwined to help manifest the future. She conducts this research under the title WWW³ (WORLD WIDE WEB / WILD WO.MEN WITCHES / WORLD WITHOUT WORK) more thoroughly as a doctoral candidate at Aalto University (Finland) since 2018. This research is also supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her artistic work is mainly based in the fields of installation, performance art and socially engaged practices, and has been shown so far in Canada, the United States, Japan, Finland and Italy.

WHEN: 28.11.2020 at 18.00 Athens / 17.00 Berlin
WHERE: Online
DURATION: 2 h
LANGUAGE: English

The number of participants is limited to 15 in order to encourage comfortableness and equal space for expression among the individuals.
Please send us an e-mail with subject “Coven/Care” and your name at [email protected] to receive an invitation link for the event.

The work of Utravel won the AK Kunstpreis 2020 award. The prize is awarded by Arbeiterkammer (Employees’ Chamber) of Upper Austria to graduates of Kunstuniversität Linz, whose work relates to the working environment, the current working conditions and the trends in the workspace.

Lachesis Algorithm (part of the triptych “The Moirae”) will be screening at Cyber Salon of “PIKSEL20. The future narrow, where you don’t want to go.”

The three Moirae are transformed from mythical entities to three algorithms and re-define the destiny of western archives. Mythical beings acquire algorithmic substance and derive material from the open licensed repositories of Western culture through the Europeana accumulator.
The stored files become operational after being fragmented and rebuilt through structural modification.

In Greek mythology the three moirae are:

Clotho who spun the thread of life.
Lachesis who measured the thread of life allotted to each person with her measuring rot and decided who will take each part and how he/she will be benefited.
Atropos was the cutter of the thread of life.

The myth defines the function and behavior model of the three algorithms.

As the mythical Clotho selects and prepares the raw material, the Clotho algorithm draws all the images to be processed by moirae. Images are selected based on three criteria:
1.date. Selected images were added to the platform three days earlier because Moirae appear on the third day of birth.
2.the file being edited is an image and its type is .jpeg,
3.the edited files are licensed of free re-use

The algorithmic Lachesis deconstructs the images collected by Klotho. After setting the number of pixels per line, it creates a continuous thread that is unwrapped on the screen. The way the new remodeled material is represented draws visual inspiration from the textile weaving. The thread remains continuous and rotates from right to left and then from left to right creating an endless weft. This alignment creates patterns through the relationships that neighbouring pixels develop.

The Atropos algorithm cuts pieces of this new digital woven and transforms them into standalone physical objects.

The algorithmic moirae are independent. According to the laws of necessity, they are called upon to redefine the destiny of archival material, by reasserting the materiality of cultural heritage to redefine its digital transformation.

Maria Varela​ (Athens, 1984) works as a media artist with her focus on creative technologies, data weaving visualisation and conducting workshops. In her practice she experiments with ways in which the archival event can be transcribed from the digital environment to the natural world. Maria is a visual arts SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2019.

The 61th Thessaloniki Film Festival was held online, due to pandemic, from November 5th until November 15th.

You may find bellow the participation of our beloved Fellows in screenings, open discussions and the exhibition “Intimacy. A contemporary tyranny.”

Screenings
Digger – Georgis Grigorakis (Fellow 2018, moving image)

Kala Azar – Janis Rafa (Fellow 2020, moving image)

Anthology of a Butterfly – Kostis Charamountanis (Fellow 2020, moving image)

Mila – Christos Nikou (Fellow 2020, moving image)

As if Underwater – Anthie Daoutaki (Fellow 2019, visual arts)

The End of Suffering (A Proposal) – Jaqueline Lentzou (Fellow 2018, moving image)

The Meaning of August – Manos Papadakis (Fellow 2020, moving image)

In her Steps- Anastasia Kratidi (Fellow 2019, moving image)

Ehxibition – “Intimacy. A contemporary tyranny.”

Participating Fellows: Ileana Arnaoutoglou (2020), Maria Varela (2019), Zoe Gaitanidou (2019), Petros Efstathiadis (2020), Iasonas Kampanis (2020), Aristeidis Lappas (2020), Iasonas Megoulas (2018), Margarita Bofiliou (2019), Paola Palavidi (2018)

Open discussion – Directors’ Corner – November 11th

Georgis Grigorakis (Fellow 2018)

Digger is the first feature film by Georgis Grigorakis which won 5 awards at the 61st Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the following:

Special Jury Award – Silver Alexander

Greek Film Centre award

The “J.F. Costopoulos Foundation” award

Youth Jury awards – best feature film award

Fischer Audience awards for a film in the international competition

A contemporary western about a native farmer who lives and works alone in a farmhouse at the heart of a mountain forest in Northern Greece. For years now, he has been fighting with an expanding industrial monster digging up the forest, disturbing the lush flora and threatening his property. Yet, the greatest threat comes with the sudden arrival of his young son, after a twenty-year separation. They turn into enemies under one roof. Father and son confront each other head on, with nature as their only observer, a showdown that ultimately yields an unexpected redemption for both.

Georgis Grigorakis is a moving image SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2018.

The biggest annual art event of Athens and one of the oldest international art fairs in Europe, Art Athina, organized by the Hellenic Art Galleries Association since 1993, is returning for its 25th edition via #AA20Virtual. Taking into consideration the new pandemic reality, this year’s event, which was originally scheduled to be held at the Zappeion Hall, goes digital; Instead of physical exhibitions, every gallery that’s included in this year’s event is being hosted in individual Art Athina Viewing Rooms.

Check below our Fellows’ participation:

VIEWING ROOM

A.ANTONOPOULOU.ART GALLERY
https://aavirtual.gr/viewing-room/a-antonopoulou-art-gallery/
Stefania Strouza (Fellow 2018)

ΤHE BREEDER
https://aavirtual.gr/viewing-room/τhe-breeder-gallery/
Aristeidis Lappas (Fellow 2020)

CRUX GALERIE
https://aavirtual.gr/viewing-room/crux-galerie/
Anestis Ioannou (Fellow 2020)

ELENI KORONEOU GALLERY
https://aavirtual.gr/viewing-room/eleni-koroneou-gallery/
Eirene Efstathiou (Fellow 2020)

DONOPOULOS IFA GALLERY
https://aavirtual.gr/viewing-room/donopoulos-ifa-gallery/
Fotis Sagonas (Fellow 2018)

KALFAYAN GALLERIES
https://aavirtual.gr/viewing-room/kalfayan-galleries/
Rania Bellou (Fellow 2018)

LOLA NIKOLAOU GALLERY
https://aavirtual.gr/viewing-room/lola-nikolaou-gallery/
Vasilis Alexandrou (Fellow 2020)

HOT WHEELS ATHENS
https://aavirtual.gr/viewing-room/hot-wheels-athens/
Anastasia Pavlou (Fellow 2019)

ZOUMBOULAKIS GALLERY
https://aavirtual.gr/viewing-room/zoumboulakis-gallery/
Dimitris Efeoglou (Fellow 2019)

VIDEOS

Meals on Wheels, Manolis Daskalakis Lemos (Fellow 2018)
Factitious Imprints, Eva Papamargariti (Fellow 2019)
Like a Rock Like a Wave Like the Sea, Valinia Svoronou (Fellow 2019)