Category: ARTWORKS

On Thursday, February 16th, we visit the group exhibition “This Current Beteween Us” at the first steam-electric power station in Greece. Panos Yiannikopoulos, the exhibition’s co-curator and member of ARTWORKS team, guided our Fellows through the exhibition spaces and works and talked about the curatorial rational. He presented all 42 works exhibited in the show, 12 of which have been created by SNF ARTWORKS Fellows.

The exhibition examines the factory as a centre for the production of both power and materials, and moreover views it as a social model, a system for the organisation of space and human – and nonhuman – life, an architectural management of existing relationships and a generator of new ones.

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This Current Between Us
PPC Historic Electric Steam Power Station of Neo Faliro
Solomou 1 & Dimitriou Falireos, 185 47 Piraeus, Greece

Thursday–Sunday: 4pm–8pm
Exhibition duration: Friday, December 16, 2022 – Sunday, March 12, 2023

Participating artists: Nikos Alexiou, Micol Assaël, Eleni Bagaki, Eleni Christodoulou, Kostas Christopoulos, Anastasia Douka, Panayotis Evangelidis, Hypercomf, Konstantinos Giotis, Eleni Kalara & Valia Papachristou & Evaggeli Fili, Dimitris Kamarotos, Mikhail Karikis, Ali Kazma, Athina Koumparouli, Anna Lascari, Virginia Mastrogiannaki, Marina Miliou-Theocharaki & Marianne Tuckman, Petros Moris, Bill Morrison, Olga Migliaressi-Phoca, Paola Palavidi, Natasha Papadopoulou, Dimitris Papaioannou, Kostas Sahpazis, Louis-Philippe Scoufaras, Maria Sideri, Miriam Simun & Daria Kaufman, Iris Touliatou, Alexandros Tzannis, Theodore Tzannetakis, Jeph Vanger, Zafos Xagoraris, Marina Xenofontos

Participants from the Athens School of Fine Arts Lab: Alexandra Apsokardou, Despina Vaxevanidi, Anna Mastromichali, Katerina Messini, Olga Souvermezoglou

Curated by Panos Giannikopoulos & Georgia Liapi

Concept, research, coordination: Eleni Kalara

The exhibition “This Current Between Us” takes place within the framework of the project “The Other Body”, in collaboration with Blow-Up, Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) and the PPC, with the support of the Hellenic Republic Ministry of Culture & Sports . Powered by PPC.

*Eleni Bagaki, Anastasia Douka, Konstantinos Giotis, Athina Koumparouli, Virginia Mastrogiannaki, Petros Moris, Paola Palavidi & Ioannis Kolliopoulos (Hypercomf), Maria Sideri, Iris Touliatou, Alexandros Tzannis and Jephn Vanger are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows

Galini Notti, curator and member of our curatorial selection committee for the 5th SNF Artist Fellowship Program, gave an extensive talk about the exhibition “Nikos Velmos (1890-1930) Drawings” that she recently curated and which is currently on view at Radio Athènes. Prior to her talk, we visited the exhibition space where Helena Papadopoulos guided us through the artworks and also spoke about the artist’s archive and the curatorial approach behind the show.

Galini Notti (b. 1980) is a curator who lives and works in Athens, Greece. In 2020, she curated the show Statues that don’t move, don’t speak, don’t laugh in three public squares in Athens. She has also curated one of the “Top Tens” for the project Shadow Libraries: UbuWeb in Athens at Onassis Cultural Centre, the exhibition Survey in the context of Art-Athina 2017, co-curated the show (Im)material Gestures as part of the project PIIGS_An Alternative Geography of Curating at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, curated the exhibition Overseas at The American College of Greece in Athens and the show Fireworks out of Season – Riviera at the Riviera open-air cinema in the Exarcheia neighborhood of Athens. She has participated in the curatorial team of the 4th Athens Biennale – Agora as well as curated and co-curated exhibitions at independent, artist-run, municipal and commercial spaces. In addition, she often writes about artists and exhibitions. In 2013 she was the recipient of the NEON Curatorial Award. She holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Ioannina, Greece and MAs in Aesthetics from Paris 1 University and in Museology from the Ecole du Louvre, Paris, France. She has worked in museums and galleries in Paris, New York and Athens. For many years she was in charge of the Art Collection of the American College of Greece and is currently assistant curator at NEON.

NIKOS VELMOS (1890-1930) DRAWINGS
Curated by Galini Notti
29 January – 12 March 2023
RADIO ATHÈNES

The current exhibition’s work is comprised of many people and places – taverns, graveyards, the house of Rodakis in Aegina, Panormos in Tinos where he went to meet Chalepas, Athens, and Mount Athos. It approaches the drawings of Nikos Velmos as contemporary work. It is presented at Radio Athènes in Plaka, which is very near Nikodimou street, where Asylon Technis used to be.

More info here.

The art and labor of making a film.

Director and filmmaker Ektoras Lygizos and film producer Konstantina Stavrianou, both members of our moving image selection committee for the 5th SNF Artist Fellowship Program, gave yesterday at Romantso a joint talk, where they discussed with our Fellows important aspects of filmmaking: from the conception of an idea to script development and eventually the production of a film.

Thank you both for sharing your experience and personal input.

Born in Athens in 1976. He studied Greek Literature, Linguistics and Film Directing. His feature film BOY EATING THE BIRD’S FOOD (2012) premiered at Karlovy Vary Film Festival, won several awards and was in Competition at the International Film Festivals of Toronto, London, Montreal, Seville, Reykjavic, Hong Kong, Linz, Brussels, Leeds, Goa, Haifa, Thessaloniki, Bergen and Tallinn among others. It has also won the Best Feature Film, Best Leading Actor and Best Newcomer Director Awards from the Greek Film Academy (2013). His short film PURE YOUTH was premiered at Venice Film Festival 2004 – Official Competition. He has directed for the stage plays by Aeschulus, Euripides, Shakespeare, Moliere, Ibsen, Beckett, Verdi, Checkov, Jarry, Frayn, Boretz and Murray, Koumendakis, Walsh, Minyana, Owen and Klaus at the National Theatre of Greece, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Onassis Culture Centre, the Greek National Opera among others.

Konstantina Stavrianou co-founded Graal, a production company and a post-production facility, based in Athens, Greece. She oversees the production & co-production sectors for both Greek and international productions and is Graal’s co-managing director. The company has co-produced 65 films to date and has a portfolio of approximately 430 titles. In 2012 & 2013 she has been in the Hellenic Film’s Academy organizing committee of the two-day conference “Riding the Greek Wave” in Athens. Its first instalment focused on project development and festival strategies, while in 2013 on international co-production & distribution. Since 2014, attends workshops as post-production tutor collaborating with FOCAL Digital Production Challenge, Doha Film Institute, Red Sea Lodge and others. She is a member of the preselection / selection committee at the Berlinale co-pro series, Torino Film Lab, Locarno Open Doors consultances and Biennale College Cinema. She is a MEDIA programme expert, a Berlinale talents alumna and member of the EAVE network. Since 2021, she is an awarded member of the Hellenic Film Academy.

Within the framework of the 5th SNF Artist Fellowship Program, visual artist Kostas Sahpazis designed a workshop on art and social engaged practices.

During the the workshop, Kostas Sahpazis talked about the boundaries between personal practice and collective action, about the social role of art and the consequences of its aestheticization. The aim of the workshop is to establish the theoritical framework for the social role of art through the experience of Kostas Sahpazis’ collaboration with KE.TH.E.A. THERAPY CENTER FOR DEPENDENT INDIVIDUALS

Workshop duration: February – April 2023

Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, independent curator and member of our visual arts selection committee, presented her work through a lecture performance she put together for our current cohort of Fellows. Moving between informal historiography and anecdotal storytelling, she demonstrated bits and pieces from past talks, feedback from peers and shared considerable information about her overall professional experience in the art world.

A heartfelt thank you to Xenia for taking the time to prepare such a stimulating lecture and to everyone who attended.

Xenia Kalpaktsoglou (1974) is a curator and a founding member of the Athens-based collective Laboratory for the Urban Commons (Neo Cosmos). Her curatorial practice is rooted in collaboration, the creation of (trans-)local projects and initiatives, and in the reconsideration of the protocols of exchange and production between cultural producers and institutions/organizations. She co-founded the Athens Biennale and co-directed it from 2005–2016; during those years she was primarily active with the curatorial team XYZ. Between 2006-2008 she was the director of the DESTE Foundation. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Artistic Research department at the Zurich University of the Arts / Linz University of the Arts.

www.neocosmos.gr

Tina Pandi, art historian, curator at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) and member of our visual arts selection committee, welcomed us at EMST and talked to us about her role as an institutional curator, the curatorial considerations from such point of view, the evaluation criteria when producing an exhibition versus its intrinsic value and much more.

Following her talk, Tina gave us an exhibition tour of Eleni’s Bagaki solo show “Something like a poem, a nude, and flowers in a vase”. Gladly, our dear Fellow, Eleni–SNF ARTWORKS Visual Arts Fellow 2020–joined the tour and we had the chance to hear from both of them about their collaboration and behind the scenes stories.

Learn more about the exhibition here.

Kicking off our series of talks “With Earth in Mind” curated and moderated by Daphne Dragona with the visual artist Mikhail Karikis.

“With Earth in Mind”

What changes when the focus of artistic and curatorial practices is the planet itself? How are projects, exhibitions and events created with and for the Earth and its ecosystems? What role can art play in addressing the climate crisis and asserting climate justice?

“With Earth in Mind” hosts art professionals whose work has been created with and for the Earth and its ecosystems and has been dedicated to environmental issues with the aim of provoking not only discussions but also substantial changes. The program of talks is curated and moderated by Daphne Dragona, independent curator and member of the 5th SNF Artist Fellowship Program selection committee for curating.

Artist Talk: MIkhail Karikis

During his presentation, Mikhail elaborated on the methodologies he implements when developing his projects in collaboration with different communities. He touched upon various ideas around socially engaged art and talked about the act of listening as an alternative mode of imaginary activism. Mikhail’s talk was followed by a Q&A session with Daphne Dragona and our Fellows The first in-depth presentation of Mikhail Karikis’ work in Greece is currently on view at EMST.

Mikhail Karikis is a Greek/British artist based in London and Lisbon. His work in moving image, sound, performance and other media is exhibited in leading contemporary art biennials, museums and film festivals internationally. Through collaborations with individuals and/or communities located beyond the circles of contemporary art and (in recent years) with children, teenagers, young adults and people with disabilities, Karikis develops socially embedded projects that prompt an activist imaginary and rouse the potential to imagine possible or desired futures of self-determination and potency. Centering on listening as an artistic strategy and focusing on themes of social and environmental justice, his projects highlight alternative modes of human action and solidarity, while nurturing critical attention, dignity and tenderness.

On April 11 & 12, our wonder Dance Fellows who presented their work in progress at M54!

Participants: Karagianni, Yiannis Tsigkris, Venetsiana Kalampaliki, Ellada Damianou, Danae Vorvila, Eleonora Siarava, Konstantina Barkouli thank you for sharing your practice with us and for the fruitful discussions that followed between the Fellows and our community.

Thankful to our Fellows, all the people who worked for these presentations and M54!

Title of the talk: “A letter from America (Thoughts on ecological practice)”

Lucia Pietroiusti spoke about the role art and culture can play in today’s environmental emergency reflecting on her latest research around worlding and worldbuilding practices in relation to different political and ecological realities.

The talk of Lucia Pietroiustina is part of the Program “With Earth in Μind”, curated for ARTWORKS by Daphne Dragona

What changes when the focus of artistic and curatorial practices is the planet itself? How are projects, exhibitions and events created with and for the Earth and its ecosystems? What role can art play in addressing the climate crisis and asserting climate justice?

“With Earth in Mind” hosts art professionals whose work has been created with and for the Earth and its ecosystems and has been dedicated to environmental issues with the aim of provoking not only discussions but also substantial changes. The program of talks is curated and moderated by Daphne Dragona, independent curator and member of the 5th SNF Artist Fellowship Program selection committee for curating.

Lucia Pietroiusti is a curator working at the intersection of art, ecology and systems, usually outside of the gallery format.
Pietroiusti is the founder of the General Ecology project at Serpentine, London – a strategic, cross-organisational effort dedicated to the implementation of ecological principles throughout the Galleries’ public-facing programmes, internal infrastructure, and networks; and is currently developing the Institute for General Ecology, Pietroiusti is the curator of Sun & Sea (Marina) by Rugile Barzdziukaite, Vaiva Grainyte and Lina Lapelyte, the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (and 2020-2022 international tour). She is the curator of The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish (Serpentine homepage / web portal and broadcast platform) an interdisciplinary festival, radio and publication series on consciousness and intelligence across species (with Filipa Ramos, since 2018); as well as the curator of the second edition of POWER NIGHT at E-Werk Luckenwalde, titled Being Mothers, in 2021/2022, and the 8th Biennale Gherdeïna, Personen Persons, in 2022 (with Filipa Ramos).

Three Geostories

El Hadi Jazairy talked about the use of speculative architectural and design practices as a way of communicating with the wider public the missing elements of Earth’s representations that could reveal key constituents regarding the climate crisis.

El Hadi Jazairy is an associate professor of architecture and the director of the master of urban design at the University of Michigan. He is founding partner of the practice DESIGN EARTH with Rania Ghosn. His research investigates aesthetic forms of environmental engagement to visualize how urban systems transform the Earth. DESIGN EARTH has exhibited widely in venues such as the US Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Sharjah Biennial, the Times Museum in Guangzhou, the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon. The work of DESIGN EARTH has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art. It has been awarded prizes internationally, including the Architectural League of New York’s Prize for Young Architects + Designers, Jacques Rougerie Foundation’s First Prize, and Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Faculty Design Awards. El Hadi is co-author of Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment (New York: Actar, 2018) and Geographies of Trash (New York: Actar, 2015). He is founding editor of New Geographies and editor-in-chief of NG 4: Scales of the Earth (Harvard GSD, 2010). His recent writings have been published in the Journal of Architectural Education, the Avery Review, Thresholds, Topos, Domus, Abitare, Pidgin, ARQ Magazine, Volume, Harvard Design Magazine, MONU, and San Rocco.

El Hadi Jazairy holds a Doctorate of Design from Harvard University, a Master of Architecture from Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Architecture from La Cambre in Brussels.

With Earth in Mind – a series of talks curated by Daphne Dragona

With Earth in Mind” featured art professionals whose work has been created with and for the Earth and its ecosystems, and with the aim of provoking discussions and raising awareness around environmental issues. The series of talks was curated and moderated by Daphne Dragona, independent curator and member of the 5th SNF Artist Fellowship Program Selection Committee.

A 2-day film screening program was held at Iris Film Theater with the participation of 14 SNF ARTWORKS Moving Image Fellows who showed their films and engaged in profound conversations with film director and the event’s moderator, Menelaos Karamaghiolis. 🖤 Thumbs up to all our Fellows for their inspiring work and passion!

Participant Fellows: Yorgos Kolozis, Eleftheria Katsianou, Antonis Vallindras, Alexandros Chantzis, Danai Anagnostou, Spyros Skandalos, Leonidas Konstantarakos, Konstantinos Karaghiolis, Loukas Palaiokrasas, Alexandros Skouras, Nikos Ziogas, Georgia Bardi, Elia Kalogianni, Gabriel Tzafkas.

Excited and absolutely grateful to all our Fellows 2022 who shared this past year with us, as well as their valuable time and unlimited talent. Some days ago, we celebrated the closure of the 5th SNF Artist Fellowship Program at Praxitelous bar! Thank you all for such an inspiring, heartwarming and engaging year! We are proud to see our community grow and our Fellows forming long-lasting relationships.

On to our next adventures 🌞

All photos by Pinelopi Gerasimou

Part of the SNF Artist Fellowship Program is visiting our Fellows’ studio. During the visits, our Fellows welcome us to their working spaces and share insights about their work and future ideas. Studio visits are key components for our Fellowship Program as they allow skill-sharing and help our community bond.
Katerina Sarra, Vassilis Galanis, Marina Velisioti, Athina Koubarouli, Nicole Economides, Irene Ragusini, Ismene King, Marios Stamatis, Eva Anerrapsi, Natalia Manta, Anna Housiada, Danai Kriki, Eirini Tiniakou thank you all for the hospitality!

WHAT MAKES CREATING POSSIBLE?
WHAT MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE?
WHAT MAKES POSSIBLE AGAIN?

THE POSSIBLE
IS THE IMPOSSIBLE
IS THE POSSIBLE

This film is a tribute to our 390 SNF ARTWORKS Fellows for all the love, creativity, care, passion, respect and trust they have demonstrated while being part of the SNF Artist Fellowship Program 💜

Directed by Daphné Hérétakis and Konstantinos Samaras

Participants (in order of appearance):

Vasiliki Lazaridou
Neritan Zinxhiria
Aristeidis Lappas
Petros Moris
Janis Rafa
Maria Tsagkari
Kleoniki Stanich, with the actress Flomaria Papadaki
Maria Varela
Paky Vlassopoulou
Eva Vaslamatzi
Kosmas Nikolaou
Iris Touliatou
Dimitris Mytilinaios & Nefeli Asteriou
Martha Pasakopoulou
Angelos Papadopoulos

Production management: Christina Lekaki

Camera: Daphne Hérétakis

Image processing:
ANMAR FILM LAB Tasos Theodoropoulos

Shot on: Kodak film

Equipment hiring: Giorgos Frentzos

Executive producer
Allonsanfàn Films

Sound
Konstantinos Samaras

Sound design
AUX
Giotis Paraskevaidis

Costumes: To Vestiario

Subtitles
Natassa Sideri

Music
Petros Fatis
Aristeidis Lappas

End credit song
What you lack (feat. Magic Island)
Johnny Labelle
Album “Cold Fruit”
© Johnny Labelle 2019

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We are thankful and grateful to everyone involved and especially to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

Students and alumni of the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) are invited to attend “Career Paths”, a weekly program consisting of professional development events organized and curated by ARTWORKS.

CAREER PATHS, 2nd week
Professional Development Week
Monday 2 October – Friday 6 October, 2023
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Amphitheater of ASFA Library (Pireos 256, Ag. I. Rentis)

Curated and organized by ARTWORKS