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ARTWORKS Publication now available for sale at Hyper Hypo , SNFCC Store and the Cycladic Shop!

ARTWORKS publication consists of five issues, each one documenting every cycle of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship Program implemented over the years of 2018-2023.It features all the awardees -390 creatives who work in the visual arts, in moving image, dance and curating- and describes all the activities and events that took place throughout the course of each Program. It also includes essays, reflecting on and/or inspired by the fellowship, written by ARTWORKS collaborators and other arts professionals. The five issues complement each other with the aim of mapping the local contemporary art scene by highlighting its promising art force, the wide range of the differences and convergences among the various forms, aesthetic values and thematic references that drive artistic creation.

Publication: ARTWORKS
Founding Donor: Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)

Issue 1:
Design: Stathis Mitropoulos
Editors: Panos Giannikopoulos, Marily Konstantinopoulou, Dimitra Nikolou

Issue 2
Design: Ogust
Editors: Danai Giannoglou, Christina Petkopoulou, Mare Spanoudaki, Eva Vaslamatzi

Issue 3
Design: Typical. Organization for standards & order
Editors: Eirini Fountedaki, Vassilia Kaga, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou

Issue 4
Design: Alex Brouhard
Editors: Panos Fourtoulakis,Ioanna Gerakidi, Christina Tzekou, Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Nicolas Vamvouklis

Issue 5
Design: Maita Chatziionnidou, Loopo Studio
Editors: Alexia Alexandropoulou, Ariana Kalliga, Caterina Stamou, Despoina Tzanou

Printing
Pletsas K., Kardari Z., OE

Photos: Alina Lefa

We are excited to announce our latest collaboration with the Greek Film Archive on the occasion of the 13^th Athens Avant Garde Film Festival, 5-15 December 2024!

ARTWORKS joins forces with the Director of the Greek Film Archive, Maria Komninos, and her team for the inauguration of “Reframing Images”, a new international competition section as part of the Athens Avant Garde Film Festival. Through this competition and screening section, the audience will have the opportunity to watch innovative and groundbreaking films created by emerging/mid-career filmmakers.

ARTWORKS, with the support of its founding donor the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), will offer a monetary prize of 5.000 euros (ARTWORKS Best Film Award), to a filmmaker whose innovative film will compete in the 2024 edition of the Festival.

More information soon through the Greek Film Archive.

What are the effects of cinema in society? How can the difficulties that one faces when creating a film be transformed into creative opportunities? How can the audience engage in a more interactive way with a film? What is the relationship between cinema with the visual arts? These are few of the questions raised by filmmaker and member of our selection committee Menelaos Karamaghiolis during the talk he gave for our current cohort of Fellows last Friday at Romantso!

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Menelaos Karamaghiolis is a filmmaker who works in Athens producing feature films, documentaries, video art and radiomovies and video installations starring real-life neglected heroes and transcending frontiers and stereotypes to serve as an essential tool for dialogue and social change. His films have been screened globally and won many awards. His filmography includes the feature documentary ROM, 1989, that was considered “a turning point for Greek documentary films” and “a masterpiece that must become a classic of the history of cinema”, the fiction films  BLACK OUT (p.s. RED OUT), 1998, considered to be “the first post-modern Greek film” and J.A.C.E. – Just Another Confused Elephant, 2011, participated in 48 international festivals (including TIFF Toronto International Film Festival) and won 11 awards and the first greek interactive documentaries, MEETING WITH REMARKABLE PEOPLE (12 feature films, 180 short films). His video installations have been shown at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, the Venice Biennale, the Rodeo and the Geneva Contemporary Art Center (mini retrospective) etc.

Mariela Nestora, choreographer, researcher and member of our dance selection committee gave an extensive talk about her experimentations and collaborations, her deep interest in the environmental crisis and other key areas that are the driving forces behind her work. Mariela also elaborated on the idea of approaching choreography as a gathering and the methodology that she has developed referred to as “molecular choreography”.

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Mariela Nestora is a choreographer, researcher and Feldenkrais practitioner based in Athens, Greece. She studied: Master’s program on artistic research- ArtEZ University of the Arts (Holland), Feldenkrais method Professional Training (Greece1, IFF), Contemporary dance and Choreography-London Contemporary Dance School (UK), Biology-B.Sc., Queen Mary and Westfield (UK) and Human Molecular Genetics (M.Sc. St.Mary’s Medical School, Imperial College (UK). Her artistic research is situated within Post Humanism, investigating choreography as a gathering, currently developing a methodology on what she has coined as molecular choreography. As the choreographer of YELP danceco. (2001-) she has been creating performances for the stage, as well as site specific and public space projects, supported by the Greek Ministry of Culture, Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Onassis Cultural Center, Kalamata International Festival a.o. As an independent artist, (2011-17), she has been involved in several collectives (Green Park, Kolektiva Omonoia, Embros Theatre, Syndesmos Chorou), while she instigated the Collective Choreography Project CCP and from stage to page an artist led platform and publications on the Greek dance scene YELP danceco. works have been presented in Maribor, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Kassel, Berlin, London, Brighton, Ipswich, Bologna, Montpellier, Breste, Bucharest, Parnu, Aarhus, Brussels, Athens, Kavala, Patras, Thessaloniki, Volos, Hydra, Heraclion, Chania and have been selected to participate in ITI platform, Greek Biennial Dance Platform, Athens Biennial, Plesna Isba, Municipal Theatre of Patras, Patra Cultural Capital, The Place Commissions, The Video Place, Videodance festival and MIR festival. Mariela works as choreographer, Feldenkrais practitioner, movement director for theatre and mentor.

On Friday November 25th, SNF ARTWORKS Fellows were guided through the exhibitions “Theo Triantafyllidis | Pheromone Spa” at The Breeder gallery and “Sub Rosa |Joanna Piotrowska & Formafantasma” at ARCH, Athens.

Associate Director of Exhibitions & Special projects at The Breeder, Alkistis Tsabouraki, introduced our Fellows to the concept of Theo’s Triantafyllidis solo exhibition, while Theo guided them through the space, consisting of two performative systems, Bugsim (Pheromone Spa) and Ork Haus. The artist presented the immersive installations, including sculptural furniture, custom electronics and a homebrew pheromone aroma, and shared ethical questions and concerns around the concept of the exhibition.

Our next stop was at ARCH, where Nassia Kalamakis, guided our Fellows through Sub Rosa, an exhibition by artist Joanna Piotrowska and design studio Formafantasma.

Joanna Piotrowska kept returning to photographing roses and reflecting on them in the context of her time in Nagorno-Karabakh. Inspired by the ambiguous qualities of the interrogation room as a starting point, she invited Formafantasma to collaborate on translating this multilayered experience into objects. The result of the collaboration is a series of “anti-frame” framing devices that contain Piotrowska’s images of roses. These stainless steel devices, made of elements, materials and forms found in interrogation rooms, impose a threatening tension upon the prints, and replicate the power dynamics inherent in her story.

Read more about the exhibitions:

https://archathens.org/project/sub-rosa

Theo Triantafyllidis_ Pheromone Spa

Our series of curators’ and artists’ talks was initiated this year by our beloved collaborator Daphne Dragona, independent curator, theorist, writer and member of the 5th SNF Artist Fellowship Program selection committee.

Daphne talked about the areas of her curatorial research, and she particularly elaborated on the concept of degrowth and what it could mean for the arts.

Thank you Daphne for sharing such insightful knowledge and inspiring ideas.

Daphne Dragona is an independent curator, theorist and writer based in Berlin. Among her topics of interest have been: the controversies of connectivity, the promises of the commons, the importance of affective infrastructures, the ambiguous role of technology in relation to the climate crisis. Some of her curated -or co-curated- exhibitions are: Weather Engines (Onassis Stegi & National Observatory of Athens, 2022), Stefania Strouza, 212 Medea: Recited from and Empty Middle (AnnexM, Megaron, Athens, 2021), Trials & Errors (Romantso, Athens, 2021) Reprogramming Earth (NeMe, Limassol, 2020) Kyriaki Goni, Counting Craters on the Moon (Aksioma, 2019), Tomorrows, Urban fictions for possible futures (Diplareios, Athens, 2017), Capture All (transmediale, Berlin, 2015), Afresh, a new generation of Greek artists (ΕΜSΤ, 2013), Homo Ludens Ludens (Laboral, Gijon, 2008). Articles of hers have been published in various books, journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogs by the likes of Springer, Sternberg Press, Diaphanes, and Leonardo Electronic Almanac. Talks of hers have been hosted at Mapping Festival (Geneva), MoMA (New York), Hek (Basel), Arts in Society (London), Leuphana University (Lueneburg) and Goethe University (Frankfurt). Dragona has worked as curator for transmediale festival (Berlin) from 2015 until 2019, and more recently for EMAF (Osnabrück) for the editions of 2021 and 2022. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Communication & Media Studies of the University of Athens.

https://daphnedragona.net/

We visited EMST and met with Eleni Kamma, who guided us us through her work “Casting Call: The Collector of Proverbs, The Animal, The Fool, The Selfie-Junkie, The Innocent, The Child, The Drunk, The…”, part of the exhibition “STATECRAFT (and beyond)”. Eleni Kamma –visual artist, researcher and this year’s ARTWORKS visual arts selection committee member– departing from her exhibited work shared with us more information about her practice referring also to the axis of her interests and her research.

In addition to Eleni’s talk, our Fellows were offered a walk-through to the totality of the exhibition “STATECRAFT (and beyond)”; a survey about the underlying mechanisms at work in the engineering of the nation-state and the challenges it faces in today’s globalized, networked world.

You can find more info about the exhibition: here

This year, we started the 5th SNF Artist Fellowship Program in the most exciting way!
In November 4th & 5th, we organized a two-day event at BIOS where we officially launched this year’s Program. During the event, each Fellow introduced themselves and gave a brief presentation of their practice. At the end of each day, we indulged in the mesmerizing performances of Natasha Papadopoulou and Angelo Plessas!

Thank you all for sharing and caring!

Photos: Pinelopi Gerasimou

Τhe 5th SNF Artist Fellowship Program was kicked off with a party at Paper tiger! A big thank you, and again, congratulations, to all the SNF ARTWORKS Fellows ✨ ⚡️ ☄️ 💥

Photos: Pinelopi Gerasimou

NEON, in collaboration with the Embassy of Greece in London, presents the exhibition Doomed companions, unsubstantial shades at the Hellenic Residence in London. The exhibition brings together the legacy of Nobel laureate Greek poet and diplomat Giorgos Seferis with the work of twelve Greek-speaking contemporary artists reflecting on the themes of identity, nostalgia and trauma in the current socio-political condition.

Doomed Companions, unsubstantial shades wholeheartedly embraces the topic of diaspora, and aspires to establish a connection between the experiences, the worldview and the work of Giorgos Seferis and the works of contemporary artists who share a common language and migratory experiences.
Participating artists | Ellie Antoniou, Irini Bachlitzanaki, Savvas Christodoulides, Nikos Kessanlis, Karolina Krasouli, Amanda Kyritsopoulou, Stathis Logothetis, Maro Michalakakos, Yorgos Petrou, Erica Scourti, Stefania Strouza, Antrea Tzourovits.

Curator | Akis Kokkinos, NEON scholarship alumnus

DOOMED COMPANIONS, UNSUBSTANTIAL SHADES

07/10/2022 – 12/11/2022

Hellenic Residence | 51 Upper Brook Street, London, W1K 2BT, United Kingdom

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

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

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)

This talk brings together Dr Despina Zacharopoulou (RCA Contemporary Art Summer School Short Course Leader, Artist & Academic, SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2021), Marily Konstantinopoulou and Dimitra Nikolou (ARTWORKS – Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Program, Co-founders & Program directors), to discuss strategies of empowering contemporary artistic practice in uncertain times.

– In what ways could Institutions support contemporary art practice during unforeseen conditions (pandemics, environmental crisis, wars)?
– Who has access to this support, and how is diversity included in these moves?
– What are the criteria of selection regarding who gets to be empowered and who doesn’t?
– What are the expected outcomes?

The discussion will run for approximately 60 minutes and will include Q&A.

Mar 31, 2022 04:00 PM in London, 06:00 PM in Athens

Registrer here:
https://rca-ac.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__ZE6Gc5PQEG6sdZeeWFRlA

Event page:
https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/in-session-empowering-contemporary-artistic-practice-in-uncertain-times/

Watch the video now aon the RCA website:
https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/in-session-empowering-artistic-practice-in-uncertain-times/

We are thrilled to announce our new partnership with K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie. ARTWORKS, in collaboration with the residency team at K3, will offer a one-month residency position in Hamburg. While in residence at K3, the selected dance artist will have the opportunity to develop and strengthen the connections between the choreographic practice, artistic research and production.

Our dear Fellow, Dimitris Mytilinaios, choreographer and dancer, has been selected to inaugurate the first and pilot year of this partnership. Congratulations Dimitris! So pleased to see you accomplishing great things !

Learn more about k3 : https://k3-hamburg.de/en/