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 🙏
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)
Studio visits, presentations, zoom meetings! This year’s presentations by our Fellows are taking place in a hybrid format mixing the physical with the virtual space ! Thank you Pennie Key, Evangelia Vatsaki, Konstantina Krikzoni, Nana Serferli, Olga Vlasssi, Eleni Kordali, Erifyli Doukeli, Alexandros Michael and Jeph Vanger for sharing your work and thoughts!
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
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/
February was full of presentations! Thank you Margarita Athanasiou, Spyros Rennt, Evangelia Spyliopoulou, Maro Fasouli, Alexios Papazacharias, Giorgos Kontis, Vasilis Zarifopoulos, Aggelos Barai, Maria Michailidou, Stamos Michael for sharing with us your work and thoughts :)
«The school of dreams lies under our bed», Hèléne Cixous
Our Fellows had the opportunity to attend a 3-day workshop specially designed by performer and visual artist Mary Zygouri hosted at Space 52! The workshop explored the invention of polyphonic identities through physical and visual means. The participants were introduced to artistic experimental pedagogical processes with the body as the main space for creation and the dream as its raw material.
Dates: Friday February 25 – Sunday February 27, 2022
Space 52, Kastorias 52, Athens
Art historian, curator at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST) and member of our curatorial selection committee, Daphne Vitali, gave an extensive talk about the role of being a curator through a thorough retrospective of various exhibitions she has undertaken! Always grateful to collaborate with you Daphne :)
Daphne Vitali is a Greek/Italian Art historian and Curator based in Athens. She is a Curator at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST) where she has curated and co-curated numerous group and solo exhibitions of Greek and international artists. Among them are:In Present Tense. Young Greek Artists, 2008; Expanded Ecologies. Perspectives in a Time of Emergency, 2009; Kostis Velonis. Loneliness on Common Ground: How Can Society Do What Each Person Dreams, 2010; CurrentPasts: Vangelis Vlahos & Ivan Grubanov, 2013; AFRESH A New generation of Greek Artists; 2014, Andreas Angelidakis. Every End is a Beginning, 2014; as well as projects for the series EMST Commissions, a program of new productions commissioned by the museum for the Project Room. Among other institutions, she has also been invited to curate exhibitions at DEPO, Istanbul; Galleria Nazionale d’ Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; Macedonian Museum of Contemporary, Thessaloniki; Quarter Centro Produzione Arte, Florence. Most recently she curated the exhibition When the Present is History at DEPO in the framework of the 16th Istanbul biennial (2019), which will travel to MOMus – Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, as well as the sound project Deeper than Silence in the archaeological site of the Ancient Roman Agora in Athens (2020). She has published essays on contemporary art in various publications and periodicals such as Kunstforum International, Mousse Magazine, Artpulse and has authored and edited many artists’ catalogues. She studied History of Art at Camberwell College of Arts and Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths College in London.
Subterranean Sun: an “underground” open studio presenting work-in-progress from Petros Moris’s residency at Delfina Foundation, London.
Subterranean Sun is an open studio installation stemming from Petros’s ongoing interest in the material and mythological manifestations of underground space as the origin of cultural pasts and technological futures.
As the artist comes to the end of his re-commenced residency (originally interrupted by the pandemic in March 2020), Petros takes an evening to share a selection of outcomes and works-in-progress from the research he conducted over his time at Delfina Foundation, which started from London’s histories of subterranean colonisation, industrial revolution and computational automation, and then re-focused on his local context of Athens.
This new body of work presented in Subterranean Sun takes the form of a series of solar intaglio etchings, a prototype of an algorithmically generated text-based work presented on-screen, a 3D animation based on the photogrammetric scans of a quarry in Greece, and a helioseismological soundscape.
Developed under the radiation of the Greek sun, and printed in London during Petros’s residency, the solar intaglio etchings derive from algorithmic machine-learning mutations performed on Petros’s own photographic archives of the animal-resembling sculptures which used to inhabit the ancient Kerameikos cemetery in Athens as the protectors of the threshold between the underworld and the life above.
Brought into dialogue with the etching is a prototype version of the text-based work Harvest. Using a similar algorithmic logic of machinic prediction it generates an endless stream of abstract “oracles”; texts of a synthetic language left to contingent human interpretation.
Reflecting back to the earthly materiality of the Kerameikos marble sculptures, the 3D-animated video Quarry Time (Ghost) unfolds as a negative image rendering of a haunted geological landscape, re-modeled after old photogrammetric scans of a marble quarry located between Athens and the artist’s hometown, Lamia.
Closing the loop between the celestial and the subterranean, the helioseismological soundscape will permeate Delfina’s underground space, reintroducing the cosmic presence of the sun through a year-long recording of solar oscillations, translated into an audible hum.
Petros’ residency at Delfina Foundation is supported by ARTWORKS
Date: Wednesday, 9 February 2022
Location: Delfina Foundation
Time: 18:00 – 20:00 (UK)
Last entry 19:30
Tickets: Free. Booking essential.
Access information: Please refer to this page
“It’s not the subject that defines the film, but rather, the relationship developed between the filmmaker with the subjects”. Inspiring words from the great Eva Stefani
During yesterday’s talk, Eva screened some excerpts from her works and shared her thoughts on the perks and benefits of being a filmmaker!
Thank you Eva, your inspiring words warmed our hearts!
Eva Stefani, Documentary Filmmaker, Visual artist, Poet was member of ARTWORKS’ Moving Image Selection Committee for the 3rd SNF Artist Fellowship Program.
Kicking off this year’s series of our Fellows’ work presentations and studio visits!
During the first sessions, Despina Zacharopoulou talked about performance as a stage of exposure, of truthfulness and embodiment of philosophy, Pinelopi Gerasimou highlighted the importance of being in the moment and keeping spontaneity when shooting, Kyveli Zoi Stenou talked about the power of the everyday in her work. Sotiris Tsiganos highlighted the connections between research, fieldwork and moving image as well as the possibilities to critically engage with underdocumented events and stories. Georgios Karamanolakis guided us at Hyperlink Athens, discussed his latest work “Delphian Landscapes” and presented his multi-dimensional artistic practice.
Thank you all for the presentations, the warm hospitality and the fruitful discussions that followed!
In view of the open call for projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for the Greek public, Dimitris Antoniou presented to our Fellows the SNFPHI.
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative (SNFPHI) at Columbia University focuses on three main areas: History (e.g., preservation, oral history, archival practices, material culture); Creative Arts (e.g., performance, curation, literature); and Education (e.g., learning resources, teaching tools, educational games). Dimitris Antoniou is Associate Director at the SNFPHI and Lecturer in Hellenic Studies at Columbia University
It was time to host the annual workshop about intellectual property for artists led by Dr Marina Markellou last week. Marina Markellou is an Attorney and Adjunct Lecturer of Law at Panteion University, the Open Hellenic University and the Open Cyprus University, and specialises in Intellectual Property Law. Always grateful to have her on our team!
2022 started in the most inspiring way ! Andonis Foniadakis, dancer, choreographer and member of the dance selection committee for the 4th SNF Artist Fellowship Program, talked about his work and the challenges one faces when pursuing his/her personal artistic path, being faithful to his/her inherent skills while remaining intuitive and open to chance. Thank you Andonis for such an insightful and stimulating talk!
Katerina Gregos -curator, writer and lecturer- welcomed us at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) where she presented to our Fellows her work and curatorial practice. Katerina Gregos talked about the role of the curator and the numerous projects she has undertaken, including exhibitions and international biennials, always following her personal vision and exploring the relationship between art, society and politics with a particular view on questions of democracy, human rights, economy, ecology, crisis and changing global production circuits.
Katerina Gregos is the Artistic Director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens (EMST) and a member of our curatorial selection committee for the 4th SNF Artist Fellowship Program.
Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, curator and founding member of the Laboratory for the Urban Commons, talked about the art of curating in relation to cultural production, politics and society at large. Among the numerous projects she has undertaken, ranging from urban interventions, research and educational practices to her institutional role as the co-founder and co-director of the Athens Biennale (2005-2016), she elaborated on her recent and ongoing collaboration with the Laboratory for the Urban Common.
Antonis Pittas presented to our Fellows his work and talked about his context-sensitive spatial installations informed by art history and architecture. He elaborated on the concept of “recycling history” – both as contemporising history and historicising the contemporary – and the methodology he uses to create awareness around contemporary social and political issues. Antonis is a visual artist based in Amsterdam and he is currently a member of our Visual Art Selection Committee.