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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/

«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.

“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.

On Thursday November 18th, the moving image selection committee members for the 4th SNF Artist Fellowship Program – Giorgos Karnavas, Timon Koulmasis and Sofia Michailidou- sat together and discussed their work and the journey of a filmmaker, a producer and a programmer through sharing their personal and professional experiences as well as the challenges that arise. Thank you all for joining and thank you to our selection committee members for this stimulating discussion.

Giorgos Karnavas is a film producer at Heretic, a boutique film house producing and selling films on a global scale.
Timon Koulmasis works as a film director, writer and producer in Paris and Athens.
Sofia Michailidou is a programmer. For over 30 years she planned and organized cultural events, mainly related to cinema, at the Goethe-Institut Athen.

Konstnatina Georgelou, performing arts theorist, dramaturg and researcher, and  also a member of our Dance Selection Committee this year held an zoom talk and spoke about her interest in exploring discursive, artistic and activist practices as articulations of the political and how “practices of undoing“ can become means of creating space to formulate and express the collective.

Konstantina Georgelou is an Amsterdam-based performing arts theorist, dramaturg and researcher. Her research is on the practice and theory of dramaturgical activity, especially regarded from a political perspective, which is part of her ongoing inquiry on embodied practices of resistance and forms of dis/order as these are thought and expressed within dance, performance and artistic activism.She works in the MA programmes of choreography and theatre at DAS Graduate School (Amsterdam University of the Arts) and she is a senior lecturer in the Department of Media and Culture at Utrecht University, teaching courses on dramaturgy, spectatorship, artistic interventions in the public space and on performance theory. In 2011 she received her PhD from Utrecht University, with a thesis entitled Performless: The operation of l’informe in post-dramatic theatre. Together with Danae Theodoridou and Efrosini Protopapa, she edited and authoredThe Practice of Dramaturgy: Working on Actions in Performance(Valiz, 2017). Her publications have appeared in journals and books internationally, and she collaborates with dance and performance artists, such as Zhana Ivanova, Efrosini Protopapa, Billy Mullaney, Danae Theodoridou, Janez Janša. Konstantina also has an ongoing engagement with modes of production in theory and in the arts, which has been taking different formats in primarily collaborative projects.

After so long, we finally had the pleasure to host our first curator’s talk in person! Our guest speaker was Marina Fokidis, curator, writer, lecturer and also member of the Visual Arts Selection Committee for the 4th SNF Artist Fellowship Program.

Juxtaposing notions such as entitlement vs relevance, translocality vs global fiction, empathy vs exoticism, Marina elaborated on her curatorial practices and presented some of the major projects she has undertaken: the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale as a member of the curatorial team, Documenta 14 where she served as Head of the Artistic Office in Athens, Kunsthalle Athena as the founding and artistic director, as well as the bi-annual arts and culture journal South as a State of Mind produced in Athens and distributed internationally that she founded before it temporarily became the @documenta14 journal for several years.

On November 1st, we visit with our cohor of Fellows the Takis Foundation in Gerovouno hill, Attica. We were immersed through the unique world of Takis: kinetic sculptures, magnetic fields, cosmic and invisible powers, telesculptures, telepeintures (telepaintings), telelumieres (telelights), musicals, electromagnetic sculptures, hydro-magnetic sculptures, erotic scupltures.

Panayiotis Vassilakis, known as TAKIS, was one of the most prominent personalities of both international and greek art scenes. A pioneer of kinetic art, he unfurled his talent after the end of World War II, and he asserted himself by offering a different approach to kinetic art. Self-taught artist by conviction, he managed to create an inextricable link between art and science by combining elements of nature and physics in his sculpturing. Takis, as a “tireless worker of the magnetic fields …” continues to this date to experiment and create kinetic works of art that have inspired painters, sculptors and poets of his generation, as well as his contemporaries.

Takis Foundation – Research Center for the art & the sciences History has been the birthplace of Takis’ research and art with the aim to promote knowledge and appreciation of the visual arts to the general public, as well as to provide services, facilities and support programs for both education and contemporary art.

More info: https://takisfoundation.org/

On Tuesday October 26, our Fellows from the 4th SNF Artist Fellowship Program had the chance to visit the exhibition “I heard it from the valleys” and be guided through its works by the curator and SNF ARTWORKS Fellow Eva Vaslamatzi. The exhibitoin is the result of the participation of Eva Vaslamatzi (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow) in the Curatorial Residency Program at SAHA Association in Istanbul (May-June 2021) made possible by the ARTWORKS association and with the support of Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and presents a series of new productions linked through techniques, narratives and symbols related to the wide field of folk art. Folk production and forms of knowledge, mainly anonymous, are approached here as a field of inspiration and possibility for understanding forms and behaviors, which function individually and independently from grander national narratives.

Artists: Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Aslι Çavuşoğlu, Anastasia Douka, Marina Papazyan, Evi Souli, VASKOS (Vasilis Noulas & Kostas Tzimoulis)
Curated by Eva Vaslamatzi

Haus N Athen
Kairi 6, 105 51 Athens, Greece

From October 23rd until October 26th 2021, we hosted the workshop “How to Develop a Film Collaborating With Actors” designed and led by Syllas Tzoumerkas. Moving Image and Visual Arts Fellows immersed themselves in liberating, norm-defying, head-on and market-protected paths to develop and enrich their projects through direct collaboration with actors.