Category: Fellows news

Can we capture our lives overturned by a crash?

Three of our Fellows – Evi Kalogeropoulou, Eva Papamargariti, and Valinia Svoronou – participate with their works in the exhibition Cra(u)sh. Or how you made me kiss the pavement the pavement., which examines the other side of the accident. Streets, routes, vehicles, encounters, crashes, are revisited through the new materialist agenda and pop culture. Twelve young artists study drifts and wounds, isolate and re-construct the entanglement of matter and flesh, the absolute fusion of machine, landscape and man, within the premise of organic and inorganic world.

With reference to J.G.Ballard’s literary work Crash from the 70s and the notion of the fetishistic desire erected by he crash, the body as anatomy and sign encounters emotions and the inorganic. The wound, as the engraved trace upon the skin, becomes a mouth or a vagina, revealing love for the inorganic. The exhibition’s space stimulates the scene of the crash.

Through different mediums and practices, the artists unfold different sides of crash and crush. The artworks include image bendings of an automotive legacy, interpretations of erotic symbols, exhausting trials of hard/soft materiality, perfomative reductions of conflict, techno-bio-philic studies of the hybridal boy and docu-fictove formulations of archival material.

Who’s next to cra(u)sh?

Artists:
Phaidon Gialis, Konstantinos Giotis, Christos Delidimos, Evi Kalogeropoulou, Byron Kalomamas, Orestis Karalis, Konstantinos Lianos, Eva Papamargariti, Marios Stamatis, Valinia Svoronou, Marina Velisioti, Iria Vrettou.

Curator:
Vassiliki-Maria Plavou.

Exhibition Duration: 14 February – 08 March.
Opening: 14 February, 20:00.

Our Fellow Evi Kalogiropoulou shows sculptural works in addition to a filmic work by examining the connections between mythology, patriarchal social structures and notions of femininity in her first solo exhibition in Germany.

Evi Kalogiropoulou is concerned with ancient feminist concepts and myths relevant to the female body. How were they perceived in the past and how are they represented in today’s society? Can new cultural identities arise from the emancipation of the female body in the context of technical developments?

In her examination of post-feminist theories, the Greek artist not only questions patriarchal historiography, she also inscribes her view in a speculative and questioning continuation of the ancient myths.

​Curator: Lotte Puschmann

Georgis Grigorakis‘ (Fellow 2018) first feature ‘Digger’, won the CICEA Art Cinema Award at the 70th Panorama of Berlin Film Festival. The movie world-premiered at Berlinale on February 24th 2020.

Digger is a contemporary western about a native farmer who lives and works alone in a farmhouse in the heart of a mountain forest in Northern Greece. For years now, he has been fighting against 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 20-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 studied Social Psychology at the University of Sussex and obtained his Master’s degree on Directing Fiction at the National Film and Television School (NFTS, London). He has written and directed 8 short films that have been screened in more than 100 international festivals winning at least 20 prizes. They have also been shown on TV and distributed in movie theaters or as VODs. ‘Digger’ is his feature debut, a production of Haos Film, co-produced by Le Bureau (France) and Match Factory (Germany).

More info:  https://www.berlinale.de/en/programme/programme/detail.html?film_id=202004783

http://www.georgisgrigorakis.com/

Our Fellow 2019 Aggeliki Bozou designs live cinema shows and art workshops for children inspired by Pablo Picasso’s paintings at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC).

Vlefaro Live Cinema lands at the SNFCC in February to present original productions based on Pablo Picasso’s life and work. A series of screening shows and art workshops will take place, based on handmade moving images and paper constructions that produce patterns of movement.

In the first part of each session, children and their adult chaperones attend a screening in which images are being painted and composed before their eyes, accompanied by live music. Following the screening, they participate in a sound and image art workshop, in which they process the screened material creatively.

Kids Lab
Saturday 08/02
11.00-12.30
Meeting point: NLG Lobby

For children aged 7-11 years old and their adult chaperones
Up to 15 children and 15 adult chaperones
Free admission by online preregistration (the workshop is conducted in Greek) ηλεκτρονική προεγγραφή

Music Collages
Saturday 15/02
11.00-12.30

For children aged 3-6 years old and their adult chaperones
Up to 15 children and 15 adult chaperones
Free admission by online preregistration (the workshop is conducted in

The award winning film by our Fellow 2019 Rhino Dragasaki will be screening from January 30th  exclusively at Astor Cinema.

Anna, an eccentric and neurotic supermarket cashier, lives alone in Athens in her parents’ huge apartment. One day she will be forced to take in the 10-year old girl from next door after her father goes missing. At the same time, she will be confronted with her possible dismissal from work and the overwhelming scenario of a workplace romance. And all this, under the influence of excessive Cosmic Candy consumption.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/360078196
Production: Βlonde, Εx Νihilo, Faliro House, ΕΚΚ, ΕΡΤ
Distribution: Weirdwave

Karolina Krasouli (Fellow 2019)  has created a new production inspired by objects related to the transmission of a message for the frac île-de-france Window Display. Sheets of paper, envelopes ans containers of words, in a simultaneously opaque and transparent stack, create spaces. In a play on the appearance of multiples and doubles the message is directed to both one person and everyone. The intention to deploy corresponds to the act of concealing. Showing what has been undone to the point where the message lies exactly at the centre of what escapes us.

Every month, the “Window Display” at l’antenne is home to a new art project linked to le plateau’s exhibitions, collection and educational outreach ventures.

https://www.fraciledefrance.com/karolina-krasouli/?lang=en

Our Fellow 2019 Valinia Svoronou’s new work “ENDYMION / Chapter 1: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse” is the first narrative chapter of the artist’s augmented reality application. The work is an astronomy-stargazing application that reveals a story alongside new year’s celestial events beginning with the penumbral lunar eclipse on January 10, 2020. The app is informed by various myths surrounding the zodiac constellations, as well as their use as a means of navigation across the centuries. 

The underlying narrative of the app takes the ancient Greek myth of Endymion as a point of departure to explore romantic ideas around historical exchanges between East and West in relation to the contemporary world. Endymion’s myth assimilates the plot twists of Roman times, its romantic readings, and appropriations in pop culture. 

Svoronou uses the tools of astronomy to create a node where mythologies across time and geographical boundaries converge with scientific observation. The work, in addition to the app, exists as sculptural installation and a series of prints. As a porous membrane between the material, the digital, and the corporeal, the work allows for various stories to interweave, exploring their individual boundaries and allowing for them to resolve variously. Zodiac myths are understood here as escape plans, distractions, detours and wanderings. Svoronou brings together seemingly contradictory content to create something new, suggesting a kind of intuitive navigation-reading. She raises a series of questions about positivist readings of science, history and the art world. Through the mythological connection of Endymion and the Moon, she focuses on the power relations of the observer and the observed, subject and object, on the gendered dimension of the gaze to negotiate the concrete nature of the latter. 

Svoronou seeks to rethink the political possibilities of appropriation in art within the museum. Language, representation, and the space of action become tools and targets of critique – a means of reflection on the way stories are constructed, exhibited and consumed.

The exhibition is a living documentation of continuous artistic activity in the city as established Athens based artists, former Snehta residents and experimental practitioners will be coming together to exhibit small scale works, representative of their work and practice.

Fellows participating: Augustus Veinoglou, Eriphyli Veneri, Panos Profitis, Stefania Strouza.

Opening: 18th December, 20:00
Duration : 18-28 December

The legendary Rebound Club Athens opens its doors in Amerikis Square to nine contemporary Greek visual artists. Stripped of music, its atmospheric underground space turns into a one-night stand actionfield for interventions in the form of performance, video, installation and sculpture. Everything black, black only. The bar will operate normally.

Rebound Club Athens
Mithimnis 43, Amerikis Square
Thursday, 12th December 2019 @ 20:00

Curated and coordinated by:  Eriphyli Veneri (Fellow 2019), Naira Stergiou

Artists participating:

Despina Charitonidi | Olga Evangelidou (Fellow 2019)| Panos Profitis (Fellow 2018) | Vasilis Papageorgiou (Fellow 2018) | Thalia Raftopoulou | Naira Stergiou | Alexandros Tzannis (Fellow 2019) | Augustus Veinoglou(Fellow 2018) | Eriphyli Veneri (Fellow 2019)

It moves and it shouts. In my head. Shhhhhhhhh, writes queer French author Guillaume Dustan [1965-2005], who delved into the hedonism of the nightclubs and politicized the state of desire, the drive for ecstatic celebration.

IT MOVES AND IT SHOUTS wants to talk about empathising, becoming hybrid — dancing bodies, dancing minds towards a political body. It investigates new ways of perceiving the world, contextualising knowledge as a situated experience, but also playing with and dissolving the idea of borders, somatic, geographical, online or offline. It is through desire and pleasure that we navigate through this world, contesting at the same time various hierarchies. The works bring into consideration class, race, gender and sexuality, ability and illness as intersectional and propose new ecologies of existence.

The exhibition brings together works by Dimitris Dokatzis, Virginia Mastrogiannaki (Fellow 2019), Eva Papamargariti (Fellow 2019), Theodoulos Polyviou & Kiss the Architect, Spyros Rennt, Korallia Stergides, Marina Miliou-Theocharaki, Leontios Toumpouris, Kyle Vu-Dunn, Marina Xenofontos.

Curated by: Panos Giannikopoulos

Haus N Athen, Kairi 6, Monastiraki
Opening: 5 December at 20:00
Duration: 5 December 2019 – 5 January 2020
Opening hours: Fri.-Sat. 16:00-20:00

Akwa Ibom announces its inaugural exhibition ‘Ties to People, of a Certain Intensity’ which will be opened to the public Tuesday, December 3, at seven p.m. It will be an uncustomary group show featuring a new two-part film by Rosalind Nashashibi and six paintings by the newly minted NBA (Agency of New Way). NBA is currently Nick Bastis, Liudvikas Buklys, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Dalia Dūdenaitė, Ona Kvintaitė and Elena Narbutaitė working jointly. This is the second time their work will be shown publicly. Their first exhibition titled ‘Giant’ opened earlier this year at Kunstverein Langenhagen in Germany, consisting of two wall paintings.

Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Shobies’ Story’, which tells the tale of the first human crew to participate in a newly invented faster-than-light mode of space travel, the film considers how we can remain connected to others outside of linear time where language, and therefore communication too, break down. Following this disruption of the emotional life of the individuals that make up the film’s unlikely but fated group, the film inspires an evolved idea of love – “general love, not just personal love” as Elena says – that extends beyond desire into the terrain of a bond rooted in the cohabitation of time. Nashashibi consulted the ‘I Ching’, an ancient Chinese divination manual, at the start of the shooting and has used its response to shape the making of the film and to title both parts. The outcome is an atypical sci-fi film that feels a lot like collaborative auto-fiction.

Rosalind Nashashibi is a London-based artist working in film and painting. Recent solo shows include Witte de With in Rotterdam in 2018 and Vienna Secession and CAAC Seville in 2019. Nashashibi is currently artist in residence at the National Gallery, London. She was a Turner Prize nominee in 2017, and her work has been included in Documenta 14, Manifesta 7, the Nordic Triennial, and Sharjah 10, and she won the Beck’s Futures prize in 2003. She is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University and is part of the duo Nashashibi/Skaer with Lucy Skaer.

NBA (Agency of New Way) is a group which makes artworks and exhibitions. For this occasion, the paintings of NBA were made by Nick Bastis, Liudvikas Buklys, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Dalia Dūdenaitė, Ona Kvintaitė and Elena Narbutaitė.

Artists: Rosalind Nashashibi, NBA (Agency of New Way): Nick Bastis, Liudvikas Buklys, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Dalia Dūdenaitė, Ona Kvintaitė and Elena Narbutaitė

OPENING Tuesday, December 3, at seven p.m. On view December 11, 2019 – February 14, 2020

https://akwaibomathens.org/

Curation: Eva Vaslamatzi (Fellow 2019)
Artists: Maria Theodoraki, Marcos Lutyens, Basim Magdy, Kosmas Nikolaou (Fellow 2018), Malvina Panagiotidi (Fellow 2018)
Duration: 20.11.2019 – 26.01.2020
Megaron, Vas. Sofias Ave. & Kokkali St.

Within a context of experimentation and with the initiative of SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2019 Marina Papadaki, Hydroexpress Project, opened its doors at November 9th. It is a hybrid space that houses an artist, a plumber and carries the memories of five generations. Its name is borrowed from the plumber’s shop”Ydroexpres”.

Hydroexpress Project is an ongoing project, during which, the events that are going to take place will be accompanied each time by a publication for the purpose of archiving. It is a hybrid that emerged from entering a “readymade”, without encroaching it. It could historically become the continuation of a chronic evolutionary process. There will be no attempt to create a new context or a new state. It will work in reverse. Through intimacy and by deconstructing the identity of the place, it is going to talk about already existing contexts, attitudes, stereotypes, and explore institutions, norms, and socioeconomic patterns.

At the Hydroexpress’ first project the space opens its doors and invites two artists, Anestis Ioannou and Vangelis Savvas, and three curators –Danai Giannoglou (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2019), Myrto Katsimicha and Eleni Riga – to place themselves  among this hybrid environment and its own signifieds.

ARTISTS:
Anestis Ioannou
Vangelis Savvas

WRITERS:
Danai Giannoglou
Myrto Katsimicha
Eleni Riga

OPEN DAYS:
Sunday 10/11
Friday 15/11
Saturday 16/11 & Sunday 17/11
17:00 – 20:00
or by appointment

The exhibition Overview Effect: Encountering the Cosmos presented in the context of the 7th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, invites us to engage in an exciting and remarkably refreshing parallel reading of moving and still images alike.

The Overview Effect, thanks to which astronauts see the Earth as a borderless whole, our common home without differences – as well as the fears, the hopes, the utopia, the reality, and the disillusionment that arise from this – is the mortar that binds and constitutes the fourteen films of the International Competition Section of the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

These films were allocated to fourteen young Greek artists, each of whom undertook to comment on one of them and create an original work of art with absolute freedom and no restrictions as to materials, technique, and style. The only guideline they were given by the TIFF was to study the Overview Effect and view the films through its lens, activating the process of highlighting the non-visible.

5 SNF ARTWORKS Fellows take part in the exhibition: Despina Flessa (Fellow 2018), Panos Kompis (Fellow 2018), Manolis D. Lemos (Fellow 2018), Virginia Mastrogiannaki (Fellow 2019) , Pavlos Tsakonas (Fellow 2018)

Other participating artists are:
Christos Delidimos, Giorgos Gerontides, Zoe Hatziyannaki, Kalos- Klio, Irini Karayannopoulou,  Elias Mamaliogas, Konstantinos Patsios, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, Alexis Vasilikos

Curation: Orestis Andreadakis / Production & Coordination: Thanos Stavropoulos

The Fulbright Foundation and Fulbright Artists Alumni, in collaboration with i-D ProjectArt, invite you to support the Fulbright Scholarship Program by acquiring a work of art. All proceeds will benefit the Fulbright Scholarship Program. The “Art Supports Education – Fulbright Alumni Art Series” is an initiative that began in 2009. In recognition of the fundamental role of education, Fulbright artist alumni donate their works in support of the Fulbright Scholarship Program.

This year’s series, “Fulbright POLYMORPHIA”, aims to highlight the diversity (polymorphia) of expression that characterizes the contemporary visual art scene and the arts in general, an element that is firmly supported by the Fulbright Artist Program.

Three of are Fellows – Fotis Sagonas (2018), Alex Simopoulos (2018) ,  Antonis Theodoridis  (2019) – participate among other artists.

Curation: Evgenia Alexaki

Participating Artists:
Erieta Attali, Dora Economou, Efi Chalikopoulou, Leonidas Chalepas, Titina Chalmatzi, Sofia Dona, Fotis Flevotomos, Elias Kafouros, Pygmalion Karatzas, Diane Katsiaficas, Zoe Keramea, Apostolos Kilessopoulos, Sia Kyriakakos, Pelagia Kyriazi, Maria Letsiou, Ioannis Michalou(di)s, Eleni Mylonas, Dimitris Papaioannou + Marilena Stafylidou, Lambros Papanikolatos, Vangelis Pliarides, Loukia Richards, Fotis Sagonas, Alex Simopoulos, Georgios Taxidis, Antonis Theodoridis, Angeliki Chaido Tsoli, Giorgios Tzinoudis, Costas Varotsos, Nikolas Ventourakis, Adonis Volanakis, Kristina Williamson, Zafos Xagoraris, Yiorgis Yerolymbos, Sotos Zachariadis, Theodoros Zafeiropoulos

On view until December 7th, 2019

Constantly present in contemporary culture, play due to its abrupt and unexpected nature has been put under manifold and -one could claim- inspired control mechanisms: absolute connection with infancy or idleness, educationally tooled to infuse common principles and behaviours. Ιn the 20th century, in the sake of the socially engaged communicational strategies, play has been used from arts institutions to propagate the inclusive cultural model. Participatory art practices, public programming built on the triptych of “play-create-learn” have functioned as attempts to orchestrate the notion of play and the playful practice of art into hegemonic narratives. Artists themselves, are invited to constrain their playful power of experimenting, creating, interacting with the material and the immaterial to pace with the prevalent art industry.

Irini Karayannopoulou, Anna Lascari, Irini Bachlitzanaki and Anastasia Pavlou (Fellow 2019) explore the possible ground of the element of play through various practices, media and gestures in the recently founded space of Automatic Transmission.

Curator: Christina Petkopoulou (Fellow 2019)

Maria Tsagkari (Fellow 2019) presents her new video work Intimate letters at the exhibition Into my garden come in Aigio, Greece, a contemporary art show, part of the Primarolia Festival 2019.

Eight artists arrive in Aigio eager to start a new conversation with the place. Aigio, a town cradled between the sea and the high mountains holds a history that dates back to ancient times and offers a fertile ground of artistic creation and dialogue through a contemporary art exhibition. The exhibition focuses on the metaphorical concept of the garden. The title is taken from Emily Dickinson’s verse “Into my garden come!”, perceived as a meeting and gathering of senses, ingredients, objects, ideas – a point of conjunction, of matter and meaning, of past and future. This new sowing of people, ideas and meetings takes place in the coastal zone of Aigio, known as Vostizza during the Middle Ages, meaning the city of gardens, lending the famous name to the local currant variety PDO «VOSTIZZA».

Artists: Rob Kesseler, Agalis Manessi, Aggelos Antonopoulos, Luc Messinezis, Yiannis Brouzos, Maria Tsagkari, Kostas Pappas and Bill Psarras

Curator: Nansy Charitonidou

As a result of advances in machine learning, our understanding of today’s world is ever more mediated by machines. What challenges does deep learning bring to human-based knowledge? What do machines see and do differently than humans? How can artificial intelligence enhance new forms of experience and understanding?

To address these questions, in Counting Craters on the Moon, Kyriaki Goni purposely turns her gaze to a distant and uncanny territory: the Moon and its surface. The Moon, according to the artist, constitutes a fascinating example and offers an interesting analogy. Lacking an atmosphere, it operates as a data center which stores in its body the memory of our solar system and allows predictions for the future. The project presents an imaginary encounter between astronomer Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825–1884) and the neural network DeepMoon, both of which set out to count the craters on the moon. Speculating upon the possible synergies between human and machine, the artist invites us to imagine how we can learn from and with machines in order to build different, multiple and, possibly, collective understandings of the surrounding world and its cosmos.

Curated by Daphne Dragona

SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2019 Theodoros Giannakis takes part at Frieaze London with the work Always Already aka a primitivism mirage again. The installation is part of Frieze East End Sunday.

Congrats to Konstantinos Antonopoulos and Vasilis Kekatos (ARTWORKS Fellows 2019) for winning the award in the Greek Short Stories in competition awards – at the 25th Athens International Film Festival among 311 submissions!

The award for Best Director was presented to Konstantinos Antonopoulos for “Postcards from the End of the World”. The jury awarded this film for being a “redemptive film, elegant and well made”. The award was generously accepted by the director.

The award for Best Film went to: “The Distance Between Us and the Sky” by  Vasilis Kekatos.

ARTWORKS team is proud & happy :)