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ARTWORKS Fellow, Kosmas Nikolaou presents his solo show Mental Radio, at DOC, Paris.

Kosmas Nikolaou contemplates on the absurd history of parapsychology that started at the end of the 19th century in Europe. In doing so, he has to tackle the history of various institutes, associations and clubs, where researchers sharing an interest for paranormal and psychic phenomena (telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis…) tried, for the first time, to explain them using formal scientific approaches. Neither spiritualists nor psychotherapists, these scientists tried to prove the existence of invisible phenomena while distancing themselves from religion, magic, and other such beliefs and interpretations.

Reframing the same pseudo-scientific processes in an artistic context, he seeks to traverse contemporary limits between experimental methods and social norms. The exhibition explores the inability of the movement to realise its avant-garde potential, and exposes its failure to reconcile the primitive and intangible concepts it addresses with its practical aspirations to social and institutional recognition and, in fact, its inclination towards status quo.

Exhibition duration: 15.02.2019-03.03.2019.

With the support of the Hellenic Cultural Center of Paris.
Programming: Daiga Grantina, Eva Vaslamatzi
Assistant: Gabriela Emanovská

ARTWORKS Fellow Kyriaki Goni, participates in the group show FREEPORT: Terminal MCR, running between February 12 and 16, 2019.

In a time when free movement, free trade and freedom of communications apparatus are subject to intense political machinations, FREEPORT: Terminal MCR is a space to explore art, technology and citizenship in the age of the internet.

Invisible infrastructures such as cryptocurrencies, blockchain and digital citizenship bring the commonly understood roles of borders, nations and governance into question at a crucial point in history. Inspired by free-trade zones (Freeports), new networked geographies, the darknet, and other liminal spaces, FREEPORT: Terminal MCR will address urgent issues shaping the world around us, investigating the ways that emerging technology impacts our social, civic and working lives.

FREEPORT: Terminal MCR invites citizens to participate in critical discussion and to feel inspired and empowered to engage with contemporary and critical culture.

This temporary showcase is sited at University of Salford in MediaCityUK, a location transformed over the last Century from global trade gateway to creative media industry hub.

Featuring newly commissioned artworks and screenings from a cohort of international artists including:
Framing Territories – Geocinema,
Networks of Trust – Kyriaki Goni
CryptoRave – RaveEnabler – !Mediengruppe Bitnik + Omsk Social Club
Europium – Lisa Rave
Banana Island: Block C – Brandon Covington Sam-Sumana

Accompanying the exhibition, FREEPORT: Critical a series of talks, take place on Friday 15 February 2019, unpacking and capitalising on the opportunities for discovery in the artworks. FREEPORT: Critical is curated by Nathan Jones, Lecturer in Fine Art, Digital Media at Lancaster University.

The new works shown in FREEPORT: Terminal MCR will also be on display in a new digital art distribution platform – nnn.freeport.global – which will host underlying research, contextual and reference material of the artworks. Built as an alternative space for the sharing and distribution of content, nnn.freeport.global brings focus to the backstreets, black markets, and divergent parts of the internet to share and debate the value of art.

FREEPORT: Terminal MCR is supported by University of Salford, co-funded with support from the Creative Europe programme and with public funding from Arts Council England.

FREEPORT: Terminal MCR is part of The New Networked Normal (NNN) www.thennn.eu. The NNN explores art, technology and citizenship in the age of the Internet, a partnership project by Abandon Normal Devices (UK), Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (ES), The Influencers (ES), Transmediale (DE) and STRP (NL). This project has been co-funded with support from the Creative Europe programme.

ARTWORKS Fellow Kyriaki Goni, participates in the Living Networks, a talk organised by Transmediale, on January 1, 2019.

ARTWORKS Fellow Kyriaki Goni, participates in the Creating Empathy exhibition at Spectrum Berlin with her project Eternal u.inc. The exhibition is on view fromJanuary 30 to February 8 2019.

In the exhibition Creating Empathy, Spektrum presents works investigating the relation of the self with the other person and, more generally, humans with other life forms. In neuroscience, empathy is defined as the ability to understand and share someone else’s feelings by means of a mirroring effect provided by special type of neurons—mirror neurons—in both animals and humans. This reflective state of feeling-the-other as a means of sustaining the nature of the relation between beings is affirmed via the ongoing evolutionary success of technology.

What if artists created approaches to critically expand this mirroring effect between people by using machines? When do tools and knowledge of technology and science become meaningful enough to catalyze social empathy in new cultural and artistic forms? And could it possible to technologically extend this sense of feeling-the-other to non-human creatures or things?

The exhibition is curated by Alfredo Ciannameo for SPEKTRUM in collaboration with TRANSMEDIALE. Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

ARTWORKS Fellow Giorgos Nikopoulos, with his work Urban OX, participates in the exhibition Performance Rooms 2019 organised by Kappatos Gallery at Saint George Lycabettus Hotel starting Thursday 24 January until Sunday 27 January from 19:00-22:00.

Kappatos Gallery in collaboration with the non-profit organization Pantheon present the exhibition titled Performance Rooms 2019. Now entering its third decade ROOMS is an event which was first organised in 1999. This year, nineteen curators present performers from the visual arts as well as other artistic fields such as theatre, dance, music and multimedia in the rooms of a hotel.

The exhibition aims to systematically present and record contemporary trends and propositions in the artistic field of performance, both in theory and practice. It also aspires to create an essential and fruitful dialogue between the participants, in continuation of previous Rooms events, which have contributed in promoting a large number of artists and curators.

The exhibition is of a non-profit mentality and will take place at the rooms of the St. George Lycabettus Hotel .

Participating Artists: Marilena Aligizaki, Katerina Drakopoulou, GAAM (Konstantinos Gkarametsis) and Anna Papathanasiou, Maria Galazoula, Giannis Gardiklis, Vera Iona (Papadopoulou) and Eliza Krikoni, Roula Karaferi, Spyros Kouvaras, Giorgos Nikopoulos, Artemis Orfanidou, Evgenia Papageorgiou, Iro Papakosta, Marios Stamatis, Vasilis Skarmoutsos and Foteini Alexopoulou, Antigoni Theodorou, Thodoris Trampas, Eleni Tsamadia, Evtixia Tzanetoulakou, ZS Ensemble.

Participating Curators: Domna Gounari, Dio Kaggelari, Nasia Kalamaki, Dora Kechagia, Francesco Kiàis, Alkistis-Maria Kontopoulou, Macklin Kowal, Maria Maragou, Valentini Margaritopoulou, Dimitra Marini, Christina Mot, Simoni Niarou, Vasiliki-Maria Plavou, Nikoleta Prepi, Irini Savvani, Marianna Strapatsaki, Lina Tsikouta, Evtixia (Faye) Tzanetoulakou, Antonis Volanakis, Maria Xypolopoulou.

ARTWORKS Fellows Giorgos Moraitis and Panos Profitis participate in the exhibition of the ASFA – Department of Fine Arts “Graduates 2014-2017 Part 2”, curated by Katerina Tselou. The exhibition runs  17.01.2019-09.02.2019

The Exhibition of the Graduates of the School of Fine Arts is one of the oldest and most established large-scale events in the visual arts in Greece. For many decades, the public is given the opportunity to get to know the work of emerging artists, to meet them and to get a representative picture of contemporary art at the present time.

Our Fellow Kyriaki Goni, participates in the group show Bunker, organised by Athens Intersection 18.01.2018-28.01.2018.

Bunker
From a war shelter, to a “shelter” of ideas

The word ‘bunker /shelter’ did not exist in the Athenian vocabulary. Haven foreseen the clouds of the War of 1936, the Metaxas government designed and implemented a civil protection program, a network of shelters.
‘Bunker’ exhibition takes place in a real bunker shelter located at 33 Praxitelous street, within a modernist building of the second half of the 1930s which remains well preserved in its original form. Within a distinctive atmosphere in which art meets the hidden heritage and history of Athens, 17 artists comment on issues of power, withdrawal, decay, conflict, time and transformation, staging their work as a temporary ‘refuge’ of ideas.

Participating artists: Nikos Artemis, Eleanna Balesi, Kostas Bassanos, Athina Pavlou Benazi, Katerina Botsari, Hrakleia Dede, Kyriaki Goni, Babis Karalis, Anna Maneta, Dimitris Merantzas, Alexandra Nakou, Sofia Ntovoli, Natassa Poulantza, Angelos Skourtis, Kostas Tsolis, Andreas Vousouras, Theodoros Zafeiropoulos.

Curated by: Georg Georgakopoulos
Coordinated by: Fotini Kapiris

Our Fellows Malvina Panagiotidi and Pavlos Tsakonas participate in the group show In Total Light at Allouche Benias Gallery 17.01.2019-31.03.2019.

Allouche Benias is pleased to present the group show “In Total Light”, featuring the work of Stelios Faitakis,Panayiotis Loukas, Malvina Panagiotidi, Vassilis H., Filippos K., Elias Kafouros, Pavlos Tsakonas, Vassilis Karouk, Diamantis Sotiropoulos, Vassilis Markosianand ATH Kids.

Large-scale installations, sculptures and painted works create an expressionistic, and even at times, psychedelic atmosphere that invites us to familiarise ourselves with each artist’s cosmic consciousness, intimate concerns and fantasies. Simultaneous to our authorised submission, forceful images and references of pop culture emerge until we are urgently drawn back to reality and to its uneasy truth.

We become sensitive to the fragile corporeality of Malvina Panagiotidi’s sculptures and Pavlos Tsakonas’ symbolistic painting. We open ourselves up to hybrids of reality: from Faitakis’ saints and sinners to Elia Kafouros’ action figures and Vassili H.’s anthropomorphic creatures. We travel to Panayiotis Loukas’ fantastical places of the subconscious and to Filippo K.’s realistic, sombre landscapes.

The show “In Total Light” comes together to explore freedom from the preconceived. Each character comes to own their idiosyncratic diverse human and bestial qualities, posing as a reminder of a collective social compromise that implicates each human entity.

Petros Moris (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018), participates in the group show Be Water Again, at Korai Project Space, Nicosia.

Exhibition text:

BE WATER AGAIN

Water is between bodies, but of bodies, before us and beyond us, yet also very presently this body, too. Deictics falter. Our comfortable categories of thought begin to erode.
Neimanis, 2012

Streams, lakes, oceans and bodies, waves of thought and fluid movements.Humanity evolution histories out of the sea and our microscopic ancestors. The water percentage in our body. We are water indeed; yet we have to become water again and again. But who are we? This exhibition tries to reflect on what is meant with this first-person plural pronoun. It is interested in a ‘WE’, beyond human, which is living relationally with others, that is constantly becoming.

Moving like water, it brings together artists exploring the dislocation and diminishment of the natural/culture divisions linked to patriarchal histories, observing forms of community between human & non-human agents. By looking at trans-species, cyborgs as forms of multi-becoming that blur categorical distinctions of human/machine or nature/culture, male/female born/man-made, this group show acts as an invitation to think of new kinds of bodies, or non-bodies as mediators of feelings, sensibility and intuition.

It looks back at Dona Haraway’s cyborg myths, inviting us to understand the becoming animal of Deleuze as an allegorical representation for the hybrids we are. The works presented encourage coalitions through affinity and emphasize moments and decisions that this affinity is made possible. It is the animal pack we choose, our dancing bodies, our questioning of nature and science, the monsters we want to be, the molecules we are.

Ultimately, Be Water Again focuses on assemblages, flows and tensions that produce a new social field, breaking the flow of one in relation to another. Entering into “perverse” alliances and creating new forms of connections with tech-others, the exhibition brings to the fore the politics of desire and pleasure of in-between identities, identifications and disidentifications. Distancing itself from the human, it detaches from the heteronormative and patriarchal hierarchies. It takes a closer look at the animals, the plants, the (desiring) machines and the microcosm, and tries to imagine a shift from an anthropocentric way of thinking to one that is tracing of associations with actors/actants that are considered non-human.

Exhibition Duration:
21.12.2018-11.01.2019

Curators:`
Panos Giannikopoulos & Theodoulos Polyviou

Participating artists:
Eleni Bagaki, Maurizio Bongiovanni, Lito Kattou, Orestis Lazouras, George Henry Longly, Theo Michael, Petros Moris, Eleni Odysseos, Anastasia Pavlou, Theo Triantafyllidis

Petros Moris (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018) and Lito Kattou, present ΑΜ, at Radio Athènes, on 19.12.2018.

AM is a zine of literature, poetry and theory that brings together texts which are now in the public domain, constructing an intimate anthology of readings related to each issue’s subject. The first issue, titled Love collects texts originating from antiquity to the mid 20th century. AM is produced in the hours before noon, between Andrea Metaxa and Agiou Markou St, Athens.

Parallel to being a publication project, AM functions as a collaborative workshop for the production of objects. For the launch of Love at Radio Athènes, AM is presenting a series of hand-blown glass vases and lamps, featuring ornamental texts based on freeware online-found fonts, derived from the publication’s titles.

This end-of-the-season evening will be accompanied by the sounds of a mixtape curated by Jay Glass Dubs, inspired by the zine’s texts.

Giorgos Nikopoulos’ film (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018) THE OX, won the LiveTree Award for Innovation In Film, at the IndiEarth XChange Film Festival 2018, in India!

The IndiEarth XChange Film Festival 2018 showcases a meticulously curated selection of rare documentaries, world premieres, contemporary releases, animations, international features, and a compelling selection of short films – providing a platform for both established and emerging filmmakers.

Our Fellows, Ioannis Koliopoulos and Paola Palavidi, participate in the group show The Ruralists at a.antonopoulou.art gallery.

 The exhibition presents 13 artists who live and work outside the major urban centers. The title The Ruralistsdoes not imply a movement nor trend, and certainly not a coherent artistic movement, as in the case of the group Brotherhood of Ruralists, founded in 1975 around the pop artist Peter Blake, which suggested the restoration of a bucolic English landscape as central subject theme in paintings.

The artists of this show barely deal with landscape paintings, although the theme of open landscape runs the exhibition as a fact; however it is not present in every artwork. Away from the urban life and the suffocating dimension of the city, the horizon of the work and the artist are expanding in order to incorporate naturally the everyday practices, imagination, craftsmanship, inventiveness.

 Paintings and sculptures, photographs and installations are created by a plethora of materials and techniques that are related to the environment. All the projects generally avoid the drama without lacking the drama. Time arises as the key question and as a primary value in this group exhibition of artists in Athens, aiming to resemble a sunny rural courtyard during a December day.

The group show is co-curated by Angeliki Antonopoulou and Alexios Papazacharias.

Participating artists:
Petros Efstathiadis, Manolis Zacharioudakis, Katerina Kana, Ioannis Koliopoulos, Zissis Kotionis, Margarita Myrogianni, Apostolos Ntelakos, Paola Palavidi, Alexios Papazacharias, Leda Papaconstantinou, Thanassis Totsikas, George Tsakiris, Alexandros Psychoulis.

Kyriaki Goni (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018) presents a creative workshop for children 9-12 year olds focusing on the human and machine encounter. The workshop will take place on December 15, 2018, 11: 00-13: 00 at 3,137 Artist Run Space.

Do the robots dream, dad?
Are the robots afraid, Mom?

Artificial Intelligence is everywhere; it surrounds us and defines our reality more and more. How do we describe our encounter with this? What is the form we give it? Are there any predispositions and prejudices? Starting from very simple and practical representations we have come to the construction of extremely convincing representations of humanoids. Is there room for other interpretations and approaches? How do children at a younger age imagine artificial intelligence? How would they design it? What features would they give? What sound? What color? Which moves? What kind of communication do they imagine between the human and the machine? Art is always occupied with similar dipoles.

This is a creative research workshop that bridges art with artificial intelligence, critical design with imagination and is aimed at having fun as well as cultivating critical thinking in children.

Rania Bellou (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018) participates in the group show After Babel at the Annex M,  Athens Concert Hall, 05.12.2018-10.03.2019.

The exhibition After Babel, is the second part of the exhibition trilogyThe Unwritten Library, curated by Anna Kafetsi. It focuses on books and texts through their physical, hybrid, or intangible reality.

Objects of desire and main characters in new fictions, books generate enchantment and emotion through the exhibits. They cross paths with the vision and other senses. Through processes both linguistic and conceptual, they open an ambiguous, often hermetic space of reading. The viewer-reader crosses its boundaries to go beyond knowledge and meaning, sometimes even beyond writing itself, into uncharted aesthetic territories.

As a metaphor, the exhibition title paves the way to other metaphors and facilitates an open, unprejudiced reading outside the Canon, through the ignored, forbidden, anonymous, or unwritten pages of the unknown, the excluded, the marginalised, the Other.

Works on view will include paintings, sculptures, installations, and video installations, artists’ books, and web art, some of which will be new productions.

Stefania Strouza (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018) participates in the exhibition Ad Astra at  Pinta Miami, 05.12.2108-09.12.2018.

Mana Contemporary announces Ad Astra, an exhibition curated by Ysabel Pinyol Blasi that takes its title from the Latin maxim Per aspera, ad astra (“Through hardship, to the stars”). A collaboration with Pinta Miami, Ad Astra interrogates the relationship of dedicated hard work and high-flying ambition to big ideas and creative success, often through physically grandiose images and objects. The grand and the visionary resonate here with the downright strange in an inquiry after the nature of human achievement. Featuring works inspired by real and imaginary spaces identified with its makers’ points of origin—many of which are reconfigured for the former soundstage in which they are displayed—Ad Astra revolves around hard-won transitions and surprising results.

Agustina Woodgate’s Milky Ways (2013), for example, takes the form of a gigantic tapestry stitched together from the plush ‘skins’ of stuffed toy animals. In a neat combination of the earthbound and the celestial, it confronts us with an unusually approachable, even cuddly, suggestion of the galaxy’s vast diversity and scale. Pedro Tyler’s Light House (2018) also plays with size, featuring surfaces constructed from the tools we use to calculate length, and in the process questioning how we might ‘measure’ ourselves. And a concern with scale permeates Finnish duo Mark Niskanen and Jani-Matti Salo’s Focal Point (2018) too, as they deploy pinspot lights, a pressure sensor, and a processor designed by open-source company Arduino to launch an interrogation of the otherwise unimaginable magnitude of contemporary solitude.

Artists featured in the exhibition include: Camila Cañeque, Hugo Crosthwaite, Sonia Falcone, Franz Klainsek, Luciana Lamothe, Mira Lehr, Mark Niskanen & Jani-Matti Salo, Graciela Sacco, Raquel Schwartz, Stefania Strouza, Francisca Sutil, Pedro Tyler, Cydney Williams, and Agustina Woodgate.

ARTWORKS Fellow Manolis Daskalakis-Lemos participates in Screen Spaces, a geography of moving image, an exhibition and lecture program within the For the Record series from 1 to 7 December 2018 in New York.

Het Nieuwe Instituut launches the exhibition and lecture series Screen Spaces, a geography of moving image in New York. The program explores video and time-based media, including net art, set-design, animation, video, reportage, music videos, television, CCTV, and social media channels, as sites of reality production and circulation. By examining the material, spatial and political dimensions of the space of the screen and the territories it mediates, Screen Spaces aims to unveil the identities, ideologies and imaginaries that inform video culture today.

Participating artists:
Constant Dullaart, Live Archiving, Sean Monahan, Analisa Teachworth, Shigeko Kubota, with exhibition design by Marlous Borm Co-curated by Agustin Schang, Devin Kenny, Rites Network, Angus Tarnawsky and Jan Bot with exhibition design by Koos Breen and Jeannette Slutter, JODI, Manolis Daskalakis-Lemos, Naime Perrette, Tayyib Ali

Curated by:
For The Record; Vere van Gool, Emma Macdonald

Niki Goulema, Giorgos Palamaris and Vasilis Papageorgiou (ARTWORKS Fellows 2018), participate in the exhibition of the Department of Fine Arts Graduates 2014-2017 Part 1.

Exhibition Dates: 29.11.2018 – 22.12.2018
Visiting Hours: Tuesday-Friday: 12:00-20:00, Saturday: 11:00-15:00
Curated by: Katerina Tselou

Giannis Delagrammatikas (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018) participates in the Five Perspectives exhibition at Kappatos Gallery, 30.11.2018 -12.01.2019.

The Kappatos Gallery presents five contemporary artists with five distinct sections of works. Each section occupies a standalone space, where each artist exhibits part of his recent personal work, which acts as an independent presence in the context of a comprehensive group exhibition.

Giannis Delagrammatikas presents his ongoing project with Ino Varvariti “The willingness to revisit, 2012-2018”. The project starts from the performative process of “collecting” souvenir and takes the form of an installation, exploring the importance of objects as carriers of meaning, as products of exchange or economic exploitation in the context of tourism and cultural practices.

The exhibition aims to promote and highlight the ways in which five contemporary creators approach artistic practices of the present, through different paths and approaches, based on their personal style and way of expression.

Participating artists:
Ino Varvariti, Ino Varvariti/Giannis Delagrammatikas, Lamprini Markou, Panos Famelis, Socrates Fatouros

Anastasis Stratakis (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018) participates in the exhibition At the Beginning Was the Word Concepts – Images – Scrip, organised by The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST) at the  National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), co-curated by Katerina Koskina and Anna Mykoniati.

The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), in the framework of the Year of Cultural Exchanges between Greece and China started a collaboration with the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) with the aim of strengthening transnational relations and intercultural exchange in the field of art between the two countries. After the presentation of the exhibition CHINESE XIEYI: Masterpieces from the National Art Museum of China in Athens at EMST in autumn of 2017, part of the EMST Collection will travel to Beijing. At the exhibition At the Beginning Was the Word. Concepts – Images – Script approximately 80 works of 40 Greek and international artists will be presented at NAMOC from November 28, 2018 to January 17, 2019.

Two important civilizations, Greek and Chinese, contributed to several different levels for the formation of the western and eastern culture. Starting from that point, the exhibition examines the transition from the meaning to writing and the conceit within the speech and the image, with vehicle the international language of art, history, politics, and philosophy. The works of contemporary art are seen as a canal not only of the aesthetics and the artistic tradition but of the historic past as well, compliant by the optics of today.

Participating artists:
Alexis Akrithakis, Nikos Alexiou, Stephen Antonakos, Katerina Apostolidou, John Baldessari, Pandelis Chandris, Stathis Chrisikopoulos, Savvas Christodoulides, Costis, Bia Davou, Pavlos, Iran Do Espιrito Santo, Alexandros Georgiou, Phoebe Giannisi, Gary Hill, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Ilya Kabakov, Yael Kanarek, Yorgos Lazongas, Maria Loizidou, Mateo Lopez, Vlado Martek, Nina Papaconstantinou, Theodoros – sculptor, Rena Papaspyrou, Nausika Pastra, Jannis Psychopedis, Alexandros Psychoulis, Yorgos Sapountzis, Kyrillos Sarris, Angelos Skourtis, Anastasis Stratakis, Chryssa, Dilek Winchester, Pantelis Xagoraris, Georgios Xenos, Vana Xenou, Dimitris Xonoglou, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Vadim Zakharov

Our Fellow Manolis Mavris won the Best Cinematography Award, at the 34th International Short Film Festival Berlin (INTERFILM) competing among 400 movies!