Category: Fellows news

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!

Stefania Strouza (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018) participates in the group show Archipelago Mountain at the Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki.

This is a project about landscape as a formal and informal disposition of elements. Coordinates. An arrangement, a hierarchy: borders and de-limitations, transpositions and transgressions, frames and their inside-outside, margins, and of course landscape—of the geographical, political, personal, and emotional nature. Édouard Glissant calls it archipelagic thinking. A group of islands that lends its topography to an alternative imaginary. A reassessment of the insularity of bound cultures, of nation-states, and the heaviness of “continental thought”.

The archipelago is an alternative imaginary, one that posits that identity could be as a conglomeration of islands (composed of many, yet is one).

Oh these little earthquakes, here we go again, these little earthquakes.
Doesn’t take much to rip us into pieces.
(Tori Amos’ Little Earthquakes)

Identity formation, embodiment, complex colonial histories, multiplicity, interconnectedness, diaspora and change — Oh, to dispel the oppressive idea of nationalistic wholeness! This is a project about landscapes.

Participating artists: Jay Mar Albaos (PH/FI), Sherine Anis (EG/AT), Martha Atienza (PH/NL), Katrin Hornek (AT), Henna Laininen (FI), Roberta Lima (AT/BR/FI), Linda Reif (AT), Jaakko Ruuska (FI), Stefania Strouza (GR/AT), Sophie Hirsch (AT/ US)

Curated by: Ana de Almeida & Stephanie Misa

Fotis Sagonas (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018) participates in BREATH, an exhibition curated by Miguel Fernández Belmonte, featuring Greek emerging artists at the Art Thessaloniki International Contemporary Art Fair, 22.11.2018-25.11.2018.

Participating Artists: Dimitris Ameladiotis, Vasilis Avramidis, Konstantinos Fazos, Vana Fertaki, Dimitris Georgakopoulos, Paris Giachoustidis, Christos Lahanas, Dora Oikonomou, Vasilis Poulios, Fotis Sagonas, Aris Stoidis, Nikos Tolis, Alexandros Touliopoulos.

Nefeli Papadimouli (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018), presents her solo show D’ÎLE À ÎLE at 76,4 non profit art space, in Brussels.

Duration: 11.11.2018-02.12.2018

Our fellow Panos Profitis, participates in the exhibition of the first international artist-in-residence programme on installation art, organised  by Eleusis 20121 European Capital of Culture.

The exhibition will open on November 8, 2018, as part of the “Initiator”; under the guidance of this year’s Initiators (mentors), Anne Langlois (40mcube) and Benoît-Marie Moriceau (Mosquito Coast Factory) in Central and Lower Eleusis.

The programme was launched, in the form of a pilot, on October 8, 2018, with a one-week intense workshop, a period of in-situ research and production, culminating with the exhibition.

Initiator activities are concentrated in Lower Eleusis, the port and the industrial zone. During the programme, artists had the opportunity to explore socio-political issues concerning labour and deindustrialization and interact with the local community. The programme provides the opportunity to emerging artists, accompanied by experienced artists and curators, to conceive a project and experiment on small-scale installations.

Participating Artists: Sophie Innmann (Germany), Evi Kalogiropoulou (Greece), Doruntina Kastrati (Kosovo), Hortense Le Calvez (France), Panos Profitis and Despina Charitonidi (Greece)

Our Fellow, Alexis Fidetzis, participates in the Taxi Driver Poetry Workshop takin place within the context of the 6th Athens Biennale ANTI, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Athen.

The Taxi Driver Poetry Workshop has been conceived as an experimental and unpredictable language “class” at GiGi, a space dedicated to Greek-German love and togetherness. Through a guided tour following the flow of “German Traces”, the workshop will end up at Esperia Palace for inhabiting the space with poetic moods and performative attitudes. Language teachers, students, administrative staff of the Goethe Institute, and visual artists, will coexist considering the means of interpreting a poem through an artwork and vice versa. Based on the German-Greek stereotypical constructions occupying the Athenian streets, we will attempt to approach and poeticize our “speech” and that of the taxi drivers of our heart.

Participants: Amalia Charikiopoulou, Marios Chatziprokopiou, Alexis Fidetzis, Eva Giannakopoulou, Matthias Jakus, Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki, Dimitris Soudias, The Flower Girls, Eleftherios Varlamis Stefas, Markella Xilogiannopoulou.

Alexandros Kaklamanos and Orestis Mavroudis (ARTWORKS Fellows 2018), take part in the  exhibition of the Artists in Residence Program by Eagles Palace (ARP) which takes place every year in Ouranoupoli, Halkidiki.

This year, in its fourth edition in May 2018, the focus of the ARP was on the moving image. Eight visual artists and filmmakers were hosted at Eagles Palace where they experimented with the medium, covering a wide range of practices of the moving image.
The exhibition is organized by Eagles Palace and curated by Aliki Tsirliagkou.

Participating artists: Alexandros Kaklamanos, Esmeralda Momferratou, Emma Doxiadi, Dimitris Foutris, Elias Mamaliogkas, Virginia Mastrogiannaki, Orestis Mavroudis and Sofia Simaki.

Our Fellows Zoe Giabouldaki, Malvina Panagiotidi, Nefeli Papadimouli and Valia Papastamou, participate in the Caritas Romana group show, on the occasion of the 59th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

This year, the festival selects the International Competition films guided by caritas romana / roman charity, a classical yet lesser-known art theme that inspired numerous artists through time. It is the story of a woman, Pero, who secretly breastfeeds her aging father Cimon, who is sentenced to die by starvation, and thus restores his strength. With this noble deed, Pero goes beyond herself, her body and her social role as mother and daughter. This special transition and role variability is common ground in the films of the International Competition section, in different ways.

Based on the “caritas romana” concept, TIFF invited 15 young Greek artists to watch the films of the IC section, become inspired and create 15 original works for each one of them. These works will be presented for the first time in the exhibition organised by TIFF in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Centre of Thessaloniki, with the support of NEON Organisation. The participating artists are: Dimitris Ameladiotis, Dimitris Efeoglou, Zoe Giabouldaki, Elias Kafouros, Anastasia Mina, Malvina Panagiotidi, Nefeli Papadimouli, Valia Papastamou, Kostas Pappas, Alexandra Petranaki, Hara Piperidou, Lysimachos Polychronidis, Nana Sachini, Babis Venetopoulos, Ioanna Ximeri.

Curator: Orestis Andreadakis
Coordination: Thanos Stavropoulos
Opening: 03.11.2018, 18:00

Aegean Datahaven, a work by Kyriaki Goni (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018), is going to be presented in three different shows in Arnhem, London and Utrecht.

• The exhibition, Hidden Structures, organized by Oddstream in Arnhem, 11.10.2018-14.10.2018. Hidden Structures presents works which uncover the hidden, expose power dynamics in digital technologies and show us an alternative future. Hidden Structures takes place in an inherent hidden network: the historic medieval cellars of Arnhem.
• The exhibition Data and Art, organized by Mozfest, in London, 22.10.2018-28.10.2018. Mozfest, is a celebration for, by, and about people who love the internet, showcasing world-changing ideas and technology through workshops, exhibitions, talks, and interactive sessions.
• The exhibition Algorithmic Superstructures, organized by IMPAKT, in Utrecht, 24.10.2018-11.11.2018. The IMPAKT Festival 2018 explores the architecture behind algorithmic super-structures. What hidden realities and new imaginaries do algorithmic superstructures uncover in the post-truth era? Algorithmic Superstructures offers a diverse programme of art, technology and media culture.

The 24th Athens International Film Festival  celebrated Greek cinema with the Awards of the Greek Short Films Competition.

At the award ceremony taking place at Danaos cimena, the Artistic Director of the Festival, Loukas Katsikas, and the Director of Greek short films, Panos Genas, welcomed the committees and the participants! ARTWORKS Fellows Eirini Vianelli, Giorgos Nikopoulos and Jacqueline Lentzou were among the awardees.

Awards:

Special mention to George Nikopoulos for “The Ox”

Special mention by the Committee
“Icebergs” by Eirini Vianelli

Best Film Award
“Hector Malot – The Last Day of the Year” by Jacqueline Lentzou

Our Fellows Eirini Vianelli and Giorgos Nikopoulos take part in the 11th Animasyros International Animation Festival!

George Nikopoulos presents his film THEOX at the Feature Competition Section Audience Prize, at Pallas Cinema, 20:00.

Eirini Vianelli presents her film Icebergs at the Student Competition Section III, at the Apollo Theater, 19:00.

The International Animation Festival + Agora of the island of Syros is the largest festival and market of its kind in Greece and one of the 20 most important globally. It started in 2008 and it is annually held in the capital of Cyclades, the neoclassical town of Hermoupolis. The festival comprises screenings, tributes to international animation festivals, artists and studios, media literacy activities for children, youngsters and adults, parties and tons of parallel events.

Duration: 26.09.2018-30.09.2018

Our fellow, Kyriaki Goni, takes part in the exhibition  Focus Locus organized by Action Field Kodra.

Action Field Kodra visual arts festival, one of the most prominent international art events in Greece, is organized every year by the City of Kalamaria as part of ‘Para thin’ alos’ festival and aspires to promote young artists and experimental, innovative artistic practices.

This year, Action Field Kodra stands its ground for 18th consecutive time, showcasing works and in situ projects from the local and international artistic scene. Opening will take place on Sunday 16.09.2018 at 20:00 in the Dorms building of the ex-military camp.

Under the title “Focus Locus” this year’s exhibitions will renegotiate the concept of locus as well as a wide range of issues associated with it, such as displacement, relocation and settlement, focusing also on the history of the region of Kalamaria and of the camp itself. Moreover, cyberspace, digital history and digital memory will also be addressed

Exhibition Duration: 16.09.2018 – 26.09.2018

Artistic Director:
Dimitris Michalaros

Main Curators:
Anthi Argyriou
Panagis Koutsokostas

Invited Curator:
Rena Pitsaki

Participating artists:
Zoi Antoniadi, Ellada Acheriote, Elena Chatziathanasiou, Vera Chotzoglou, Christina Dimakogianni, Julia Gorostidi, Ifigenia Ilia-Georgiadou, Borislava Georgitseli, Maria Kalathaki, Angie Korona, Andriana Koymentakou, Thomas Lioutas, Dimitra Mitsaki, Xrysa Panagiotidou, Marina Papadaki, Apostolis Philippou, Evangelia Raftopoulou, Katerina Sarisava, Vangelis Savvas, Charis Spanoudi, Zoi Theodorou, Alexandra Tsitsinta, Elina Verykiou, Chu Yun-Tien, Chrysa Zafeiropoulou, Zannis Bafaloukos, Babis Venetopoulos, Kyriaki Goni

Nefeli Papadimouli takes part in the group show (ΑRTISTS) AGAINST EGO curated by Palette Terre, at Enterprise Projects.

Exhibition Text:

To be an artist is to consider that the world as it is is not enough. It is to consider that we do have a say. It is also to consider our point of view as a starting point to look at the world, to take a stand. We think that all of these considerations start from a conception of a « me » as a being knowing oneself is thinking; a being full of ego.

Philosophy has been interested in the εgo ever since Descartes; Descartes first considered the ego as a thought-provoking subject. Then, Sartre distinguished the “me” from the Εgo: “The Εgo is not the owner of consciousness, it is the object of consciousness.”

In many religions and beliefs the ego is considered as a confinement: believing that we know who we are.
Each artist has his or her own practice. Everyone tries to make a living out of his art, everyone tries to find a way to exist as an artist. For this purpose, everything is allowed: we want to exist, we want to say, we want to live. We believe that the art world forces the artist to sell himself as an incredible, surprising, inevitable person. If he wants to exist, the artist must assert his ego.

We do know we have ego. That’s probably one of the reasons we’re artists. But what to do?

Can we for one exhibition, use our ego for something other than personal success? Can we, for one exhibition, set aside the injunction to succeed and propose another model of success?

Prticipating artists: Camille Blatrix, Bastien Cosson, Anouchka Oler,
Nefeli Papadimouli, Anastasia Pavlou, We Are the Painters

Duration: 29.09.2018 – 13.10.2018

Our fellows Eirini Vianelli and Jacqueline Lentzou participate at the Greek Short Film Competition Section of the 24th Athens international Film Festival!

Eirini Vianelli presents her film Icebergs on Friday, September 21, 18:00, at the Odeon Opera. Based on the book “Scenes” by award-winning screenwriter Efthymis Filippou (“Dogtooth”, “The Lobster”, “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”), Icebergs is an existential, dark comedy consisting of 14 short vignettes, ranging from the mundane to the absurd.

Jacqueline Lentzou presents her film Hector Malo: The Last Day of the Year, on Monday, September 24, 17:15, at Danaos 1.
Film Synopsis: New Year’s Eve dawns in a moon-kissed car, and Sofia has a dream that she tells no-one: while walking on a desert, she gets to know that she is sick. She pretends she does not care. Has she lost heart?

The Athens International Film Festival Opening Nights, was founded by the Athens Film Society with the intention of highlighting lesser-known aspects/genres of independent cinema, introducing audiences to some of the best productions of the year and establishing itself as the ideal opening of the upcoming movie season. The Festival was launched in September 1995 and continues successfully until now.