Event Category: Talks

“Reading Istanbul”: Nikolaos Akritidis will be in conversation with Serra Yentürk, director of SAHA Association

On Wednesday, December 17th at 18:30, independent curator Nikolaos Akritidis will be in conversation with Serra Yentürk, director of SAHA Association. Following a six-week residency in Istanbul as part of the ARTWORKS – SAHA curatorial exchange, Nikolaos returns with new reflections on the city – its public spaces, cultural rhythms, and the stories embedded in its urban fabric. Together with Serra, they will explore what it means to “read” a city, moving from everyday encounters to the literary histories that shape Istanbul’s identity. Nikolaos will also present Periodical Observations, his new editorial project centered on artist writing and the histories of spaces where coffee and tea are served.

Reading Istanbul offers a vivid glimpse into the city’s dynamic cultural scene, including impressions from the opening phase of the 18th Istanbul Biennial. Don’t miss this engaging talk that brings research, place, and creative practice into dialogue.

Nikolaos’s residency is part of the long-standing partnership and ongoing curatorial exchange program between ARTWORKS and SAHA. 

Learn more about Nikolao’s residency here.

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Nikolaos Akritidis in conversation with Serra Yentürk, Director of SAHA Association
Wednesday, December 17, 18:30
ISET – Valaoriou 9A, Athens
Open to the public | Free admission

Curator’s Talk by Panos Fourtoulakis & Screening: everynight

Happy to kick off 2026 with Panos Fourtoulakis talk about his project everynight supported by the 2025 ARTWORKS Grants program. The presentation will take place at the Greek Film Archive (Tainiothiki) on Monday, January 19 at 7:00 pm. After his intro, a screening program will follow featuring the works Panos selected for the project, which were presented across different cinema venues in Athens during last December.

Panos Fourtoulakis is an Athens-based curator whose curatorial and research practice explores how media shape subjectivity and examines the interplay between liveness, embodied presence, and mediation – particularly in relation to moving-image practices.

everynight invited artists from Athens and across the world 🌍 (France/Lebanon, Germany, India, Iran/Canada, Palestine, USA) to present moving-image works of up to 5 minutes, drawn from dreams- whether experienced or imagined.

Participating artists: Shaheen Ahmed, Eleni Bagaki, Shadi Habib Allah, Sky Hopinka, Katerina Komianou, Simon Lässig, Manolis D. Lemos, Bahar Noorizadeh, Valentin Noujaïm, Louiza Ntourou, Lydia Ourahmane, Leslie Thornton, Eleni Tomadaki.

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Curator’s Talk by Panos Fourtoulakis
Screening of moving-image works from the project everynight
Monday, January 19 | 7:00–9:00 pm
Greek Film Archive (Tainiothiki)
Iera Odos 48 & Megalou Alexandrou 134–136, Athens

More info about everynight here

PIERRE MAGENDIE and NICOLAS VAMVOUKLIS : a dialologue

On Sunday 15 February, following the performance of DA LULU, Pierre Magendie will be in conversation with curator Nicolas Vamvouklis about how the new work was conceived and staged: from the earliest try-outs and practical choices to the relationship between choreography, performance, image and sound. Starting from the Greek word “lolò” (approximately “fool”), they will explore what it means today to drift outside the norm, when the absurd can start to feel like the rule, and how this shift translates into a live stage presence. The conversation will also open onto KTC, the platform co-founded by Magendie, where dance meets comedy, sewing and music.

More information about the performance DA LULU here.

DA LULU is supported by the 2025 ARTWORKS Grants program funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and other individual donors.

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PIERRE MAGENDIE and NICOLAS VAMVOUKLIS : a dialologue
15 February, 2026 | 21:00
Μ54, (Menandrou 54, Athens)

 

ARTIST TALK: IRIS TOULIATOU “condition, contingencies, contradictions”

ARTWORKS invites you on Wednesday, 18 February 2026, at 18:30, to a public lecture by visual artist Iris Touliatou, titled condition, contingencies, contradictions, which will take place at MAMMOT (Sina 52, Athens).

Iris Touliatou explores the relationships between social structures and people’s practices and raises questions on the conditions of artistic production and the institutional frames within which it exists. Often responsive to the place and context of their exhibition, her works examine infrastructures, affect, and entanglements between artwork, institution, and their social and material dynamics.

Following her recent exhibition Shifts at Kunstverein München, supported by the 2025 ARTWORKS Grants, Touliatou will address the conditions, contingencies, and contradictions at stake through recent exhibition case studies: projects operating at institutional thresholds, experiments in self-instituting, and moments of institutional absorption or failure. The presentation considers what artistic practice depends on, what it claims autonomy from, and how these relations shift under present conditions.

Iris Touliatou’s lecture is part of the ARTWORKS Grants 2025 program, designed to provide financial support to artists and curators for the development of artistic proposals that promote contemporary cultural production. The program aims to foster creativity, and showcase contemporary Greek art both nationally and internationally. The hosting of Iris’ talk at MAMMOT takes place within the framework of ARTWORKS’ collaboration with other cultural institutions. MAMMOT was founded in 2025 by Myrto Grapsa (ARTWORKS Dance Fellow 2022) as an open space dedicated to contemporary art, hosting exhibitions, performances, and artistic projects that move between the visual and performing arts.

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Artist’s Talk → Iris Touliatou: conditions, contingencies, contradictions
Wednesday, February 18, 2026 | 18:30
MAMMOT (Sina 52, Athens)

ΑΤΗΙΝΑ KOYMPAROULI IN CONVERSATION WITH DAPHNE DRAGONA

On Wednesday, February 25, Athina Koumparouli will present her project Deep Sea, Deep Time, currently on view at the Kochi Biennale in Kerala, India. Moderated by curator Daphne Dragona, the conversation will trace the project from its initial questions and field research through the development process, material choices, and final installation, highlighting archaeological methodology as a tool for artistic research in site-specific works, with particular emphasis on materiality as a carrier of narrative.

The project draws parallels between Muziris—an ancient trading port—and the submarine cable systems running beneath Kochi’s shores today, which carry digital data along former colonial routes. Inspired by the recent retirement of one of the largest submarine internet cables landing in Kochi, Koumparouli approaches its submerged remains as material traces of our digital present—fragments that may one day guide future researchers back to histories of exploitation, extraction, colonial infrastructures, and environmental impact.

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ΑΤΗΙΝΑ KOYMPAROULI IN CONVERSATION WITH DAPHNE DRAGONA
February 25 | 18:30
ΜΑΜΜΟΤ (52 Sina, Athens)

CURATOR IN RESIDENCE TALK: RAPHAEL FONSECA

Join us this Thursday for a curatorial talk by Raphael Fonseca, moderated by curator and ARTWORKS Program Coordinator Panos Giannikopoulos.

In this presentation, Fonseca will discuss his recent curatorial projects, with a particular focus on the 14th Mercosur Biennial, held last year in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The talk will also explore aspects of the curatorial process and reflect on the role of the curator today, followed by a conversation with the audience.

Raphael Fonseca is Curator and Head of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art at the Denver Art Museum. A Brazilian-born curator and writer, his practice explores the circulation of images across temporalities and geographies. He has curated major international projects and currently serves as curator of the Taiwan Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

Fonseca’s residency is part of the ARTWORKS Athens Curatorial Residency (A/ACR)—an initiative designed for international curators and art writers seeking to engage meaningfully with Athens’s contemporary art scene.

Learn more about Raphael Fonseca and A/ACR here

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Curator in residence Talk: Raphael Fonseca
Thursday, March, 12 2026 | 18:30
A.S.F.A. (Library Auditorium)
*The discussion will be held in english 

“Hacking Conventions”, Francesco Urbano Ragazzi in conversation with Marina Fokidis

The conversation between ARTWORKS Curators in Residence Francesco Urbano Ragazzi (FFUR) and curator, writer, and institution-builder Marina Fokidis will place particular emphasis on curatorial practice as a tool of political insubordination: a perspective that also reflects the affinities between them, both theoretically and through past collaborations. The conversation will focus on strategies of hacking conventions adopted by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi in order to create short circuits between social realities and artistic operations. The talk will focus in particular on a series of projects curated by the duo related to the valorization of queer heritage, the reappropriation of public space, and their recent research on rethinking national exhibition formats in times of resurging nationalisms.

Francesco Urbano Ragazzi is in residence to the ARTWORKS Athens Curatorial Residency (A/ACR) for May & June. FInd more information here.

Hacking Conventions is hosted at the Athens School of Fine Arts (A.S.F.A.) as part of ARTWORKS Partnersprogram, which aims, through collaborations, to create opportunities for professionals in the field of contemporary art and to strengthen the role of contemporary artistic practice within cultural life. The collaboration between ARTWORKS and A.S.F.A. involves the Master of Fine Arts program of the School, as well as the PhD Program (Third Cycle of Studies) of the Department of Fine Arts (D.F.A.) This partnership is part of a broader strategic and long-term effort toward inter-institutional collaboration, aiming to reinforce the connection between artistic research and professional practice in the contemporary cultural sector, and to promote initiatives of academic, research, and artistic exchange.

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Hacking Conventions
Curators in Residence Talk
Francesco Urbano Ragazzi in conversation with Marina Fokidis
June 17,  2026 | 18:00
Library Auditorium, Athens School of Fine Arts (A.S.F.A.)
Pireos 256, Ag.Rentis

 

ILIOVASILEMATA, SOFIA DONA

We warmly invite you to a site-specific presentation of ILIOVASILEMATA, an ongoing project by Sofia Dona, taking place on Thursday, 2 July, at 20:00, at A’ Limanakia, the very site where the work is being developed and enters into dialogue with the surrounding landscape.

This public presentation forms part of the project’s research process while the work is still in development. It opens the evolving work to a collective experience of observation, discussion, and reflection, creating space for new readings that may further inform its trajectory.

About the project
ILIOVASILEMATA explores two contrasting landscapes along the Athenian Riviera: The Ellinikon, Europe’s largest urban redevelopment project, and the rugged coastal cruising site of Limanakia. Developed over the course of one year, the project brings these two landscapes into dialogue, examining how different forces shape access, desire, and public space.

More about the work
https://art-works.gr/project/iliovasilemata/

Location
Καντίνα του Λευτέρη, A’ Λιμανάκια / Lefteris’ Canteen, A’ Limanakia

Transportation
Στάση Λεωφορείου Α’ Λιμανάκια / Bus Stop A’ Limanakia
Στάση Λεωφορείου επιστροφής / Return Bus Stop: Α’ Λιμανάκια
Last bus departs at: 23:40

Drinks and refreshments will be available at Lefteris’ Canteen throughout the evening.

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ILIOVASILEMATA
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Site-Specific Presentation
Thursday, 2 July 2026 | 20:00

 

REVERB. Performing the Archive of Motherhood

What happens when motherhood ceases to function as an image and resonates as an experience? When care, exhaustion, desire, and interruption leave traces that do not fit into the archive but insist on being heard?

Reverb: Performing the Archive of Motherhood is a sound performance that moves between artistic research in contemporary art archives in Greece and personal testimony. A collage of personal memories, theoretical excerpts, voices and images that compose a performative narration in dialogue with visual artworks and archival traces.

Approaching motherhood not as an institution but as an unstable field of relationships, memory, and political negotiation, Reverb questions how the gaze and the ear shift to a space where contradictions, desires, absences, and discontinuities can be heard. Like an echo moving between the individual and the collective. Between the familiar and the historical. Between personal experience and the multiple forms of maternal heritage.

The work continues the artist’s long-standing artistic and academic research on the convergences between archive and performance, exploring how gesture, sound, and voice can redefine absence and institutional memory. Drawing on the artist’s recent experience of motherhood, the performance revolves around time, care, interruption, exhaustion, and the creative process, shedding light on the interplay and  tension between them.

Concept/Text/Performance/ Sound Design: Maria Sideri
Dramaturgical Support, Production Assistant, and Video Slides: Seta Astraiou-Karydi
Vocal Coaching: Maria Thoidou
Recording and sound engineering: Orestis Benekas

Acknowledgments to the archives, institutions, and individuals who contributed to the project’s research process: EMST, ISET, the National Gallery, the Benaki Museum, AMOQA, and Delphys; Athina Karathanasis, Evi Mitsopoulou, Eleni Gaiti, Tina Pandi, Natasha Tsaropoulou, Vasiliki Daniel and Polina Kosmadaki, Lydia Matthews,Christoforos Marinos, Charis Kanellopoulou, Leda Papakonstantinou, Lefki Christidou, Mantalina Psoma,  Irini Efstathiou, and Maria F. Dolores,  Paky Vlasopoulou and Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Yria Chorianopoulou, Giannis Xatziaslanis and Hypatia Vourloumis.

REVERB. Performing the Archive of Motherhood. is supported by the ARTWORKS Grants, funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and other individual donors.

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REVERB. Performing the Archive of Motherhood.

May 29 & June 3, 2026 | 19:00
Library, National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum
Entrance: 1 Michalakopoulou, 116 34

LIQUID JUNCTIONS / MEDITERRANEA 19 X ARTWORKS

ARTWORKS, with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), partners with the Biennale of Young Artists – MEDITERRANEA 19 – School of Waters , joining the Expanded Public Program Digital Swamp which will take place in various Mediterranean cities. The aim of this Program is to activate a network of discussions and actions around the thematic School of Waters. Specificatlly, ARTWORKS will support the SNF ARTWORKS Fellows who have been selected to take part in the Biennale (Ionian Bisai, Eva Papamargariti, Valinia Svoronou and Chara Stergiou) by organizing two events entitled Liquid Junctions.

 

On Wednesday, May 19th, at 6 p.m. (local time), ARTWORKS will be hosting an online event which will be livestreamed at mediterraneabiennial.org and through the School of Waters Youtube account. Two separate conversations will take place between the guests speakers Ella Finer and Chuz Martinez, the participant artists (Eva Papamargariti, Valinia Svoronou and Chara Stergiou) and members of the curatorial group of Biennale, Panos Giannikopoulos and Angeliki Tzortzakaki, aiming to activate a network of discussions and actions around the thematic School of Waters.

Watch the conversation here:

On Friday, June 4, at 7 p.m. local time, ARTWORKS will hold a public event at the SNFCC Dome in order to support and showcase the work of all SNF ARTWORKS Fellows selected to participate in the Biennale (Ionian Bisai, Eva Papamargariti, Valinia Svoronou and Chara Stergiou). Liquid Junctions will include a DJ lecture by Hara Stergiou; a performative reading by Quinn Latimer and presentations of the works of Eva Papamargaritis, Valinia Svoronou and the artistic duo Latent Community (Ionian Bisai and Sotiris Tsiganos).

Between May 15 and October 31, 2021, MEDITERRANEA 19 School of Waters will be presenting the work of 70 artists from 21 Mediterranean countries for the first time in San Marino. The MEDITERRANEA 19 School of Waters envisions the Biennale as a collective tool for deconstructing stereotypes stemming from the Eurocentric interpretation of the Mediterranean basin, focusing particularly on the material and symbolic nature of water from a geopolitical as well as an ecological perspective. It is an invitation to discover anew the fluidity that has turned the Mediterranean basin into a versatile habitat in which various life forms and knowledge-production processes have coexisted for centuries.

The participating artists place the focus on ecofeminism and examine the major ethical and economic roots of environmental issues. Inspired by mythology, science fiction, contemporary history and examining the matter through the prism of complex marine ecosystems, they challenge human superiority and navigate the notions of feeling and thinking in more-than-human worlds.

Chara Stergiou’s interdisciplinary practice develops at the junction between epistemological research and artistic practice. Stergiou’s DJ Lectures are hybrid narrative techniques for disseminating stories, geographies, and identities based on non-locality and can be seen as sonic, almost radiophonic, events to be transmitted through the lens of a deviated ethnomusicology.

Eva Papamargariti uses time-based media, printed material and sculptural installations to explore the relationship between digital space and material reality. Papamargariti focuses on the dialectics of fluidity, motion, as well as the relationship between bodies and the traces they leave behind as they float, sink, disperse, get cast in and out of water.

The work of the artistic duo Latent Community (Jonian Bisai and Sotiris Tsiganos) combines fieldwork and moving image to tackle contemporary judicial, social and ecological issues. The duo aims to create conceptual and emotional experiences through which a more equal and sustainable future may be imagined. Their research focuses on the critical reading of non-canonical stories and examines the ways in which these become embedded in new contexts.

Valinia Svoronou’s practice includes text, moving image, augmented reality applications, publications, prints and sculpture. Using references from science fiction and mythology, she navigates alternative ways of remembering or narrating stories from a non-dominant perspective.

 

As part of Liquid Junctions, guest poet and critic Quinn Latimer will hold a performative reading based on her work The Samos Lecture (Like a Woman: Essays, Readings, Poems). Combining live performance and the written word, Latimer’s work examines issues of genealogy and influence, the poverty and privilege of place, as well as feminist economies of writing, reading, and art-making. She will also present her film How to Move Like the Ocean (Liquefaction, Lubrication & Expansion in Twelve Easy Steps), created in collaboration with Temitope Ajose-Cutting in 2020. In this work, the two artists ask a series of questions, for example: in times of isolation, what do we lack? How do we learn? What is a body, and what is a body of water?

The Mediterranean Biennale 19 School of Waters, organised by BJCEM – Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée and the Republic of San Marino will present from 15 May to 31 October 2021 the works of over 70 artists from 21 different countries, hosted for the first time by the Republic of San Marino.

Senior Curators: Alessandro Castiglioni, Simone Frangi
Curatorial Team: Denise Araouzou, Giulia Colletti, Panos Giannikopoulos, Giulia Gregnanin, Theodoulos Polyviou, Angeliki Tzortzakaki and Nicolas Vamvouklis.

The Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs General Secretariat for Vocational Education, Training, Lifelong Learning and Youth in Greece as well as the Municipality of Thessaloniki, Directorate of Culture are founding members of BJCEM and support the participation of Greek artists and curators in the Biennale Mediterranea 19.

More info: https://mediterraneabiennial.org/

Liquid Junctions: MEDITERRANEA 19 Young Artists Biennale – School of Waters x ARTWORKS | SNFCC

Free entry by online pre-registration.

Watch Liquid Junctions here:

“WITH EARTH IN MIND”: Α SERIES OF TALKS CURATED BY DAPHNE DRAGONA

 

What changes when the focus of artistic and curatorial practices is the planet itself? How are projects, exhibitions and events created with and for the Earth and its ecosystems? What role can art play in addressing the climate crisis and asserting climate justice?

With Earth in Mind featured art professionals whose work has been created with and for the Earth and its ecosystems, and with the aim of provoking discussions and raising awareness around environmental issues. The series of talks was curated and moderated by Daphne Dragona, independent curator and member of the 5th SNF Artist Fellowship Program Selection Committee.

With Earth in Mind included the following talks:

Artist Talk: Mikhail Karikis, Monday / March 27th, 17:00-19:00, Romantso
Curator’s Talk: Lucia Pietroiusti “A letter from America (Thoughts on ecological practice)” / Thursday, April 27th, 17:00-19:00, Zoom
Design Talk: El Hadi Jazairy, Architect and Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, co-founder of the research practice DESIGN EARTH / Thursday, May 25th, 17:00-19:00, Zoom

Curated by Daphne Dragona, curator and writer

 

 

Public talk by curator Alper Turan organized by ARTWORKS at ISET

ARTWORKS invites you on Monday, June 2, 2025 at the Institute of Contemporary Greek Art (ISET) for Alper Turan’s curatorial talk titled Curating Undetectable.

Alper Turan is currently in Athens for a six-week curatorial exchange program, organized by ARTWORKS and implemented in collaboration with the Istanbul based organization, SAHA Association. During his residency, Alper has been immersed in the local art scene through an intensive program of creative encounters and studio visits with artists and peers in order to meaningfully engage with the local art scene. His residency will culminate with this public talk during which he will reflect on his experience in the city and in relation to his curatorial practice which unfolds across diverse social and cultural contexts in the US, Canada, Germany, Turkey, and now Greece.

During his presentation, Curating Undetectable, Alper will discuss his curatorial trajectory, focusing on projects that have emerged as responses to censorship, institutional violence, and restrictions on freedom of expression, primarily in Turkey and internationally. Drawing on specific examples of exhibitions in Istanbul, New York, Rotterdam, and elsewhere, he will explore how curatorial practice can open space for alternative public discourses and collective forms of knowledge production. In his words:

“In contexts where (queer) lives are regulated into hypervisibility or coerced into disappearance—where visibility is weaponized, the public is unsafe or complicit, and art fails to communicate—undetectability, whether viral, aesthetic, or strategic, becomes both a constraint and a form. I treat curating as a practice of undoing—not only of curatorial authority, care, and control, but also of the expectations placed on curating to produce straight narratives, educate publics, protect institutions, or safeguard objects”.

Alper Turan’s talk is part of the ARTWORKS Connects program, which aims to strengthen the international presence of the Greek art scene through curatorial and artist residency exchanges. This residency program is co-funded by SAHA and ARTWORKS. ARTWORKS’s participation is made possible through the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

Learn more about Alper’s residency here.

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Curator in Residence Talk
“Curating Undetectable” – Alper Turan
Public Talk | Free Admission
Institute of Contemporary Greek Art (ISET)
Valaoritou 9A, Athens

 

 

ARTWORKS inaugurates its collaboration with ISET by hosting the event ANTI-passive Performances: PAT Pethnos Live @ ISET

How do we face the multitude of losses and the rhetoric of despair, the multitude of disasters and crises that surround us locally and internationally? How can we manage loss and grief to turn it into “joyful militancy”?

On June 13th, ΑRTWORKS invites the Temporary Academy of Arts (PAT) at ISET to present though a live event farasi.zine#3, the zine of the Department of Architecture and Engineering of the University of Thessaly, named “Pethnos: a research artistic program by PAT or the third generation that mourns, suicide”.

The event draws on PAT’s methodology and examines critical concepts of our era by inviting creators and theorists to respond both in terms of research and artistic practice. In this case, the live event acts as a collective response to the content of farasi.zine #3 or to the very concept of Pethnos, and will feature artists some of whom have been featured in the issue and some of whom have been supported by ARTWORKS. 

Participating artists:
Phoebe Giannisi, Katerina Komianou, Valia Papastamou, Chara Stergiou, Thodoris Chiotis

* Katerina Komianou, Valia Papastamou and Chara Stergiou are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows

** Phoebe Giannisi, Chara Stergiou, Valia Papastamou, Marios Chatziprokopiou, and members of the editorial and curatorial team of farasi.zine and PAT belong to the academic community of the University of Thessaly

The live event of farasi.zine #3 “Pethnos: a research artistic program by PAT or the third generation that mourns, suicide” is part of ARTWORKS Partners and the first public event showcasing the creative “cohabitation” of ARTWORKS with ISET.

The program is made possible with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly (ARCH UTh).

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PAT Pethnos Live @ ISET
farasi.zine #3
Free Admission
Friday, June 13 2024, 18:30
ISET, Valaoritou 9A, Athens 

PUBLIC TALK BY CLARISA APPENDINO ORGANIZED BY ARTWORKS AT A.S.F.A.

ARTWORKS invites you on Wednesday, October 29, 2025, at 18:00 to the Library Auditorium of the Athens School of Fine Arts (A.S.F.A.) for the presentation of curator Clarisa Appendino’s  practice, titled “Fragmenting Obsolescence.” Following the presentation, the discussion with the audience will be moderated by curator Eva Vaslamatzi.

The curator and educator Clarisa Appendino is in Athens for the month of October as part of the curatorial exchange program organized by ARTWORKS in collaboration with BIENALSUR (Argentina) and FRAC Corsica (France). During her stay, Clarisa is participating in an intensive program of studio visits and meetings with representatives of the local art scene, aimed at conducting field research and building connections within the artistic community. The residency program will conclude with her public talk at the Library Auditorium  of the Athens School of Fine Arts (A.S.F.A.).

More specifically, in her talk “Fragmenting Obsolescence”, Clarisa will present an overview of  her ongoing research, which involves the relationship between contemporary gleaning and collecting practices and the contemplation of materials and objects as a way to fragment imposed obsolescence. As a curatorial project, these topics will be featured in various exhibitions produced within the framework of BIENALSUR 2025.

Clarisa Appendino’s talk is part of the ARTWORKS Connects program, which aims to strengthen the international outreach of the Greek art scene through curatorial residency and exchange initiatives.

The curatorial exchange program is co-funded by BIENALSUR, FRAC Corsica, and ARTWORKS. ARTWORKS implements the program with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

Clarisa Appendino’s talk is hosted at the Athens School of Fine Arts (A.S.F.A.) as part of ARTWORKS Partners program, which aims, through collaborations, to create opportunities for professionals in the field of contemporary art and to strengthen the role of contemporary artistic practice within cultural life. The collaboration between ARTWORKS and A.S.F.A. involves the Master of Fine Arts program of the School, as well as the PhD Program (Third Cycle of Studies) of the Department of Fine Arts (D.F.A.) This partnership is part of a broader strategic and long-term effort toward inter-institutional collaboration, aiming to reinforce the connection between artistic research and professional practice in the contemporary cultural sector, and to promote initiatives of academic, research, and artistic exchange.

Learn more about Clarisa’s residency here.

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Curator in Residence Talk
“Fragmenting Obsolescence” – Clarisa Appendino
Moderator: Eva Vaslamatzi
Open to the public | Free admission
Wednesday, October 29, 18:00–20:00
Library Auditorium, Athens School of Fine Arts (A.S.F.A.)

PUBLIC TALK: PRISCA MESLIER @ ASFA

We invite you to Prisca’s Meslier curatorial talk, moderated by our dear fellow and curator Eva Vaslamatzi. Prisca is currently the ARTWORKS Curator-in-Residence and during her conversation with Eva, she will reflect on her residency in Athens and how she has been experiencing the city as a Mediterranean laboratory shaped by artistic engagements, collective and nonprofit initiatives, and dynamic circulation. Drawing on encounters with the emerging local scene, the discussion will explore how myth, heritage, and vernacular knowledge inform contemporary artistic and curatorial practices.

The talk, “Currents of the Mediterranean: Notes from an Athenian Residency,” will also touch upon island-related perspectives and the shared cultural currents that influence curatorial approaches grounded in dialogue, situatedness, and interconnected geographies. Prisca’s residency is part of the curatorial exchange program between ARTWORKS (Greece) and FRAC Corsica.

Learn more about Prisca’s residency here.

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Public Talk | Prisca Meslier
“Currents of the Mediterranean: Notes from an Athenian Residency”
Thursday, November 27, 2025, 19:00
A.S.F.A. (Library Auditorium)