Η Αναστασία Διαβαστή (γεν. 1979) είναι εικαστικός με διεπιστημονική πρακτική που περιλαμβάνει επιτελεστικά, επιμελητικά, κινηματογραφικά και φωτογραφικά έργα. Την ενδιαφέρουν οι κοινωνικές και πολιτιστικές κατασκευές ταυτότητας και συγκεκριμένα ο ρόλος και η εικόνα των γυναικείων ταυτοτήτων και μορφών θηλυκότητας, καθώς και η εξερεύνηση της συμβίωσης, ως καλλιτεχνική και κοινωνική δομή. Ζει και εργάζεται στην Αθήνα από το 2006. Σπούδασε καλές τέχνες στο Λονδίνο, ολοκληρώνοντας το BA (Hons) Mixed Media Art από το Πανεπιστήμιο του Westminster και μεταπτυχιακά τα MA Film, Video και New Screen Media του University of East London, όπου έζησε από το 1999 ως το 2006. Έχει οργανώσει και λάβει μέρος σε εκθέσεις στην Αγγλία, την Ελλάδα και τη Γερμανία. Προσφάτως συνεπιμελήθηκε και συμμετείχε στο Glam Slam!, μια ανοιχτή πλατφόρμα επιτελεστικής τέχνης. Έργα της σε βίντεο έχουν προβληθεί στην Εναλλακτική Σκηνή της Εθνικής Λυρικής Σκηνής και στην Ταινιοθήκη της Ελλάδος. Τον Απρίλιο του 2019 ίδρυσε τον συνεργατικό χώρο STOA FEXI project space στην Ομόνοια, στον οποίο στεγάζεται το νέο της εγχείρημα NTIZEZA, μια πλατφόρμα υποστήριξης, εκπαίδευσης και επιτελέσεων φεμινιστικής τέχνης.
Anastasia Douka is a visual artist working with sculptural media. She believes that everything constructed can break, be reconstructed and then break once again (or at least it has this potential). Douka holds an MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC, USA) as a New Artists Society Trustees’ Merit Scholar and an MA in Digital Arts from Athens School of Fine Arts. She has been resident and visiting artist in Fondation d’Entreprise Hermès (Paris), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Νew York), Yaddo Colony (New York) and Salzburg International Academy (Salzburg). She has been awarded the Toby Devan Fellowship, Chicago and the DESTE Prize, Athens. Selected recent exhibitions and projects include: «The same river twice» curated by Margot Norton, Natalie Bell, organized by DESTE Foundation and New Museum, New York, Benaki Museum, Athens, «Oroboro» curated by 3 137, Alserkal Foundation, Dubai, «It would go» Anastasia Douka & Shana Hoehn, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles, «Les mains sans sommeil» curated by Gaël Charbau, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, «Le Collant_The thing you can’t get rid of» DESTE Prize Anniversary, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, «Animalier with no Τaste for the Sublime» Werft 5, Cologne. Her works can be found in private collections and also in the collection of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens.
Theo Prodromidis is a visual artist and film director based in Athens, Greece. He studied Contemporary Media Practice at the University of Westminster and was awarded an MFA in Fine Arts by Goldsmiths, University of London in 2007. His work has been exhibited and screened in galleries, museums and festivals such as State of Concept, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, 5th and 1st Thessaloniki Biennale, 4th Athens Biennale, Werkleitz zentrum für Μedienkunst, Fondazione Merz. He was a Laureate of the Institut Français residency program at the Cité Ιnternationale des arts with the support of Onassis Foundation, where he started the research for his first feature fiction film and later started the development under the Feature Expanded program with the support of the Greek Film Centre. Since 2017, he has been the curator of the periodical screening series Sunday Narratives, one of the contributors of The School of Redistribution by Future Climates and a volunteer at the Open School for Immigrants of Piraeus. Ηe is a visiting artist under the program Risk Change at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Athens, a member of the Institute of Radical Imagination and a member of Solidarity Schools Network.
Alexandros Tzannis (Athens, 1979) lives and works in Athens. He has graduated from Athens School of Fine Arts and the Academie der Binderkunst in Vienna. He also has an MFA from Goldsmiths College of Arts, London. His work has been presented at the Lulea Biennale (2018), Kadist, Paris (2017), State of Concept, Athens (2017), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012) and Athens Biennale (2009) amongst others. For the last decade, Tzannis has been working in sculpture and drawing, using several different materials. His work combines figurative and abstract elements, symbolic characteristics, decorative and allegorical connotations.
Krini Dimopoulou (1988, Athens) lives and works in Athens. She is a founding member of Arbit City and of the art/fashion label Serapis Maritime. She studied at Athens School of Fine Arts (2007-2012) and at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London.
Solo exhibitions include:
Oil Gargles, The Breeder gallery, Αthens;
Hands On Your Soul, Galerie Ormesson, Paris;
ISLETS, Beton7, Athens
Group exhibitions include:
AHHHHH! REAL MONSTERS!, Clages gallery, Cologne;
Standardized Waters, SECCMA TRUST, Athens;
4th Athens Biennale, Former Athens Stock Exchange, Athens
Vera Chotzoglou is a visual artist working with time based media, living and working in Athens, Greece. She is a graduate of Athens School of Fine Arts (Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master’s Degree of Fine Arts – Department of Visual Arts, Fine Arts & Art Education, 2013-2018). She has studied in Academy of Fine Arts in Munich on an Erasmus+ scholarship, Fine Arts & Art Education (2016-2017) with professors Jorinde Voigt & Stephan Dillemuth. She has participated in various workshops such as «Writing and directing for documentary…» by Robert Rombout, 5th Peloponnese International Documentary Film Festival, Kalamata, Greece (2019), «No questions, please! Interviews as an artistic practice in film and video art» by Antonia Rahofer, Athens School of Fine Arts (2018), «Stay in Touch», Athens School of Fine Arts, (2018), Sound Workshop by Paul Paulon, Studio Jorinde Voigt, Berlin Germany (2017). She was awarded a scholarship from Athens School of Fine Arts (2018), the audience award for the short film «Munich almost killed me ½» at the 2d Piraeus Film Festival (2018) and SNF Artist Fellowship Award from Stavros Niarchos Foundation (2019) She has exhibited internationally at A. Antonopoulou Gallery, Athens, GRRL HAUS CINEMA, Berlin, Hacker Porn Film Festival, Rome, Platforms project, Athens, Foto Wien, Austria, 6th Athens Biennale, Athens, Action Field Kodra, Thessaloniki, 2d Piraeus Film Festival, Bellevedi Monaco, Munich, TAF Gallery, Athens, et al.
Myrto Christou was born in Ioannina in 1992. She received her BFA (2010-2015) in Visual Arts and her MFA in Visual Arts (2016-2018) from the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her work revolves around new digital art forms, installations and sculptures. In her practice, she explores the transformation of the physical to the digital and its conversion into a multilayered physical object. She lives and works in Athens.
Η Ελένη Ξυνογαλά είναι κάτοχος Master of Arts στο Interaction Design Communication από το University of the Arts London. Η εικαστική της πρακτική στρέφεται γύρω από τις παραστατικές και ψηφιακές μορφές τέχνης με τη μορφή περφόρμανς, εικαστικού βίντεο, χορογραφικών και διαδραστικών εγκαταστάσεων. Χρησιμοποιώντας δημιουργικές μορφές τεχνολογίας, δημιουργεί φουτουριστικά σενάρια και θέτει ερωτήματα σχετικά με την επίδραση της τεχνολογίας στην ανθρώπινη εμπειρία. Η πρακτική της επιτρέπει τη συνεργασία του ανθρώπου με τη τεχνολογία, δημιουργώντας ενσυναίσθηση για τη μη ανθρώπινη μορφή.
Aggeliki Bozou was born in Athens in 1982. She graduated from the Master of Fine Arts (2016) and Athens School of Fine Arts (2011). She has also done studies in graphic design and theatre. In 2011 she won the first prize of the Jannis and Zoe Spyropoulos Foundation and in 2019 was awarded by ARTWORKS and is a fellow of the SNF Artist Fellowship Program. With improvisation as a departure point she creates vivid visual actions and videos in the presence of spectators as well as rapid images capturing the moment. Experimenting with the idea of randomness, she tries to configure mental images and constructs paper mechanisms that can produce rudimentary movements. She is a founding member of the experimental music band «The Crabs of Horror» which presents improvised actions, probing how affecting slightly a given structure could be the key element for the creation of a whole project. Her work has been shown in Greece and abroad: Family Business Gallery (New York), Netting the Work Berlin (Germany), Cairo Video Festival (Egypt), Dirty Linen-Family Business Handmade Benaki Museum, Vorres Museum, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens Biennale etc.
Zoi Gaitanidou was born in 1981 in Athens. She is a graduate of Athens School of Fine Arts and she shares her time between Athens and Berlin. She has participated at the show «The Equilibrists» (Benaki Museum Athens, organized by the New Museum, NY and DESTE Foundation, curated by Gary Carrion Murayari, Helga Christoffersen and Massimiliano Gioni and in the 2nd Athens Biennial «Heaven». Her work was included in «Younger Than Jesus», an artist directory selected by the curatorial team of the New Museum and published by Phaidon.
Theodoros Giannakis (1979, Preveza, Greece) is a graduate of Athens School of Fine Arts and of the MFA Program in Digital Media Management at London Metropolitan University in London. He is currently working on a doctoral thesis at the Department of Visual Arts of the Athens School of Fine Arts, on a scholarship from the A.G Leventis Foundation. He has presented his work in solo exhibitions at Union Pacific (London), Eleni Koroneou (Athens), Radio Athènes and SPACE (London) and has taken part in international group exhibitions in art venues, museums and institutions: the New Museum of New York, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Delphi Archeological Museum, Fondazione Prada, Ontario College of Art and Design, V22 Collection, and Futura Center for Contemporary Art. As a member of KERNEL art collective, he has curated exhibitions and events and has lectured on his research at ICA London, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Hellenic Research Foundation and at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
Yorgos Bougiouk is a visual artist. He lives and works in Athens. Ηe is a graduate of Athens School of Fine Arts. His work mainly consists of video art experiments. He has participated in group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
Panagiotis Vorrias was born in Kalamata, Greece, in 1983. He graduated from Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) and obtained Master of Fine Arts (ASFA) with honors. He has participated in more than ten group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. He was a recipient of a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation and a nominee for the HYam prize for Young Mediterranean Artist (2014). In 2013 he participated in National Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition «Afresh» and in 16th Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean with the group Per Se. In 2013 he was co-founder of the art group Per Se. He lives and works in Athens.
Vasileia Dereli lives and works in Athens. Working primarily in video, she explores how liminal spaces affect the transitioning subject, as well as the spatial correlation between virtual and actual space. She received her Degree in Law from the University of Athens (2010) and her BFA in Visual Arts from Athens School of Fine Arts (2015). Her work has been exhibited in Athens, London, Braunschweig, Thessaloniki, Munich and Venice.
Theodora Kanelli was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1988. She studied Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2007-2014) and Fine Arts at the Institut Supérieur des Arts de Toulouse (2014-2015) and at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts de Paris (2015-2018), in the studio of Jean-Michel Alberola.In 2017 she completed the scenography forGaël Octavia’s play «Cette guerre que nous n’avons pas faite», that was presented in Paris and in the Caribbean. Painting is her main medium. For the last couple of years she has been working on the project «Le journal du voyage en mer du héros X», a literary and visual research on the concept of return from a previous life, inspired by a collection of theatrical plays. The core of the project is an invented cartography of abandoned islands and the sea connections among them. Theodora’s last work refers to the invention of a mental game, through which she explores the meaning of «Hybris» and she creates connections between past and present times. Currently she is participating in the team project Jeu et Rituel, yet another game placed in three different times and spaces. In October she is going to participate in two group exhibitions in the La Maison des Ensembles and Le Salon Réalités Nouvelles in Paris.
Maria Varela (Athens, 1984) works as a media artist and workshop designer seeking to develop strategies of collective production. In 2010 she completed her MA in Interactive Media at Goldsmiths College, London. She has presented her work in numerous exhibitions in Greece and abroad, in museums —EMST in Athens, Bozar in Brussels— and in art festivals such as 19th Festival de Arte Contemporânea Sesc_Videobrasil in Sao Paulo, Media Art Biennale WRO in Wroclaw, Siggraph in Vancouver, Ars Electronica in Linz, Transmediale in Berlin, ISWC (International Symposium on Wearable Computers) in Seattle, Piksel in Bergen, Amber in Istanbul, Visual Dialogues (Onassis Cultural Center) in Athens and more. She has organized and taught creative educational programs in primary schools in London (2006-2009) and since 2010 in Athens in collaboration with Onassis Cultural Centre, EMST, Goethe Institut, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation and NEON organization. Between 2010-2014 was co-founder and responsible for the artistic and educational program of Frown, a platform dealing with the production of artistic events of innovative character in the sectors of creative media and performance art, as well as with the organisation of workshops. She lives and works in Athens.
Η Αλεξία Καραβέλα γεννήθηκε το 1985 στην Αθήνα. Είναι απόφοιτος του Τμήματος Πλαστικών Τεχνών και Επιστημών Τέχνης (Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων, 2002-2008) και του Μεταπτυχιακού Εικαστικών Τεχνών της Ανωτάτης Σχολής Καλών Τεχνών (Αθήνα, 2013- 2015). Έχει συμμετάσχει σε πολλές ομαδικές εκθέσεις ως εικαστικός και σε performances με σκηνικά αντικείμενα ή ως σκηνικό αντικείμενο η ίδια. Το σώμα της δουλειάς της παρουσιάζει τη χρήση ποικίλων μέσων και αναφορών αλλά αποτελείται από 70% ζωγραφική.
Η Αλεξάνδρα Κουμαντάκη ζει και εργάζεται στην Αθήνα. Είναι συνιδρύτρια του Hyperlink Athens (2017), μιας ανεξάρτητης κολεκτίβας η οποία εστιάζει στον επαναπροσδιορισμό των εγκαταστάσεων και στην ιδέα του καλλιτέχνη ως επιμελητή. Το κύριο σώμα του έργου της χαρακτηρίζεται από πληθώρα αντιφατικών σημείων ενδιαφέροντος τα οποία συμπτύσσονται και διαμορφώνουν μια συμπαγή δομή. Εδώ μπορεί κανείς να παρατηρήσει την ένωση/αφομοίωση του πανανθρώπινου αρχαίου παρελθόντος με ένα όραμα του μακρινού μέλλοντος: μια χίμαιρα με φλέβες φτιαγμένες από καλώδια, ένα μυστικιστικό μνημείο βασισμένο σε υπολογιστικές θεωρίες και στη μεταφορά πληροφοριών μεταξύ αυτού που κάποτε «ήταν» και σε αυτό που «θα είναι». Από εξωγήινους κόσμους και μυστικούς χώρους μέχρι άγνωστα φώτα στον ουρανό, ο κόσμος της Κουμαντάκη είναι ένας τόπος όπου ο θεατής μπορεί να χάσει τον εαυτό του σε μια in-situ ουτοπία. Εδώ είναι το σημείο συνάντησης της αθέλητης μνήμης του παρελθόντος και του παρόντος με το άμεσο μέλλον.
Η Αναστασία Λάμπρου είναι σκηνογράφος και εικαστικός. Γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα το 1989 και σπούδασε Αρχιτεκτονική στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Bath (BSc in Architecture). Συνέχισε τις σπουδές της στην Ανωτάτη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών της Αθήνας, στο εργαστήριο του Ζ. Ξαγοράρη, όπου ασχολήθηκε κυρίως με την performance και το βίντεο, καθώς και τη σκηνογραφία στο εργαστήριο της Λ. Πεζανού. Έχει πάρει μέρος σε ομαδικές εκθέσεις στην Ελλάδα και στο εξωτερικό όπως το φεστιβάλ «Excentricités VI»στο Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο της Besançon (2015), στην ομαδική παρουσίαση performance «Be/Be/Be» στο Beton7 Arts (2015), στην έκθεση OUT[TOP/AS]: «Περφόρμανς και υπαίθριος/δημόσιος χώρος» στο Μουσείο Μπενάκη Πειραιώς (2016), καθώς και στην ομαδική έκθεση «Hermenaughtics» στο NOTUS Studio (2018). Παράλληλα εργάζεται ως σκηνογράφος και ζωγράφος σκηνικών στον κινηματογράφο, στο θέατρο και στη διαφήμιση, ενώ ασχολείται με τον εσωτερικό σχεδιασμό και την ανακαίνιση χώρων.