Fellow Field: Visual arts

NICOLE BAIRAKTARI

Nicole Bairaktari studied painting and sculpture (with professor George Lappas) at Athens School of Fine Arts. In 2015, she was accepted at the Postgraduate Studies Program («Design-Space-Culture») of the National Technical University School of Architecture from which she graduated with honors. She is currently a PhD Candidate at the Department of Fine Arts of Athens School of Fine Arts. Her artistic practice as well as her theoretical research interests revolve around the creation of a cross-disciplinary field of artistic activity where the sculptural treatment of space intersects with video-installations mixing time-based digital media, creating paratheatrical scenes, staged and captured in film and presented/exhibited as large-scale videographic «tableaux vivants». In the latter, the «body» plays a central role being defined as a purely audiovisual phenomenon (an audible/visible appearance), a set of fragmented bodily postures, accentuated gestures and ambiguous flexions. Since 2008, she has participated in group exhibitions, workshops and conferences in Greece and abroad.

VALINIA SVORONOU

Valinia Svoronou (b. 1991 Athens) is an artist based in Athens and London. She graduated from Slade School of Fine Art (MFA Sculpture 2015) and Athens School of Fine Arts (BA Painting 2013). In 2016 she had her first solo show, «The glow pt 2, gravity regimes», in Berlin’s Frankfurt am Main project space. She co-organized the Ambiguity Symposiums presented at The Showroom Gallery, The Slade School and Enclave in London. In the same year she showed work at Benaki museum in Athens as part of the show «The Equilibrists» co-organized by the New Museum and DESTE Foundation. In 2017 she created and launched her first artist publication based at Space Studios, now available at the ICA bookshop London and showed new work at the Showroom Gallery commissioned by the Arts Council UK. In 2018, showed her work in Prague’s Futura gallery as part of the Group show and publication curated by Lukas Hoffman; in Italy, at Foothold projects space as part of a group show curated by Christina Gigliotti; in Lesvos as part of a group show curated by Nikolas Vamvouklis; in a solo show with Hot Wheels Projects as part of Art Athina. This year, she participated in the ICA self publisher’s fair in London, was part of the Ephemeral Dinner series with Tjorg Douglas Beer, curated by Yulia Belousova in Berlin’s Haus am Lutzowplatz, and screened new moving image work in Haus N Athen. Recently, she was part of the group show «The Same River Twice», curated by Margot Norton and Natalie Bell organised by the DESTE Foundation and the New Museum, and showed one of her films in the screening program of Art Athina.

ANASTASIA PAVLOU

Anastasia Pavlou (born in 1993) lives and works in Athens, Greece. She graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts in 2017 with Jury Honours. She is participating in the 2nd SNF Artist Fellowship Program of ARTWORKS. In 2019 she had her first solo show called «belly ache» at Hot Wheels Projects, Athens. Selected group shows include: «The Same River Twice», group show at Benaki Museum Athens, co-curated by the New Museum, NY and DESTE Foundation, Athens. «Image Drum», Royal Academy, London, «Schmaltz», at Guimaraes Vienna,«Be Water Again», curated by Panos Giannikopoulos and Theodoulos Polyviou at Korai Art Space, Nicosia.

CHRISTOS PAPASOTIRIOU

Christos Papasotiriou (Chalkida, Greece 1989) has a Μaster’s in Visual Arts «In Situ» (Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, 2015-2017) and an Integrated Masters in Fine Arts (Athens School of Fine Arts, 2009-2014). He is currently an awardee and fellow of ARTWORKS (SNF Artist Fellowship Program). He was also awarded the prize «In Situ 2017», the 1st Prize «Redesign Paardenmarkt» project and the NEON grant in 2015-2016. He has participated in various workshops and exhibitions such as: 2019 «Epitopou», Residency (Greece)-2015 «In Situation», Workshop (Portugal) – 2013 «Time and Movement», Workshop (Greece)–2012 «Everything Flows», Workshop in association with Bauhaus University (Greece) 2019 «Mushroom Soup», Performance, Athens School of Fine Arts (Athens)-2018 «Multiplied», Group show, Troebel Neintje (Antwerp)-2018 «Affordable Art Fair», Tour and Taxis (Brussels)-2017 «To Be», Solo Show, Gallery 88 (Antwerp)-2017 «Articulate #2», Research Project, Koninklijk Conservatorium (Antwerp)-2016 «Me Here Now», Antwerp Art Weekend, In collaboration with the art spaces: Lokaal 01, BRDG, L Edition Populaire, (Antwerp)-2016 «De Lange Nacht», Group Show (Antwerp)-2015 «Error», Group Show, Action Field Kodra (Thessaloniki)-2015 «G. Vizyinos Eis tin Polin», Group Show, Zografeion Lyceum (Istanbul)-2014 «Wear and Tear(?)», Group Show, Metamatic Τaf(Athens).

EVA PAPAMARGARITI

Eva Papamargariti graduated from the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly with a ΒΑ in Architecture (2012). She holds a Master Degree in Visual Communication Design from Royal College of Art, London (2016). Her practice focuses on time-based media, printed material and sculptural installations that explore the relationship between digital space and material reality. She is interested in the creation of 2d/3d rendered spaces and scenarios which provoke narrations based on the obscure simultaneous situations unfolding in a quotidian frequency on the verge of digital and physical environments, blurring the boundaries between these «ecosystems». Her work delves into issues and themes related to simultaneity, merging and dissolving of our surroundings within the virtual, constant diffusion of fabricated synthetic images that define and fragment our identity and everyday experience, as well as the symbiotic procedures and entanglements that take place between humans, nature and technology. Furthermore, processes that are established through online presence, the traces that our operations inscribe onto the objects and habitat where we find ourselves, through our continuous interaction with devices and mechanic artifacts. She has exhibited her work in cities like, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Berlin, Seattle, Amsterdam, Shanghai, Toronto, Montreal, Athens in institutions museums and festival: the New Museum (New York), Whitney Museum (New York), Tate Britain (London), MAAT Museum (Lisbon), Museum of Moving Image (New York), MoMA PS1 (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Montreal), Αrs Electronica (Linz), Athens Biennale, Thessaloniki Biennale, Transmediale Festival (Berlin)

MARIA NIKIFORAKI

Maria graduated from Athens School of Fine Arts in 2012, where she received the Spyridon Vikatos Foundation Scholarship Program 2013. In 2015 she completed her Master’s degree at the MFA in Fine Arts Program at Goldsmiths College in London. In 2019 she received the ARTWORKS Fellowship Award (SNF Artist Fellowship Program). Maria has participated in numerous exhibitions, collaborative events, workshops and festivals, among those the Criss Cross 2 Event, Artist-On-Artist Convergences, supported by ASFA, Isba-Besançon and Cold Mountain, the «Learning From Documenta» art workshop, part of the International Anthropological Conference, supported by Athens School of Fine Arts and the Anthropological Research Laboratory – Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens 2017, the performance event «GOMENES» part of the Athens Biennale 2015- 2017 «OMONOIA», the Latitude Festival Big Screen 2015 and 2014 Film Festival, London, England, the Performative Labour-ism Performance Festival In the context of MPABerlin 2014/ Month of Performance, Berlin, Germany, the Performance »Voyage 3» Film Festival 2013, Helsinki, Finland, «Excentricités 3» Performance Festival 2012, Besançon, France, 3rd Art Biennale MIET, Thessaloniki 2011.

 

 

VIRGINIA MASTROGIANNAKI

(2019) reading in/reading out, Old Parliament House/National Historical Museum, a production of MOMus, with the support of Outset Contemporary Art Fund (Greece)

(2018) Communion / Tune II, with Georges Patronas on music editing, Kapani project, Thessaloniki

(2017) mensuration of stars, «Shared Sacred Sites«, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece ~ like me, CHART Art Fair, annaelle Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark ~ Staircase, «paradoxically paradoxes», curated by Greg Haji Joannides, Sterna Art Project residency, Nisyros, Greece ~ L’enfer c’est l’Autre, «The Right To Be Human», curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos, Harry Savopoulos, Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art & Goethe Institut of Thessaloniki.

(2016) jargon, «As One», curated by Paula Garcia & Serge LeBorgne, NEON+MAI (Marina Abramovic Institute), Benaki museum, Athens ~ holy book «Typography as an act of art», curated by Maria Tsantsanoglou & Syrago Tsiara, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki.

(2015) I need your attention, «Globale Control and Censorship», curated by BernhardSerexhe,ZKM, Karslruhe, Germany ~ passive voice, 5th Young artists’ workshop «Romance», curated by Areti Leopoulou, Yeni Tjami, Biennale of Thessaloniki.

(2014) Savoir Vivre, curated by Nikos Mykoniatis, Thaleia Stefanidou, 24th International Istanbul Art Fair Municipality of Thessaloniki Pavilion, Turkey.

MARGARITA BOFILIOU

Margarita Bofiliou (1979, Athens) lives and works in Athens. She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art, London, where she studied on a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation. She has been awarded the Spyropoulos Award and the National Magazine Award. In 2004 she was artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts.

Solo shows include: «Everything’s wrong», «Xerxes», «State of Concept» Athens, «Blue eyes on route to the best brothel of paradise», Athens, «Trypanosome», Margarita Bofiliou and Juliette Blightman (duo) Athens. Selected group shows include: «State (in) Concepts», Kadist, Paris, «Jump Ball», Dio Horia, Mykonos, Greece, «The Equilibrists», Benaki Museum, Athens, «Innate Memories», State of Concept Athens, «Cabinets of Miracles-Zone D», Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens, «ReMap2» (IBID Projects), Athens, «Alpha Exotica», Hydra School Projects, Hydra, Greece, «The Lobby», IBID Projects, London, «True Romance», «The Breeder», Athens, «Satellites (i-cabin baggage)», Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, «60 Seconds», Southwark Gallery, London, «New Contemporaries 2004», (Liverpool Biennial) & The Barbican, London. In her work she deals with the confusion, loneliness and the structural violence that the subject experiences.

 

MARIA TSAGKARI

Maria Tsagkari lives and works in Athens. She studied Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art at the Technological Εducational Institute [TEI], graduating with honors in 2005; her graduation dissertation was on the work of Alexis Akrithakis. She worked as art restorer for the National Gallery of Athens and for private collections. In 2006 she enrolled at Athens School of Fine Arts. In 2007-2008 she attended the Facultad de Βellas Αrtes in Madrid on a state scholarship. She graduated from the ASFA in 2010 and continued at the postgraduate program in Visual Arts, graduating in 2012. Since 2012 she has been working as a lecturer at Athens School of Fine Arts. Her works have been exhibited internationally receiving awards such as the 2014 HYam award for the young Mediterranean artistic scene (Paris). Selected exhibitions: «AQUA», Contemporary Artists and Water Issues, SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo, Brazil; «STANDART», 1st Triennial of Contemporary Art in Armenia; «Coup de Ville», Triennial of Contemporary Architecture, Belgium; 4th Biennale of Contemporary Art, «Everywhere but now», Thessaloniki; «A fresh, A new generation of Greek Artists», National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens.

YORGOS YATROMANOLAKIS

Yorgos Yatromanolakis lives and works in Athens and Crete. He works on long-term photography projects and turns them into books, experimenting with storytelling, different materials and design. He has published three books, «Roadblock to Normality», «Not Provided» and «The Splitting of the Chrysalis & the Slow Unfolding of the Wings». His work has been presented and awarded in Greece and abroad, among others at PhotoEspaña, Festival Circulation(s), Aperture Gallery, Mattatoio-Roma, Belfast Photo Festival, Voies Off–Arles, Athens Photo Festival, Felifa Festival, Tbilisi Photo Festival, Istanbul Photobook Festival, Odessa Photo Days, Month of Photography Los Angeles etc. He has received the Foam Talents 2020 Award and he is also an awardee and a visual arts fellow ofthe ARTWORKS SNF Artist Fellowship Program. He is co-founder of the artist-run space «Zoetrope» and contributor editor of «Phases» Magazine.

APOLLONAS GLYKAS

Apollonas Glykas (b. Athens) studied photography at Leica Academy and graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts with honors (2011). He has shown his work in Greece and abroad and has been awarded by the National Post Bank (2009), Panathinaikos FC (2010), IOAS Institute for road safety (2010), Hellenic Railways Organisation OSE- Code Rail Art (2017: his artwork will feature at a central train station). His solo exhibitions include: «Past the plasmatic oasis», Nicosia, Cyprus, 2014; «Showcase», the Office Gallery, Nicosia, 2011, «Buildings», Casa Maccheroni, Milan, 2004. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions such as: «Omega to Alpha», Bathhouse of the Wind, 2019, «Rarities», Photagogos, 2019, «Pillow Gravity», Ekfrasi Gallery, Athens, 2018, «Picture this», the symptom projects, Amfissa, Greece, 2017; «[un]known destinations», chapter I, former Zarifi Residence, Kypseli, Athens; «To express the feelings of a chair when we sit on it», The office gallery, Nicosia, 2016, «The eye and the finger», Cartabianca Arles, France, 2015. His work encompasses sculpture, installations, painting and photography. He collaborates with architecture firms developing installation projects. He has been working as a photographer since 2000 and a teacher of drawing and painting since 2010.

ANTHI DAOUTAKI

Anthi Daoutaki is a visual artist. She works with various media: video, text and an array of objects. She studied at Athens School of Fine Arts and at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. She creates installations which function as peculiar diaries that explore the subjectivity of time and the essence of presence. The need to explain the world from a feminine point of view is the focal point in her work. For the most part, text is assigned the role of the narrator of her stories while image functions as a set, a decor and background. She was resident at the University of Quebec (Canada) and participated in several workshops and group exhibitions in Greece and Europe: in Gallery R3 (Canada), Melina Merkouri (Hydra), Artscape (Athens), Projekt Galeria (Budapest) and Action Center Kodra (Thessaloniki). She was a nominee for the best foreign video in the Tent Academy Awards (Rotterdam). She lives and works in Athens.

CHRISTINA DIMAKOGIANNI

Η Χριστίνα Δημακογιάννη γεννήθηκε το 1992. Σπούδασε Καλές Τέχνες στην Ανωτάτη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών (2012-2018), με καθηγητή τον Γεώργιο Χαρβαλιά, από την οποία αποφοίτησε με άριστα. Το 2014-2015 σπούδασε Καλές Τέχνες, με υποτροφία Erasmus, στο Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem, της Ουγγαρίας. Το 2019 βραβεύθηκε από την ARTWORKS και είναι Fellow στο Πρόγραμμα Υποστήριξης Καλλιτεχνών Ίδρυμα Σταύρος Νιάρχος. Το 2019 συμμετέχει στο No Budget Film Festival στην Αθήνα, στη SUBMERGED στη Σαντορίνη, στο GRLL HAUS-Pop Up Video Art Show στο Βερολίνο, στο Platforms project 2019, στην Αθήνα, στο AConversation between material and immaterialστο Παρίσι και στο 5ο Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Ντοκιμαντέρ Πελοποννήσου, στην Καλαμάτα. Το 2018 πήρε μέρος στο Inshort film festival στο Λάγος της Νιγηρίας, στο FOCUS LOCUS του Πεδίου Δράσης Κόδρα στη Θεσσαλονίκη και στο 2ο Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου Πειραιά όπου σε συνεργασία με τη Βέρα Χοτζόγλου κέρδισε το βραβείο κοινού για τη μικρού μήκους ταινία «Munich Almost Killed me 1/2». Το 2017 συμμετείχε στο Sotiris Felios Collection στην Αθήνα, στο Jahreaustellung στην Ακαδημία Καλών Τεχνών του Μονάχου, στο 1ο Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου Πειραιά, στο Video Art Mηδένat TWIXΤlabστην Αθήνα και στο If it was you… στην Καλαμάτα, ενώ το 2016 στο Φεστιβάλ Μηδέν στην Καλαμάτα. Την ίδια χρονιά, η ταινία «Όταν ο λύκος δεν είναι εδώ» σε συνεργασία με τη Βέρα Χοτζόγλου και παραγωγή του ΚΕΘΕΑ, συμμετείχε στο Berlin Student Film Festival και προβλήθηκε στο 1ο Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου Πειραιά, στη Στέγη Γραμμάτων και Τεχνών και στην Ένωση Ελλήνων Αρχαιολόγων στην Αθήνα. Το 2012 εξέθεσε στο Κέντρο Χαρακτικής «Ήλιος» στη Θεσσαλονίκη. Ζει και εργάζεται στην Αθήνα.

 

 

OLGA EVANGELIDOU

Olga Evangelidou was born in Athens in 1988. She is a graduate of the Visual Arts Department at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2006-12), where she continued her studies in the master’s program (2014-2016), with an Onassis Foundation Scholarship (2015-16). Between 2012 and 2014, she attended classes at the Fashion Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In 2011 she was awarded the first prize at the contest of New Fashion designers (Next Generation) at the 14th Athens Fashion Week. Dress plays a significant role in her work, as if it proves the existence of the imaginary characters she creates. Since 2017 she is a Ph.D. Candidate of the Theory and History of Art Department at the Athens School of Fine Arts and since 2019 she receives a scholarship from the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (“2nd Call for H.F.R.I. Scholarships for Ph.D. Candidates”). Her dissertation, under the supervision of the Associate Professor of European History, Ada Dialla, focuses on the history of dress and the beauty standards in the late 18th and early 19th century in the islands of the Aegean sea.

DIMITRIS EFEOGLOU

Dimitris Efeoglou (born in 1986) graduated from the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Department of Fine and Applied Arts. Holds a Master in Fine Arts in Athens School of Fine Arts. He has had three solo exhibitions: at Lola Nikolaou gallery ”Latitudes” in the framework of the two-person exhibition with Dimitris Ameladiotis, Thessaloniki, GR (2019), at Zoumboulakis gallery ”SUBSTRATUM” in the framework of the two-person exhibition with Despina Flessa, Athens, GR (2016), and at Lola Nikoalou gallery ‘Facsimile’ Thessaloniki, GR (2016). His work has been included in group exhibitions such as: ”POISONS” curated by Apostolis Artinos, The Symptom 10, Amfissa, GR (2019) ”CARITAS ROMANA – 15 ACTS OF DEVOTION” Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art, curated by Orestis Andreadakis, (2018) ”THE MATERIALITY OF THE PAINTERLY EVENT” City of Athens Arts Center, curated by Denys Zacharopoulos, Athens, GR (2018), ”Of Death And Other Demons” CAN Christina Androulidaki gallery, Athens, GR (2018) ”IDENTIFYING LOSS” The Symptom 07, Former Hospital of Amfissa curated by Niki Papaspirou – Kostas Christopoulos, Amfissa, GR (2016), ”AGORA & GABE – GESPENSTER DER GASTFREUNDSCHAFT” Curated by Sofia Panteliadou, Daniela Chailtsl National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation (MIET), Thessaloniki, GR (2014) ‘DISORDER’ (WEYA), Lakeside Arts Center, Nottingham, UK, curated by Marco Trulli, Claudio Zecchi (2012).

 

ANTONIS THEODORIDIS

Antonis Theodoridis is an Athens-based artist, working in the medium of Photography. He is a Fulbright Foundation scholar and holds a Photography MFA degree from the University of Hartford, USA. His practice is a mixture of traditional analogue photography along with digital processes, research, collage, and printing. Using large-format view cameras, he depicts places and people producing sharp in detail and rich in colour pigment prints. Following a road trip across the Western States in 2014, his work Newspaper from the American West was published in Greece by Agra Publications. Through his studio work, he critically examines how archival images reflect and shape western culture, emphasising the notions of cultural bias and the limits of historical knowledge. His process aims to reinvent context and meaning through collage and installation. In 2018, collaborating with the MNHA Museum in Luxembourg, he produced his work Unknown Relics / Relics of the Unknown, a still-life project exploring blind spots of museological practice by employing and photographing museum artefacts of unknown origin. His work has been presented in Greece and abroad and can be found in the collections of the EIB Institute, the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and the Municipal Gallery of Thessaloniki.

 

EVI KALOGIROPOULOU

Η Εύη Καλογηροπούλου σπούδασε στην Ανωτάτη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών της Αθήνας και ολοκλήρωσε το μεταπτυχιακό πρόγραμμα του Royal College of Art, Moving Image Path. Έχει συμμετάσχει σε διάφορες εκθέσεις και προβολές στο Λονδίνο, τη Γερμανία και την Ελλάδα, όπως το Μουσείο Μπενάκη, τη Whitechapel Gallery και την Chisenahale Gallery στο Λονδίνο. Προσφάτως, συμμετείχε στην έκθεση «The Same River Twice» στο Μουσείο Μπενάκη, που διοργάνωσαν το ίδρυμα ΔΕΣΤΕ και το New Museum NY. Επίσης χρηματοδοτήθηκε από την Ελευσίνα – Πολιτιστική Πρωτεύουσα της Ευρώπης 2021 για την πραγματοποίηση του έργου της «Motorway6» με την υποστήριξη του ιδρύματος Ρόζα Λούξεμπουργκ. Το 2018, η ταινία της «Neighbours» προβλήθηκε στη Whitechapel Gallery και στο BFI στον διαγωνισμό Tenderflix, που διοργάνωσαν το British Film Institute και η Tenderpixel Gallery. Έχει συμμετάσχει σε residency όπως στο Somerset House Studios. Στην πρακτική της χρησιμοποιεί εγκαταστάσεις, έργα κινούμενης εικόνας, πειραματικές ταινίες και γλυπτά. Τα έργα της διερευνούν ιδέες όπως η ένταξη και ο αποκλεισμός, η διαπολιτισμική ταυτότητα, οι γυναικείες μορφές στο πλαίσιο της αρχαίας ελληνικής μυθολογίας και τα sci-fi περιβάλλοντα.

KATERINA KOMIANOY

She studied sculpture with George Lappas and Nikos Navridis at Athens School of Fine Arts (2013-2018). From 2008 to 2011, she studied interior design at Vakalo School, Athens.

She has participated in group shows: 

2017: Gestalt Hydra school projects curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis 2017: integral II, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis, Ileana Tounta and Galini Lazani
2018: Graduation show at ASFA
2019: «The Same River Twice: Contemporary Art in Athens», Benaki Μuseum curated by Natalie Bell, Margot Norton, organized by DESTE Foundation and New Museum

 

DIMITRA KONDYLATOU

Dimitra Kondylatou lives and works in Athens. She studied at the Dutch Art Institute and the Athens School of Fine Arts. She is interested in the limits of art and its interaction with tourism, economy and everyday life, as well as in practices, gestures and responses in contexts of hospitality and exchange. In the process of artistic research, she experiments with various media and forms, including narrative videos, video essays, digital drawings and projects of hospitality. From 2015 to 2017 she organized, curated and hosted The island-resignified, an artists-in-residence project at the neion guesthouse where she was working as a tourist hostess (2012-2018). In 2017-2018 she was part of the organizational and artistic board of TWIXTlab in Athens. Since 2008 she has participated and organized group exhibitions, workshops and conferences in Greece and abroad, some of which are: «Mountain Fringes» (Greveniti Residency, GR, 2019), «Dishmapping» (ASFA, Panteion University, 2018, 2019), «Weasel Dance» (Goethe Institut, Athens, 2019), «Ideology Meets Implementation» (W139, Amsterdam, 2017), «Learning from Documenta» (Αthens, 2016-2017), «Dialoghi di video-arte tra memoria e archivi» (Rome, 2013), «Rooms 2013 and Rooms +» (Αthens, 2013), Action Field KODRA, (Thessaloniki, 2011, 2012), «Canon HT6» (International Test Site (ITS)- Z1 Ritopek, SRB, 2011).

KAROLINA KRASOULI

Karolina Krasouli was born in 1984 in Athens, Greece. After studying Clinical Psychology in Greece and in France, she enrolled in the National School of Fine Arts of Lyon, where she obtained her degree in 2014. Working with painting, photography and film, the images she produces lie in the intersection of abstraction and figuration. Through the process of reading and writing, she extracts a set of operations where she transcribes meanings and sensations without the support of language. Her works aim closer at representing optical phenomena related to memory and language, than providing an immediate grasp of an image or an object. In 2013 she worked as an assistant for Moyra Davey, a photographer, essayist and filmmaker, and participated in the making of her short-film Les Godesses, a visual essay on Jean Genet. In 2015, she became a founding member of Alfabeto, a non-profit organization which organized a series of talks, exhibitions and lectures on the concept of transmission in art theory and practice at the French Academie in Rome, Villa Medicis. She presented her work at Ateliers de Rennes, 5th edition, Incorporated! (2016); galerie Raymond Hains, Saint-Brieuc (2016); Eva Meyer, Paris (2017); Frac Bretagne, Rennes (2018); Daily Lazy, Athens (2018); Pauline Perplexe, Paris (2018); Frac Bretagne, Rennes (2019); La vitrine, Frac île-de-France Le Plateau, Paris (2020).