Vassilis Papageorgiou (born in 1991) is a visual artist who lives and works in Athens. He completed his studies at the School of Fine Arts οf Athens (2014) and his Master’s degree in Fine Arts at St. Luca School of Arts in Brussels (2016). In 2018 he took part in the 1st support project ARTWORKS of Stavros Niarchos Foundation. In 2016 he was artist-in-residence at the Rupert Residency in Vilnius, Lithuania, and in 2015 at the Camden Arts Center in London. He has shown his work in seven solo exhibitions in Athens, Milan, Brussels and Antwerp and has participated in various group exhibitions in Greece and abroad: ”The Same River Twice: Contemporary Art in Athens”, curated by Margot Norton and Natalie Bell at the New Museum and DESTE Foundation at the Benaki Museum in Athens (2019), ”Flashing and Flashing” curated by Il Colorificio at the MAXXI Museum in Rome (2019), ”Constellations in the Dirt”, curated by Irene Kalliga and Fanis Kafantaris, organized by NEON and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades at the Kouphonisi Archaeological Collection (2018), ”Abracadabra”, curated by Lucrezia Calabro Visconti, at Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2018). He is the co-founder of ”Enterprise Projects”, an independent art space that opened in September 2015 in Athens.
Malvina Panagiotidi (1985, Athens) studied Architecture at the University of Thessaly and continued with postgraduate studies in the “Art in Context” program at the Universität der Künste in Berlin with the support of the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). She has been awarded the Jannis Spyropoulos Prize (2016). She has presented her work in museums and art exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Selected exhibitions: “Constellations in the Dirt”, organized by NEON and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades, the Kouphonisi Archaeological Collection; “It Was Evening All Afternoon”, “You Can not Hide For More Than Seven Years” Project Space (Athens); ” Acropolis at the Bottom”, Athens School of Fine Arts (Athens), “Heartburner”, Dio Horia (Mykonos), “The Equilibrists”, Benaki Museum (Athens)-in collaboration with DESTE Foundation and New Museum, New York, “Hypnos Project”, Onassis Cultural Center (Stegi, Athens), “The predictions of a one-night king”, Chalet Society (Paris); “A Monument to the First Homosexual Emancipation Movement”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, (Berlin). She has worked in architectural design of exhibitions such as: “Paratoxic Paradoxes”, Benaki Museum (Athens); “Monster” by Jannis Varelas, Onassis-Stegi (Athens). Since 2009 she has been a founding member of the artist research team Saprofyta.
Foteini Palpana (1984) is a visual artist and art educator living in Athens. She holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Athens, as well as a BFA and MFA from the Athens School of Fine Arts with a scholarship by the Onassis Foundation.
In her art practice, she elaborates on different kinds of relationships with categories of the natural environment, such as the geological space and the landscape. She produces installations in which she combines sculpture, video, photographic archives, prints, and drawing. In her videos and video-mediated performances she often works on her increasing interest in the relationship between the producer’s body and the sculptural object.
Between 2011 and 2020 she was a member of the group Campus Novel, with artistic and curatorial activity, workshops, collaborations, and participation in artist-in-residence programs.
Giorgos Christophoros Palamaris was born in 1986 in Leeds, England. In 2009 he studied Marble Crafts at the School of Fine Arts in Tinos (Greece). Τhen, he received a scholarship to study sculpture at the School of Fine Arts in Athens. In 2012-2013, as a fellow of the Erasmus program, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Valencia, Spain. In 2014-2015 he participated in the Circuits and Currents project space of Fine Arts, as administrator of the space and collaborated with the School of Fine Arts of Munich, Germany. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts in 2015. In 2018 he was awarded by ARTWORKS (Stavros Niarchos Artist Fellowship Program) and selected by BJCEM Βiennale to participate in an international Residency program in Puglia, Italy. He is a founding member of the music collective Petra Luna and has collaborated with various teams and project spaces. In recent years he has worked for the Ministry of Culture and the École Française d’Athènes (EfA) in restoration and excavation programs. He has had two solo exhibitions and has participated in group shows in Greece and abroad. He lives and works in Greece and in Switzerland.
Paola Palavidi is a visual artist. She lives and works in Athens and on Tinos island. A graduate of the department of Painting at the Central Saint Martins College School of Art and Design (2007), she has had a solo exhibition (Common Knowledge, GR, 2015) and has participated in group exhibitions with works dealing with an imaginary fusion of nature, technology and human psychology. In addition to her own practice, she creates multimedia installations and artworks with the pseudo-company Ηypercomf that she has co-founded (2017) and with which she has exhibited and participated in art events in Greece and abroad (‘’Constellations in the Dirt’’, GR, 2018; ‘’Do Not Iron’’, FR, 2018;‘’Matter Delights’’ and ‘’Artificial Instincts’’, AU, 2018; ‘’Buttered Daylight’’, GR, 2018; ‘’Soft Spot’’, GR, 2018, etc.)
Kosmas Nikolaou (1984, Athens) lives and works in Athens. He studied Fine Arts and Architecture at Ioannina (Northwestern Greece), Volos (Central Greece) and Milan. His work revolves around the functions of architecture, spatial qualities, memory, narration and non-verbal communication. He is often concerned with modernity, scattered documentation, records, personal narratives, oral archaeology, gossip politics, and the moral dimensions of sound and voice. The compound of these different elements leads to new correlations and a new positioning in the space between reality and stage design. He has participated in group exhibitions in Greece, the Balkans, Europe and the Middle East, in museums and institutions. He has had three solo exhibitions at the Rebecca Camhi Art Gallery in Athens, the Brauchbarkeit in Cologne and Villa Bologna in Malta. He has taken part in several artist residencies in Greece, Germany, Italy, Poland, Malta, Russia, the United Arab Emirates and in the program Ideas City of New Museum, NY. Since 2012 he has been a founding member and co-director of the independent artist-run space 3 137 in Athens together with Paky Vlassopoulou and Chrysanthi Koumianaki.
Danae Nikolaidi-Kotsaki was born in Athens (1992) and went to the Experimental Music High School and the Lyceum of Pallini. She studied at the School of Fine Arts of Athens with Professor Giorgos Lappas. Her work tackles primarily physicality and interaction. The installations and sculptures she creates are movable, invested with her own compositions/sound environments, they sometimes produce sound themselves through motion and performance. The main materials of her work are metal, ceramics, video and sound: live music or recorded compositions. Awards & Residences: November-December 2016: Winner of the sculpture competition Lappas Prize by Elmin Βauxites Ltd, September-November 2017: Participation in the Coderailart, 2017 sculpture contest in collaboration with Hellenic Railroads SA, September 2017: ART4MORE 2017 / Art Residencies in Mental Health Units Art Residencies in Mental Health Structures. “EDRA” at the Art Gallery of Delphi of the School of Fine Arts; Academic year 2018-2019: One-year Darmasiswa Scholarship at the Indonesian Institute of Arts, Yogyakarta Participations in solo and group exhibitions; May 2017: “Andrénan” Participation in a group exhibition in the garden of the Italian Embassy; September 2016: Group exhibition, in the open-air archaeological site of Asclepeion and the site of the historical “Xenia” of Epidaurus; September 2016: Performance “Uterus” at the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens; May 2016: “Anthropographies” at the Benaki Museum. October 2018: “Nostimon Imar (Homesickness)” at the Digital Museum of Nea Smyrni.
Petros Moris (1986, Lamia, Central Greece) is a graduate of the School of Fine Arts (Athens) and of the MFA program n Curating at Goldsmiths University in London. He is currently working on a doctoral thesis at the department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly, with a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation. He was candidate for DESTE Prize 2015 and was awarded the Jannis Spyropoulos 1st Prize (2012). He has presented his work in solo exhibitions at Room E-1027 (Berlin), Point Center for Contemporary Arts (Nicosia), Duve Berlin (London), Project Native Informant (London) and SPACE (London) and has taken part in international group exhibitions in art venues, museums and institutions such as the New Museum of New York, the Museum of Cycladic Art, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Delphi Archaeological Museum, House of Cyprus, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Ontario College of Art & Design, Center Cívic Can Felipa (Βarcelona), Mestrovic Pavilion (Zagreb) and Aarhus Art Building (Denmark). As a member of KERNEL art collective and the curatorial projects SIM and Radical Reading, he has curated exhibitions and events at Athens Biennale 2011, Circuits and Currents, Whitechapel Gallery and Chisenhale Gallery and has lectured on his research at ICA London, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the University of Athens, the KAM Workshops and at the National Hellenic Research Foundation.
George Moraitis was born in 1989. He lives and works in Athens. He is a graduate of the School of Fine Arts οf Athens (2008-2014) where he studied painting with Panos Charalambous. He has participated in group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. He uses different practices (sculpture, robotics and interactive installations, participatory actions, happenings in public spaces, drawing, texts, etc.). In order to explore the boundaries of the creative, research and philosophical process, through sound as well as a wide range of media, he configures sound-iconoclastic situations as a mixture of peculiarities of perception, technology and materials. His great interest in sound focuses on his involvement with acoustic and psychoacoustic themes as well as themes related to the body, sculpture, video and a set of other themes related to the modern trends of science, which construct a contemporary dialogue in visual arts.
Rania Bellou lives and works in Athens. She has been awarded a scholarship by the Onassis Foundation and Stavros Niarchos Foundation. She studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London (MA) and the School of Fine Arts of Aristotle University at Thessaloniki. She has been awarded by Yannis and Zoe Spyropoulos Foundation. Bellou has had solo and group exhibitions at AnnexM, Concert Hall, Athens (2018), at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing (2017), at Vorre Museum, Athens Concert Hall (2017), at the Ionian Parliament, Corfu (2017), at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2016), ArtCurial, Paris (2017), the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2016), at the State Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki (2016), at the Contemporary Greek Art Institute, Athens (2016); also at ArtCurial, Paris (2017), at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2013), at the III Moscow Youth Artist Biennale (2012); Ex-Teresa Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, National School of Arts, Mexico City (2011); II Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2010).
Born in Athens in 1985, son of the sculptor Giorgos Megoulas. He started doing graffiti at the age of 12. He studied French Literature at the University of Athens and at the University of Angers (Western France). The first prize at the video art competition ”Shoot It” offered him a scholarship at the Focus School of Photography where he continued his studies. He has exhibited in galleries in many countries abroad and in Greece, as well as at foundations and museums: Benaki, Οnassis Cultural Center Athens (”Stegi”), Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Bouzianis Museum. His work has drawn the attention of the international press: the New York Times, National Geographic, the Guardian, ARTE, BBC. He has given lectures at universities and American schools (the University of Michigan and New School) and in the secondary education as part of the program ”Cavafy Goes to School”. He has ventured in painting, sculpture, video art, installations and performances. He has worked with the WeTransfer Company organizing workshops for employees and creating the desktop of the website. His artworks have appeared on album covers by musicians: Monika, Pavlos Pavlidis, Leon of Athens.
Orestis Mavroudis lives and works in Athens. He studied History and Art Theory at the department of Fine Arts and Art Sciences at the University of Ioannina and at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, Ηe continued in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti. His work has been presented at film festivals, solo and group exhibitions such as: “That’s IT!” curated by Lorenzo Balbi-MAMbo Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy (2018); “The Great Learning” curated by Marco Scotini, Triennale di Milanο (2017); “The Equilibrists” curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari and Helga Christoffersen with Massimiliano Gioni New Museum, New York and DESTE Foundation, Benaki Museum, Athens (2016); “A Natural Oasis” curated by Alessandro Castiglioni and Simone Frangi, 17th Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean-Viafarini, Milan, Italy (2015); SIFF International Symphony Festival-Syros, Greece; “By Airplanes and on Buses”-3 137, Athens, (2014); VISIO Screening program, Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival-Villa Romana, Florence, Italy (2013); “Immagine, titolo, spazio intermedio”-Careof DOCVA, Milan; “Coordinate ellittiche” curated by Bruno Muzzolini-Careof DOCVA, Milan (2013).
Maria Kriara was born in 1982 in Heraklion (Crete). Departing from an obsession with painting, art history and the history of ideas, her artistic practice constitutes a form of research into the relevance and possible interconnections between images and stories that, despite their different origins, belong to a collective cultural pool. Based on a predefined design protocol and the almost fundamental premise that any form of representation ― going beyond its original context and the intentions of its creator ― may represent more than those for which it was intended, Kriara’s work attempts a series of logical manipulations, as well as imaginary links, in order to raise suspicions about the identity of the creator, the narrative consistency of the fragments, and the cultural burden and boundaries of representations as subject interpretations of reality. Solo exhibitions: “The Quarter and Encyclopedists” (Dynamo, 2011), “Cogito (.) or I think I am…a Rhinoceros “,” The Pawnshop “(CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery, 2014, 2017). Her works have been exhibited at the Institute for the Development of Emerging Art, the Tinguely Museum, at Venice Architecture Biennale, at Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Biennale, ReMap4, the State Museum of Contemporary Art, and others.
Chrysanthi Koumianaki (1985, Heraklion) is a visual artist who lives and works in Athens. In her practice she explores the idea of translation, creating symbolic systems, codings, alphabets that focus on non-verbal communication. She revises and tackles rules and methods of a universal visual language, creating new narratives that reflect different times. Her main work comprises installations that combine various media: prints, ephemeral drawings, videos, sound and metal structures. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in institutions, museums and galleries such as: Netwerk Aalst (2018), Kadist, Paris (2017); Benaki Museum, Athens (2016); DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens (2016); Biennale of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki (2015); Athens Biennale (2013) and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2013). Her work has been shown in institutions and museums, at Fondazione Prada (Milan, 2017) and at New Museum (New York, 2016) among others. Ιn 2012, together with Kosmas Nikolaou and Paky Vlassopoulou, she co-founded the artist-run space 3 137.
Katerina Kotsala Katerina Kotsala was born in 1982. Her practice is about shifting, light and nature. She graduated from the School of Fine Arts with a MFA in 2015 and with a BFA from the School of Fine Arts of Aristotle University at Thessaloniki in 2013. She has had three solo exhibitions, the most recent being “Sisyphus” at the Contemporary Art Center Ileana Tounta, in February 2018. She was awarded by ARTWORKS and participated in the 1st Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Program. One of her most notable distinctions was the representation of Greece at the 16th Artist ”Errors Allowed” in Italy and the Post-Biennale of Young Artists at the DA2 Museum of Contemporary Art in Salamanca, Spain.
Panos Kompis (born 1982) is a visual artist. He lives and works in Athens. He studied Conservation of Works of Art at a private institute and graduated in 2002. He then studied at the School of Fine Arts in Athens and graduated with distinction in 2007. He continued with postgraduate studies at the School of Fine Arts in Athens obtaining his MFA in 2012 with distinction. Since 2013, he has been a member of the Per Se art group. He has participated in several group exhibitions in Greece and abroad such as: 6th Thessaloniki Biennale, State Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki 2017), DIA, Byzantine and Christian Museum (Athens 2014), 16th Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (Ancona 2013), Against All Odds, Project Ethics/Aesthetics, Benaki Museum (Athens 2011).
Ioannis Koliopoulos (born in 1986) lives and works between Athens and Tinos. He is a photographer, beekeeper and co-founder of Hypercomf. In his artistic practice he uses a variety of techniques and materials necessary for the realization of artworks based on collective memory and cultural reinvention.
He was born in Athens in 1982. He graduated from the German School of Athens in 1999; from the School of Economics of Aristotle University at Thessaloniki in 2005; from Athens School of Fine Arts in 2011. In 2010 he attended with a grant from the State Scholarships Foundation the Erasmus program at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In September 2012 he represented Greece at the “World Event of Young Artists” in the framework of the Cultural Olympiad in Nottingham. He was selected for the Μοtor Oil Hellas scholarship with which he studied at the postgraduate art department at the Sint Joost Academy of the AVANS University of Applied Sciences in Den Bosch (Netherlands). In 2017 he was a candidate for the Lappas Award and in 2018 he was chosen to participate by ARTWORKS in the 1ST Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Program. He lives and works in Athens and has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
Pegy Zali (born in Athens, 1983) studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens where she also completed a postgraduate program on Architectural Design-Space-Culture. She went on to further postgraduate studies on Curating Contemporary Art at Metropolitan University and Whitechapel Gallery in London. She is now working on her doctorate thesis at the department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly with a grant from the State Scholarships Foundation. She is member of KERNEL art collective, of the research group Laboratory for the Urban Commons and of the artist duo DEPZ as well as the co-founder of the Nomadic Architecture Network. She has shown her work in solo exhibitions at the Union Pacific, SPACE, CASK and in group exhibitions and museums such as the New Museum in New York, Benaki Museum and National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Center of Contemporary Art Futura in Prague and Ontario College of Art & Design. She has also exhibited at ICA London, at the National Technical University of Athens, at the State of Concept, KAM Workshops and at the National Ηellenic Research Foundation.
Natasa Eftstathiadi is a graduate of the School of Fine Arts of Athens. She has participated in group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Her first solo show was held at the CAN gallery (Athens) in 2014. She uses various media: film, photo, drawings and sculptural installations. She is a member of Arbit City Group.