Fellow Year: 2018

Anastasis Stratakis (born 1985) lives and works in Thessaloniki. His work has been included in international group exhibitions such as: “At the Beginning Was the Word”, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, in collaboration with the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2018); “Abracadabra”, 6th International Biennale (2018), “Epilogue”, Kunstverein Herdecke, curated by Apostolos Palavrakis (2017); “The Equilibrists”, in New Museum, New York and DESTE Foundation, Athens, in collaboration with Benaki Museum, Athens, curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari and Helga Christoffersen with Massimiliano Gioni (2016); Les Rencontres Internationales, Gaîté lyrique, Paris (2015); 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (2014); “By New: A New Generation of Greek Artists”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2013); Center οf Contemporary Art at Thessaloniki (2017); Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon (2016); Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice (2015); Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2014). His works are included in important private and public art collections such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, the Borusan Contemporary in Istanbul and Michael Haas Collection in Berlin.

Βοrn in Athens, in 1989. She works in film and video: she does video installations and short fiction films. She graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Athens. She has shown her work in film festivals and art venues.

Born in 1990. He lives and works in Athens. He studied International, European and Regional Studies at Panteion University and Visual Arts and Illustration at the Camberwell College of Arts with a scholarship from the University of the Arts London. He has had solo exhibitions in Athens, London and Malta (Plantarium-Esplora Science Center, Valletta18; Notions of the Afterlife-Genesis Gallery London; Animistic Futurism-Vessel Athens; Zadig with Cacao Rocks-Sarri 12 Gallery) and has participated in numerous exhibitions and festivals in Greece and abroad (Hors Pistes-Centre d’Innovation et du Design Grand Hornu, Belgium; Hors Pistes Nuuk Museum, Nuuk, Greenland; Loures Arte Publica, Lisbon, Portugal;, Besiktas International Festival, Istanbul, Turkey; ”No Respect”, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece; Creative Climate Awards, Human Impact Institute, New York; Susak Croatia Biennale, etc.) In 2018 He received the Fulbright Artist Residency Award/Fellowship and ARTWORKS SNF Artist Fellowship.

Maria Sideri is a performance artist. Influenced by her studies in anthropology and in different research methods, her work focuses on representations of the body through archival research. Maria has graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Ioannina and from the postgraduate department of History of Religions at the University of Geneva. In 2012 she also completed (with distinction) her MFA at the Creative Practice at the Laban Conservatory of Music and Dance in London. She has received sponsorship from the Arts Council of England for the Vibrant Matter/La Métachorie project and recently she was awarded the ARTWORKS Fellowship (2018). Since March 2018 she has been a PhD candidate at the University of Western Macedonia in the Department of Applied and Visual Arts. Works: ”Hello World Choir” (Cairo 07/17), “Vibrant Matter/La Metachorie”: Artsadmin (London, 11/14), ”Rag Factory” (London, 2/14), 3rd Performance Festival, (4th Biennale, Greece 11/2013); “Stasis” with Zero-Tau: SPILL National Platform (Ipswich, 11/12), Trouble festival (Brussels, 4/13), Video: Chisenhale Dance Space Agony Art (London, 1/14), 3/14), Trip Space The Palest Light (London 5/14), Decoda Festival (Coventrym 6/14), and limited edition Fanzine # 1, # 2, # 3 “It Comes Into Waves”.

Fotis Sagonas (born in 1983, Thermo, Central Greece) is a visual artist and architect. He lives and works in Thessaloniki and in Athens. His work includes drawings, prints and installations. His visual art research and practice is interdisciplinary and involves representation systems, virtual environments, data visualization and digital fabrication techniques. Through his works he attempts to create narratives, where the relationship of the observer with the depicted subject is being destabilized. Since 2018 he has been teaching visual arts and computer design at the department of Architectural Engineering at the University of Ioannina. In 2012 he received a Fulbright Scholarship for Visual Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He has had four solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous group shows in Greece and abroad. Solo exhibitions: 2016: “Fotis Sagonas: Recent Works”, Donopoulos IFA, Thessaloniki curated by Apostolos Palavrakis, 2012: “Landscapes of Vanity”, Blanc Slate Space, Frankfurt curated by Alexis Tsolakis 2010: “Ink & Blood / Volume 1”, Kalos & Klio showroom, Thessaloniki, 2009: “Inside the Animal’s Mind”, Dynamo Project Space, Thessaloniki, curated by Apostolos Kalfopoulos.

Group exhibitions (selection): 2018: “Art Thessaloniki” Donopoulos IFA, Thessaloniki PNOI / Greek Emerging Artists curated by Miguel Fernández Belmonte, 2018: “SideEffects 5.0”, SideEffects gallery, Basel, curated by Patricia Meyer, 2017: Epilogue, Kunstverein Herdecke, Herdecke: Rita McBride, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Maria Kriara, Heribert C. Ottersbach, Anastasis Stratakis] curated by Apostolos Palavrakis, 2015: “Art Athina”, Donopoulos IFA, Athens [participants: Aljioscha, Nikos Aslanidis, Gehard Demetz, Christopher Dougheris, Wolf Hamm Lia Kazakou, Mark Lammert, Giorgos Lappas, Adrianna Molder, Marc Mulders, Vassilis Poulios, Philip Tsiaras,] 2014: “In Between Out”, Donopoulos IFA, Thessaloniki [participants: George Charvalias, Apostolos Palavrakis, Kai Richter] curated by Apostolos Plavarakis, 2012: “Hypothese zur Entrstehung” by Aljoscha, Beck and Eggeling Gallery, Düsseldorf [collective installation in collaboration with visual artist Aljoscha].

Panos Profitis (born in 1988) lives and works in Athens. He holds a postgraduate degree (2016) from the Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp specialized in site specific arts / installation art. He is a graduate of the School of Fine Arts of Athens (2013). For his Master studies, he received a scholarship from NEON (2015-2016). For his graduate thesis he was awarded the Hugo Roelandt Award by the Royal Academy of Arts, Hugo Roelandt Estate and Objectif Antwerp in 2016. Profitis has recently become an ARTWORKS Fellow (SNF Artist Fellowship Program 2018). In October 2018 he participated in the Initiator Artist in Residency program in Elefsina (Cultural Capital of Europe in 2021). In 2013 he represented Greece at the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean in Ancona, Italy. During Documenta 14 he worked as an assistant artist of the Nigerian visual artist Otobong Enkanga who is based in Antwerp. In 2017 he held his first solo exhibition at Annie Gentils Gallery in Antwerp (Belgium) and participated with this gallery at various art fairs (Art Rotterdam, YIA Maastricht, Art Brussels). His work has been presented in group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.

Valia Papastamou (born in 1987) studied Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and continued postgraduate studies at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Master in Cultural Management) and at the School of Fine Arts in Athens (MFA). She has had two solo exhibitions: one at the Contemporary Art Center Ileana Tounta, “Phonologic Minerals”, in the framework of the two-person exhibition “Two Person Show-Maria Tzanakou & Valia Papastamou” (2017) and another at Two Elephants, Heraklion, ”Come Back to the House Where Nobody Lives”. She has participated in group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, including: “Caritas Romana-15 Acts of Devotion”, Center of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki, as part of the 59th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (2018); “Art Athina 2018″,, Contemporary Art Center Ileana Tounta Booth; Athens Conservatory (2018), ”Impulses of Inalienability”, Eins Gallery, Limassol (2018), Rooms 2017 plus +, Kappatos Gallery (2017); ”Rooms 2017”, St George Lycabettus (2017); “Distant Utopias”, in the framework of “Utopia 500″, at Onassis Cultural Center Athens (”Stegi”) in collaboration with the School of Fine Arts of Athens, Diplareios School (2016).

Maria Papanikolaou is a visual artist and postdoctoral fellow at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA). She studied law at the University of Athens (IKY, 2000) and sculpture at the Royal Academy of Art in the Netherlands as a Huygens Scholarship Program scholar (2008). In 2011, she graduated from the Postgraduate Program in Fine Arts (ASFA) and, in 2022, she supported her PhD thesis at the same school with a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation (2012-2016), the Foundation for Education and European Culture (2013-2017), the A. G. Leventis Foundation (2015) and the Fulbright Foundation (2016-2017).

The exhibition Free from what (annexM, 2023) is her first solo exhibition in Greece. She has held solo shows in the Netherlands, at Expodium (Utrecht, 2007) and Filmhuis den Haag (The Hague, 2008). She has also participated in group exhibitions, including: Still Here Tomorrow, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre (2019), Athens Adhocracy, Onassis Cultural Centre (2015), Expanded Senses, Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt (2015), Afresh: A New Generation of Greek Artists (EMST, 2013), Art ID at KunstVLAAI (Amsterdam, 2008). In 2015, she received the Open Call Prize at the Frankfurt Biennale of the Moving Image, Frankfurt.

She teaches at ASFA and the University of Thessaly and since 2023 she is Fulbright Greece Outreach Ambassador in the field of visual arts.

Nefeli Papadimouli (1988, Athens) lives and works in Athens and Paris. She studied Architecture at the NTUA and Fine Arts at the Beaux-Arts de Paris (with honors). Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in institutions, museums and galleries such as Thessaloniki Center for Contemporary Art (State Museum of Contemporary Art), Festival de l’histoire de l’art, Château de Fontainebleau, La Panacée, Montpellier (2018), Musée du Louvre, Palais des Beaux Arts, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (2017); Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris (2016); Istanbul Modern (2015). She was artist-in-residence at the Villa Belleville-Paris and currently she is at RAVI-Liège.

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).