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.
Born in Athens in 1988). She lives and works in Athens. Member of Arbit City and co-founder of the hybrid entity Serapis Maritime. She studied at the School of Fine Arts of Athens (2007-2012) and at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. In her work she uses a variety of media such as painting, lighting, soundscapes, video installations, publishing and photography. She often focuses on seemingly unrelated themes that make up a technological, post-trendy or new Mediterranean romantic ideal or a classic model of the world, which is redefined in new surroundings, provided that the past, the present and the future coexist. She does various case-studies related to historical references, personae non gratae, controversial personalities, technological developments, as well as entire regions, eras or fields of knowledge, timeliness and the greatness of nature. She deals with historic or fictional figures presented as the main characters of a narrative that interacts with the evolutionary dynamics of the modern world, point in out the de facto vital contradiction of creativity: their leading nature against a postmodern model of perception of the world and of the subterranean power games. In an environment where pure logic provokes the instincts and where the communication can occur metaphysically in support of authenticity, we can act inventively.
Βorn in Athens, 1982. He studied Archeology and Art History at the University of Athens (2005) and Visual Arts at the School of Fine Arts (2012). In 2010, through a European exchange program he attended courses at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp (at the department in situ3). In 2016 he completed his MA in Art in Context at Berlin University of the Arts with the support of Vicatos Βequest of the School of Fine Arts. Since 2011 he has been founding member of the artist-run group Campus Novel. He has participated in several shows, workshops, in Greece and abroad.
Manolis Daskalakis Lemos (born in Athens, 1989). He lives and works in Athens. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Athens and at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. He is a founding member of Serapis Maritime and of Arbit City. In his work he uses a variety of media to focus on ways in which we dream of tomorrow or remember the past with reflections that could be projected in the future, often starting from a personal reference point. In 2018 he participated in the New Museum Triennial ”Songs for Sabotage”, curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Gary Carrion-Murayari. In 2017 he was artist-in-residence for nine months at Pavillon Neuflize OBC, the residency program of Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He has participated in several initiatives of the 89plus, an international research project founded by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Simon Castets. His solo exhibitions include: ”Tomorrow’s Corporate Love” (Forgetting from Athens), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2017; ”Crooked Grid Crude Carrier”, CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery, Athens, 2015; ”Feral Remnants/Oinousses”, CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery, Athens, 2013.
Kyriaki Goni is an artist born and based in Athens. She holds a postgraduate degree in fine arts and an MA in Digital Arts (Athens School of Fine Arts); a BA in Cultural Anthropology (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece); and an MSc in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (Leiden University, Netherlands). Working across disciplines, she creates multi-layered installations focusing on the nexus between technology and society and critically touching upon questions of datafication, surveillance, distributed networks and infrastructures, ecosystems, human and other than human relations. She presents her work internationally in solo (Onassis Stegi in Athens, Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, Drugo More cultural organization in Croatia) and group exhibitions (13th Shanghai Biennale; exhibition Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) at the Museum of Modern Art in Freiburg; 5th Istanbul Design Biennial; Transmediale Festival in Berlin; exhibition 13,700,000 km3 at Art Space Pythagorion, Samos, Greece; The Glass Room San Francisco project, curated by Tactical Tech, etc.). Ιn 2019, as an SNF ARTWORKS Fellow she was resident artist at the Delfina Foundation (thematic program Science, Technology, Society). In 2020, her work Data Garden received the biannual prize INSPIRE from the MOMus – Experimental Center for the Arts of Thessaloniki. She has also been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2018).
Niki Goulema was born in Alexandroupoli in 1988. She studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her works deal with a fragmented reality and are characterised by a fragile and transient quality while remaining carefully drawn and detailed. She has participated in group exhibitions, including: “Graduates 2014-2017″, curated by Katerina Tselou (Athens 2018), 15th Annual Transformer Silent Auction & Benefit Party, Corcoran School of the Arts & Design (Washington 2018), ”Theorems” National Museum of Contemporary Art (Athens, 2018), ”Found & Lost”, Float Gallery (Athens 2017), ”ROOMS 2017” St George Lycabettus and Kappatos Art Gallery, curated by Christophoros Marinos (Athens 2016), ”Heatwave”, Pantheon Hall, Ed. 3 137 (Athens 2016), “e-POP Vol.6″, Six D.o.g.s. Project Space (Athens 2013), ”Dismembered Body”, Ekfrasi-Yianna Grammatopoulou, curated by Dimitris Moutsopoulos (Athens 2013), “ImagiNation”, Action Field Kodra, curated by Manolis Baboussis (Thessaloniki 2012), ”Art for all”, Gyzi Mansion (Santorini 2012). In 2017, she presented at the Alexandroupolis Lighthouse the solo project “Αt the Lighthouse”, curated by Antonis Bogadakis.
Zoe Giabouldaki was born in 1982 in Alexandroupolis (Northern Greece). She studied at the department of Fine Arts and Sciences of Art of the University of Ioannina (2002-07). Recent solo exhibitions: ”Serviervorschlag” at the Villa Concordia, Bamberg, Germany (2017), ”So where does all this sweat end up”, at Elika Gallery, Athens (2016), ”Erroneous Beliefs”, at Elika Gallery, Athens (2014).
Paky Vlassopoulou (born 1985) lives and works in Athens. Through her work she converses with the tradition of sculpture, with issues of space, object, usability, physical experience. She has worked on issues regarding the construction of knowledge, historicization, ruin and the anti-monument, and she has recently dealt with the issue of providing services in the modern world by exploring the role of care and hospitality. She has shown her work in solo exhibitions in Greece, Czech Republic, Germany and Belgium and has participated in group exhibitions including: The Equilibrists, curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari, Helga Christoffersen and Massimiliano Gioni, organized by DESTE Foundation and the New Museum/New York, Benaki Museum/Athens, 2017; Reverb: New Art from Greece, curated by Eirene Efstathiou, Evita Tsokanta, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, 2014 ; A Thousand Doors, curated by Iwona Blazwick, Gennadius Library, organized by NEON in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, Athens 2014. Since 2012 together with Chrysanthi Koumianaki and Kosmas Nikolaou they have been managing 3 137, an independent artist-run space in Exarchia (downtown Athens). To this date, they have collaborated with a large number of researchers and artists.
Augustus Veinoglou (born in Athens, 1982) works and lives in Athens. He graduated from the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh with BA (Hon) and got an MFA from the department of Sculpture. He has been a member of the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and is the founder and artistic director of Snehta Residency in Athens. He has exhibited his work in Britain, Estonia, Holland, Switzerland and Greece and has participated in artist residencies in the U.S., in Italy, Turkey, Holland, Scotland and Greece. Among other distinctions, he has recently been awarded the ARTWORKS Fellowship.
Filippos lives and works in Athens. He has graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Athens (Sculpture Workshop). He has specialized in Arts and Crafts, Fresco and Techniques of Portable Icons. In 2009-2010 he attended ”Arte de Acción y Performance” at the University of Valencia, Spain. He is a teacher of karate (4th Dan) and uses the combination of visual art and martial arts as part of his work. He makes cumbersome, tangled machines, putting the human body and mind to work on them. He has participated in several exhibitions in Greece and abroad and in activist ventures in public and private spaces, testing the limits of freedom and prohibition.
Christos Vagiatas was born in Athens in 1990. He studied on a graduate and post-graduate level at the department of Fine Arts and Sciences of Art of the University of Ioannina. He lives and works in Athens. His work has been shown in two solo exhibitions, in group exhibitions, workshops and residencies; parts of it have been sold to public and private collections in Greece and abroad. In 2013-2014, he obtained a scholarship by Onassis Foundation for postgraduate studies in Greece, and in 2018 he participated in the Stavros Niarchos Artist Fellowship Program by ARTWORKS. In his work, he deals with boundaries in terms of their representation and meaning. He uses boundaries as a structural entity, sets boundaries in space, intervening and creating new spatial conditions by using linear elements and simple forms of recognizable symbols. On the other hand, the form of boundaries becomes a codified discourse asking questions and raising concerns about the perception of their nature as an experience. In his most recent work, he draws large-scale projects for open, public spaces. He believes that these places, apart from their architectural and urban features, are social spaces shaped by their use and misuse as well as by the daily itineraries of their users.