He was born in Athens in 1986. He has been engaged in a number of individual and team sports as well as in classic championship disciplines (400 metres hurdles), receiving nationwide accolades. He then entered into the dance studies. He graduated from Despina Grigoriadou Professional Dance School (2011) and from the School of Physical Education and Sport Science of Athens with specialization in «Chorus Dance» and «Greek Traditional Dances» (2019). He has collaborated with: Christina Sougioultzi, Patricia Apergi, Mariza Vinieratou, Iris Karayan, Tzeni Argyriou, Sofia Mavragani, Christos Papadopoulos, Charis Kousios, Natassa Avra, Filippos Vassiliou among others, participating in performances in Greece and abroad. He has danced for the European Aerowaves Network as well as Patricia Apergi/ Dopa, Harry Kousios /Man II and Christos Papadopoulos/ Elvedon. Ιn 2018 he participated in Onassis’ educational program for students «Dancing to Connect» and in the Motion Workshop for people with and without vision impairments «IDANCE» as an assistant choreographer (2016). He is interested in a combination of sports and dance and in its artistic imprint in performative practices.
Dimitris Mytilinaios is a graduate of the State School of Dance (2012-2015) and holds a Μaster exerce-ICI-CCN Université III Paul-Valéry-Montpellier- with a scholarship from Onassis Foundation, a two-year program directed by Christian Rizzo in the field of choreography. He has collaborated with DD Dorviller, Laurent Pichaud, Jenifer Lacey, Nadia Lauro, Alix Demorant, Myrto Katsiki, Volmir Cordeiro, João Fiadeiro. He has also worked with Anastasia Valsamaki, Giorgos Sioras Deligiannis, Iris Karayan, Eve Chariatte, Jurij Konjar, Romeo Castellucci, Yvonne Rainer. He has presented the choreographic works: «Variations in 200 steps» in CND Paris (Camping 2017) and ICI-CCN Montpellier, «Performer la Recherche», a collaborative project by Laurent Pichaud in Laboratoires d’Aubervillers (2017) and Place de la Danse Toulouse (2018), «Drifting Experiment» in Dance Days Chania 7, «Softly with this score», ICI-CCN Montpellier (2018), «Hardly the same: a dance guide to mess up body & mind» in Athens (2019).
Nikos Kalivas was born in 1988, studied Mathematics at the University of Patras and Dance at the professional dance school Aktina. As a dancer, he has worked with choreographers such as Annie Vigier, Frank Apertet, Antigoni Gira, Betty Dramisioti, Xaris Mandafounis, Giannis Antoniou, Patritsia Apergi, Konstantinos Rigos, Leyya Mona Taiwil, Xaris Kousios and more. As a choreographer he created «TripTap», «Psychord», and «RoomsToLet». In 2018 he was selected by Aggeliki Stelatou as an upcoming choreographer and worked at Munich Biennale Platform in collaboration with Onassis Culture Center. In 2019 he co-founded RopisCo and choreographed «Dépaysement» at Onassis Culture Center at the Festival of Young Choreographers. Since 2015 he has been teaching contemporary dance and improvisation at the professional dance school Aktina and other schools.
Eftychia Stefanou (born 1992) is a Greek performer. She has a BA in Physical Education and Sports Science specialized in “Movement and Dance Therapy”. She did a case study on how rhythm and dance can affect a fourteen-year-old boy with multiple disabilities and autism. She did the four-year study program at SEAD where she performed repertory works by Akram Khan, Wim Vandekeybus and Yvonne Rainer. For her final work “Solo Project” at SEAD, she studied and performed “Trio A” by Yvonne Rainer. During her studies she was invited from the choreographer Barnaby Booth to perform «Loyal Prophets of an Indifferent God» at «The Place», in the frame of «Resolution 2018» in London. Right after SEAD she worked and performed with the Belgian director Jan Lauwers -Need Company for the opera piece «L’incoronazione di Poppea»– Salzburg Festspiele. With the Slovenian choreographer Mala Kline she co-choreographed and performed 2 solo works, «Song» – CoFestival and «song lines» Spider Festival in Ljubljana. In May of 2019 she collaborated with the choreographer Alexandra Waierstall and the artist Rita McBrid for the performance «Bodies and Structure» which premiered at Tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf and also took place later on at the Bauhaus Museum in Dessau.
Elton Petri is a dancer/performer/choreographer, born in Albania and raised in Greece. He started his dance education in Athens during his studies at the Medical Laboratories Department of the Τechnological Educational Institute of Athens. He studied at the State School of Dance in Athens and at the SEAD in Salzburg, from where he graduated in 2016. During and after his studies he worked with artists such as Alix Eynaudi, Meytal Blanaru, Milan Tomasik and Zsuzsa Rozsavolgyi, Willi Dorner, Hans Fredewess, Milla Koistinen and Kosmas Kosmopoulos.
Andi Xhuma studied dance at the National School of Dance in Greece (2009-2012). Since his graduation he has worked with choreographers and dance companies such as Yiannis Antoniou, Hannes Langolf, Ermira Goro, Konstantinos Rigos, Anton Lachky, Cocoon dance Company, DV8 physical theatre. In 2015 he started creating personal works on live stage and video with his short film «Normal day» winning awards in North America, Australia and Europe. In 2018 he made his debut as a choreographer along with Christos Xyrafakis with the show «OΚ, that’s you» at the Onassis Cultural Centre.
Martha is a Greek dance artist from based in Athens and London. She holds a BA in dance from the Professional Dance School of N. Kontaxaki and a Chemistry degree from the University of Athens. In 2010, she completed an MA in Performance as a member of EDge at London Contemporary Dance School with an interest in improvisation scores. She has collaborated with various choreographers such as Wally Cardona, Robert Clark, Eva Recacha, Michael Klien, Seke Chimutengende, Leila McMillan, Sung Im Her, with the companies backsteinhaus production (GER), Requardt & Rosenberg (UK), David Dorfman Dance (USA) and with the artists Tino Sehgal (Palais de Tokyo/ Athens Roman Agora/ Tate Modern), Stefanos Tsivopoulos (Kalfayan Galleries) and Marina Abramovic (Benaki Museum/ Serpentine Gallery), where she re-performed two of her archival works Cleaning the Mirror and Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful during AS ONE exhibition in Athens. She has received scholarships by A. Onassis, I. Kostopoulos and Schilizzi Foundations and in 2015 she was a Danceweb scholar by Impulstanz Festival in Vienna. Lately she experiments with her own work and in 2017 she created the work touching.just with Aris Papadopoulos with which they were selected as Aerowaves 2018 Artists, created the company arisandmartha and continued with the works Five Steps to Save the World (2018) and Lucy. tutorial for a ritual (2019). Currently, she is an ARTWORKS Fellow 2019-2020 and participates in the SNF Artist Fellowship Program.
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
Stella Dimitrakopoulou is a dance and performance artist. She obtained her PhD with the thesis «(Ιl)legitimate Performances: Copying, Authorship and the Canon» (Trinity Laban, London, 2016). In her MA in Dance Theatre «The body in performance» (Laban, London, 2009) she worked with food as a means of investigating the intermingling public and private spaces. Since 2014 she has been co-running the project «Philosophy on our feet» and has organized the 2nd International Symposium Performance Philosophy School of Athens (2017) in collaboration with EMST and the Performance Philosophy Network. She has taught dance in universities (Trinity Laban, University of Peloponnese), in schools, festivals and educational programs (Workcamp in Performance and Choreography).
As a performer she has worked with Tino Sehgal, Dora Garcia, Synthesis 748, Les Gens d’Uterpan, William Hunt, Lea Anderson and others. She also works as a dramaturg (A priori dance co, Luna Park) and as project manager (Anna Adhal, Tino Sehgal). IKY, ARTWORKS (SNF Artist Fellowship Program), DanceWEB and NEON have supported her work. Selected works: «Ondes Particulaires» (2018), «Without respect but with love» (2016), «The Last Lecture (a performance)» (2011/2016), «m my me» (2012), «Frauen Danst Frauen» (2011). As founding member of Trio Collective: «Trio Collective: A self-Interview» (2015), «Another Chair Dance» (2011), «re-re-twothousandth-ree» (2011), «Trio» (2009).
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.
Maya Tounta is a curator based in Athens and Vilnius. Together with Gerda Paliusyte, Gediminas Akstinas and Liudvikas Buklys she is a founding member of the non-profit space Montos Tattoo in Vilnius, Lithuania (www.montostattoo.lt). Since 2017, she has been working with artist Otobong Nkanga in connection with the work «Carved to Flow»(Documenta 14, Athens, Greece/ Kassel, Germany), which continues with exhibitions and events, and more recently as a foundation based in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. Over the past two years, Maya Tounta has hosted events with CAConrad, Maria Thereza Alves, Newton Harrison, Jennifer Teets, Lorenzo Cirrincione, Iris Touliatou, Fernando-Garcia-Dory, Marina Vishmidt, Nina Power and Travis Jeppesen. Recent exhibitions include Bright File (June), Christos Tzivelos, Rallou Panagiotou, Elena Narbutaite, Iris Touliatou, George Prinos, Chrysanne Stathacos and Kostis Velonis, Haus N Athen, Athens, Greece (2018). From 2014 to 2016 Tounta was curator at Rupert, Vilnius, Lithuania (www.rupert.lt). She is the editor of «A Solid Injury to the Knees» (2016, Rupert), a collection of essays on «political depression».
Mare Spanoudaki is a researcher and curator. Her main interests revolve around the intersections among material, intangible, digital culture and contemporary art by carrying out projects and exhibitions that examine current and/or past cultural and social conditions and memories, acting as points for dialogue. Her education includes a BA in Communication, Media & Culture, an MA in Cultural Policy & Management and an MRes in Exhibition Studies. In the past, Mare has worked for various cultural institutions and art spaces, and has organized intercultural and community projects, as well as contemporary art shows in Greece, the UK and Germany. She has been a fellow of the Start-Create Cultural Change programme (2017/2018). In the last few years she has been focusing on highlighting Greek and international artistic practices, exhibition histories and social movements and exploring issues of institutional critique as well as identity politics. She is also part of the team This is not a feminist project.
Danai Giannoglou (Athens, 1992) is an independent curator and writer based in Athens. She currently participates in the De Appel Curatorial Programme 2019-2020 in Amsterdam. Giannoglou is the co-founder and curator of Enterprise Projects, a project space functioning independently and periodically since September 2015 in Athens, as well as the Editor of Enterprise Projects Journal, a publishing initiative by Enterprise Projects uploading newly commissioned theoretical and research essays. She has worked for public and private institutions in Athens and Paris. Between 2018-2019 Danai Giannoglou was the Exhibitions Archive Coordinator at DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art. She has contributed texts in catalogues, publications and online art magazines and she has curated exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Giannoglou holds a BA in Theory and History of Art from the Athens School of Fine Arts and an MA in Cultural Management and Curating from Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne University. She has been resident at Rupert, Lithuania in 2016 and at the 8th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course, South Korea in 2018. She is a recipient of the ARTWORKS SNF Artist Fellowship Program (Curating) 2019/20 as well as of Onassis AiR Emergency Fellowship 2019/20.
Irida Zhonga is an award winning animation director specializing in stop motion animation. Her first animation film «The Meaning of Life» (2009), was screened αt numerous festivals and won a total of 7 awards, 2 of which at the Drama short film festival. In 2012 she graduated from the University of the Arts, London with a degree in Film and Television and started her career in the film and television industry. In London she worked as a director of commercials and as a producer for British and international TV shows. In 2017 she returned to Athens and started developing her new animation film «Man Wanted». The film script won Βest Script award at the Greek Film Festival of London in 2012. It is funded by ERT and the Greek National Film Centre, the Estonian Film Centre, the Serbian Film Centre and the Albanian Centre of Cinematography. It is the first Greek-Estonian collaboration in an audiovisual project.