Elina Panik was born in Athens, where she studied German literature and Filmmaking. In 2009 she moved to Berlin, where she continued her studies at the Filmakademie Kelle. She has worked as an art director and costume designer for film and television productions in Greece and Germany. In 2010 she participated at the Berlinale Talent Campus with her film «The Desperation of Mimi». Her fourth film «The mirror of Lord Patschog» won the Platinum Remi Award at Worldfest Houston, Texas, 2013 and the award for Direction of Photography at the Short Film Festival of Drama. That same year she won the Best LoFi Award at the Berlin Music Video Awards and the Siegessäule Magazine’s Best Queer Video Award for the music video «Terrorist». Her latest short film, a Greek-Lithuanian production, «Anna and Phaedra» premiered in September 2019 at the Drama International Short Film Festival.
Yannis Korres was born in Athens in 1986. He studied filmmaking at the Film and Television Department of New York College. He worked as assistant director in short and feature films. «Kissing?» was his feature film debut and premiered at Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Film (BAFICI). He is currently working on the development of his second feature «Girl Without Clothes» and the feature documentary «Look at the Sea».
Konstantinos Antonopoulos is a filmmaker based in Athens. He studied computer science in Athens and received his MFA in filmmaking from Columbia University in New York on an Onassis Foundation scholarship. His first short film «Can’t Play The Piano» premiered at Zagreb Film Festival 2007. Since then he has directed several other shorts such as «Postcards From The End Of The World» (Sarajevo Film Festival 2019), «Lea» (Honorary Distinction at Athens International Film Festival 2013) and «Without Glasses» (Special Award at Drama Film Festival 2009). He co-wrote the feature film «Symptom» (Torino Film Festival 2015) and edited the feature film «My First Kiss And The People Involved» (L.A. Film Festival 2016). His scripts have participated in workshops such as Torino Film Lab and Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink. In 2019 he was awarded by ARTWORKS the SNF Artist Fellowship. He’s unsure which of the two — courage or patience — is most important, or whether, strangely, they are both the very same thing.
Born in Athens in 1981. Nikoleta studied chemical engineering but soon decided she is interested in filmmaking. She entered the university on a scholarship and bought her first camera with the money from it. She has studied cinema both in Greece and the UK where she completed an MA in Fiction Film. Her previous short films are stories with a strong central character with a backdrop of social and political turmoil. They blend character-driven storytelling and political cinematic commentary. Her previous short film «37 Days»premiered at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (2019). Nikoleta’s films have been screened in various festivals. A Berlinale and Sarajevo Talents alumna, she is currently writing the script for her first feature «Anna’s weddings» and working on a personal documentary project.
Eva Vaslamatzi (Athens, 1990) is an independent curator and writer currently based in Athens and Paris. Most recently, she was the co-curator for visual arts at DOC!, a non-profit multipurpose space in northeastern Paris (2017-2019), and worked as an assistant curator at the Palais de Tokyo (2018-2019). Since 2013 she has been collaborating with various public and private art institutions in Athens and abroad. She holds a BA in Theory and History of Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts and an MA in Cultural Studies and Curatorial Practices from the Sorbonne University. In 2018, she has been part of the ΝΕΟΝ Curatorial Exchange Program in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery (London) and Art week at Alserkal Avenue (Dubai). In May 2020 she will be resident at Rupert Residency (Vilnius). Currently, she is a guest curator at the association Orange Rouge (in Paris), which brings together artists and adolescents with disabilities in order to produce collective pieces.
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.
Christina Petkopoulou (Athens, 1992) is a curator based in Athens. She has studied History and Archeology in the Department of Archeology and History of Art of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is a researcher and curator of the digital crowdsourcing archive project Athens Report. In September 2019 she started working at Automatic Transmission, a platform dedicated to interdisciplinary research based on contemporary art. She has curated exhibitions and educational programs as an independent curator and she has also collaborated with several contemporary art organizations, such as the Greek Institute of Contemporary Art―where she started her career researching and managing its archives―.
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».
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.
Stylianos Tsatsos is a dance performance and visual artist born in Athens (1990). He began his studies at the Dartington College of Arts (2009), focusing on site specific/devised theatre and visual arts. He went on to Falmouth University, receiving a BA in Theatre Performance with Choreographic Practices (2012). He then completed his studies at the Greek National School of Dance (2015). He has worked with choreographers, festivals, residencies and cultural institutes. From 2016 onwards, he is a dance artist at Sasha Waltz & Guests, with productions created and presented at Elbphilharmonie, Radialsystem, C/O Berlin, Volksbühne, Staatsoper Unter Den Linden and more. Additionally, he has created choreographic and visual art works in collaboration with Palais de Tokyo and Fluxum Foundation/ Flux Laboratory (2017). In 2018, he showcased his kinetic installation performance work «WaterBottleBodyFall» at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST Athens) as part of the Arc for Dance festival. For 2019-20, Stylianos is an ARTWORKS Fellow and participates in the SNF Artist Fellowship Program. His aim is to explore throughout his interdisciplinary practice the distance between the analogue e-motional body in the digital world, his activistic environmental approach through installation performance, as well as the forms of balance between body and object in space, and the existence of kinetic movement in the absence of the dancer.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Zoi Gaitanidou was born in 1981 in Athens. She is a graduate of Athens School of Fine Arts and she shares her time between Athens and Berlin. She has participated at the show «The Equilibrists» (Benaki Museum Athens, organized by the New Museum, NY and DESTE Foundation, curated by Gary Carrion Murayari, Helga Christoffersen and Massimiliano Gioni and in the 2nd Athens Biennial «Heaven». Her work was included in «Younger Than Jesus», an artist directory selected by the curatorial team of the New Museum and published by Phaidon.
Theodoros Giannakis (1979, Preveza, Greece) is a graduate of Athens School of Fine Arts and of the MFA Program in Digital Media Management at London Metropolitan University in London. He is currently working on a doctoral thesis at the Department of Visual Arts of the Athens School of Fine Arts, on a scholarship from the A.G Leventis Foundation. He has presented his work in solo exhibitions at Union Pacific (London), Eleni Koroneou (Athens), Radio Athènes and SPACE (London) and has taken part in international group exhibitions in art venues, museums and institutions: the New Museum of New York, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Delphi Archeological Museum, Fondazione Prada, Ontario College of Art and Design, V22 Collection, and Futura Center for Contemporary Art. As a member of KERNEL art collective, he has curated exhibitions and events and has lectured on his research at ICA London, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Hellenic Research Foundation and at the Athens School of Fine Arts.