Aggeliki Bozou was born in Athens in 1982. She graduated from the Master of Fine Arts (2016) and Athens School of Fine Arts (2011). She has also done studies in graphic design and theatre. In 2011 she won the first prize of the Jannis and Zoe Spyropoulos Foundation and in 2019 was awarded by ARTWORKS and is a fellow of the SNF Artist Fellowship Program. With improvisation as a departure point she creates vivid visual actions and videos in the presence of spectators as well as rapid images capturing the moment. Experimenting with the idea of randomness, she tries to configure mental images and constructs paper mechanisms that can produce rudimentary movements. She is a founding member of the experimental music band «The Crabs of Horror» which presents improvised actions, probing how affecting slightly a given structure could be the key element for the creation of a whole project. Her work has been shown in Greece and abroad: Family Business Gallery (New York), Netting the Work Berlin (Germany), Cairo Video Festival (Egypt), Dirty Linen-Family Business Handmade Benaki Museum, Vorres Museum, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens Biennale etc.
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.
Yorgos Bougiouk is a visual artist. He lives and works in Athens. Ηe is a graduate of Athens School of Fine Arts. His work mainly consists of video art experiments. He has participated in group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
Panagiotis Vorrias was born in Kalamata, Greece, in 1983. He graduated from Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) and obtained Master of Fine Arts (ASFA) with honors. He has participated in more than ten group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. He was a recipient of a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation and a nominee for the HYam prize for Young Mediterranean Artist (2014). In 2013 he participated in National Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition «Afresh» and in 16th Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean with the group Per Se. In 2013 he was co-founder of the art group Per Se. He lives and works in Athens.
Panagiotis Charamis was born in Drama (Νοrthern Greece) in 1978. He studied Film and Filmmaking in England and since then he has been working as a director in documentaries, short films and advertising in Greece, England and Turkey. His first feature documentary «Attention!» which he co-directed with Onur Bakir won the Best Documentary Award at the Film Festival of Istanbul (2016) and his latest short film «Avanos» won the Best Short Film Award at the International Short Film Festival in Drama in 2018. Currently, he is developing his first feature film with the same title «Avanos», based on his latest work.
Vasileia Dereli lives and works in Athens. Working primarily in video, she explores how liminal spaces affect the transitioning subject, as well as the spatial correlation between virtual and actual space. She received her Degree in Law from the University of Athens (2010) and her BFA in Visual Arts from Athens School of Fine Arts (2015). Her work has been exhibited in Athens, London, Braunschweig, Thessaloniki, Munich and Venice.
Araceli Lemos is a Greek writer, director and editor. As an editor, Araceli’s work includes the documentary «They Glow in the Dark» (director Panayotis Evangelidis), winner of the Hellenic Film Academy Award for Best Documentary and the FIPRESCI Award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. Her short film, «Miguel Alvarez Wears a Wig», was screened at festivals worldwide including Tampere, Leeds and Outfest. Araceli’s work as director spans from theatre (Shakespeare’s «Measure for Measure») to commissioned works for clients such as the HFPA, the U.S. Embassy in Greece and the French Institute in Athens. She is now in pre-production of her debut fiction film, titled «Holy Emy». In 2013, Araceli created the International Project Discovery Forum, a development and pitching program for Balkan features, as part of the LA Greek Film Festival. Araceli is a 2013 Berlinale Talent Campus alumnus and holds an MFA in Film Directing from CalArts, as a Fulbright and Onassis Foundation Scholar.
Theodora Kanelli was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1988. She studied Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2007-2014) and Fine Arts at the Institut Supérieur des Arts de Toulouse (2014-2015) and at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts de Paris (2015-2018), in the studio of Jean-Michel Alberola.In 2017 she completed the scenography forGaël Octavia’s play «Cette guerre que nous n’avons pas faite», that was presented in Paris and in the Caribbean. Painting is her main medium. For the last couple of years she has been working on the project «Le journal du voyage en mer du héros X», a literary and visual research on the concept of return from a previous life, inspired by a collection of theatrical plays. The core of the project is an invented cartography of abandoned islands and the sea connections among them. Theodora’s last work refers to the invention of a mental game, through which she explores the meaning of «Hybris» and she creates connections between past and present times. Currently she is participating in the team project Jeu et Rituel, yet another game placed in three different times and spaces. In October she is going to participate in two group exhibitions in the La Maison des Ensembles and Le Salon Réalités Nouvelles in Paris.
Maria Varela (Athens, 1984) works as a media artist and workshop designer seeking to develop strategies of collective production. In 2010 she completed her MA in Interactive Media at Goldsmiths College, London. She has presented her work in numerous exhibitions in Greece and abroad, in museums —EMST in Athens, Bozar in Brussels— and in art festivals such as 19th Festival de Arte Contemporânea Sesc_Videobrasil in Sao Paulo, Media Art Biennale WRO in Wroclaw, Siggraph in Vancouver, Ars Electronica in Linz, Transmediale in Berlin, ISWC (International Symposium on Wearable Computers) in Seattle, Piksel in Bergen, Amber in Istanbul, Visual Dialogues (Onassis Cultural Center) in Athens and more. She has organized and taught creative educational programs in primary schools in London (2006-2009) and since 2010 in Athens in collaboration with Onassis Cultural Centre, EMST, Goethe Institut, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation and NEON organization. Between 2010-2014 was co-founder and responsible for the artistic and educational program of Frown, a platform dealing with the production of artistic events of innovative character in the sectors of creative media and performance art, as well as with the organisation of workshops. She lives and works in Athens.
Antigoni Rota was born in Athens in 1984. Starting from documentary production at Anemon non-profit organization, she contributed in various company projects as A Dolphin Man, Doc.2017/The Journey of Food, Documentary series for SKAI television, CineDoc, Production Office. Since 2016, she has been the main producer of Squared Square Films. Her body of work has been acknowledged with international awards and multiple distinctions around the world. Her short films have also been broadcasted on TV channels (ARTE and Cosmote TV) and distributed in several VOD platforms as well as in European cinemas. Her two most recent short films are «Eighth Continent» which premiered in Venice Film Festival in 2017 and «Third Kind» which premiered in Semaine de la Critique Cannes in May 2018. At the moment, she is producing her first feature documentary,«Stray Bodies» by Elina Psykou, and she is developing the short «Third Kind» to a feature retro Balkan sci- fi directed by Yorgos Zois.
Η Αλεξία Καραβέλα γεννήθηκε το 1985 στην Αθήνα. Είναι απόφοιτος του Τμήματος Πλαστικών Τεχνών και Επιστημών Τέχνης (Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων, 2002-2008) και του Μεταπτυχιακού Εικαστικών Τεχνών της Ανωτάτης Σχολής Καλών Τεχνών (Αθήνα, 2013- 2015). Έχει συμμετάσχει σε πολλές ομαδικές εκθέσεις ως εικαστικός και σε performances με σκηνικά αντικείμενα ή ως σκηνικό αντικείμενο η ίδια. Το σώμα της δουλειάς της παρουσιάζει τη χρήση ποικίλων μέσων και αναφορών αλλά αποτελείται από 70% ζωγραφική.
Η Αλεξάνδρα Κουμαντάκη ζει και εργάζεται στην Αθήνα. Είναι συνιδρύτρια του Hyperlink Athens (2017), μιας ανεξάρτητης κολεκτίβας η οποία εστιάζει στον επαναπροσδιορισμό των εγκαταστάσεων και στην ιδέα του καλλιτέχνη ως επιμελητή. Το κύριο σώμα του έργου της χαρακτηρίζεται από πληθώρα αντιφατικών σημείων ενδιαφέροντος τα οποία συμπτύσσονται και διαμορφώνουν μια συμπαγή δομή. Εδώ μπορεί κανείς να παρατηρήσει την ένωση/αφομοίωση του πανανθρώπινου αρχαίου παρελθόντος με ένα όραμα του μακρινού μέλλοντος: μια χίμαιρα με φλέβες φτιαγμένες από καλώδια, ένα μυστικιστικό μνημείο βασισμένο σε υπολογιστικές θεωρίες και στη μεταφορά πληροφοριών μεταξύ αυτού που κάποτε «ήταν» και σε αυτό που «θα είναι». Από εξωγήινους κόσμους και μυστικούς χώρους μέχρι άγνωστα φώτα στον ουρανό, ο κόσμος της Κουμαντάκη είναι ένας τόπος όπου ο θεατής μπορεί να χάσει τον εαυτό του σε μια in-situ ουτοπία. Εδώ είναι το σημείο συνάντησης της αθέλητης μνήμης του παρελθόντος και του παρόντος με το άμεσο μέλλον.
Η Αναστασία Λάμπρου είναι σκηνογράφος και εικαστικός. Γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα το 1989 και σπούδασε Αρχιτεκτονική στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Bath (BSc in Architecture). Συνέχισε τις σπουδές της στην Ανωτάτη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών της Αθήνας, στο εργαστήριο του Ζ. Ξαγοράρη, όπου ασχολήθηκε κυρίως με την performance και το βίντεο, καθώς και τη σκηνογραφία στο εργαστήριο της Λ. Πεζανού. Έχει πάρει μέρος σε ομαδικές εκθέσεις στην Ελλάδα και στο εξωτερικό όπως το φεστιβάλ «Excentricités VI»στο Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο της Besançon (2015), στην ομαδική παρουσίαση performance «Be/Be/Be» στο Beton7 Arts (2015), στην έκθεση OUT[TOP/AS]: «Περφόρμανς και υπαίθριος/δημόσιος χώρος» στο Μουσείο Μπενάκη Πειραιώς (2016), καθώς και στην ομαδική έκθεση «Hermenaughtics» στο NOTUS Studio (2018). Παράλληλα εργάζεται ως σκηνογράφος και ζωγράφος σκηνικών στον κινηματογράφο, στο θέατρο και στη διαφήμιση, ενώ ασχολείται με τον εσωτερικό σχεδιασμό και την ανακαίνιση χώρων.
Lia Tsalta is a film writer and director living and working in Athens, Greece. She studied Film & Television Directing in Athens. In 2012, she was selected to attend the intensive Filmmaking workshops at NewSchool Athens with a scholarship. «The Forest» (2018, 18’) was her first short fiction film; it premiered at the 24th Sarajevo Film Festival and is still being screened in Greece and abroad (Encounters Film Festival, Uppsala International Film Festival, Brussels Short Festival, etc.).
Stergios Paschos was born in Velestino in 1985. He has been living in Athens since 2008. He has worked as a screenwriter and director in Film and Television. He has written and directed several short films. With his project «Pigs in the Wind» he participated in TorinoFilmLab’s Script&Pitch 2013 and Framework 2014, also in MFI script 2 film workshop 2013 and Sarajevo’s Cinelink 2013. In 2016 his debut Feature «AFTERLOV» premiered in Locarno Film Festival at the Concourse Cineasti del Presente and won the youth jury prize for Best picture. So far, the film has been screened in many festivals and won numerous awards.
Alkis Papastathopoulos is a filmmaker from Greece who holds an MA degree in film studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is a Sundance Alumnus and has directed five short films. In 2013 his short film «en pojke» won a special mention at Outview Film Festival. In 2014 his experimental short «En pojke» premiered in MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival and went on to participate in many international festivals (Berlin Porn Film Festival, Pink Screens FF, Leeds Queer Film Festival, Queer City Cinema, Outview FF). In 2018 his short film/music video «Gomenaki» won the Best Sound Music Video award at IndieMemphis Film Festival. The same year he won the HBO Europe award for the Best TV Series project at Midpoint TV Launch for the dramedy series in development «Sleepover» he co-wrote with Maria Hatzakou. In 2019 «Sleepover» was selected to be part of Sundance Institute|Youtube New Voices Lab becoming the first European series ever participating in that lab. His latest short film «Hyped» premiered at the official competition program of the International Film Festival of Athens where it won the award for best actress (Artemis Tzortzoglou, Anna Papageorgiou).
Βorn in Athens in 1988. He graduated from the University of Patras [2012] with a Bachelor in Architecture and he completed his Master’s degree [MSc] in Culture and Documentary Production at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication at Aegean University [2019]. Currently he works as a professional photographer. He has collaborated with UNHCR in Greece, UNICEF’s Hellenic National Committee, websites [lnfo-war.gr, Flix.gr, Mashable.com] and newspapers [ef.syn, Kathimerini].
The documentary «The Canaries» (2019), his first short film, won the FISCHER Audience Award for Best Greek Film Production Under 50′ at the 21st Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
Yorgos Zois is a Greek director born on 1982 and based in Athens. He studied applied Math & Nuclear Physics at the NTUA and film direction in UdK Berlin. His work has been selected at A-festivals worldwide (Cannes – Film Critique Week, Venice, Rotterdam, Telluride, Palm Springs, Clermont-Ferrand, EFA nomination among others) and has won numerous awards and distinctions worldwide. His films have been internationally praised for their meta-aesthetics and daring narratives. He was member of the Jury «Lion of the Future» at the 74th Venice IFF.