Fellow Year: 2019

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.

(2019) reading in/reading out, Old Parliament House/National Historical Museum, a production of MOMus, with the support of Outset Contemporary Art Fund (Greece)

(2018) Communion / Tune II, with Georges Patronas on music editing, Kapani project, Thessaloniki

(2017) mensuration of stars, «Shared Sacred Sites«, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece ~ like me, CHART Art Fair, annaelle Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark ~ Staircase, «paradoxically paradoxes», curated by Greg Haji Joannides, Sterna Art Project residency, Nisyros, Greece ~ L’enfer c’est l’Autre, «The Right To Be Human», curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos, Harry Savopoulos, Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art & Goethe Institut of Thessaloniki.

(2016) jargon, «As One», curated by Paula Garcia & Serge LeBorgne, NEON+MAI (Marina Abramovic Institute), Benaki museum, Athens ~ holy book «Typography as an act of art», curated by Maria Tsantsanoglou & Syrago Tsiara, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki.

(2015) I need your attention, «Globale Control and Censorship», curated by BernhardSerexhe,ZKM, Karslruhe, Germany ~ passive voice, 5th Young artists’ workshop «Romance», curated by Areti Leopoulou, Yeni Tjami, Biennale of Thessaloniki.

(2014) Savoir Vivre, curated by Nikos Mykoniatis, Thaleia Stefanidou, 24th International Istanbul Art Fair Municipality of Thessaloniki Pavilion, Turkey.

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.

Margarita Bofiliou (1979, Athens) lives and works in Athens. She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art, London, where she studied on a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation. She has been awarded the Spyropoulos Award and the National Magazine Award. In 2004 she was artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts.

Solo shows include: «Everything’s wrong», «Xerxes», «State of Concept» Athens, «Blue eyes on route to the best brothel of paradise», Athens, «Trypanosome», Margarita Bofiliou and Juliette Blightman (duo) Athens. Selected group shows include: «State (in) Concepts», Kadist, Paris, «Jump Ball», Dio Horia, Mykonos, Greece, «The Equilibrists», Benaki Museum, Athens, «Innate Memories», State of Concept Athens, «Cabinets of Miracles-Zone D», Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens, «ReMap2» (IBID Projects), Athens, «Alpha Exotica», Hydra School Projects, Hydra, Greece, «The Lobby», IBID Projects, London, «True Romance», «The Breeder», Athens, «Satellites (i-cabin baggage)», Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, «60 Seconds», Southwark Gallery, London, «New Contemporaries 2004», (Liverpool Biennial) & The Barbican, London. In her work she deals with the confusion, loneliness and the structural violence that the subject experiences.

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.

Maria Tsagkari lives and works in Athens. She studied Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art at the Technological Εducational Institute [TEI], graduating with honors in 2005; her graduation dissertation was on the work of Alexis Akrithakis. She worked as art restorer for the National Gallery of Athens and for private collections. In 2006 she enrolled at Athens School of Fine Arts. In 2007-2008 she attended the Facultad de Βellas Αrtes in Madrid on a state scholarship. She graduated from the ASFA in 2010 and continued at the postgraduate program in Visual Arts, graduating in 2012. Since 2012 she has been working as a lecturer at Athens School of Fine Arts. Her works have been exhibited internationally receiving awards such as the 2014 HYam award for the young Mediterranean artistic scene (Paris). Selected exhibitions: «AQUA», Contemporary Artists and Water Issues, SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo, Brazil; «STANDART», 1st Triennial of Contemporary Art in Armenia; «Coup de Ville», Triennial of Contemporary Architecture, Belgium; 4th Biennale of Contemporary Art, «Everywhere but now», Thessaloniki; «A fresh, A new generation of Greek Artists», National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yorgos Yatromanolakis lives and works in Athens and Crete. He works on long-term photography projects and turns them into books, experimenting with storytelling, different materials and design. He has published three books, «Roadblock to Normality», «Not Provided» and «The Splitting of the Chrysalis & the Slow Unfolding of the Wings». His work has been presented and awarded in Greece and abroad, among others at PhotoEspaña, Festival Circulation(s), Aperture Gallery, Mattatoio-Roma, Belfast Photo Festival, Voies Off–Arles, Athens Photo Festival, Felifa Festival, Tbilisi Photo Festival, Istanbul Photobook Festival, Odessa Photo Days, Month of Photography Los Angeles etc. He has received the Foam Talents 2020 Award and he is also an awardee and a visual arts fellow ofthe ARTWORKS SNF Artist Fellowship Program. He is co-founder of the artist-run space «Zoetrope» and contributor editor of «Phases» Magazine.

Apollonas Glykas (b. Athens) studied photography at Leica Academy and graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts with honors (2011). He has shown his work in Greece and abroad and has been awarded by the National Post Bank (2009), Panathinaikos FC (2010), IOAS Institute for road safety (2010), Hellenic Railways Organisation OSE- Code Rail Art (2017: his artwork will feature at a central train station). His solo exhibitions include: «Past the plasmatic oasis», Nicosia, Cyprus, 2014; «Showcase», the Office Gallery, Nicosia, 2011, «Buildings», Casa Maccheroni, Milan, 2004. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions such as: «Omega to Alpha», Bathhouse of the Wind, 2019, «Rarities», Photagogos, 2019, «Pillow Gravity», Ekfrasi Gallery, Athens, 2018, «Picture this», the symptom projects, Amfissa, Greece, 2017; «[un]known destinations», chapter I, former Zarifi Residence, Kypseli, Athens; «To express the feelings of a chair when we sit on it», The office gallery, Nicosia, 2016, «The eye and the finger», Cartabianca Arles, France, 2015. His work encompasses sculpture, installations, painting and photography. He collaborates with architecture firms developing installation projects. He has been working as a photographer since 2000 and a teacher of drawing and painting since 2010.

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.

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.

Anthi Daoutaki is a visual artist. She works with various media: video, text and an array of objects. She studied at Athens School of Fine Arts and at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. She creates installations which function as peculiar diaries that explore the subjectivity of time and the essence of presence. The need to explain the world from a feminine point of view is the focal point in her work. For the most part, text is assigned the role of the narrator of her stories while image functions as a set, a decor and background. She was resident at the University of Quebec (Canada) and participated in several workshops and group exhibitions in Greece and Europe: in Gallery R3 (Canada), Melina Merkouri (Hydra), Artscape (Athens), Projekt Galeria (Budapest) and Action Center Kodra (Thessaloniki). She was a nominee for the best foreign video in the Tent Academy Awards (Rotterdam). She lives and works in Athens.