[email protected]

Fellow Year: 2019

VANGELIS SERFAS

Vangelis Serfas was born and raised in Salamina, Greece. He studied Film and TV Studies in Athens. He made his first short film as a director-writer, «Sunday» on 2014, which won the Best Screenplay Award on 37th Drama International Film Festival. He is a professional Screenwriter and Script Consultant based in Athens, Greece. Many of his screenplays have been awarded. His script «Tzeni and Giannis» was funded by Hellenic Film Academy on the Competition of Film Factory Short Film Fund on 2017. He co-written the short film «37 Days with Nikoleta Leousi» which won the Best Screenplay Award in Shorts Category on 24th Athens International Film Festival on 2018. He just completed his second short film as a writer/director, Basil, funded by the Greek Film Center. Currently he is writing his first feature film screenplay «The Smell of Gasoline».

VASILIS KEKATOS

Vasilis Kekatos (1991) is a graduate student of Brunel University School of Arts, in London. In 2016, he won Sundance Ignite «What’s Next?» Short Film Challenge and received a mentorship from Sundance Institute, with his short  «Zero Star Hotel». With his films «The Silence of the Dying Fish» (2018) and «The Distance Between Us and the Sky» (2019) he has participated in many prestigious film festivals: Locarno, Sundance, Sarajevo, Tallinn Black Nights, Palm Springs and Telluride. Ηe recently www awarded the short film Palme d’Οr and the Queer Palm at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. Vasilis is currently working on his debut feature film.

NICOLE BAIRAKTARI

Nicole Bairaktari studied painting and sculpture (with professor George Lappas) at Athens School of Fine Arts. In 2015, she was accepted at the Postgraduate Studies Program («Design-Space-Culture») of the National Technical University School of Architecture from which she graduated with honors. She is currently a PhD Candidate at the Department of Fine Arts of Athens School of Fine Arts. Her artistic practice as well as her theoretical research interests revolve around the creation of a cross-disciplinary field of artistic activity where the sculptural treatment of space intersects with video-installations mixing time-based digital media, creating paratheatrical scenes, staged and captured in film and presented/exhibited as large-scale videographic «tableaux vivants». In the latter, the «body» plays a central role being defined as a purely audiovisual phenomenon (an audible/visible appearance), a set of fragmented bodily postures, accentuated gestures and ambiguous flexions. Since 2008, she has participated in group exhibitions, workshops and conferences in Greece and abroad.

VALINIA SVORONOU

Valinia Svoronou (b. 1991 Athens) is an artist based in Athens and London. She graduated from Slade School of Fine Art (MFA Sculpture 2015) and Athens School of Fine Arts (BA Painting 2013). In 2016 she had her first solo show, «The glow pt 2, gravity regimes», in Berlin’s Frankfurt am Main project space. She co-organized the Ambiguity Symposiums presented at The Showroom Gallery, The Slade School and Enclave in London. In the same year she showed work at Benaki museum in Athens as part of the show «The Equilibrists» co-organized by the New Museum and DESTE Foundation. In 2017 she created and launched her first artist publication based at Space Studios, now available at the ICA bookshop London and showed new work at the Showroom Gallery commissioned by the Arts Council UK. In 2018, showed her work in Prague’s Futura gallery as part of the Group show and publication curated by Lukas Hoffman; in Italy, at Foothold projects space as part of a group show curated by Christina Gigliotti; in Lesvos as part of a group show curated by Nikolas Vamvouklis; in a solo show with Hot Wheels Projects as part of Art Athina. This year, she participated in the ICA self publisher’s fair in London, was part of the Ephemeral Dinner series with Tjorg Douglas Beer, curated by Yulia Belousova in Berlin’s Haus am Lutzowplatz, and screened new moving image work in Haus N Athen. Recently, she was part of the group show «The Same River Twice», curated by Margot Norton and Natalie Bell organised by the DESTE Foundation and the New Museum, and showed one of her films in the screening program of Art Athina.

ANASTASIA PAVLOU

Anastasia Pavlou (born in 1993) lives and works in Athens, Greece. She graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts in 2017 with Jury Honours. She is participating in the 2nd SNF Artist Fellowship Program of ARTWORKS. In 2019 she had her first solo show called «belly ache» at Hot Wheels Projects, Athens. Selected group shows include: «The Same River Twice», group show at Benaki Museum Athens, co-curated by the New Museum, NY and DESTE Foundation, Athens. «Image Drum», Royal Academy, London, «Schmaltz», at Guimaraes Vienna,«Be Water Again», curated by Panos Giannikopoulos and Theodoulos Polyviou at Korai Art Space, Nicosia.

CHRISTOS PAPASOTIRIOU

Christos Papasotiriou (Chalkida, Greece 1989) has a Μaster’s in Visual Arts «In Situ» (Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, 2015-2017) and an Integrated Masters in Fine Arts (Athens School of Fine Arts, 2009-2014). He is currently an awardee and fellow of ARTWORKS (SNF Artist Fellowship Program). He was also awarded the prize «In Situ 2017», the 1st Prize «Redesign Paardenmarkt» project and the NEON grant in 2015-2016. He has participated in various workshops and exhibitions such as: 2019 «Epitopou», Residency (Greece)-2015 «In Situation», Workshop (Portugal) – 2013 «Time and Movement», Workshop (Greece)–2012 «Everything Flows», Workshop in association with Bauhaus University (Greece) 2019 «Mushroom Soup», Performance, Athens School of Fine Arts (Athens)-2018 «Multiplied», Group show, Troebel Neintje (Antwerp)-2018 «Affordable Art Fair», Tour and Taxis (Brussels)-2017 «To Be», Solo Show, Gallery 88 (Antwerp)-2017 «Articulate #2», Research Project, Koninklijk Conservatorium (Antwerp)-2016 «Me Here Now», Antwerp Art Weekend, In collaboration with the art spaces: Lokaal 01, BRDG, L Edition Populaire, (Antwerp)-2016 «De Lange Nacht», Group Show (Antwerp)-2015 «Error», Group Show, Action Field Kodra (Thessaloniki)-2015 «G. Vizyinos Eis tin Polin», Group Show, Zografeion Lyceum (Istanbul)-2014 «Wear and Tear(?)», Group Show, Metamatic Τaf(Athens).

EVA PAPAMARGARITI

Eva Papamargariti graduated from the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly with a ΒΑ in Architecture (2012). She holds a Master Degree in Visual Communication Design from Royal College of Art, London (2016). Her practice focuses on time-based media, printed material and sculptural installations that explore the relationship between digital space and material reality. She is interested in the creation of 2d/3d rendered spaces and scenarios which provoke narrations based on the obscure simultaneous situations unfolding in a quotidian frequency on the verge of digital and physical environments, blurring the boundaries between these «ecosystems». Her work delves into issues and themes related to simultaneity, merging and dissolving of our surroundings within the virtual, constant diffusion of fabricated synthetic images that define and fragment our identity and everyday experience, as well as the symbiotic procedures and entanglements that take place between humans, nature and technology. Furthermore, processes that are established through online presence, the traces that our operations inscribe onto the objects and habitat where we find ourselves, through our continuous interaction with devices and mechanic artifacts. She has exhibited her work in cities like, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Berlin, Seattle, Amsterdam, Shanghai, Toronto, Montreal, Athens in institutions museums and festival: the New Museum (New York), Whitney Museum (New York), Tate Britain (London), MAAT Museum (Lisbon), Museum of Moving Image (New York), MoMA PS1 (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Montreal), Αrs Electronica (Linz), Athens Biennale, Thessaloniki Biennale, Transmediale Festival (Berlin)

MARIA NIKIFORAKI

Maria graduated from Athens School of Fine Arts in 2012, where she received the Spyridon Vikatos Foundation Scholarship Program 2013. In 2015 she completed her Master’s degree at the MFA in Fine Arts Program at Goldsmiths College in London. In 2019 she received the ARTWORKS Fellowship Award (SNF Artist Fellowship Program). Maria has participated in numerous exhibitions, collaborative events, workshops and festivals, among those the Criss Cross 2 Event, Artist-On-Artist Convergences, supported by ASFA, Isba-Besançon and Cold Mountain, the «Learning From Documenta» art workshop, part of the International Anthropological Conference, supported by Athens School of Fine Arts and the Anthropological Research Laboratory – Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens 2017, the performance event «GOMENES» part of the Athens Biennale 2015- 2017 «OMONOIA», the Latitude Festival Big Screen 2015 and 2014 Film Festival, London, England, the Performative Labour-ism Performance Festival In the context of MPABerlin 2014/ Month of Performance, Berlin, Germany, the Performance »Voyage 3» Film Festival 2013, Helsinki, Finland, «Excentricités 3» Performance Festival 2012, Besançon, France, 3rd Art Biennale MIET, Thessaloniki 2011.

 

 

RINIO DRAGASAKI

Born in Athens, Greece, in 1980. She studied film in Athens and she got an MA in documentary & society at ESCAC. Since then she has worked in the film, television and advertising industry. She has written and directed four short films and a feature. Her short film, «Dad, Lenin and Freddy» was selected at numerous international film festivals: Clermont-Ferrand, Sao Paolo, Chicago, Edinburgh among others, and wοn several distinctions. Ιn 2012 it was awarded for Best Short Film of the Hellenic Film Academy and three more awards at the Short Film Festival of Drama including the Silver Alexandros. The film was broadcasted by Canal + and SBS in Australia. «Schoolyard», her next short, premiered at the 64th Berlinale and was nominated for the Crystal Bear, was also one of the five nominees for the best short film 2014 at the Hellenic Film Academy Awards. The film was selected in many Internationals Film Festivals (Guanajuato, Edinburgh, Dresden, Brest etc) and win distinctions for it’s experimental means. Her debut film Cosmic Candy, was selected to participate in the Sundance If Istanbul Screenwriter’s Lab and had its World Premiere in Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas.

ELINA PANIK

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

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

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.

NIKOLETA LEOUSI

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

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.

CHRISTINA PETKOPOULOU

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―.

STYLIANOS TSATSOS

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.

VIRGINIA MASTROGIANNAKI

(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.

MARGARITA BOFILIOU

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.

 

MARIA TSAGKARI

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.

YORGOS YATROMANOLAKIS

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.