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.
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 Χριστίνα Δημακογιάννη γεννήθηκε το 1992. Σπούδασε Καλές Τέχνες στην Ανωτάτη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών (2012-2018), με καθηγητή τον Γεώργιο Χαρβαλιά, από την οποία αποφοίτησε με άριστα. Το 2014-2015 σπούδασε Καλές Τέχνες, με υποτροφία Erasmus, στο Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem, της Ουγγαρίας. Το 2019 βραβεύθηκε από την ARTWORKS και είναι Fellow στο Πρόγραμμα Υποστήριξης Καλλιτεχνών Ίδρυμα Σταύρος Νιάρχος. Το 2019 συμμετέχει στο No Budget Film Festival στην Αθήνα, στη SUBMERGED στη Σαντορίνη, στο GRLL HAUS-Pop Up Video Art Show στο Βερολίνο, στο Platforms project 2019, στην Αθήνα, στο AConversation between material and immaterialστο Παρίσι και στο 5ο Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Ντοκιμαντέρ Πελοποννήσου, στην Καλαμάτα. Το 2018 πήρε μέρος στο Inshort film festival στο Λάγος της Νιγηρίας, στο FOCUS LOCUS του Πεδίου Δράσης Κόδρα στη Θεσσαλονίκη και στο 2ο Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου Πειραιά όπου σε συνεργασία με τη Βέρα Χοτζόγλου κέρδισε το βραβείο κοινού για τη μικρού μήκους ταινία «Munich Almost Killed me 1/2». Το 2017 συμμετείχε στο Sotiris Felios Collection στην Αθήνα, στο Jahreaustellung στην Ακαδημία Καλών Τεχνών του Μονάχου, στο 1ο Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου Πειραιά, στο Video Art Mηδένat TWIXΤlabστην Αθήνα και στο If it was you… στην Καλαμάτα, ενώ το 2016 στο Φεστιβάλ Μηδέν στην Καλαμάτα. Την ίδια χρονιά, η ταινία «Όταν ο λύκος δεν είναι εδώ» σε συνεργασία με τη Βέρα Χοτζόγλου και παραγωγή του ΚΕΘΕΑ, συμμετείχε στο Berlin Student Film Festival και προβλήθηκε στο 1ο Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου Πειραιά, στη Στέγη Γραμμάτων και Τεχνών και στην Ένωση Ελλήνων Αρχαιολόγων στην Αθήνα. Το 2012 εξέθεσε στο Κέντρο Χαρακτικής «Ήλιος» στη Θεσσαλονίκη. Ζει και εργάζεται στην Αθήνα.
Olga Evangelidou was born in Athens in 1988. She is a graduate of the Visual Arts Department at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2006-12), where she continued her studies in the master’s program (2014-2016), with an Onassis Foundation Scholarship (2015-16). Between 2012 and 2014, she attended classes at the Fashion Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In 2011 she was awarded the first prize at the contest of New Fashion designers (Next Generation) at the 14th Athens Fashion Week. Dress plays a significant role in her work, as if it proves the existence of the imaginary characters she creates. Since 2017 she is a Ph.D. Candidate of the Theory and History of Art Department at the Athens School of Fine Arts and since 2019 she receives a scholarship from the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (“2nd Call for H.F.R.I. Scholarships for Ph.D. Candidates”). Her dissertation, under the supervision of the Associate Professor of European History, Ada Dialla, focuses on the history of dress and the beauty standards in the late 18th and early 19th century in the islands of the Aegean sea.
Dimitris Efeoglou (born in 1986) graduated from the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Department of Fine and Applied Arts. Holds a Master in Fine Arts in Athens School of Fine Arts. He has had three solo exhibitions: at Lola Nikolaou gallery ”Latitudes” in the framework of the two-person exhibition with Dimitris Ameladiotis, Thessaloniki, GR (2019), at Zoumboulakis gallery ”SUBSTRATUM” in the framework of the two-person exhibition with Despina Flessa, Athens, GR (2016), and at Lola Nikoalou gallery ‘Facsimile’ Thessaloniki, GR (2016). His work has been included in group exhibitions such as: ”POISONS” curated by Apostolis Artinos, The Symptom 10, Amfissa, GR (2019) ”CARITAS ROMANA – 15 ACTS OF DEVOTION” Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art, curated by Orestis Andreadakis, (2018) ”THE MATERIALITY OF THE PAINTERLY EVENT” City of Athens Arts Center, curated by Denys Zacharopoulos, Athens, GR (2018), ”Of Death And Other Demons” CAN Christina Androulidaki gallery, Athens, GR (2018) ”IDENTIFYING LOSS” The Symptom 07, Former Hospital of Amfissa curated by Niki Papaspirou – Kostas Christopoulos, Amfissa, GR (2016), ”AGORA & GABE – GESPENSTER DER GASTFREUNDSCHAFT” Curated by Sofia Panteliadou, Daniela Chailtsl National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation (MIET), Thessaloniki, GR (2014) ‘DISORDER’ (WEYA), Lakeside Arts Center, Nottingham, UK, curated by Marco Trulli, Claudio Zecchi (2012).
Antonis Theodoridis is an Athens-based artist, working in the medium of Photography. He is a Fulbright Foundation scholar and holds a Photography MFA degree from the University of Hartford, USA. His practice is a mixture of traditional analogue photography along with digital processes, research, collage, and printing. Using large-format view cameras, he depicts places and people producing sharp in detail and rich in colour pigment prints. Following a road trip across the Western States in 2014, his work Newspaper from the American West was published in Greece by Agra Publications. Through his studio work, he critically examines how archival images reflect and shape western culture, emphasising the notions of cultural bias and the limits of historical knowledge. His process aims to reinvent context and meaning through collage and installation. In 2018, collaborating with the MNHA Museum in Luxembourg, he produced his work Unknown Relics / Relics of the Unknown, a still-life project exploring blind spots of museological practice by employing and photographing museum artefacts of unknown origin. His work has been presented in Greece and abroad and can be found in the collections of the EIB Institute, the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and the Municipal Gallery of Thessaloniki.
Η Εύη Καλογηροπούλου σπούδασε στην Ανωτάτη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών της Αθήνας και ολοκλήρωσε το μεταπτυχιακό πρόγραμμα του Royal College of Art, Moving Image Path. Έχει συμμετάσχει σε διάφορες εκθέσεις και προβολές στο Λονδίνο, τη Γερμανία και την Ελλάδα, όπως το Μουσείο Μπενάκη, τη Whitechapel Gallery και την Chisenahale Gallery στο Λονδίνο. Προσφάτως, συμμετείχε στην έκθεση «The Same River Twice» στο Μουσείο Μπενάκη, που διοργάνωσαν το ίδρυμα ΔΕΣΤΕ και το New Museum NY. Επίσης χρηματοδοτήθηκε από την Ελευσίνα – Πολιτιστική Πρωτεύουσα της Ευρώπης 2021 για την πραγματοποίηση του έργου της «Motorway6» με την υποστήριξη του ιδρύματος Ρόζα Λούξεμπουργκ. Το 2018, η ταινία της «Neighbours» προβλήθηκε στη Whitechapel Gallery και στο BFI στον διαγωνισμό Tenderflix, που διοργάνωσαν το British Film Institute και η Tenderpixel Gallery. Έχει συμμετάσχει σε residency όπως στο Somerset House Studios. Στην πρακτική της χρησιμοποιεί εγκαταστάσεις, έργα κινούμενης εικόνας, πειραματικές ταινίες και γλυπτά. Τα έργα της διερευνούν ιδέες όπως η ένταξη και ο αποκλεισμός, η διαπολιτισμική ταυτότητα, οι γυναικείες μορφές στο πλαίσιο της αρχαίας ελληνικής μυθολογίας και τα sci-fi περιβάλλοντα.
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.
She studied sculpture with George Lappas and Nikos Navridis at Athens School of Fine Arts (2013-2018). From 2008 to 2011, she studied interior design at Vakalo School, Athens.
She has participated in group shows:
2017: Gestalt Hydra school projects curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis 2017: integral II, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis, Ileana Tounta and Galini Lazani
2018: Graduation show at ASFA
2019: «The Same River Twice: Contemporary Art in Athens», Benaki Μuseum curated by Natalie Bell, Margot Norton, organized by DESTE Foundation and New Museum
Dimitra Kondylatou lives and works in Athens. She studied at the Dutch Art Institute and the Athens School of Fine Arts. She is interested in the limits of art and its interaction with tourism, economy and everyday life, as well as in practices, gestures and responses in contexts of hospitality and exchange. In the process of artistic research, she experiments with various media and forms, including narrative videos, video essays, digital drawings and projects of hospitality. From 2015 to 2017 she organized, curated and hosted The island-resignified, an artists-in-residence project at the neion guesthouse where she was working as a tourist hostess (2012-2018). In 2017-2018 she was part of the organizational and artistic board of TWIXTlab in Athens. Since 2008 she has participated and organized group exhibitions, workshops and conferences in Greece and abroad, some of which are: «Mountain Fringes» (Greveniti Residency, GR, 2019), «Dishmapping» (ASFA, Panteion University, 2018, 2019), «Weasel Dance» (Goethe Institut, Athens, 2019), «Ideology Meets Implementation» (W139, Amsterdam, 2017), «Learning from Documenta» (Αthens, 2016-2017), «Dialoghi di video-arte tra memoria e archivi» (Rome, 2013), «Rooms 2013 and Rooms +» (Αthens, 2013), Action Field KODRA, (Thessaloniki, 2011, 2012), «Canon HT6» (International Test Site (ITS)- Z1 Ritopek, SRB, 2011).
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.
Karolina Krasouli was born in 1984 in Athens, Greece. After studying Clinical Psychology in Greece and in France, she enrolled in the National School of Fine Arts of Lyon, where she obtained her degree in 2014. Working with painting, photography and film, the images she produces lie in the intersection of abstraction and figuration. Through the process of reading and writing, she extracts a set of operations where she transcribes meanings and sensations without the support of language. Her works aim closer at representing optical phenomena related to memory and language, than providing an immediate grasp of an image or an object. In 2013 she worked as an assistant for Moyra Davey, a photographer, essayist and filmmaker, and participated in the making of her short-film Les Godesses, a visual essay on Jean Genet. In 2015, she became a founding member of Alfabeto, a non-profit organization which organized a series of talks, exhibitions and lectures on the concept of transmission in art theory and practice at the French Academie in Rome, Villa Medicis. She presented her work at Ateliers de Rennes, 5th edition, Incorporated! (2016); galerie Raymond Hains, Saint-Brieuc (2016); Eva Meyer, Paris (2017); Frac Bretagne, Rennes (2018); Daily Lazy, Athens (2018); Pauline Perplexe, Paris (2018); Frac Bretagne, Rennes (2019); La vitrine, Frac île-de-France Le Plateau, Paris (2020).
Konstantinos Kotsis (b. 1989, Athens) is a visual artist, with a bachelor and master degree from the department of Fine Arts and Sciences of Art, of the School of Fines Arts (University of Ioannina, Greece). He has also attended UFR Arts, Philosophie, Esthétique department at the University Paris 8, Paris. As an artist Konstantinos Kotsis has a special interest in handmade crafts. Such work has been exhibited in several group shows in Greece and abroad. The important among them are the following: «Constellations In The Dirt» (2018, ΝEON, Koufonisi Archaeological Collection), «Acropolis At The Bottom» (2018, Nikos Kessanlis Hall, Athens School Of Fine Arts, Athens), «Notes On Division», «The Kids Want Communism Third Installment» (2017, Museum Of Bat Yam, Tel Aviv), «In The Mouth Of The Wolf. Die Wolf, Die» (2014, House Of Cyprus, Embassy Of Cyprus, Athens).
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.
Maria Mavropoulou was born in 1989 and she lives and works in Athens. Ιn 2018 she completed her MFA at Athens School of Fine Arts, from where she got her BA in 2014. She has studied painting and sculpture, although her main medium is photography. Her work has been presented in exhibitions in Greece and abroad and published in various magazines. Maria Mavropoulou also works as a freelance photographer specializing in architecture and interior photography and she is a contributing photographer for Τhe New York Times.
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.
Marina Papadaki, born in 1991, is an Athens-based artist. She has a BA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual and Applied Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2015) and an MFA in Fine Arts from Luca School of Arts in Brussels (2018). She is the founder of the Hydroexpress Project in Kaminia, Piraeus, and the editor of Hydroexpress Project Publication. She was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS. She has participated in exhibitions and artist residences in Greece, Cyprus, Ukraine, Poland, Belgium, Serbia, and Romania. Something that is strongly reflected in the body of her work is the conceptual visualisation of social mechanisms and inequalities. With references to the socio-political system, through her work, she seeks to awaken critical thinking and to remind us of the position we take as individuals — with everything that it might entail. Key Words such as social space, institutionalization, (social) boundaries, human production – reproduction, otherness, identity, discrimination, exclusion etc. are at the epicentre, and are repeated in her art research and practice by using different types of mediums, such as painting, installations, videos, digital prints, et al. As an extension of her research, she worked at the Psychiatric Hospital of Attica. Her work has also been presented at conferences about “socially engaged art” at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the House of Representatives of Cyprus.
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.
Konstantinos Samaras was born and raised in Thessaloniki. He graduated with a Law degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and then studied Film in Paris, where he lived and worked for several years. In addition to directing, he has worked as a film festival programmer and film critic. He has worked as an assistant director in various films, including Nikos Panayotopoulos, Benoît Jacquot, Panos Koutras. He has directed the short films «Gloria», «The Red Raincoat», «The Quiet Nights», «Three Eggholders Almost Four». His first feature film, «Magic Skin», was screened in Berlin Critics Week, while the protagonist Anthi Efstratiadou won the Emerging Actor Award at the Athens International Film Festival «Opening Nights». He is in the process of preparing his second feature film «Epitaph».