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.
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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
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.
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».
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou is a dancer based in Athens. She graduated from the Greek State School of Dance. Upon graduation, she has collaborated among others with Dimitris Papaioanou, Christos Papadopoulos, Iris Karayan, Antonis Foniadakis, Alexandra Waierstall, Patricia Apergi, Tzeni Argyriou, Sofia Mavragani, RootlessRoot , Maria Koliopoulou. She was awarded in the Festival Culturel International de la Danse Contemporaine, Algiers (2013) for the piece 21-mneme by Maria Koliopoulou and in the InShadow festival (2013) in Lisbon with Konstantinos Rizos for the video dance project Sans Attente. She has participated in the dance network Aerowaves with the work Mothers (Iris Karayan) and Elvedon and Opus (Christos Papadopoulos). She teaches contemporary dance at open studios and professional dance schools. She has been awarded in 2019-2020 by ARTWORKS and she is a Fellow of the SNF Artist Fellowship Program.
Born in Volos, Greece, in 1983. Lives and works in Athens. Studied in various artistic fields: ceramics, drawing, sculpture and art history. She obtained her Master’s degree in Cinema and Audiovisual from the University of Paris VIII, with specialization in Film Direction.
Born in Greece, 1986. He studied at the London Film School, LFS and Kingston University, London. He has worked as a writer, director and editor. His short films were screened in more than 200 international film festivals, including Cannes, New Directors/New Films, BFI and AFI Fest, and have received numerous prizes. They have also been acquired by TV channels, VoD and online platforms (Nowness, Vimeo Staff Picks, etc.). In 2016, he was selected for the Filmmakers Academy at the 69th Locarno Film Festival. His latest short film, «Copa-Loca» (2017), won the Greek Academy Award and was nominated for the European Film Award. «Broadway», his debut feature script, was selected for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab 2018 and L’Atelier Cinéfondation, Cannes Film Festival.
Christina Koutsospyrou was born in Athens in 1980. She moved to London in 1998 where she studied Graphic Design at the London College of Printing and later on Photography at Fashion Institute of Technology New York. In 2010, after successfully pursuing a career in illustration and textile design, she returned to Greece and filmed her debut feature «To the Wolf», a docu-fictional exploration of the lives of shepherds in the mountains of Nafpaktia where her father grew up. The film premiered at the Berlinale in 2013 and was screened in over 50 film festivals worldwide, including Toronto, Sao Paulo, Viennale, Torino, Thessaloniki. It won awards at Dokufest, Doclisboa and Syros. Christina is currently working on two feature films and a video installation.
Spiros Kokkonis was born in 1992 in Athens, Greece where he currently lives and works. In 2016 he co-founded Grace/ Athens artist-run space. His work is defined by the identification of his practice and his artwork’s substance. Surrounded by a very specific environment, its’ political, social and cultural directions, the artist is creating images influenced by – and connected to it. While the surrounding environment is the subject and the reason for his practice, it is also seen as a never-ending material source. Throughout his process, the artist is exploiting existing forms and their meanings, to create new images based on what has previously been made, said or done. From steel and concrete to visual appropriation, a list of readymades (archives, spaces, images, sounds and objects) are being mixed, reformed and translated into sculptures, installations, and videos that aim to imprint a personal say. A personal aspect of the outward environment, that is wavering between feelings of embracement and hope to enmity and despair. His work has been exhibited in Athens Conservatoire, Parko Eleftherias, Art Space Pythagoreion, SHED London, Grace / Athens and Onassis Cultural Centre.
Alexandra/Sasha Streshna was born in 1987 in Lviv, Soviet Ukraine and she has been living in Athens since 1999. She is a graduate of Athens School of Fine Arts (2011) and has obtained a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins, London (2014) on a Sp. Vikatos Foundation Scholarship. In 2016 she received Jannis Spyropoulos Award. In 2019 she presented her first solo exhibition titled HELLO! curated by Ilias Papailiakis at space52 (Athens). Her practice and research are both concerned with figurative painting using oil on canvas. Her work refers to western history painting tradition, while depictions of violence and power are amongst the recurring themes.