Born in Kefalonia in 1992, Efthimios Moschopoulos is a Greek dancer currently based in Athens. He is a graduate of the Greek National School of Dance (KSOT) and he is graduand of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology. Ηe is performing and creating as a dance artist since 2017 in Greece and internationally. He has collaborated among others with Armin Hokmi, Ginevra Panzetti & Enrico Ticconi, Euripides Laskaridis, Christos Papadopoulos, Romeo Castelllucci, Sofia Mavragani, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Cally Spooner, Xenia Koghilaki, Andonis Foniadakis in productions presented both in Greece and abroad. He has performed in several festivals, including: Julidans Festival (the Netherlands), Lyon Dance Biennale (France), Tanz im August (Germany), Festival TransAmériques (Canada), International Festival of Buenos Aires (Argentina), Romaeuropa Festival (Italy) and Athens and Epidaurus Festival (Greece). He has presented his work in New Choreographers Festival 8 at Onassis Stegi (collaborative work: Besuch,2021), Athens School of Fine Arts (modulators#1, 2019) and BIOS (Tomi, 2016). He has worked as stage movement director for several theater productions. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2020.
Eliza Soroga is a Greek artist working across forms and artistic languages within Contemporary Art Practice as an attempt to explore the dialogue between everyday life and performance. She holds an MA in Performance Making (Goldsmiths University of London) and an MA in Cultural Theory (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens). She was named Overall Winner in Performance & Video Art during the 11th International Arte Laguna Prize competition (Venice, 2017). Her work has been commissioned by the Athens & Epidaurus Festival (2018), the City of Athens (2019) and Arts Council England (2013-2017). Her works have been showcased at Victoria & Albert Museum, Battersea Arts Centre, The Yard Theatre, and Rich Mix in London; Forum des images and Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France; EYE Film Institute and social centre OT301 in Amsterdam; TANZRAUSCHEN Wuppertal Festival in Germany, and many more. Eliza works is a visiting lecturer teaching architecture and design in undergraduate programmes offered by Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London); University of East London; and Middle East Technical University (Ankara).
Kleoniki Stanich is a visual artist and filmmaker. She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2018 with her film Kappa, which was nominated for a GRA award, selected for various screenings and shows and broadcasted on Dutch TV. She writes, produces and directs short, experimental fiction films that question social relationships and communication and showcase everyday life’s surrealist undertones, while her work explores and engages with the concept of the female gaze. Kleoniki is a supporter of the idea that art can help forge communal bonds and participates in initiatives that put it into practice.
Aria Boumpaki is a dance artist living and working in Athens. Raised on the island of Crete, she decided to move to Athens and study at the Greek National School of Dance (KSOT) at the age of eighteen. After performing for a number of Greek dance companies, she received a scholarship by the Onassis Foundation to continue her training at the Institut Chorégraphique International (ΙCI) (Montpellier, France), where she completed the exerce choreographic research program. Her artistic work engages strongly with the question of community. Exploring dance bodies in different realities, she creates projects that combine a multitude of formats, structures and localities, ranging from conventional stage pieces to exhibitions, site-specific works, community projects, text and video installations. Fascinated by the body and individual physical identity, she often invites non-professional performers to explore or attempt a redefinition of the notion of ‘stage bodies’, as well as that of the reality of ‘being’. She values both instinct and knowledge, investigates movement as consciousness and seeks to introduce tenderness as revolution. Alongside her work as creator and performer, Aria regularly gives workshops and designs pedagogical content. She has collaborated with the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Onassis Cultural Center, Centre Pompidou, the National Theatre of Northern Greece and the French Institute of Athens. Her latest projects are supported by the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports and she is a danceweb scholar for IMPULSTANZ -Vienna International Festival 2020.
Ioanna is a dancer born and based in Athens. In 2007 she graduated from the Greek National School of Dance. She received a scholarship from the Pratsikas Brothers Scholarship Foundation and continued her studies in contemporary dance at the Folkwang Hochschule (later renamed to Folkwang Universität der Κünste)in Essen, Germany, As a dancer and performer, she has collaborated with various dance companies and choreographers such as Ioanna Portolou, Angeliki Stellatou, Maria Koliopoulou, Mariela Nestora, Fotis Nikolaou, Marianna Kavallieratos, Persa Stamatopoulou, Lia Tsolaki, Harry Koushos, Myrto Grapsa, Olia Lydaki, Haris Mandafounis and others. Together with choreographer Maria Koliopoulou’s Prosxima Dance Company, she received an award during the 5th Festival Culturel International de la Danse Contemporaine, Algiers (2013), for the piece 21-mneme. She has been teaching contemporary dance in children, dance students and adults since 2008 and has collaborated with several dance schools and studios in Athens, such as HoroHronos Professional Dance School, Elena Vakalopoulou Dance School, Studio Dan.c.ce, Horos Dance School, etc. Ever since 2017, she has been a member of the Onassis Stegi Dancing to Connect programme, which is addressed to secondary school students. As a choreographer in theatre performances, she has collaborated with Rafi lyrical theatre company, director Pandelis Dendakis and Marilita Lambropoulou, while she has also served as assistant choreographer to Lia Tsolaki for the opera The Nose, directed by Peter Stein and presented at the Finnish National Opera.
Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou is an art historian, critic, and curator. She is currently finishing a PhD at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (EHESS) on the subterranean imaginary in contemporary art, especially with regard to nuclear spaces. Among her recent exhibitions are: Scarred Land, a series of films on art and nuclear colonialism featuring work by Susan Schuppli and Inas Halabi, which were projected in Groningen during the cultural week After Hiroshima; the solo exhibition Canopy Canopy by Susanne Kriemann at Framer Framed in Amsterdam (with Ruby de Vos); The Opposing Shore in the context of the parallel program of the 7th Moscow Biennial. She co-edited an issue of the academic journal Kunstlicht on Nuclear Aesthetics. In 2017, she organized Nuclear Waste Weeks, a series of screenings, workshops and visits to nuclear sites in the Netherlands and Belgium. She was a fellow at Carleton University, Ottawa and a visiting scholar at the Environmental Humanities Center, VU University Amsterdam. Her work has been supported by the Onassis Foundation, the Goulandris Foundation and the National Research Council of Canada. She was a guest teacher at Carleton University and the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
After completing her architectural studies in Greece, Maria Tsilogianni received an MA in Design Critical Practice from Goldsmiths, University of London (2017). Her multidisciplinary practice moves between critical theory, speculative design and future studies. Using mixed media, she experiments with mechanisms and structures that invade domestic environments and disrupt everyday performativity in order to reinvent alternative interactions between humans and the built environment. She has been an artist-in-residence at Affect-Agora (Berlin, 2015) and her work has been published and presented at international conferences and group exhibitions, including: Cook 8, Benaki Museum (Athens, 2018); London Design Festival, (2017); Mittelweg, Mittelweg 50 (Berlin, 2015); Default 5//Long time no sea, Tsalapata Museum (Volos, 2015), 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Architecture, 2012. She recently co-founded studio MIWI –a speculative design practice based in Athens and San Francisco that explores future scenarios through the design of immersive experiences as well as digital and spatial narratives. Studio MIWI’s work has been awarded, published and exhibited internationally in the context of the following exhibitions and competitions: 1st prize and Vitra Design Museum Award Dancing. Alternative designs for clubs, Non Architecture Competitions, 2018; Aesthetics of Prosthetics, Pratt Institute, 2019; Honourable Mention at the Fairy Tales 2020 competition, organised by the online platform Blank Space Project. She is currently active in the field of Collectible Design, working on the production of avant-garde objects and spatial structures.
Eleni Bagaki is a visual artist holding a Master’s in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, London. In her practice, she investigates the autobiographical narrative and its relation to fiction and theory. Drawing inspiration from feminist perspectives in the fields of cinema and literature, her works emerge as stories, poems, films, songs, sculptures, or something else. She has been an artist-in-residence at Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen (2020); Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island (2019); Iaspis, Stockholm (2018–2019); Pivô, Sao Paulo (2018, supported by a Pivô artist grant); and at Kantor Foundation, Krakow (2017). In 2018 she presented her solo exhibition, A book, a film, and a soundtrack, at Radio Athènes, Αthens, with the support of the NEON Organisation for Culture and Development and the Outset Fund. Other solo exhibitions include: The importance of reading, writing, and exfoliating (2018, Palette Terre, Paris); Economy Class (2016-2017, Signal, Malmö); Now You See Me, Oh Now You Don’t (2015-2016, New Studio, London); Crack, Crack, Pop, Pop…oh what a relief it is! (2015, Radio Athènes, Athens). Selected group exhibitions include: Millennial Feminisms (2017, L’Inconnue, Montreal); The Equilibrists (2016, organized by the DESTE Foundation and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, Benaki Museum, Athens); and Lustlands (2013, Family Business, New York).