Panayotis Lianos is an artist, architect and tattooist based in Athens. He is a graduate of the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens (ΝTUA), holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts and is currently studying towards a PhD in architecture at NTUA. His artistic research focuses on methods of collective artistic production capable of creating cracks within institutional frameworks. In his practice, he employs a broad range of media —from installations and performance to digital interdisciplinary fetishes, through which he composes a vocabulary situated somewhere between bits and gestures, blood and data. His work has been presented in various exhibitions and art spaces, among others: the Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Hong Kong; State of Concept, Athens; Eight, Athens; Neo Cosmos, Athens; P.E.T. Projects, Athens; Ammophila, Elafonisos; Michalis Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens; and Union Pacific, London. He is a member of the Ofrah Fergal Kasei practice, the Laboratory for the Urban Commons, and the fluid artistic collaboration method brackets[]. Through this series of symbioses, a series of co-authored works, interventions and publications have been produced; some are included in private and public collections, such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art, while others have been exhibited in self-managed and public spaces. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.
Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou (Bunny) is a visual artist based between Athens and Los Angeles. They hold a BA in sculpture from the Athens School of Fine Arts and are currently completing an MFA in media arts at the University of California (UCLA) under a Fulbright scholarship. In their interdisciplinary methodology, the social component is paramount, while fluffiness and touch is being used as a means to foster intimacy and interaction. It is about how softness can lead us to transform our subjectivities and communities or how melancholy and failure can shape a new understanding of the political. In 2018 they created Fluffy Library, a hybrid platform of togetherness for artists, book lovers, educators, activists, children and youth, families of all kinds and people from the LGBTQIA+ community, which was hosted for a year by ATOPOS cvc with the support of NEON Organization for Culture and Development. Their work has been showcased internationally in museums, institutes and exhibition spaces, including: Arnolfini Center of Contemporary Arts in Bristol (solo show); the 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art; Fresh A.I.R. residency in Berlin; theaters Sophienshaele and Hebbel Am Ufer (HAU), also in Berlin; Onassis Stegi in Athens; as well as the art spaces Wrightwood 659 in Chicago, Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Austria, and The Breeder Gallery in Athens. They have collaborated with such artists as Annea Lockwood, Annie Sprinkle, Brooke Candy, and Willem Pope L. They have been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).
Dimitris Kechris is a photographer and curator based in Athens. He studied Physics at the University of Athens and Digital Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA). In his practice, he looks for mnemic traces that underlie the formal historical narratives of modern European cities. He focuses on the relationship between technical images and the discourses contextualising them and explores the concept of the archive perceived as a reconstruction of the past in service of a promise for the future. His photographic work has been exhibited at the Benaki Museum, the Byzantine Museum, the Greek Film Archive, the Athens Municipality Arts Center, the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, the Athens University History Museum and Galeria Hexagono in Barcelona. He is the co-founder of ALDEBARAN, a platform for the theory of photography, and one of the curators of MedPhoto Festival. His writings on photography and cinema have appeared in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals and featured in the national press. He is a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.
Katerina Chatzikosti (born in 1996) is a visual artist living between London and Athens. She graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) in 2021 and is currently a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London. Using highly complex compositions whose stimuli she draws from trivial, everyday bodies of events, her work is centered on the construction of clusters —allegorical, confused worlds, which, in their immediacy, generate the prospect of associative malleability, while a certain contrived logic resonates through their architecture. She is interested in the written word as an imprint pregnant with visual implications, architectural patterns and threads of thought which lose their way, become dissolved and eventually subverted. She explores textures of materiality and sound, temperature and light and uses the written word as a starting point to compose a sense of time and space expanding on many layers. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).
Eirini Tiniakou (1993, Athens) is an artist based in Helsinki producing work in Greece (with a focus on Lesvos) and Vienna. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts (2018) and a Master of Arts from the Department of Art and Science, University of Applied Arts Vienna (2021). Her practice is grounded in field research, involving a mix of documentative, participatory and imaginative approaches. Her work is primarily concerned with themes of rural life and folklore and seeks to redefine our connection with the land and the self, often blending photography, textiles, objects and text. She has participated in a number of group exhibitions, among others: Meet the Universe, with the support of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2019); Chambre d’Ami·xes (Laurenz, Vienna, 2021); and Boxels, presented as part of the Biennale Sessions program of the Venice Biennale, 2019. Her work is represented by Kunst ab Hinterhof gallery (Parallel Vienna, 2019). She was selected for the Island Connect, a residency program funded by Creative Europe, 2020; as well as for Hermitage Sykaminea residency in Lesvos, in the framework of which she co-curated Hermitage Sykaminea Gathering (Athens, 2022) with the support of Goethe Institute and the Onassis Air residency program. Her work has received the support of the Finnish Institute of Athens and Austria’s Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture. She has been awarded by ARTWORKS (2022) and is a Fellow of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Support Program.
Anna Housiada was born in Athens. Her work is process-based and takes the form of texts, installations and participatory events aimed at triggering historical, critical and political dialogue. She likes to view communities as ecosystems and explore the dynamics of the relationships emerging within them. Using methodological tools rooted in interdependence and the collective production of knowledge, her practice tackles questions of identity and the sense of belonging in a context of cultural multiplicity. She studied at the Athens School of Fine Art (2017) and holds a postgraduate degree from Sint-Lucas University of Antwerp (2020) Advanced Masters of Research in Art within Social-Political Context. For the last two years, she has been working at the intersection between art, pedagogy and activism, driven by a desire to help strengthen communal relations, challenge hegemonic narratives and empower individual and communities to affirm the right over their own stories. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).
Johnna Sachpazis is a visual artist from Athens living and working in London. They graduated with distinction from the MA Fine Arts at Camberwell College of Arts (University of the Arts London), and hold a BA in Photography from Middlesex University, London. Drawing from their experiences as a non-binary person, they seek to explore the materiality and becoming of the queer and trans body, through concepts such as trauma, embodied memory and post-humanism. They work between photography, sculpture and painting, creating post-Frankenstein figures based on the work of Susan Stryker. Using the monster as a metaphor for the trans experience, their artworks aim to highlight and transform the marginalized affective discomfort gender-queer people often experience within normative patriarchal environments. The “monstrous” – as an ode to the monster – becomes a tool of resistance against social norms that reproduce bodily identities according to agelong dichotomies. Their work has been presented in group exhibitions held in various art spaces in London, including: the Saatchi Gallery, South London Gallery, Webber Gallery and Copeland Gallery. In Greece, they have exhibited their work at Space52 (online, 2020), a.antonopoulou.art gallery (Athens, 2019) and MOMus – Experimental Center for the Arts (Thessaloniki, 2019). In April 2021, the Culture magazine of The Sunday Times included them in a list of “12 future stars of the art world you need to know about”. They have been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).
Antrea Tzourovits has completed his undergraduate studies in sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts and holds a postgraduate degree from the Slade School of Fine Art (UCL, University of London). In his practice, he uses a wide range of expressive media and materials, including sculpture, painting, installation, video, and music. He adopts familiar materials and popular symbols in order to create imagery that resonates with the viewer, focusing particularly on the poetic-philosophical of objects and situations. The poetic narrative style he has developed allows him to explore the ambiguities of life with the aim of generating metaphorical content from his own, personal experiences. From an early age, he has held various jobs, including as a playground manufacturer and luthier. In 2020, he presented his first solo exhibition entitled APORIA at Kalfayan Galleries in Athens. He has received a postgraduate studies scholarship from the NEON Organization for Culture and Development. In 2022, he received The Kenneth Armitage Young Sculptor Prize and the UCL East Provost Art Prize. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.
Irene Ragusini was born in 1988 near lake Garda in Italy and grew up in Athens. She holds a BFA and an MFA from the Athens School of Fine Arts, a Master’s in Visual Arts from the LUCA School of Arts in Belgium and has completed an artist book training at Grafikskolan school in Stockholm. Using movement as her point of reference, both literally as well as metaphorically, her works are mainly concerned with the notions of identity and belonging. People, materials and localities evolving and intertwining through a process of perpetual displacement form the basis of her research. In 2021, her work was selected to represent Greece at the Bornholm Biennial for Contemporary Glass and Ceramics in Denmark. She has been awarded a mobility grant through the EU program i-Portunus for her project The Archipelago of Shards and has participated in various exhibitions held in Greece and abroad. In October 2020, she founded her own artist-run space in Koukaki, the KOREN process space. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).
Louiza Ntourou is an artist-filmmaker based in Athens. She studied Political Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and continued with postgraduate studies in visual anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London; and in experimental film at Kingston University London. Her videos explore the paradox and unexpected facets of reality and reflect on the different ways of seeing ordinary objects of everyday life. For the last three years, she has been working on a series of films entitled The Moment as an Eternity, in which she experiments with the Haiku poetic form and its application on the moving image. The first two videos of the series, To G.K and The Light is Dark Enough (2018), have been presented in various film festivals across the UK, while the video Once Upon a time, a time that never was and always is (2019) was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries and presented at Leeds Art Gallery (09/19-11/19) and South London Gallery (12/19-02/20). The film was also selected for the Winter Light exhibition at Hayward Gallery in London (12/20-03/21) and for the performance program of Art Athina Virtual (2021). Her latest artist film, Radio Silence (2019), was commissioned by the BBC New Creatives and presented at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 2020 as well as in London Short Film Festival (2021). She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).
Natalia Manta is a visual artist living and working in Athens. She studied sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA, 2011 – 2017), where she also completed her Master’s in Fine Arts. She employs different materials such as metal, clay, light-sensitive chemicals and video projections. She collaborates and interacts with artists from a wide range of artistic disciplines —visual, music, theatre or performance artists. In the period 2017-2020, she taught sculpture at the ASFA. Her work has been exhibited both in Greece and internationally in solo and group exhibitions, among others: Handmade: On the Social Dimension of Craft, presented at Art Space Pythagorion on Samos island under the initiative of the National Museum of Contemporary Art and the Schwarz Foundation (2022); RESTART, Korean International Ceramic Biennale (2021)· Limitless Limits, Larnaca Biennale, Cyprus (2021)· Surreal Salon 13, Baton Rouge Gallery, USA (2020)· What is REAL, The Real House, New York (2021); Apotropaion, presented at 16 Fokionos Negri exhibition space in Athens with the support of The Sotiris Fellios Collection, (2021); ANEW, KOREN process space, Athens (2021); Ki-nimata, Bouboulina Museum, Spetses island (2021); Gender Melancholia, The Project Gallery, Athens, (2021); Deadala, The Mosque Kioutsouk Hassan- Giali Tzamisi, Chania, Crete (2021); The machine in the Ghost, Talc Studio, Athens (2021); and PPC meets art, Public Power Corporation historic factory, Athens (2021). She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).
Dimitris Siokis (b. 1990) is a photographer and visual artist based in Antwerp. He holds an MFA in photography from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp (2022) and has studied architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2015). In his work, he seeks new methods of approaching the familiar. He is principally interested in depicting how everyday events are transformed into patterns that mark the surface of our social structures as well as the mutual dependencies these structures give rise to. Balancing between the personal and the universal, between reality and its performance, his work explores the common elements cutting across our individual lives. Central to his artistic thinking is the concept of uncertainty, as a means of approaching the different facets of truth. In his practice, he uses incorporation of improvisations and collaborative processes as a means of overturning hierarchies and calling for a new approach in photography. In 2022, he received the Roger de Conynck award (Belgium). He has been awarded by ARTWORKS (2022) and is a Fellow of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Support Program.
Alexandre Collet is an artist and scholar living between Greece and France. He is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and of the Visual Studies and Art History department of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He worked as an assistant for documenta 14 and has worked with various institutions, for example the National History of Art Institute (INHA) in France. He has exhibited his work at K-Gold Temporary Gallery in Athens and at the art space Locus Athens, and has collaborated, among others, with brook editions in Paris and with l’Annexe. With photography, video, research an observation as his main media, he moves far from the city, the clubs, the bars and the people and closer to dogs, cats and pigeons, in an effort to find different ways of defining relationships, love and sexuality. These families and kinships transcending the logic of the human/animal-pet binary are at the center of his work. He is particularly interested in the way in which the body can constantly reinvent itself together the dog, the pigeon, and all its other companions. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).
Despοina Pagiota was born in Thessaloniki in 1994 and is a visual artist based in Hamburg. She holds a BFA (2019) and an MFA (2021) from the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HFBK), while part of her studies was completed at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts through the Erasmus student exchange program. In 2020, she was awarded a young artist grant from the art foundation Kunststiftung Christa und Nikolaus Schües. In 2021, she was selected for the NEUSTART KULTUR kickstarter grant for young graduates. In 2022, she received a grant from the cultural foundation Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Stormarn and is currently participating in the “Kunststipendium in der Trittauer Wassermühle” residency program. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, and is part of international private collections. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).
Alex Karantanas is a mixed-media artist, based in Athens, Greece. He holds a BA in Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens and an MFA in Digital Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts. His work is mainly concerned with questions of gender, desire and the body, all of which are viewed through the lens of post-humanism and cyberculture. His artistic practice develops through music performances in exhibitions and events, multi-media installations and video-art projections, all of which he combines to model immersive environments. His work has been exhibited in various exhibitions, festivals and events around the world, including: Whole United Queer Festival, Athens Digital Arts Festival (Ferropolis open-air museum, Germany), Performance Rooms 2020 (organized by Kappatos Gallery in collaboration with Pantheon non-profit organization and held at St George Lycabettus hotel, Athens), Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival, Southern Sweden Design Days festival (Malmö), Krama Festival (Athens), Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival (Greece), and Athens Biennale. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).
Ioli Kavakou (b. 1993) is a visual artist and writer based in Athens. She holds a BA in Art History and Theory from the Athens School of Fine Arts (2016) and a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University London (2020). Working mainly with new media and text, her work engages with the conversation regarding knowledge production and its relation to fiction, feminisms and the philosophy of science. Her work has been shown in exhibitions in Greece and abroad (Art Night festival, London, UK; and Lenbachhaus museum, Germany, among others). She has participated in a number of research programs including Future Climates (State of Concept, 2016) and contributed to publication projects such as Animal of the State, Fiction Through Reality (HMV-books: Μunich, 2016); and Water Seeks its Own Level (2022), published by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) in collaboration with the art space Savvy Contemporary in Berlin. She is currently completing her MA Art Praxis at the DAI. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.
Vasilis Galanis (b. 1994) lives and works in Athens. He studied at the School of Visual and Applied Arts of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2012-2017) and holds an MFA from the Athens School of Fine Arts (2019-2021). In 2016-2017, he attended classes at the Instituto Politecnico de Lisboa in Portugal. His artistic research tackles issues related to ecology, destruction and mass culture. His work has been presented in group shows held in various cities across Greece (Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, etc.) as well as at Cabane Art Space in Athens (pre- or post- (who cares?), solo show) and in Pikap Kato art space in Thessaloniki (kato – Dystopias, duo show). In December 2021, he participated in a residency held in Luxor, Egypt. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.
Aristotelis Nikolas Mochloulis (b. 1996, London) is an artist and writer. His artworks have been exhibited in the UK (My Degree Show, Children of Unhappiness 2020; and Someone Else’s, Incest School 2020), and in Cyprus (Spritz Palace, Thkio Ppalies, 2018). His writing has been published in Hobart Pulp magazine (Toilet Story, 2022) and in Passe-Avant (Relocations, 2022). He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).
Myrto Vratsanou (Athens, 1994) is a visual artist based in Athens and Cologne. She studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts, the Sandberg Institute of the Gerritt Rietveld Academy, as well as the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) on a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation. She has been awarded a Kickstarter Grant from the Kunstfonds Foundation and her work is part of the National Bank of Greece collection. Her practice revolves around the haunted, sensual aspects of digital and material spaces. Employing metaphors by creating objects, drawings, writing and films, she explores material histories, fictions and traditions. She has participated in exhibitions, screenings and festivals held in various venues and institutions, among others: Weltkunszimmer in Dusseldorf, Temporary Gallery Cologne, Meinblau Projektraum gallery in Berlin, Neverneverland foundation in Amsterdam, Chisenhale Gallery London, Athens Digital Arts Festival, One Minute Space and a.antonopoulou. art galleries in Athens, Benaki Museum and the Thessaloniki Centre of Contemporary Art. She was a member of the artistic initiative Circuits+Currents and of the documenta 14 chorus. She has taken part in collective, educational projects and residencies, for example the programs Spaces Of Reflection, part of the 10th Berlin Biennale and “Experimental Education Protocol II” held in Delphi and on the island of Nissyros. She has developed a long-standing, collaborative practice with Anouk Asselineau, under the name Asselineau/Vratsanou. Her writing and drawings have been featured in Dating the Chorus II (independent publication); the KURZE 3 anthology (Cologne: KHM, 2022); FDBNHLLLTTFHORROR (London: Sticky Fingers, 2021) and Daisyworld Magazine. In 2022 her first individual publication was published by Dolce Publications. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).
Christina-Shelagh Mongelli (b. Athens, 1991) is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator of Greek-British-Italian descent. Her practice privileges time-based media such as sound, performance, and video. Her research aspires to narrate new mythologies showcasing contemporary political, social and environmental concerns and negotiates the vibrations and distortions forming on the lacuna left open by the dichotomies dissonance/euphony, fiction/reality and machine/organic matter. She holds a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London; a Master’s of Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art (UCL, University of London) and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from Kingston University. Her recent work has been presented at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, the radio stations BBC Radio 6 and Resonance FM, as well as Milton Keynes Gallery. In addition, she has collaborated with the Athens-based collective Medea Electronique. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).