NEWS
If you wish to not miss out on my news you can follow me on Instagram!
SHOWROOM PRESENTATION
From 11 September 2024 - 10/02/25, KÖNIG Galerie, Berlin, Germany
KÖNIG GALERIE is delighted to unveil a new presentation in its showroom at St. Agnes. Featuring artists from both within and beyond the gallery’s roster, the showcase highlights a diverse selection of artworks, displayed in dedicated booths and various other spaces throughout the gallery.
Exhibited artists: Harita Asumani, Bijanka Bacic, Marcella Barceló, Julia Beliaeva, Björn Dahlem, Andy Denzler, Jingge Dong, Johanna Dumet, Rachel Garrard, Tue Greenfort, Esra Gülmen, Xenia Hausner, Grace Lynne Haynes, Robert Janitz, Maria Mavropoulou, Juliette Minchin, Rachel Monosov, Anselm Reyle, Ayako Rokkaku, Joana Schneider, Tang Shuo, Joana Vasconcelos, Xiyao Wang, Jordan West, Erwin Wurm, Guy Yanai, David Zink Yi.
BIENNALE IMAGES VEVEY
From 7 to 29 September 2024, Vevey, Switzerland
This year’s topic “(dis)connected” focuses on a contemporary conundrum of when unavoidable nostalgia meets inquisitiveness about an unpredictable future.
(dis)connected: the theme of the Biennale Images Vevey 2024 explore one of the major issues of our time – the great divide created by digital technologies between past and present. The projects presented aim to create links between a certain nostalgia for the past and curiosity about an uncertain future. With this in mind, some fifty national and international photographic projects will be presented, playing on the feelings of connection and disconnection between tangible reality and digital fantasy. Indoors and outdoors, throughout the city of Vevey, artistic proposals play on the feeling of connection and disconnection between tangible reality and digital fantasy.
Collaboaration with TAEX
A self-portrait of an Algorithm no1 video is available as an NFT at TAEX
Part of my project “A self-portrait of an Algorithm”, this video is the product of meticulous work. Using the text prompt A self-portrait of an Algorithm at an AI image generator over 3500 times I created a big synthetic dataset of how an AI visualises the concept of itself. Then I used those images to train another AI and used it to produce this morphing video. With every iteration, details are lost and resembling a kind of a distillation process, and what is left behind is to me the essence of how these artificial intelligences might perceive themselves.
Interview to BBC
Published 12/07/2024 writen by Deborah Nicholls-Lee
Read the article “Eight photos that make us question what we see”
Athens Photo Festival 2024
6/6/2024-29/07/2024, Benaki museum Athens, Greece
The Main Exhibitions of the Athens Photo Festival 2024 are on view at the Benaki Museum / Pireos 138, featuring the work of 72 artists from 28 countries. The Festival integrates photographic works, interactive installations, screenings, archival documents, and publications, addressing many of today’s most pressing issues, challenges, complexities, and possibilities. A broad spectrum of contemporary photography, from new discoveries to established artists, is showcased across 3,000 square meters of exhibition space at the Benaki Museum / Pireos 138
Missing Mirror: Photography Through the Lens of AI
30/05/2024 - 5/09/2024 FOAM Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, NL
The group exhibition Missing Mirror: Photography Through the Lens of AI invites visitors to look beyond the surface of AI. Exploring the intersection between art, technology and society, the exhibition shows how recent developments in AI are affecting our relationship with images, ourselves and our perception of reality. The exhibition features the work of international artists reflecting on the danger and potential of Artificial Intelligence
Featured artists
Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, Alexey Cherkinov, Louisa Clement, Lynn Hershman, Christopher Meerdo, Maria Mavropoulou, Milo Poelman, Miti Ruangkritya, Philip Schütte, Brea Souders, Alexey Yurenev.
Foam Magazine #66:MISSING MIRROR
Foam Magazine #66: MISSING MIRROR – Photography Through the Lens of AI delves deeper into the recent advancements in AI impact our relationship with images, ourselves and our perception of reality. When authenticity and authorship are being questioned, how do we form a truthful image of the world? And what does the introduction of generated imagery mean for the medium of photography? This and more will be explored in Foam Magazine through artistic contributions and in-depth essays from thought-leaders in the field.
Portfolio artists
Alexey Yurenev, Clément Lambelet, Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, Juan Manuel Lara, Brea Souders, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Tan Chui Mui, Vishal Kumaraswamy, Jonas Bendiksen, Gregory Eddi Jones, Leda Sadotti, Maria Mavropoulou, Joan Fontcuberta & Pilar Rosado, Igi Lola Ayedun, Morehshin Allahyari.
Photography Never Lies
30 May 2024 - 08 September 2024, BACC, Main Exhibition Gallery, 7th Floor, Bangkok, Thailand
The exhibition "Photography Never Lies" exhibits the 13 international artists’ photographic works that challenge the belief that Photography is a tool that most straightforwardly reflects reality and various possibilities. Creating truths essential in telling stories in news, education, and history. Even the judicial process uses photographs to reach resolutions in many matters. In the fact that the process before becomes a photograph, it is a complex intertwined of ideas, myths, algorithms, and mechanisms that contribute to its creation. Selecting a particular photograph is a nuanced process, far from the simplicity many assume. This complicated process raises questions about the truthfulness of the images we observe daily. Can they still reflect reality as they once did? What is the nature of this truth? And whose truth does it conform to?
Monocle Radio interview
Talking to Lily Austin about “Imagined Images” series, were I recreated the missing parts of my family photo album with the use of AI
And all our world is dew group show at the American college of Greece
23 May- 29 June, 2024, curated by Eva Vaslamatzi, ACG Art Gallery, Athens, GR
The group show AND ALL OUR WORLD IS DEW brings together artworks from the ACG art collection selected on the basis of a common interest they exhibit in the natural sciences and mathematical theories, as well as in the systematic observation of natural phenomena and new technologies. The metaphysical dimension of geometry, mathematics, quantum physics or astrophysics is rendered through abstract forms, symmetrical and assymetrical systems, diagrams, drawings, gestures as well as through the use of photographic cameras and photocopiers, motors, dimmers, LEDs and other electrical components. As most of them were made between the 1950s and the 1970s, they also bear witness to the transition from geometric abstraction and kinetic art to using computational intelligence as an artistic medium.
HerStories. Photographic Practices, 1974-2024
May 17, 2024 - September 15, 2024, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, GR
The #MeToo movement, feminist strikes, feminist demands for the eradication of gender violence often stand in various ways under the spotlight lately, very often in a tragic way. Additionally, although female artistic creation and the feminist approach to the arts do not necessarily constitute a new or innovative research perspective in the 21st century, however, and for various reasons, historically, this perspective does not seem to be a priority in the research and critique of artistic fields. In the wake of these international debates on gender and identities and the general trend of exploring women's creative work, the new exhibition-production by MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography under the title “HerStories. Photographic practices, 1974-2024” seeks to showcase the domestic photographic production of women, from the 1970s onwards. The exhibition will be hosted in the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and the Experimental Center for the Arts of MOMus.
PHOTOGRAPHY SAVED MY LIFE
04 April – 01 June 2024, curated by Myrto Kakara and Molly Andrianou, Crux Gallery, Athens, GR
My camera has saved my life. It has made bearable things that feel unbearable.
Nan Goldin. With the group exhibition “Photography saved my life”, Crux Galerie brings together ways in which 12 contemporary women artists make use of the medium of photography, in order to reveal marginalised areas, unseen urban cultures, concealed nuances of sexuality, or questions about their identity.
The works demonstrate solidarity and unconditional acceptance of all aspects of human emotion: shame, fear, pain, trauma, love, tenderness. Some of the works explore the female identity through a fetishistic view and an idolisation of objects and places intertwined with female sexuality. Others bear references to contemporary
myths, domestic environments, unseen or imagined landscapes, technical material applications and scientific technologies of representation.
24 Digital Artists to Watch in 2024 by Fisheye
Published 18/01/2024 Written by Maxime Delcourt and Zoé Terouinard
Maria Mavropoulou
Passée par les Beaux-Arts d’Athènes, où elle s’est formée à la peinture, à la sculpture et à la photographie, Maria Mavropoulou s’est depuis intéressée aux technologies numériques (IA, VR), à ces outils qui nous servent finalement de médiateurs dans notre relation avec les mondes virtuels. Il faut dire que la Grecque est née en 1989 : les outils numériques, elle a appris à s’y familiariser très jeune, particulièrement intéressée par la manière dont ils encouragent la construction de notre identité, par la façon dont notre esprit transcende les limites du corps humain lorsqu’il évolue derrière un écran.
An Erratic Storm: Reaching Out to the Infinite exhibition
26/01/2024- 23/02/2024 Alkinois, Athens, Greece, curated by Dinos Chatzirafailidis
The exhibition An Erratic Storm: Reaching Out to the Infinite is concerned with the shudder and veneration that is inspired by humans’ relationship with the limitless magnitudes of empirically given things. Fading away from the rhetoric and any preoccupation with reason, this is a force that cannot be calculated or imitated - it presents itself as vertiginously complex and terrifyingly vast.
Featuring work by Manolis D. Lemos, Maria Mavropoulou, Petros Moris, Pauline Pastry, Mercedes Pimiento.
WePresent Feature on WeTransfer
published Jan 3, 2024, words by Gem Fletcher
Presentation of my work Imagined Images that was created with the use of an AI image generator (Dalle-2).
Family photo albums hold a unique form of nostalgic pleasure. Despite their careful construction—centering happiness and erasing imperfection—they are a visual reminder of our profound familial connection. For Maria Mavropoulou, growing up without a family archive interrupted her sense of belonging, leaving her with the haunting sensation that something was always missing. Rather than accept this lack, she turned to AI to fill in the gaps. She tells writer Gem Fletcher about the catharsis born from reimagining her past and what this new breed of machine-led images reveals about who we are and how we see the world.
SINDBAD: I Can See Land Exhibition
20/12/2023 - 20/03/2023, Al-Balad, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Presenting the work: A Thousand Ithacas, 2020
Contemplating the concept of a journey both in physical space and within oneself, the artwork draws inspiration from the symbolism of the Ithaca in C.P. Cavafy's poem and Homer's epic Odyssey. Employing StyleGAN2 (Generative Adversarial Network) techniques, Marvopoulou utilizes software to amalgamate a series of images of islands, creating her own fictional realm. This non-existent yet vividly imagined islands, generated through the algorithm, mirror the ebb and flow of a voyager on their journey.
PhotoVogue Festival 2023 Exhibitions: Uncanny Atlas, Image in the Age of A.I.
16/11/2023 - 19/11/2023 BASE, Milan, Italy. Curated by Chiara Bardelli Nonino
The Photo Vogue Festival, the first conscious fashion photography festival that focuses on the common ground between ethics and aesthetics, returns for its eighth edition. From November 16 to 19, 2023, BASE Milano will host a series of exhibitions and a three-day symposium examining the profound impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on human existence and the creation of images, complemented by satellite events at the city's finest galleries.
Interview to Ferocious Urbanities
03/11/2023, by Fotini Vergidou
Maria Mavropoulou: In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Algorithm
Solo presentation at Frequency International Festival of Digital Culture
26/10/2023 - 29/10/2023 St Mary le Wigford Church, Lincoln, UK
Visual artist Maria Mavropoulou swaps her hometown of Athens, for Lincoln to bring us a unique insight into the essence of artificial intelligence. Her art surpasses photography, embracing cutting-edge forms of imagery from VR to AI-generated creations.
Explore the boundaries of digital identity and our always-online world through Maria’s groundbreaking project, “A self-portrait of an algorithm”. These amazing images are reflections of AI’s essence, offering insights into its identity. Why does it mirror our human form?
Interview to Coeval Magazine
23/10/2023
Maria Mavropoulou is a contemporary Greek artist. Her consolidated practice has reached a stable point of interest and compelling focus: AI visual culture and digital identity. Delving into power and politics in the relationship between humans and machines, Mavropoulou has recently been exhibited at Fondazione MAST in Bologna, Italy with a project - In Their Own Image - questioning the humans’ positioning as “gods” in the creation of another intelligence, or conscience which act upon our commands.
Interview to NEO2 Magazine
25/09/2023
La artista Maria Mavropoulou trata el intrigante mundo de la intersección entre tecnología y humanidad que recorre nuestro presente. A lo largo de su corta pero prolífica carrera, Maria ha trascendido las fronteras convencionales del arte para capturar la esencia de lo íntimo en presencia de la tecnología. Su fotografía está imbuida de vibraciones modernas y de un profundo compromiso con las emociones humanas en el mundo digital.
Living Sculptures Exhibition at Paxos island, Greece
10/08/2023 - 10/09/2023 Loggos Old School cultural center
Contemporary artists pay hommage to trees.
Curated by Alessandra Pace
Spotlight Artist for a week at OpenAI’s instagram acount @openaidalle
30/05/2023 - 05/06/2023
Featured were three of my latest projects which were created by using Dalle2, a text-to-image AI. “In their own image, in the image of God they created them”(2022) “A self portrait of an Algorithm” (2022) and “Imagined Images” (2021-2023)
Interview to the Sunday magazine K from "Kathimerini" newspaper
25/05/2023
Visual artist Maria Mavropoulou is inspired by our relationship with technology and experiments with artificial intelligence and digital reality tools. However, he finds balance in nature.
Artist Talk at Irida Visions
24/04/2023
Irida Visions is organized by the four sectors of the Student Cultural Association of the University of Athens. The Cinematic, Photographic, Dance and Theatrical sector. The festival, like the operation of the sectors, is based on the non-profit contribution and participation of the members -students and non-students- and has been established as an institution since last academic year, holding 91 events with success and great participation from the public.
Week-long photography workshop at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
20/03/2023 - 24/03/2023
Photography: A million points of view - Understanding the different types of photography.
This workshop intends to get the students introduced to the different types of photography focusing on Fine Art photography, Architectural photography, Photojournalism and Commercial photography.
Interview to Picter.com
15/02/2023 by Katharina Siegel
Art and Technology: the new generation of Greek artists (born after 1985)
“Art & Technology: the new generation of Greek artists (born after 1985)” is a digital bilingual publication (English-Greek) authored by Katerina Gkoutziouli and Foteini Vergidou, featuring twenty-one Greek artists who work with digital technologies and/or explore the impact of technology on their work. The publication aims to provide a glimpse into the Greek contemporary art scene as it is currently being shaped, offering new perspectives at the intersection of art and technology.
Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) English edition
Catalog of the exhibition, 15/12/2022 – 05/11/2023
As the ΕΜΣΤ artistic director and curator, Katerina Gregos indicates in the preface of the catalog, "the exhibition grapples with the challenges facing our most intimate relationships today and explores the possibilities, pathologies and problems afflicting love and matters of the heart during these times, while aiming to prompt a reconsideration of how we might imagine a way out of the "cold intimacies" and illusions engendered by the digital revolution." Informative texts and color reproductions of the works exhibited are included.
MAST PHOTOGRAPHY GRANT ON INDUSTRY AND WORK 2023
Catalog of the exhibition, 25/01/2023 – 01/05/2023
Every two years, through the MAST Photography Grant on Industry and Work, the MAST Foundation gives five young international artists the opportunity to delve into the industrial, and technological world and explore its systems of labor and capital, invention, development and production.
MAST Photography Grant on Industry and Work
From 25/01/2023 until 01/05/2023, MAST foundation, Bologna, Italy
The exhibition, which has been curated by Urs Stahel and set up in the Photo Gallery, presents the works of the five finalists of the Grant: Farah Al Qasimi, Hicham Gardaf, Lebohang Kganye, Maria Mavropoulou, and Salvatore Vitale.
These young photographers, selected from fifty-three candidates from all over the world, have developed an original and unpublished project which addresses the changes in the world of work and its essence.
Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies)
From 15/12/2022 until 28/05/2023 National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) Athens, Greece
Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) is the next major group exhibition at ΕΜΣΤ. Curated by artistic director Katerina Gregos, it launches the museum’s winter-spring exhibition cycle, which focuses on digital technology and its influence on intimate human relationships.
Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) explores the state of love and human bonds in the age of the Internet, social media, and high capitalism, probing how the digital sphere, the impact of technology giants, and neo-liberal practices have transformed love, social relations, and the way we interact with one another.
Vantage Point Sharjah 10
From 16/09/2022 until 11/12/2022, Al Hamriyah Studios, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Vantage Point Sharjah (VPS) is an annual exhibition that supports photographers from the region and around the world. Introduced in 2013 to cultivate public engagement with photography as an artistic medium, VPS has evolved into a dynamic platform that embraces multiple approaches to photography, from photojournalism and photo essays to experimental work in both analog and digital forms.
Sprengel Museum Hannover, Vonovia Award for Photography
Exhibition 20/07/2022 - 30/10/22
With the theme of HOME, the VONOVIA AWARD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY motivates a diverse and critical discussion of social, economic and societal issues of today's life. The award recognizes image series that are outstanding in form and content. The award has existed since 2017. The shortlist and the prize winners are selected by an expert jury.
Athens Photo Festival 2022
From 08/06/2022 until 24/07/2022, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Athens Photo Festival is a leading international festival dedicated to photography and visual culture. Through its programming, the Festival is committed to offering a diverse and inclusive international platform, for the exchange of ideas, artistic expression, and engagement with photography in all its forms.
Honoring the Festival’s 35th anniversary throughout 2022, our program provides a critical context where the impact of the ever-changing visual culture can be raised and discussed. The Festival will bring together emerging and established artists and photographers from around the world, through its exhibitions and events, with the aim to reflect the diversity of photography of our time.
Visage (s) d’Europe 2022
02/05/2022 - 29/05/2022, Fête de l'Europe, Paris, France
L’exposition des jeunes photographes européens a l’occasion de la Fête de l’Europe
L’exposition « Visages d’Europe » a été organisée pour la première fois en 2019 à l’occasion de la « Fête de l’Europe » par les Instituts culturels européens à Paris du groupe EUNIC, animés d’une volonté commune de proposer au public un regard sur l’Europe contemporaine par le prisme des artistes de leurs pays.
Interview to Lenscratch
26/11/2022, by Vicente Cayuela
Maria Mavropoulou (b.1989) lives and works in Athens, Greece. She is a visual artist using mainly photography while her work expands to new forms of the photographic image, such as VR, LiDar scans and screen captured images. Her work and research focuses on the new realities created by the connectible devices and the contradictions between the physical and the digital spaces that we inhabit.
PRESENCE EXHIBITION
Collective Show Opens on the 24 March at PhMuseum Lab in Bologna, Italy
Discussing the blurred line between our online and physical personas, this exhibition explores the idea of human presence through the theme of portraits.
While social media and the effects of the pandemic have influenced the way we portray ourselves, there has been a change in the balance between our online and offline presence, causing an increase in the use of our online personas to remain in touch with the rest of the world. Starting from these premises, the exhibition Presence, opening on 24 March at PhMuseum Lab, challenges the traditional understanding of a portrait and examines its concern with the human presence in its wider sense and how it's rendered into reality.
NFT DROP ON MISA ARTMARKET
DER GREIF GUEST ROOM
Typology of Waiting was selected by Anika Meier and Max Siedentopf.
Guest Room aims to spark collaboration. Anika Meier, curator, art historian and author, has chosen to collaborate with the artist Max Siedentopf.
The two have developed the following framework for your submissions: Heartfelt: Give everyone goosebumps
Every day we're flooded with thousands and thousands of images – we want to find the ones that go under our skin, the ones that make us feel in this vast flood of information.
DER GREIF GUEST ROOM
Typology of Waiting was selected by Anika Meier and Max Siedentopf.
Guest Room aims to spark collaboration. Anika Meier, curator, art historian and author, has chosen to collaborate with the artist Max Siedentopf.
The two have developed the following framework for your submissions: Heartfelt: Give everyone goosebumps
Every day we're flooded with thousands and thousands of images – we want to find the ones that go under our skin, the ones that make us feel in this vast flood of information.
ARTDOC PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE COVER
ISSUE #5 2021 LENS BASED ART
In this issue #5, Artdoc brings the photographer as the lens-based artist, who shows us the reality we tend to overlook. Michele Borzoni photographs the often hidden places where people work. Peter Bialobrzeski showed the chaos in the outskirts of Mumbai. Dario Mitidieri photographed Syrian families in an open-air studio. Chloe Sells constructs landscapes with layers of textures and colours to express her experience of nature. And the exhibition Lens Based Art shows the work of experimental photographers.
NEW TALENTS 2021
From 30/01/2022 - 27/03/2022, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin
For the third edition of its NEW TALENTS group show, PEP invited artists from all over the world to share what they are most passionate about. The proposals received from the international call for entries for this exhibition were very diverse, since no specific theme was imposed. The participating artists were invited to reflect on what is at the very heart of their practice as a photographer and to show what they have the most talent for. Social, experimental, political, autobiographical, formal and conceptual angles now enter into dialogue in the context of a collective exhibition showcasing new visions of photography from 47 selected artists of 22 different nationalities.
Face Control
From 02/12/2021 - 20/03/2022, Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain
Foto Colectania presents a collective exhibition that brings together more than 20 artists, both established and emerging, whose works spin around the bidirectional control that relapses on the face: on the one hand, that which each person exercises over the way he wants his face to be perceived, and on the other, the way the forces of power try to exert over our identity.
Curated by Urs Stahel, the exhibition proposes a critical and provocative reflection on the social, political and cultural consequences derived from this control.
Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies)
From 03/11/2021 until 09/01/2022 IMPAKT, Utrecht, The Netherlands
The exhibition Modern Love looks at love and human relations in the current age of the internet, social media and high capitalism, and the first age of “cold intimacy”. The exhibition looks at how the digital world, technology giants and neoliberalism have changed love and social relations, while at the same time diluting the obstacles between the public and the private. The exhibition also looks at how issues of time and space have influenced the way we communicate between ourselves and how the virtual has become entwined with reality, and how even though they are two quite distinct things, the opposite is suggested.
Her Data
From 23/09/2021 until 14/10/2021 Romantso, Athens, Greece
Have you ever wondered why Siri, Alexa and Cortana are given female voices and names? How do machines see women? Can machines perceive diversity?
The exhibition Her Data looks into the role of data and algorithms in the current age of artificial intelligence through the female perspective. It also explores female and diverse representationin the context of our fast-paced consumption of technology. Stereotypes, different types of bias and taboos seem to come back stronger in the digital sphere, reproducing outdated worldviews, marginalising certain social groups and discriminating between communities.
Der Greif
Honored to have an image of mine, Looks like love from “Image Eaters” series, selected by Sylvie Fleury to be included in Der Greif magazine issue #14 “Yes to All”
Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies)
From 12/06/2020 until 05/09/2021 Tallin Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
The exhibition Modern Love looks at love and human relations in the current age of the internet, social media and high capitalism, and the first age of “cold intimacy”. The exhibition looks at how the digital world, technology giants and neoliberalism have change love and social relations, while at the same time diluting the obstacles between the public and the private. The exhibition also looks at how issues of time and space have influenced the way we communicate between ourselves and how the virtual has become entwined with reality, and how even though they are two quite distinct things, the opposite is suggested.
Ain’t Bad magazine
Part of my work “Image Eaters” featured in Ain’t Bad magazine issue 15
Vontobel collection
Four of my works are now part of Vontobel art collection and exhibited in the new “Vontobel Gallery Space” in Zurich.
Contact Lenses (from the Image Eaters series), 2019 Size: 75cm x 50cm
Editions: Archival print 5+2 A.
Numeric Love (from the Family Portraits series), 2019 Size: 200cm x 100cm
Editions: Archival print 5+2 A.P.
Typology of Waiting 2020
Size: 40cm x 40cm each, 12 prints ( total size 175cm x 130cm )
Editions: Archival print , edition 5+2 A.P.
Anniversary Dinner (from the Family Portraits series), 2019 Size: 120cm x 80cm
Edition: Archival print 3+1 A.P
Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies)
From 03/10/2020 until 07/03/2021 Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
The exhibition Modern Love looks at love and human relations in the current age of the internet, social media and high capitalism, and the first age of “cold intimacy”. The exhibition looks at how the digital world, technology giants and neoliberalism have change love and social relations, while at the same time diluting the obstacles between the public and the private. The exhibition also looks at how issues of time and space have influenced the way we communicate between ourselves and how the virtual has become entwined with reality, and how even though they are two quite distinct things, the opposite is suggested.
Family Portraits VR recieves the Special Mention Award at 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
VIRTUAL REALITY FILMS COMPETITION SECTION
The jury of the VR Films Competition section, comprised of Simon Johansen, film critic and documentary filmmaker, Babis Makridis, director and Irini Vianelli, director and animator bestows the Special Mention award to FAMILY PORTRAITS by MARIA MAVROPOULOU, Greece
60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
31 / 10 / 2019 - 10 / 11 / 2019 Warehouse 1, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Virtual reality is already something much more than a simple technological innovation. Thessaloniki Film Festival introduces a new competition program featuring films which prove that this new medioum can pave the way for novel cinematic experience and art.
13,700,000 km3
04/ 08 / 2019 - 20 / 10 / 2019 Art Space Pythagorion, Samos.
The exhibition 13,700,000 km3 explores the socio-political undercurrents of the Mediterranean Sea, taking as its starting point the location of the Schwarz Foundation's venue – Art Space Pythagorion – on the Greek island of Samos, at the fringes of Europe. The Mediterranean basin, a major component of the Earth's ecosystem, is in the midst of major environmental, social, economic and geo-political shifts, which transcend its geographic limitations. It was, and still is, an extraordinary melting pot in the history of humanity and civilisation: numerous wars, conquests, and expeditions have taken place in — or because of — its waters.
Young Greek Photographers 2010-2018
18 / 04 / 2019 - 25 / 09 / 2019 Thessaloniki Museum of Photography.
The artistic concerns, orientations and explorations of the new generation of Greek photography are highlighted in the exhibition “Young Greek Photographers | 2010-2018″, which opens on Thursday 18 April 2019, 20:00, at MOMus – Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, co-organised with the Hellenic Centre of Photography.
This exhibition presents part of the work of 32 contemporary artists whose common ground is their participation in the recent editions of the established annual exhibition “Young Greek Photographers” during 2010–2018.
FOR EVER MORE IMAGES?
09 / 04 / 2019 - 22 / 04 / 2019 Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
DESIGNING A CYBERMACHINE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
The project #ForEverMoreImages?” is an exhibition, an interactive cybermachine that creates a series of time-capsules, as well as a series of talks which invite us to examine the way we produce, perceive and interpret the images of the 21st century.
ANATOMY OF POLITICAL MELANCHOLY
28 / 02 / 2019 - 13 / 04 / 2019 Athens Conservatory
The Schwarz Foundation is pleased to announce its first major exhibition in Athens, following the opening of the Foundation’s Art Space on the island of Samos in 2012. The exhibition, entitled Anatomy of Political Melancholy, probes the increasing and widespread loss of faith in politics and politicians today.
PHOTOGRAPHY IN CRISIS
17 / 01 / 2019 - 17 / 02 / 2019 Slought, Philadelphia, USA
Slought is pleased to announce Photography in Crisis: Depression Era, 2011-2019, a retrospective exhibition presenting the Depression Era project, a collective lens-based arts project based in Athens, Greece whose work engages the so-called "Greek crisis" and its aftermath. During this time, Allan Sekula's "Waiting for the Tear Gas" (1999) will also be on view as a companion piece to the exhibition.
30 UNDER 30 WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS
13 / 12 / 2018 - 06 / 01 / 2019 at Maison de la Photographie, Lille, France
Founded in 2010 by Photo Boite, 30 Under 30 Women Photographers has help emerging, mid-career, as well as some accomplished women photographers to gain further exposure and participate in the collective among peers.
By ARTPIL + MAISON PHOTO
Photo-Graphē
28 / 11 / 2018 - 05 / 01 / 19 at Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Photo-graphé, by employing literature and images as guides to one another, does not only evoke questions on the relationship between viewer, participant and storyteller, but is also able to consider those issues through the lens of inter-disciplinarity, via the interactive experience taking place, between the cross-sectioning of their interpretive capacities.
This exhibition is possible due to the occasion of Kastaniotis Editions’ 50 years anniversary.
curated by Maria Nikolacopoulou
30 UNDER 30 WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS
08/ 11 / 2018 - 02 / 12 / 2018 at Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris, France
Founded in 2010 by Photo Boite, 30 Under 30 Women Photographers has help emerging, mid-career, as well as some accomplished women photographers to gain further exposure and participate in the collective among peers.
By ARTPIL + MAISON PHOTO
Unseen Amsterdam CO-OP 2018 / Depression Era collective
21 / 09 / 2018 - 23 / 09 / 2018 Westergasfabriek Klönneplein, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Depression Era is one of the selected collectives to be part of the Unseen Amsterdam's program element CO-OP, curated by Lars Willumeit. The project to be presented entitled "The Tourists" imposes a subversive tourism campaign that refers to the current wave of refugees, mass migration and the simultaneous increase of tourism in the Mediterranean.
Cosmonauts of Inner Space
08 / 06 / 2018 - 22 / 06 / 2018 National Observatory of Athens, Greece
The National Observatory of Athens is pleased to present the group exhibition Cosmonauts of Inner Space featuring Greek, Belgian and International artists, scientists and researchers, covering a wide media spectrum, including Interactive Installations, Artificial Intelligence, Painting, Sculpture and more.
curated by Spyros Verykios
Open Studios 2018
03 / 05 / 2018 - 05 / 05 / 2018 Master in Fine Arts, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece.
For second consecutive year, the postgraduate students of the Visual Arts department, open the door of their studios to the public for three days, this year for the first time in collaboration with the postgraduate students of the Theory and History of Art department of the Athens School of Fine Arts. This is an initiative of the students, for a joint collaboration between the two postgraduate departments of the School, which aims to create a fruitful dialogue between the artistic process and the curatorial practice.
The Vision of Saint Void
22/ 11 / 2017 - 19 / 01 / 2018 Depo Darm Gallery, Athens, Greece.
The exhibition "The Vision of Saint Void" brings together works by 14 Greek and Cypriot artists that deal with the perception of reality as a layered experience—an experience which in many cases cannot be experienced to the same depth by everyone and whose internal truths are to a great extent unspeakable and inexplicable.
curated by Kiriakos Spirou
Culturescapes festival, ''The Tourists'' campaign by Depression Era
20 / 10 / 2017 - 21 / 01 / 2018 Antikenmuseum Basel, Switzerland
In Antikenmuseum, the group show titled “The decline of heroes” intervenes into the part of permanent collection of Anikenmuseum, called «The Greeks and Their World». This exhibition shows ideals and identities shaken and shocked by multiple crises that hit the country and made it yet again face its history. Should there be heroes at all? Where does this urge to find someone to put on the burden and the responsibilities of changing this inadequate world come from? What if we are entering a whole new different world now — the world without the heroes? A world, where no one can save anyone anymore?
curated by Kateryna Botanova
press release / text by Petros Babasikas / instagram campaign
Local Stories
29 / 09 / 2017 – 11 / 11 / 2017 DL gallery, Athens, Greece.
curated by Nina Kassianou
Taking Roots 58th International Film Festival of Thessaloniki
02 / 11 / 2017 - 12 / 11 / 2017 Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Since this year’s selection of films that participate in the International Competition section was inspired by «The Need for Roots» by the French philosopher Simone Weil, one of the 20th century’s most iconic books, the Festival commissioned 14 young Greek artists to watch one film each from the competition section and produce an artwork inspired by it. TIFF director and curator of the exhibition Orestis Andreadakis described it as the heart of this year’s Festival. “It is this year’s experiment, and aims at looking at cinema from a different angle.
curated by Orestis Andreadakis
Found & Lost
13 / 06 / 2017 - 19 / 06 / 2017 Float gallery, Athens, Greece.
(Float.) and Void are pleased to invite you to the completion event of their collaborative project “Found & Lost” that will be taking place between the 13th and 16th of June in (Float.) gallery. For this first collaboration between (Float.) and Void, the gallery’s walls and floor will be transformed into a live and pulsating editing table. In the end, a publication will be produced out of this gallery-size editing space.
curated by Void. Athens
And the Work of Our Hands
05 / 05 / 2017 - 29 / 05 / 2017 ArtWall, Athens, Greece.
Springing from the distinction that philosopher Hanna Arendt makes in her work The Human Condition between labour and work (“the labour of our bodies and the work of our hands”), the exhibition’s concept is to reveal the microscale on which the artistic hand operates, as well as the fragile, organic process out of which a work of art emerges.
curated by Kiriakos Spirou
Young Greek Photographers 2016 Athens Photo Festival
09 / 06 / 2016 - 31 / 07 / 2016 Benaki museum, Athens, Greece.
Young Greek Photographers is an annual juried exhibition that seeks to promote Greek talented artists to be exhibited and introduced to a wide audience and network of photography professionals. This edition’s call received over 750 submissions from young artists from Greece and abroad, from which 16 were selected as 2016 Young Greek Photographers.
curated by Manolis Moresopoulos
5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art Depression Era
23 / 06 / 2015 - 30 / 09/ 2015 Thessaloniki, Greece.
The 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art under the title “Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will’’ will take place from June 23, 2015 to September 30, 2015. Forty-four artists and the collective group Depression Era, from 25 countries all around the world will show their artworks, new and old productions.
curated by Katerina Gregos
Depression Era project
06 / 11 / 2014 - 11 / 01 / 2014 Benaki museum, Athens, Greece.
The exhibition “Depression Era” depicts the urban and social landscape of the crisis. It is a mosaic of different narratives and ideas, a collective documentation of the traumatic transformation of the crisis, through images and texts. For the past three years, 36 artists, writers, architects, journalists, and researchers have been collaborating, actively engaging in political, social and aesthetic dialogue. The result has been the creation of an artistic “archive” constantly processing the reality of an era.