I am a visual artist and researcher, inspired by the intra-actions and fictions of the material world. I facilitate spaces of entanglements with organic and non-organic beings, through workshops, sculptural installations and art-books. I am currently doing my doctoral research on how art workshops stimulate polyphonic environments through agential materiality in the Department of Art Studies, and Curatorial Practices at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Education
Ph.D. – Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan (2022 – 2025)
B.A. / Int. M.A. – Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece (2014 – 2019)
Guest Student – Berlin Weissensee Kunsthochschule, Germany (2016 – 2018)
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
Obaachan no kami with Theodor Maier, Studio Gross, Tokyo, Japan (2021)
Arche, Tokyo University of the Arts, Toride, Japan (2021)
The Chessboard I with Argyris Rallias, 6th High School of Chania, Crete, Greece (2016)
haiku, Experimental School of the University of Athens, Greece (2014)
Selected Group Exhibitions
Art Futures Research, The University Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2023)
what are you for a creature, NAMNAM Space, Tokyo, Japan (2023)
PARK-PLATZ / パーク-プラッツ, Studio Gross, Tokyo, Japan (2023)
Roberto Cuoghi, Fridericianum, Germany (2022)
metttafestival: who are we on social media?, BUoY, Goethe Institut Tokyo in collaboration with Tokyo University, Japan (2022)
Crystal Clear, Nakacho House, Japan (2022)
Art & New Ecology, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan (2022)
Mykonos Biennale 2021 – 1821, Mykonos, Greece (2021)
Cincinnati Art Book Fair, Ohio, USA (2021)
ø mars, Bauhaus University Weimar and Tokyo University of the Arts, online (2021)
「Re」, Chang Ting Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2021)
New normal, Abnormal, Things that never change, VIVA Toride, Tokyo, Japan (2020)
STUDIOS 2019 – Territorial displacements, TAF the art foundation, Athens, Greece (2019)
a hundred years of solitude and a snake, STOSXOLEIO, Athens, Greece (2019)
Bauhaus Meets Commons, Goethe-Institut Athens, Greece (2019)
Portrait, Embassy of Italy in Athens, Greece (2019)
Friends with Books: Art Book Fair, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany (2018)
Thinking Meals, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Germany (2018)
KUNST UM DIE MOORWIESE, Bad Saarow, Germany (2017)
visions for people, Campus Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Berlin, Germany (2017)
MISS READ: Berlin Art Book Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (2017)
Anthropographes: The meaning of mold in Art, The Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece (2016)
START, six d.o.g.s., Athens, Greece (2012)
Selected Research Projects
Atopos cvc Studio Residency, Athens, Greece (2019 – 2020)
visions4people – Artistic Research Meets Psychiatry, Berlin, Germany (2017)
NEFELE | Art Residencies in Mental Health Units, Athens, Greece (2016)
Survival Kit – educational and artistic research programme, Athens, Greece (2015 – 2016)
Comenius Project: The Memory Room of our Identity: Our Museums, Athens, Greece and Villafranca de los Barros, Spain (2013 – 2015)
Selected Facilitated Workshops
fantastic fields, IMM Tokyo, Ougi Junior High School Art Club, City of Adachi (2024)
Silver streaming systems 銀河系, IMM Tokyo in Teraji – Takenotsuka – Miyagi elementary schools, Japan (2022 – 2023) 20)
metagrid, metttafestival: who are we on social media?, BUoY, Goethe Institut Tokyo in collaboration with Tokyo University, Japan (2022)
Planetary Systems, online, Greece (2022)
DRESS 2020, ATOPOS CVC, Athens, Greece (2020)
Los Suicidas del Sisga, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2018)
Plani I & II, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2018)
Cosmologies, Light and Reflection Lab, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2018)
KOLYVA, Berlin Weissensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin, Germany (2018)
Der erste Tag, Bad Saarow, Germany (2017)
Hippocrates’ travels, NEFELE 1st PROJECT MEETING EUROPEAN MENTAL HEALTH ARTS FESTIVAL, Athens, Greece (2016)
The Chessboard I, 6th High School of Chania, Chania, Greece (2016)
Publications
Including, Collaborating and Queering With Agential Materialities in Post-Contemporary Art Workshops, Journal of Global Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices vol.5, Tokyo (author)
のぼる, self-publication with the support of 東京藝大「I LOVE YOU」プロジェクト, Tokyo, October 2023 (co-creator)
Facilitating Multiplicities with Art Workshops: The Case Study of “Planetary Systems”, Journal of Global Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices vol.4, March 2023 (author)
gravestone, in collaboration with Theodor Maier, Tokyo, August 2021 (co-creator)
Squaring the circle, Atopos CVC, Athens, March 2020 (creator)
visions4people – Artistic Research Meets Psychiatry, JOVIS, Berlin, May 2019 (contributor)
Animal of The State, Fiction through Reality, SURVIVAL KIT, Athens – Munich, December 2016 (contributor)
Conferences/Talks
Youth Futurisms Through Paperscapes in the Fantastic Fields Art Workshop, The 17th Annual Conference of the Japan Association for Cultural Policy Research, Aoyama Gakuin University, 17 March 2024
Agential Materialities in Art Workshops, within the course Art Pedagogies, Athens School of Fine Arts, 15 December 2023
Un-learning with Matter: Observing Orientations, Frictions and Entanglements in “Silver Streaming Systems 銀河系”, The 4th Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture, 10–13 October, 2023
Interfering Diffractively with Matter: Anamneses of the “Metagrid” Art Workshop, The 4th Barcelona Conference on Arts, Media & Culture, 19–23 September, 2023
Exploring Diffractive Action and Human-Material Entanglements in the “Metagrid” Art Workshop, Eighteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Agency in an Era of Displacement and Social Change, 19-21 July 2023, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK + Online
Paper and Interactivity, National Technical University of Athens – School of Architecture, Athens, Greece, 2019
Scholarships/Awards
MEXT Japanese Government Scholarship (ongoing)
Tokyo University of the Arts “I LOVE YOU” Project Grant (2023)
IAFOR Scholarship for The 4th Barcelona Conference on Arts, Media & Culture (2023)
Emerging Scholar Award for the Eighteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Agency in an Era of Displacement and Social Change, Oxford, UK + Online (2023)
Athens School of Fine Arts Valedictorian Award 2019
Erasmus and Erasmus+ IKY State Scholarship (2016 – 2017, 2018)
Special Prize by the Greek Ministry of Education for the film “Afa” (2013)
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