ATHENS OPEN ART 1 3 T H
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NODNOL EXHIBITIONS
INDEX 1. MOMAS 2. JULIA ÜBERREITER 3. CÉLINE SICARD - COLLECTIF 1.5 4. GRÉTA KUŠNÍROVÁ 5. SOLVEIG LAETILIEUR 6. MARIE-GABRIELLE GLOCK 7. LNJN 8. DRACOLINA 9. SOPHIE IAKOVIDI 10. YESICA OCHOA 11. O FUTURE 12. KATIAMESS 13. TINA ŠULC RESNIK 14. APARNA ASHOK AKA CHAOS
MOMAS IG: @momasart When he was still a child, he realised his need to communicate and express feelings, images and words through the use of art. He was fascinated by the fact that he could interpret the world through making something beautiful and creative, so he always fell back on his imagination to create and decorate areas and carried his paper and pencils to do so. While growing up he was looking for more ways of expression. He worked with photography, took orthophony lessons, acted in amateur theatre, wrote his one and only play and of course, he continued creating paintings and decorating walls. This is his passion and he still does it for people who have honoured him by asking him to do so, relying on his own aesthetic as a reference.
JULIA ÜBERREITER IG: @juliauberreiter Julia Überreiter was born in Salzburg 1980 and studied Multi Media Art at the University of Applied Science from 1999 till 2004. At the age of 29 she applied at the University of Fine Arts Vienna and finished her study 2017. She is working in different media like sculpture, installation, photography and mixed media. Julia Überreiters’ multidisciplinary work follows a critical sociopolitical projection. Her glance falls on everyday commodities and its absurdities - just what we call "normality". There are topics consistently popping up in her work like self-optimization, useability of human resources, bodytuning, high glossy retouched gender stereotypes, neurosis of profiling, bodypolitics and our life experiences during Corona .
CÉLINE SICARD - COLLECTIF 1.5 IG: @collectif1.5 As an intuitive artist, Céline Sicard borrows from various techniques to create contemporary masks, inspired by the wide world of traditional masks. All her pieces have a ceramic base. She plays with this creative process at the interface between art and nature, between the useful and the useless. For most of the masks, she associates basketry to her pieces, made of plants gleaned in her region. Those ancestral practices allow her to use what nature offers, in the simplest and most natural way to create new contemporary objects. All her projects have in common the desire to surprise the visitor with unexpected visions that invite to a poetic or shifted journey.
GRÉTA KUŠNÍROVÁ IG: @gretakusnirova COLLECTION OF URNS (POCHM) URNY The intention behind my decision to create a collection of cremation urns was their current market situation. Urns offered by the crematories are, in my view, unaesthetic and unworthy. That is why I decided to choose a different path, compared to a usual gloomy and depressing perspective. I believe that cremation urns are ought to be a joyful memory of our deceased loved ones and at the same time an exceptional object in our house. At the moment I study in the Studio of Ceramics and Porcelain at Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, led by Milan Pekař and Tereza Sluková. EXHIBITIONS 2021 Czech Design Week - exhibition of own collection (POCHM) URNY 2021 18th year NCD21 - Product design exhibition of the (POCHM) URNY collection Awards Czech Design Award 2021
SOLVEIG LAETILIEUR IG: @sol.laetilieur_art The young German-Spanish artist highlights late modernity with her expressionist and surreal paintings. Inspired by famous artists and her travels around the world, she developed a unique style, characterized by rich contrasts and symbolic figures. The colourful stages of her artistic evolution show the topics addressed by her art, such as the loss of nature, the disconnection from our roots in modern times, the arbitrariness of the world and the search for meaning.
MARIE-GABRIELLE GLOCK IG: @gloria__moody Marie-Gabrielle Glock is a French self-taught painter, living in Paris. She's been drawing for years before she dedicated herself to oil painting. Her work is a never-ending search of singular palettes, exploring colors as a means to bring emotions, feelings and atmosphere into her paintings. Most of them represent bodies and people, with a deep contrast between vivid colors and melancholy. Her paintings can be soft and dark, dreamy and crude, optimistic and wistful at the same time, thanks to a powerful mix of color shades and sharp composition. Inspired by artistic movements such as Fauvism or the work of Nabis, she's looking forward to representing self-reflection, intimacy and the slight intensity of one's inner metamorphosis.
LNJN IG: @L.n.j.n_ LNJN, multi mediums artist, was born in 1997 in China. She studied fine arts in Paris, where she lives. Inspired by Parisian underground and urban world, lines and dots, shapes and words, imperfections, coincidences, she injects all of them in her creations. Her every step in life is a pictural travelling. “G P T un câble” is a french slang pun on words meaning “I went haywire” and “I broke an electric cable” at the same time. In September 2022, as she was recollecting her memories, scrolling photos in her phone, she felt the pressure of her own generation, one foot in the reality and another in the social medias, technology, doing a constant big gap. And this diptych was born.
DRACOLINA IG: @dracolinart Unleashing hellish, haunting, heathen beasts on canvas, is Dracolina’s artistic manifesto. Greek Cypriot, painter Nicolina Papas is a UK based artist, who also makes illustrations in graphite and ink. Her concept is macabre with elements of realism and surrealism. She took Art and Design A Levels, and moved on to study Acting in the UK. Growing up, watching her mother create art, she always knew she would follow in her footsteps, thus she took the path of Fine Arts, using the pseudonym Dracolina. Her artistic influences include Francisco de Goya, Francis Bacon, Edvard Munch, Henry Fuseli and Roberto Ferri. The Occult, religion, phabels and nightmares inspire her work, as she always aims to explore inner demons artistically and symbolically.
ALA LERESTEUX IG: @alaleresteux Ala Leresteux works are inspired by her interests in philosophy, biology, chemistry and physics and her art is her way to make different concepts clearer for herself. Works by Ala Leresteux are part of surrealism, aleatoric and oneiric art styles. She has been greatly inspired by Rene Magritte and M.C. Escher and they both influenced her style and her idea of what it is to be an artist. Her works have exhibited in many of great art venues around the world such as the Grand-Palais of Paris, Vatican, Florence, Moscow, Hong Kong, Brandenburg Gate of Berlin, Hamburg, Milan and Athens. The Moscow museum retained one as part of its collection. And many others are also part of private collections.
SOPHIE IAKOVIDI IG: @soph_ikv Sophie Iakovidi @soph_ikv is a contemporary visual artist with an educational background in Visual Arts, Hospitality, Marketing and is multilingual. She has gained work experience in retail, hospitality, marketing, and during those days is working in the fair industry. Due to her dual nationality, Greek from her father’s side and Austrian from her mother’s side she has been brought up between two cultures. Sophie is an animal lover and art enthusiast. During her free time, she loves to paint , visit cultural events and travel to various destinations. Her favourite Artists are Viennese modernists Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. She is participating in Art Exhibitions and is involved in various upcoming projects and collaborations.You may enjoy her work by following her Art Brand Gallery @sophaye__ Soon high quality prints and some original Artwork will be also available at @abstracto_artword owned by @miss_abstracto . Follow our accounts on social media and tag us ,so we can share your artsy moments with the world
YESICA OCHOA IG: @yesica___3 Yesica is a multimedia artist from Cordoba, Argentina. She has worked with videoart and experimental animation for directors, performers, musicians and other artists in festivals and exhibitions across the world. Her work often centers on pressing issues concerning contemporary society, and the impact of technology in human psychology and nature.
O FUTURE IG: @o_future_ O Future is an art collective and electronic duo mixing digital art with analog and electronics with symphony orchestra and voice consisting of
Katherine
Mills Rymer originally from South Africa and Jens Bjornkjaer from Denmark. Now residing in Los Angeles they have released three albums
and have been featured in
hundreds of media including New York Times, The Guardian (Band of the week) and Pitchfork amongst many others. We have scored theatre for The Royal Danish Theatre and films for Lars von Trier (Melancholia) and Ai Weiwei’s ‘Vivos’ that premiered at Sundance 2020. And most recently the newly released documentary ‘7 Years of Lukas Graham’. We have composed 4 algorithmic operas and are currently also composing a violin concerto, an indie feature film titled ‘Ambrosia, in which Katherine stars as lead actress and collabroative work for the Allen Ginsburg trust featuring Ai Weiwei.
We
are also making physical and digital visual artworks for the likes of Martin de Thurah (Kanye West, Fever Ray, James Blake) and are creating all their music videos and visual aesthtetics exclusively between the two of them. O Future won the 2021 Opyum Festival Paris, are Lincoln City Fellows 2020 and 2021 and have received grants from the Danish Arts Foundation, Augustinus Foundation, DJBFA, Koda, DMF and DAF.
KATIAMESS IG: @katiamess_0 Katiamess is an Athens-based artist and architect. She focuses especially on the “western” contemporary techno-scientific imaginary and its vast intertwinements with economy, politics, philosophy and pop-culture as well . Her work also investigates the human body as both a physical entity and cultural construction. She seeks to combine digital media with diverse traditions to create new modalities.
TINA ŠULC RESNIK IG: @tinyarvisuals Tina Šulc Resnik (TinyarVisuals) is a freelance video artist who graduated from visual communications at the Faculty of Design in Ljubljana. She works as a videographer, graphic designer, animator and VJ. In her artistic endeavours, she focuses on nature imagery in a variety of forms of expression. Tina has worked on many different projects, mostly for theatres and festivals. Her artwork is exhibited internationally in galleries, museums, video festivals and as public art. In 2016, Tina was travelling in Kerala, India, during Kochi Muziris Biennale. She was walking through the streets when she saw Wilson’s poem written on the wall in his Poetree installation. Two years later she contacted Wilson saying that she wanted to create Trees in Life, Poetry .
APARNA ASHOK AKA CHAOS IG: @atrailofchaos Aparna is a Multisensory Designer and Art Director with an MA in Visual Communication from the Royal College of Art, London. Through her work, she transforms spaces and alters realities that help change the way you feel, think and do things. She is driven by research and curiosity about the complexities of identity and human experience through ritualistic practices. She is currently an artist in residence at RARA Residencia, Spain. Her work is centred around social benefit through the creation of scenarios and opportunities for interaction. The output of her work might be an installation, a workshop, a film, a podcast or even something as bizarre as a fictional prison. Her practice is rooted in creating curated, designed experiences.
ATHENS OPEN ART 13TH MAY