1st July | Athens Open Art

ATHENS OPEN ART 1 S T

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INDEX 1. MINA FREDBORG STOKKE 2. VASSO TSAMADOU 3. ELENI GEORGIOPOULOU 4. FILIPA ANICA 5. RENIN BILGINER 6. ANNA MA LÓPEZ ISART 7. SABINE HILSCHER 8. TEREZA STEFANITSI 9. ELISABETH BAUER 10. CHRYSANTI NIKA/THEONI DRENOGIANNI

MINA FREDBORG STOKKE IG: @mina.fredborg.stokke_art Mina Fredborg Stokke is a Norwegian painter and artist. She studied Art and Dissemination in Oslo, and now lives and works in France. In her artworks, Stokke combines realism and abstract expressionism.

Stokke had her first solo exhibition in MB Gallery, in Oslo, in 2020.

With the paintings No title #1 and No title #2, Stokke was inspired by her own dreams.

When waking up after a dream, she finds herself only remembering some images. The images are like photos that were taken during the dream, and the actual dream has already just left the mind. What she is left with is fragments of memories, and a feeling. Throughout art, Stokke tries to understand a little more, to get a little deeper, in the understanding of her own dreams.

VASSO TSAMADOU IG: @_chumart Vasso Tsamadou is an abstract and fluid artist based in Athens. Although she doesn’t have any professional training in art, she has acquired her skills through experience, research and experimentation. She creates many fluid art pieces but she is interested in creating all kinds of abstract art.

Her passion for art mainly comes down to colors and composition, and she loves creating unique designs with colors that speak to her intuition. She believes that color can transform our mood and our spaces, making living a little more enjoyable.

You can find all of the art she has created and contact her personally on her Instagram page @_chumart. She also makes custom art pieces upon request.

ELENI GEORGIOPOULOU IG: @72eleni_studio Eleni Georgiopoulou is a contemporary Greek artist born in 1972 in Brazil.She has studied graphic design in Vacalo Art & Design College in Athens from 1993 to 1996. She splits her time between Athens and Doha.

Focusing more on emotion than on representation, and inspired by the great abstract painters of the New York school, she creates paintings charged with energy and often with a dramatic twist.

She uses acrylics, charcoal, oil pastels to creat abstract works of art that engage the viewer and spark conversation.

Regardless the series she works on, her main goal is to express and explore the power of the human soul.

Art • 2021 - Qatar International Art fFestival • 2021 - Qatar Art Spots group exhibition • 2021 - Local artist in West Elm-Doha November- December

FILIPA ANICA IG: @filipa.anica Filipa Anica is a Portuguese painter born in 1993 in Lisbon. She is an autodidact painter and her work searches to combust the abstract background with the figure, consuming it in a overall image like an amplified composition. She has exhibit in Lisbon group and solo shows like Teatro Taborda, RA 100 gallery, gallery ZDB, galllery graça and forte do Estoril.

RENIN BILGINER IG:@renin_bilginer_art

Renin Bilginer (b.1993) is a contemporary artist from London, with dual British and Turkish heritage, currently studying MA Painting at the Royal College of Art. She has recently exhibited at Soho Revue and Devonshire Square in London and Prior Art Space, Barcelona. Rooted within the context of her matrilineage and mixed cultural heritage, Renin’s practice explores notions of fantasy and escape, whilst interrogating what it means to exist as a woman between Eastern and Western cultures. Influenced by Eastern miniature painting and textiles, Renin’s vibrant narrative compositions explore the parallel worlds of her mythologised experiences and her imagined alternative realities. In the creation of exotic fantasy landscapes, the work explores the possibility of a female utopia free from patriarchal systems.

ANNA MA LÓPEZ ISART IG: @analopezisart Anna Ma López Isart has studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, specialising in painting and engraving at the Council of Barcelona School of Art. She oscillates mostly between engraving and painting, but she has also done some performance art and installations. Her paintings are largely monochromatic, as she uses drawing techniques like charcoal and graphite as well as painting techniques like pigment limiting herself to almost only black and white. Her work is about timeless subjects, such as solitude, maternity, pollution and memory, which are also relevant questions nowadays. She is currently working on how memory works, focusing on the existential implications of oblivion and how disappeared objects, spaces and persons still live only if someone remembers them.

SABINE HILSCHER IG: @sabine_hilscher Sabine Hilscher studied fine arts as a master student of Dieter Hacker and costume design at the Udk Berlin/Germany. She persistently searches for connections in art, between graphics, drawings and projections, between music and movement, visual arts and prose texts. With a sculptural approach to costume design, she experiments with unusual materials and forms and an installative approach to stage spaces and works internationally for opera, drama, dance and music theater. The focal points of your work are now primarily (first) performances in the field of new music with the director Matthias Rebstock, as well as working on the border between visual arts/installation and theatre. Teaching and work commissions for costume/ stage/ performance at the University of Hildesheim, the HkB Braunschweig, HfBK Bern and the UdK Berlin.

Since 2021 she has been a scholarship holder of the State of Berlin for new German literature and works on collages and drawings in connection with texts on perceptual phenomena, everyday observations, as well as anatomical and organic displacement fantasies. Sabine Hilscher lives in Berlin Kreuzberg.

The works GREEN LUNG/ JOINT POINT/ WIDE HEART are from her ANATOMY series

ELISABETH BAUER IG: elliembauer Elisabeth Bauer is a Czech-German contemporary artist. She documents her spiritual journey, contemplates emotions, and creates visual art and installations to react to her perception of life. Fascinated by spirituality and faith, she focuses on introspective topics, and inner growth, and reflects on what drives people. She loves exploring new possibilities, especially when it comes to finding connections between different views, techniques, and disciplines. She studied Toy Design, later Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy, and currently works in her studio at the monastery of St. Gabriel in Prague. She chooses acrylics, ink, oil pastels, organic materials, and unconventional materials like wire or putty as her medium.

CHRYSANTI NIKA IG: @chrysanthinika Chrysanthi Nika (b. 1993) is a Greek artist and PhD Candidate. She studies at the University of Aegean, Mytilene and currently works as an Art Director in Athens, Gr. What is the feeling and emotions that are created when a woman is trapped in a dystopian environment?

What effect does the environment have on the core of female existence, on female sexuality? The result of this interaction is visualized and acquires substance through the specific video art. Her projects focus on the study of the human presence in different situations and interaction with physical and digital space.

THEONI DRENOGIANNI IG: @theoni_drenogianni Theoni Drenogianni (born in 1993) is a Greek architect with studies in Architecture at NTUA. She has also graduated from the Department of Interior Design, Decorative Arts and Product Design of the University of West Attica.

Through her sketches, drawings and overall projects, she desires to express and communicate a touch of aesthetic and psycho-emotional side of every single thing and condition, as a new visual perception of reality.She constantly reads, studies, analyzes and creates spatial qualities, where the place, the time, the sensation, the spirit, the feelings, the human being, the emptiness and fullness, the movement and kinesiology and the function as well, converse with each other, as in a choreography, leading to the human’s mental rebirth. The referential sources of thought of her architectural gestures have been excerpted from the field of art, psychology, philosophy and analytical theory, which enhance the theoretical, spiritual, phenomenological and spatial nature of her works and are reflected on her line drawings, collages and videos. The psycho-emotional quests and their social extensions are the common and unifying feature with the concept creator, designer and collaborator Chrysanthi Nika, with whom we bring the video “are you?” to life, which is supposed to be a question as part of a modern woman’s internal dialogue, where reality and illusion are exchanged and fought with each other in a vicious cycle of confinement.

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