A - DASH
A - DASH is an artist-run space, founded in 2016 in Athens, Greece, aiming to encourage contemporary artistic creation through collaboration and interdisciplinary exchange.
Daphne Aidoni
Daphne Aidoni - architect, stage and costume designer, founding member of APARÄMILLON - a laboratory for the performing arts.
Antonakis
Antonakis is a painter and since 2015 the Prince of Fokionos Negri.
Nikolas Arnis
Nikolas Arnis (b. Athens 1981) lives and works in Athens as a designer and preservation engineer.
The Athens Zine Bibliotheque
AZB is a library of zines and small editions curated by the team TheseAreAFewOfOurFavoriteThings.
Bayard
Ioanna Voudouri is an English teacher who, without knowing anything about coffee, decided to open her own coffee bar in Exarchia.
Thodoris Kaisidis, a former swimming athlete with experience in the field of catering, decided to create a hangout in his favorite neighborhood.
You will find them at Bayard.
Gordon Beeferman
Gordon Beeferman is a composer/pianist/writer based in NYC.
Callirrhoë
Situated close to Athen's Acropolis, Callirrhoë is an independent exhibition space for contemporary art founded by Olympia Tzortzi in November 2020. The space was inaugurated in collaboration with Severin Dünser with the group exhibition On Heavy Rotation which examines the rotation on one’s own axis. Conditioned by the pandemic and the accompanying limitations, spinning around became a collective experience.
Elena Chantzis
Elena Chantzis, architect and visual artist, (observes and) records the contemporary lifestyle of human beings through their objects.
Klea Charitou
Klea Charitou (b. Athens, 1986) is an art historian and curator based in Athens and a co-founding member of miss dialectic curatorial collective (2019–). She is a PhD candidate at the School of Fine Arts of Athens. She worked as a curatorial assistant for documenta 14.
Maria Chatzopoulou
Maria Chatzopoulou truly believes that the lyric ‘not knowing where I step, I hate you and I love you’ was written for Athens and its sidewalks.
Co-Hab Athens
Co-Hab Athens is an open multidisciplinary group researching and advocating for cooperative- collective housing models in Greece.
Communitism
Communitism is an open community of creative professionals. It revives abandoned or under-utilized cultural heritage buildings transitioning them into cultural commons entrusted and operated by active communities. We trust in·art as a·methodology to invite people used to acting as individuals into common practices to transcend into active citizenship.
Ilaria Conti
Ilaria Conti is a curator working on research-based practices that address systems of power and decolonial epistemologies.
Vasilis Dimitrakas & Giorgos Mitsios
Giorgos and Vassilis have both studied agriculture and life brought them together at Grow Academy.
DOLCE
DOLCE is a publishing house based in Athens, which designs, publishes and distributes artists’ books and publications.
Alex Eagleton
Alex Eagleton lives and works in New York and Athens, Greece. He is represented by Safe Gallery in New York. In addition to his studio practice, Eagleton runs Aetopoulos - a project space in the center of Athens, Greece.
Eftihis Efthimiou
Eftihis Efthimiou is an architect/ biologist, member of Decode Fab Lab, a space of architectural research which functions since September 2015 in Ampelokipoi.
Emantes
Emantes’ objective is to raise awareness and actively support lgbt+ refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in Greece and abroad.
Enterprise Projects
Enterprise Projects is a project by Danai Giannoglou and Vasilis Papageorgiou which functions autonomously and periodically since September 2015 in Ampelokipoi.
iLiana Fokianaki
iLiana Fokianaki is a curator and theorist based in Athens and Rotterdam. In 2013 she founded State of Concept. Her curatorial practice focuses on how curating can become instituting -a verb- in the cases of small scale precarious institutions.
Florent Frizet
Florent Frizet is a french painter living in Greece.
Aphrodite Gogoglou
Aphrodite Gogoglou spent the best years of her life writing and editing articles in well-known women’s media and magazines.
Grace
Grace is an independent artist-run space operating in Larissa Station since 2016.
Stavia Grimani
Stavia Grimani (b. Athens, 1984) is an art programmer, producer and curator. She has worked for the Museum of Modern Art in New York; documenta 14, in Athens and Kassel; and Rebecca Camhi Gallery in Athens. Currently she lives and works in New York.
Laure Jaffuel
Laure Jaffuel, designer from south of France based in Athens.
Anestis Ioannou
Anestis Ioannou is an artist born and raised in Athens. He is the co-founder of the independent artist-run space NOTUS Studio as well as the co-founder of DELIVERART project.
Daphne Kalliga
Daphne Kalliga is a freelance nail fine artist. She lives and works in London.
Eleni Kamma
Eleni Kamma is a Greek-Cypriot visual artist and researcher. She lives and works in Brussels and Maastricht.
KEIV
KEIV is an independent artist-run space founded in 2017 in the neighbourhood of Agios Pavlos (Larissis st.) and recently moved to its permanent space in the area of Victoria.
Macklin Kowal
Macklin Kowal is a writer, artist, and curator based in Athens. A PhD candidate in Political Theory at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, he is additionally Founding Director of Sub Rosa Space, an independent platform for performance in central Athens. Across its various forms, his work examines the interplay of language, authority, and power; its recurrent themes include political demagoguery, sex and politics, institutional culture, the locations and claims of racial and aesthetic whiteness—often treated with an absurdist spirit, rendered as literary travesty. His work has been presented throughout Europe and North America.
Christos Kritikos
Christos Kritikos occupies himself with architecture. Histories and theories and everything that can set up narratives around the designed object. He is writing a PhD on the construction of architectural nostalgia in post-1974 Athens and also works as a researcher. So he plays less music than ever at this stage.
LEEFWERK
Most of it is mostly leading to public events of all kinds. We are running an atypical campaign agency. Walking around as artists but in reality practicing politics. Niels Coppens & Roman Luterbacher.
LULU
Members of S.C.E LULU. We wanted to create a space like our living room and we made LULU.
Michalis Markatselis
Mike Mark, worldly Michalis Markatselis, may not have done very well and became a café-owner but he is still a good guy. In his spare time he enjoys walking in the cityscape with his husky, and hardcore punk.
Marina Miliou-Theocharaki
Marina Miliou-Theocharaki is a performer who enjoys choreographing while using self-sarcasm. Her main medium is her voice, as she tends to explore contrasting definitions of sexuality and the erotic.
Vassilis Noulas
Vassilis Noulas is a director (Nova Melancholia) and an artist, resident of Exarcheia.
NTIZEZA
NTIZEZA is a platform for the support, education and celebration of femininities and feminist artists in Athens, Greece
Malvina Panagiotidi
Malvina Panagiotidi is an artist and architect. Her practice focuses on the intersections between occult modernism, the function of the imaginary, and uncanny human behaviour found in different sociopolitical contexts.
Marina Papadaki
Marina Papadaki is an Athens based artist, founder of Hydroexpress Project and editor of Hydroexpress Project Publication.
Eleanna Papathanasiadi
Βased in Athens, Eleanna Papathanasiadi is a co-founding member of miss dialectic curatorial collective (2019–), EG Figure of Speech, and A FOREST workshop space (2020–). Collaborations include: Syros International Film Festival (2018–), Archipelago Network (2020–), Pavilion of Greece at the 58th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia (2019), documenta 14 in Athens (2014-2017), Kunsthalle Athena (2010-2015), South as a State of Mind magazine (issues #1-5, 2011-2015; and #11, 2019).
Maro Paraskevoudi
Maro Paraskevoudi is an editor-in-chief, foodie and a lifestyle jedi in the mass media that we all loved.
Michael Pavlides & Kleanthis Rousos
Michael and Kleanthis are two architects from Cyprus. Michael lives and works between Athens and Cyprus while Kleanthis is holding the fort on the levantine island they call home.
Phenomenon
Iordanis and Piergiorgio are still trying to understand how to collect responsibly. Phenomenon comes from that questioning.
Angelo Plessas
Angelo Plessas is a visual artist and founder of the cultural shelter P.E.T Projects.
Caroline Pradal
Caroline Pradal, visual artist based between Paris and Athens, founder of Ela Projects.
Eleni Riga
Eleni Riga (b. 1989, Kalamata) is an independent curator based in Athens. She worked as a curatorial assistant in documenta 14 in Athens and in Kassel. Previously, she has worked at the Education Department of the Museum of Modern in New York and has directed the department of contemporary art at Eleusis 2021 European Capital of Culture.
Sofia Sampani
Sofia Sampani, lawyer, member of Athens Bar Association since 2008.
Vangelis Savvas
Vangelis Savvas is an Athens based artist. He is the co-founder of the independent artist-run space NOTUS Studio as well as the co-founder of DELIVERART project.
Erica Scourti
Erica Scourti is an artist and writer based in London and Athens.
Panagiotis Sotiris
Panagiotis Sotiris works as a journalist in Athens and teaches at the Hellenic Open University. He hasn’t changed postal code for the past 33 years.
Evi Sougkara
Evi Sougkara is an architect and cultural producer. She lives and works in Athens, where she recently co-founded A Forest Agency, a space dedicated to the promotion of the interweaving between design, architecture and art.
Hristiana Stamou
Hristiana Stamou is an art historian and curator of moving image.
Kostas Stasinopoulos
Kostas Stasinopoulos is a curator and art historian. He works at Serpentine Galleries and is an associate curator of SNFCC.
Mina Stone
Mina Stone is the author of Cooking for Artists and a partner in Mina's Restaurant at MoMA PS1 in New York City.
Alexander Strecker
Alexander Strecker is pursuing a PhD in Art History at Duke University. His research is embedded in the artistic communities of Athens, understanding their work as a reparative practice of politics.
Katerina Tselou
Katerina Tselou is a curator. She was Curatorial Advisor at documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, as well as Assistant to the Artistic Director Adam Szymczyk (2014–17). She was the curator of the Pavilion of Greece at the 58th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia (2019). She is currently working as Advisor to the General Secretary for Contemporary Culture, Ministry of Culture, Greece.
tsev
tsev is an active independent musician from Athens and declares that he is confused about what exactly he is doing.
Kelly Tsipni-Kolaza
Kelly Tsipni-Kolaza (b. Rhodes,1988) is a cultural worker currently based in Athens.
Typical Organization
Founded in 2013 by Kostas Vlachakis (1981-GR) and Joshua Olsthoorn (1981-NL). Based in Athens, Greece, Typical organization is working internationally on typical matters. Shaping the already existing, yet mostly undivided 'Type' behind the already existed matter. We are advocated not to add new surfaces to existing but instead aspiring to discover the 'typical' structure of a relevant subject.
Κostas Tzimoulis
Κostas Tzimoulis is an artist and belongs to the creative team of The EIGHT and to the performance group Nova Melancholia.
Eva Vaslamatzi
Eva Vaslamatzi (Athens, 1990) is a curator and writer based in Athens.
Amalia Vekri
Amalia Vekri is an artist and the program director of Haus N.
Αugustus Veinoglou
Αugustus Veinoglou is a sculptor and founder of Snehta residency based in Kypseli.
Daphne Vitali
Daphne Vitali is a Greek-Italian Art historian and Curator at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Eva Vlassopoulos
At this moment of time Eva Vlassopoulos takes joy in performing in front of an audience.
Weekend
Weekend is a project space operating from the studio of Konstantinos Giotis and Yllia Sakellariou.
Yellow Brick
Yellow Brick is founded by artist Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki in Nea Ionia, as a non-profit working/ dwelling place for local and international artists.
Dimitri Yin
Dimitri Yin (b. 1974) is a French-American artist of Chinese and Greek ethnicity. After completing his postgraduate studies in London, Dimitri moved to Athens in 2017 to develop Phoenix Athens Gallery and Residency.
Vasilis Zarifopoulos
Vasilis lives and works in Athens. He is active within various ways in the arts.
Zoetrope Athens
Zoetrope explores collaborative and community - based artistic practices, focusing on artists’ books, film and photography.