18th September - 18th December, Thessaloniki

 

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International Young Artists’ Workshop / "Domino"

Curators & coordinators: Areti Leopoulou, Theodore Markoglou (SMCA)

The 3rd International Young Artists’ Workshop is focusing on the contemporary experimental art, highlighting a characteristic dimension of Thessaloniki, as a cultural crossroad with historical and broader dimensions.

The workshop could function as a ‘temporary autonomous zone’ within the Mediterranean environment and its economical and political conflicts, realignment and unrest. In this framework, the title ‘Domino’ was selected, as a reference to the known and dominant -on a political and economical level- theory of the ‘Domino effect’. Based on the central idea of the 3^rd Thessaloniki Biennial and the workshop’s concept, all the participating artists come from the Mediterranean and the Middle East regions.

The workshop will begin on the 18.09.2011, at the former army camp ‘Pavlos Melas’, with the kind support of the Municipality of Pavlos Melas. It will be brought to completion on October the 7th, with the opening of the exhibition of all the works produced during the artists’ stay (duration of exhibition: 07.10 - 07.11.2011).

Participating artists: Dimitris Ameladiotis (Greece), Nadia Ayari (Tunisia), Sirine Fattouh (Lebanon), The Fleetgroup (Georgia), Andre Gonçalves (Portugal), Elina Ioannou (Cyprus), Nader Sadek (Egypt).

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Artists:

• Andre Goncalves
  André Gonçalves was born in 1979 in Portugal. He lives and works in Lisbon. He works across the fields of visual arts, music, video, installation and performance. He has presented his work in the following solo shows: The Bird Watcher , Colönia Micro Gallery, Porto (2011) / Keeping Up With The Speed Of Light , Bon Accueil...
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• Besik Kartlelishvili (The Fleetgroup)
  THE FLEETGROUP is an artistic initiative running since the spring of 2011 by Tbilisi based artists, Vassil Macharadze, Koka Vashakidze and Bessa Kartlelishvili. Expressive research with a sharp humor for exploring the social and political mysticism in personal life of an individual is the cornerstone of THE FLEETGROUP’s vision and...
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• Dimitris Ameladiotis
  Dimitris Ameladiotis was born in 1979 in Thessaloniki. He studied painting at the Fine Arts School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, at the Audiovisual Department of Gent University, Belgium and earned a master’s degree at the Chelsea College of Fine Arts in London. He has presented three solo exhibitions:...
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• Elina Ioannou
  Elina Ioannou was born in 1979 in Cyprus. She lives and works in Limassol. She studied interior design at the Frederick University of Cyprus. She went on with her graduate and postgraduate studies at the École Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier, France. She has presented her work in the following solo shows: 39.2 m² And I...
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• Nader Sadek
  studied graphic design at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He has presented the solo shows Paradox Complex , Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (2005) and Celestial Victor , Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (2003), and also the performance B'doun O'mr , Santos Sessions, New York (2009) and Sculpture Center, New York (2009). He...
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• Nadia Ayari
  Nadia Ayari was born in 1981 in Tunis. She lives and works in New York. She studied art history at the College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University (2004) and fine arts at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Brandeis University (2005). She acquired her MFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (2007). Her solo shows...
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• Sirine Fattouh
  Sirine Fattouh was born in 1980 in Beirut. She currently lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts of Paris-Cergy in 2006. Since 2005, Fattouh teaches arts at the Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, where she is also a member of the Centre d’Études et de Recherches en Arts Plastiques. She has...
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